Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-09-18
From tie 4National Journal.

sertion and personal violence, then would General
Jacksons prospect Of election Tor the next president
be without cloud upou But, the other hand. T.
if the public suffrage only be obtained by the :
power Of reason, then is his prospect entirely over
Swallowed by clouds. '.Asscrt boldly, and pro- y
scribe all who doubt !"--rhis is the creed Of the ~
Jackson party this is the motto On the opposition
flag. Upon the intelligent and high minded part Of
society such course can produce no other eEect i
thant to excite Indignation aud spirit OF resistance
But it is not to this class Of citizens that The party
is directing these desperate means. They who con-
troll the jackson presses are well aware that in every
nation there is to be found body ct individuals.
varying in numbers according to the amount OF IN
tegence which is dlttused throughout the commit
nifty, without any fixed principles or settled oplnon
by which to regulate its course. The ingredients OF l.
this mass are altogether acted upon by the impulses
Of good evil tendency, which may BIZ impaired I"
them. Accident will frequently give them then
motion and direction but they are more peculiarly
obnoxious to the efforts Of men of prohgate designs
and ostentaous promises. They lie ON the surface
of the stream of til nss and. ii they are not moved
by the accidental artfu causes to which we have
referred, they ultimately fall into the main current.
andTo down and swell the tide Of opinion II isl
upon this floating, undetermined mass, that all thel
assertion and violence Of the Jackson politicians
, and presses are intended to operate. The appre-
hensinns of the virtuous and intelligent of the people
are therefore reasonably excited, lest, by the posi-
bile triumph Of such party, all the results which
presented themselves to our wise and patriotic all
cestors, when they had perfected the frame of our
republican institutions, should be counteraced and
those institutions themselves be placed in danger.
The floating mass to which we have referred may
be divided into two classes the ignorant and the
vicious. The former may be from error by the sim
pie operations of truth and knowledge; with the
latter nothing can be done but through the agency
of their fears. What with bold assertion, there
fore, on the one band, to which they hope to give
the currency Of truth and with threats of violence
and prescription on the other, the agents Of the op
position hope to secure to themselves the whole Of
this body Of the people They may be said, there
tore. to have conspred together to destroy VIRTUE
and knowledge and to restore the gloom and tyrann,
Of that ancient Vandalism, the effects OF which
many centuries of wise and liberal exertons hay'
scarcely yet entirely eradcated from mankind.
Ii there be any individual engaged in this niqui
tous plot whose mind is not so completely darkenet
by error as to prevent him from seeing the PERM
cous consequences which must result to society
from the success of such maChlnations let hin
pause, and think seriously, before he steps beyon,
the reach Of retreat. Assertion caanut long occup
the seat OF argument falsehood cannot perma
nenty retain the garb of truth aud the tyranny
violence will not always be able to resist the vi,
Gus march OF intelligence We do solemnly b
leve that the tendency of the pursue
by the Jackson editors is to give that direction
our glorious efforts for freedom, which, by atheist,
nurderers, and cant philosophers, was given to til
attempts made by the people OF France, at the clos
Of the last century. We have no fear indeed, thu
we shall ever see such series Of awful tra.edit
performed on our soil, for the amusement q an
would-be ruler, as France condemned to sec.-
Our national character, our individual morality, OF
genera! Intelligence, all forbid such suspicion
But continued course of prescription and falls
mood, OF assaults on personal feeling and establish
ed principles, and of violations of all those nor
obligations which society rests. uust lead il
;connot be successfully resisted, TO a catastrophe
which, although less sanguinary, will not be less
tal to our prosperity and independence
Are we asked where we shall find the eyidenc
that course of falsehood and violence is that whit
the Jackson party has adopted for itself! We
Ter to the columns Of their journals in all parts Of d
country. We call on the conscientious lover
truth, and the advocate of strict morality, to np
any sing lie paper which bears the badge Of oppo
ton, and if he read it throughout without a
hitting that his feelings have suffered from the Oh
raticn, we will confess that we have censurcJ und
the dlctaton OF prejudice, instead Of The discreet
OF sound Judgment. What was the charge
kremer and Gen. jackson against Mr. CLAW bu
iasehood-a proved faschood, as ial-as the &c,
rails own witness and friend has testified fall
lood long persisted in, indeed but not the les
lalsehood What was the splenddly larnish
East room in the Presidents house, but fall
hoon asserted, indeed, on the authority and D
sohai observation OF member of Congress /
not the less falsehood What was the tale Of
expenditure of public money by the President
the purchase OF billiard table, and of soda waite
What the charges against the administration
brblng the press, Of travelling Tor e!ectionccr
purposes, and ten thousand other assertions sim
IN their import, but E.;aehoods, all?
Are we invited to show proofs of spirit d /
cripton and violence? We will point to the !
Sonal SANDERS, to the countless assaults on the
!ate characters, occupations, and circumstances