The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-12-05
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From the Richmond Whig.
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA

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In addressing to you my former numbers
discharged what | believed to be a sol
emn duty. The favor with which they
were received was equal to my hopes.
had not designed further to tax vour kind.
ness, or fatigue your patience but | have
oeen driven from that purpose by perusal
OF the late appeal of Louallier to the Amer
lean people. 1t is true, that MANY of the
ontrages which he discloses, have been be-
lore referred to; but, in addition to new
ana aggravatlng circumstances, of which
mad not heard, he has furnished facts re-
iatlng TO previous char1es and sI,sta inAI
by documentary proof, which give deep
er shade to their atrocity.
The ways of Providence are dark and
inscrutable, but their wisdom, when fulfill
ed, and the means of their fulfllment, ex-
tort the faith even of the infdel. They
teach the awful lesson, that, though the
guilty may for a season escape retribution,
Justice will finally overtake them; and, to
render her triumph the more complete, she
makes themselves unconscious instruments
in the execution of her DEGREES.
The unfounded and cruel ISLANDERS against
Louisiana, and some of her most distin-
puished citizens, propagated by Jackson
and his paItizans, have brought to the pub
lie view some of his deeds which might
otherwise have slept in undisturbed obliv-
ion.
People of Virginia I appeal to you
all-no matter by what party names you
NAV be called whether Jacksonites or
friends of the Administration the melan-
choly necessity of the times will be my
apology for using such terms of discrimina-
ton. | solemnly conjure you all to divest
yourselves, for one hour, of the military
phrenzy that is now raging through the
land, that reason may exercise her calm
and salutary influence, and then read the
case of Louallier. 1t is a matter of conso-
lation that the tyranny which oppressed
this patriotic citizen, and those who at
temuted to relieve him, does not now pre-
vail over our land. For a little while, at
least. vet to come, the excuses of Andrew
Jackson may be arraigned by the press
without subjecting the writer. who dares
Tins forewarn his countrymen, to trial by
n Court Martial for libel or mutiny. The
idol. indeed, is already set up, and ven
oeance is denounced against every one
who will not bend the knee but the pow
er is vet wanting to heat the oven. The
furious passion exists, and the faggot has
been threatened; but | continue to hope
that yours will be the Office of the minis
tering angel, and that your voice will be
omnipotent to save. | beg you, again and
again, to read the appeal of Louallier. To
estimate it as it deserves, bring it home to
yourselves, to your own fresides--strlke
out the name of Louisiana and insert Vir-
ginia. Figure to yourselves band of arm
ed soldiers surrounding the capitol of our
ancient commonwealth, and excluding, at
the point of the bayonet the Representa-
tives of the people from the hall of their
sittinrs-the commanding General con-
temptuously ieering them with charges of
treason, the misbegotton phantoms OF his
own imarination-see his obedient sol
tliery patrolling the streets with military
warrants to arrest private citizen for pre-
suming to animadvert, and that, too, in the
shirt of forbearance, on one of his arbltra-
~ edicts-depriving him of his liberty,
and bringing him to trial by Court Mar
tial, on charges of mutiny and libel-charg-.
es which only folly and despotism united
could have conceived. See the HdbeoS
Corpus, that great constitutional writ
which the wisdom of our ancestors had pro-
viled against the caprice and wickedness
of TYRANNY, trampled under foot with su-
nercilious disdain of its authority--see the
Judge dragged from the seat of justice by
armed bands and carried to confinement,
for complying with his oath and the injunc-
tions of the Constitution, in issuing his
writ--his counsel sharing his fate, and a