American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-04-24


We wish to know how many bottles of Van Buren's
Y,nocea the Editor of the Delaware Gazette swallowed
tsre he could bri himself to exhor the Feder asts Of
nelavare to support for the presidency, whom that
n,oer once styled sc military d,po" and who was held
m Inv its editor before last election of President
Ue most of all The candidates and whom
,e Federsists bound by every consideration to OPP
nose the utmost. This sa simple question aud we trust
| !; will receive prompt and civil answer.
The Delaware Gazette, about week ago, con-
,aired long Address to the Fedcralists Of Del
aware, recommending General Jackson as the only
candidate who they ought to support for next
President. To show how admirably consistent the
Gazette is, we make the following extract from
an Address published in it IN 1922. to the Fede
ralsts Of this State We should like to see both
| the Addresses published side by side in the next
Gazette But perhaps such I" sight, might
" shame'' some "honest man. The Corpora! will
. understand US.
q" is presumed, that the feeraiss Of De,a7parc in
letting chief magistrate for this great republic will deem
virtue aud morality necessary Ingredients in his char cer
They will elevate 10 hat distinguished place, MILL
TARY DEspOT, 4vho deliberately 5eiic~s HE
ir TO HANG dating ushed citizens Of the United States,
d military la applca6e eng 10 j.regne,s ana Shg has
States, WITHOUT TRIAL"
friend Corporal IIatkcr, who. among her wise and no,a
BE savings has said that hoass, cannot be samed
d agat If 7vhat he has sad former OCCASION"
From Ae Ne.0 york Commercial .7dvertiscr.
"Reminiscences, No fBdtors, particularly that class Of
them who have zeal than discretion and actv
" than stability, ought above all Other be furnished
with long memories. The most vexations mode OF warfare
quote political antagonist against himself We have
lately seen many 10 point from which we have seec
led few Of the most striking. which propose deal
out occasionally may suit convenience There
little federal paper in Delaware, which, during the
last presidential campaign most active and vociferons
for Crawford, and rcthp against Gen Jackson ring
that warmly contested canvass this Jealous partisan wrote
and published the following parag aph. Speaking If Clay
Clinton, Jackson, Adams, Calhoun and Crawford he said
"Of ALL the gentlemen named, Gen Jackson appears
to us 20 be the MOST OBJECTIONABLE That he is
man of energy, one will doubt, but VIC think tina
in chief magistrate of the United States, TOO much
srgu IS erremeiu dangerous AND ne have seen IN THE
GENERAL such a DISREGARD FOR THE INsTITU
TONS Of the country, such DISPOSITION to place
himself ABOVE ats iazss, AND such an INCLINATION to
TRAMpLE ON THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, when
they stood in competition with HIS OWN INTEREST or
FEELINGS as should render the citizens Of the United
States very cautious about placing him in the first office
within their gift
now happens "in the of human events" that
this fiery little editor, is one OF the most terrible
Jacksonans in the universe And most unfortunately ne
has neighbour admins ration editor, who IS wthai
vigant Wachman" and blessed with longer memory
than himself Il so happens, moreover, tina, whenever
this new made Jackscnian ley, off column Of bighpres
abuse Of Mr.. Adams and another column of double
distilled panegync of Gen. Jackson. this Troublesome
neighbour, with the provoking GOODNESS Imaginable
publishes the above paragraph by Of reply, with all
its dread array Of capitals macsptals, aud erce-lo"kng
italics, brsing like many bayoneis, The new-made
Jacksonian wrhes and fumes away at shocking rate
but all to no purpose-The paragraph sticks TO him like
the poisoned shirt the fable and dances before his mae
nation like the ghost Of Banquo before the burning eye
balls Of Macbeth.