The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-11-07
tWHoLE No. 2S49.

1-@z.A' ~ 'ast7ss s-zsszszzlsna7 -
the Congress who thought the allowance
out scanty justice to him?
nave now, | believe, gone over tbe
"hoie list OF objections to the present IN
uulnpeht; let us turn our attention ta
muse against his competitor. To recount
ene "hole OF these would be to write vol-
ulie I shall conhne myself therefore. to
49, - 'ne most prominent. He has ex-
s;t.s. legislature from the hall of its
~ ne mas arrested, paraded THROUGH
~. .iie streets under file of soldiers. AMI
f fnIe with the gibbet, the venerable
- "a d hationdl District. He has in
sultlngly told the Chief Wagistr.ta &c =.
State, that he had no right to issna MI =
tary order while he was in tbe fold r.
mas abridged the liberty of the nross IL
mas disregarded the writ of haheas corn,,s
designed for the protection of tn. c;t;1a,,s,
from arbitrary oppression. He has wage5
war against a neutral power. in the face oe
MS instructions lie has exercised The
power OF lite and death on prisoners i,
contempt OF the decision of his favor;te
tLiouHdi, an "lndependent Court Martial ;,
re mas openly directed the officers under
ms command to disobey the orders Of tbe.
Iresinent or the United States. He has
threatened to enter tie halls of the Natiopls
al Legislature TO cut off the ears of some
tors who presumed to enquire into his CON
duct. lie has inflicted death and inn
mlnous and degrading punishments. npon
AanGreds OF militia, against all necessity
and against ali law. And he has deliberate
~ announced TO his countrymen. that if ba
SO Wliled 1t IN the absence of law. he conld
ma sanction under the I'd section, to
nalg whom he pleased: for if he conld
ieei justified IN hanging in the case refer
fGa 10 uhder that section, every man must
admit that no case could occur in which he
would not ind the same justification.
NOW, take any one of these offences
committed by jackson, and weigh it Impair
TALLY against the whole list of objections
70 Adams; ask yoa to say candidly fit
would not overbalance them all. Speak
out honestly and frankly, coniure YOU. in
the name OF that liberty of which each man
Is IN part the preserver. Look at his threa.
10 c0t on the ears Of Senator-even those
OF our lamented EPPEs See him in the
anti-chamber Of the Senate. surrounded nv
hls body guard of aids and dependents.
belching forth his imprecations. and INST
ready to enter the door, when the patriot
&c Decatur interposes, and declares if he
pass, 1t must he OUer has dead Jodn. By
this mterposltion Glone was the Senate
chamber preserved from the threatened
pollution. When you have sufficiently
contemplated this scene, let me ask YOU.
can TINS man lie fit for the Presidency of a
free people IF you doubt tie trutf! of the
story, besides several persons now living
vino were eye-witnesses of the dreadful
spectacle, there are hundreds to whom
DECATUR communicated it, to whom !
could refer you-and among others, ONE
Senator at least, who Nts wont. before
he put on the livery of Jackson, in delineat-
inc the character Of his iamented and GAL
liant friend, to dwell with particular delighe
/ on'this instance of his frmness and stern
Roman patriotism. Ifyou shall still. after
this, regard Jackson as the only man in
the Union whom you will have to rule over
you, be 1t so But fear that like the fool
Ism frogs, who insisted on having the stork
as their king, you may soon have reason
to repent, and to regret the peaceful ad-
nlinistration you have so unwiselv abandon
Ell. can Scarcely think that majority
! OF you can wish that this act had been PER
/ petrated, and Congress expelled from their
slttlngs-unless, indeed you belong to the
school of I; modern orator, who sees moth
ing objectionable in Caesars usurpations. on
the Liberties OF his country, and whose mo
rality converts this monster into patriot.
and BBUTUs into an assassin.
A FARMER.