Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-15

ministry acted, not from ANY
cause the terms they had offered were Nv.
cepted, but from entire new views OF '"e" e
terest. and sudden abandonment OF '"e ~"
damen,al policy o! their own colonia'
Now could any statesman nave reasonao'y
pec,ed such an entire and fundamental '"a"
in the calculations of those they had oeeh 're.N
ing with for years, when circumstances 'e"a
ed unchanged? No man o, sense VIII io' ~
men, pretend il: and yet this is wha' our ,'se'
Of Richmond and their coadJutors e.se""..'
spend their days and nights In in'en''hS 'r r'
dic,ions against The administrator LOT no, ,"''
seeing and providing against ChE' Io'
From the National Journal
Among the most curious effects OF Tue ne"
and unnatural combinations when nave oeen
formed for the purpose OF eleva'ing ,'ehera'
Jackson, at the end Of this Presidential lerm'
there is none which strikes US with more force
than the inconsistency in which 1t Involves some
Of the editors who are enlisted under me pan
ner Of this extraordinary coniederacy. we Sc,
lee, two of the leading Journals on thar siae %
the question, for the purpose oil Illustrating 'nis
sta,ement-the Richmond Enquirer, ana Inc
New Hampshire Patriot, 6oh OF them the zea'-
Gus advocates Of Mr.. Crawford, previous 70 'he
last election, and both now in favor OF General
Jackson-boih the supporters oil that candidate
who came into the House Of Representatives IN
1925 with the lowest number OF electoral votes,
vet both now united for the purpose oil sweiiing
the cry that the House OF Representatives. acted
corruptly, because il did not select him Tor RE
sidcnt who had plurality oil electoral voteS--
This alone is evidence Of inc consistency which
may, and must be sufficient, in the estimation
of all unbiased judgments, to provoke, IN re-
gard 10 The editors Of these papers, the pnohc
sentence Of Reproduction, Tor the political Pnon-
cites which they have since performed. But
the inconsistency Of these journalists has gone
still further. We not only find them declalm'
ing against the corruption Of the House oil Re'
personalities for elec,ing Mr.. Adams, who
stood on the electoral returns far above the can
dida,e whose election they advocated 10 tine last;
! but we find them, under the influence OF disap-
| pointed feeling, rallying round the individual,
| whom. of all candidates for the Presidency, they
have heretofore declared to be The most unfit.
| The revolution of affairs and opinions which
has taken place within the list three years, has
| made them the anIipodes OF wha they we're be-
fore. In May, 1924, the Richmond Enquirer
| in commentary on the declaration OF General
Jackson, IN his letter to Mr.. Monroe, of Jan. 6,
1917. stating, that had he possessed the requi-
site powers, he would have punished the prin-
Gins leaders of the Hartford onyen,ion, under
,hr serond section of the existing military law,
after showing that General Jackson had mis-
| ,rJsr.tood he law nroceeds thus
"Nha, kind of Presiden, would this great
.;,;oo nakep A gentleman who cannot inter
pr,, III. nls;n expressions Of one law-and We,
I'D ~. c.,,sd n admin ,ter al S 49,
t,cs,r - 80, -. ,ra;rnr ~, go
or would punish treason, no, by the civil courts,
but court martiaiS One, acho, IN any great cri
SIS ,coui concert the aohoie country into great
emp, and ,rauId reduce almost ecery thing under
martial lac!
I'll this individual be Republican. then, in
deed, as hr says himself, "names are bubbles -
What respect would such a 'yr al civilian en-
terrain for he a,rs and constitution Of this coun-
Try? Is such an one qrotfsd for our Chief Ma.
| gistraieS"
The question with which the Editor of the
ENQUIRER concludes This prose riDti,e narapranh
in 1924, he is himself an wering in 1887, by
the candidate. who. according n his former
assertion ",,n,m ;,,,sr,re, ,bs rl,;n go.
,ions of ,e law"