Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-06

we shall not be 1t liberty TO avoid. We more
deeply regretted the presentation oil 1enerai
Jackson as Candidate, because we owed him
personally so much kindness, and as citizens so
grateful feeling, that we were most unwiiiihg
to see him dragged forth from the shades OF
private life into an arena, in which we must be
opposed to his success.
Our objections TO General Jackson's election
have not been at all lessened-b by the manner IN
which his claims 10 that station have been pre-
ferred and supported
We well recolIect, when General ). was mrs,
proposed FOR the Presidency, and when we nau
no idea Of his being, in the end, iormlaaoie
competitor, we were struck, we may say SHOCK
ed) by one of the arguments urged IN his favor,
in an address by Philadelphia eleclioneering
committee. In that address, il was made out 70
be virtue in him, so transcendaht as TO entitie
him to the Presidency, that, with victorious
army at his back, he did not, Gas 1t was said ne
might have done,) a, he close Of the late war,
"assume The Imperial Purple" 1t was inlpossi-
BILE TO read such an argument, couched III such
language, founded on such an assumption
without feeling the hair rise on ones head
Still more lately, we remember, that, on Inc
occasion Of the celebration OF the Anniversary
of the Battle Of New-Orleans, in this Clly, when
high-wrought euloGium on the Character q
Genera! Jackson was pronounced by one q his
ablest and best friends, il was made great me-
rit of the General, that he submitted TO the de
cision Of judicial tribunal, when, surrounded
by his army, he might, by his nod, have imno'
laird ,he MIDGET These praises. for the omis-
sion IN nernetra,e attractions ou,rapes. indicate
,o rs the onirion cf thc frmes, SUPPORTERS Of
,be Ceners, =. ,o tho dorccr naturally 10 be
,n,;,;r,,cd fro,, tho co,cen,ro,;on in one ner.
sor e ,,;I;,, ,,,,, anI h,j;, az war with the
h;ohest civil and military au,horitv-which
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VI '"e o'ier VI ''eSe '"i'he' '.' We w. 90! '''"'
even MS supporters conceive II P"s''",c ior
man, srna'eo as ne. was, 10 90 such 'n'"bS'-
Ana inns is suh.cieh' argument against e.
."niSh'h9 me P'eeedehf OF pacing SUPREME "ii
l,a'y power III eohheAioh Win '''e i"luI"0e "
'"e NY" ee' Civ" P'''o"'s', III. VI. ""'I"' =. q
""'' ""o'e h''i'"'y @'ieo'i'| - a'' P"''i''' W
suCn ehlihehce.
we know 1t has been argued that there are
>'''@ 10, "a i'V1h N->PSiiN"SS any '''"N">> ~
public life, who do not agree with us upon This
point. we know the fact to be as 1t Is argued;
but 1t cannot fora moment shake our convIe-
tons we grieve at what appears 10 US a
gross deiusion which has seized upon me
senses OF some ny "nom we nave le','o'ofs
suffered ourselves 10 De inS'rue'su' anu eve"
guided IN our pain: bat, IL we stooa aiohe' we
should mold onto the iailh WHICH, un'i' recent
~, lhey Proitsstd even more strongly man we.
one venerable agihorlty, however, mas oeeh
in'Tou"ceu' ln,soPpoit o' .'e ',ai''.s o; r.
al 'AcksoN' 80 imposing DO 20 .a.ly WIN ~
un,on1ianle'ee, g'ea' mora m' is We 81
luue ~ 'na' u ."e up "" ,I"u ,S'. . Sh
ihhs1N' VINO ,ias p.em 3uu,eG' .'"oo tne a
.,o'eu "i'o" "'' '',o' '1' ": Wv %
nc Dlhher, as oeins 'a.oiao'e 10 me eie!'!oh o'
Zen. JACKSON 10 suit tins purpose, me toast
Itself was garfield; but, even thus garb!ed, meant
nothing but that Gen. JACKSON had earned what
he has Justly received as the reward Of his ser.
,iccs-the ih.,l> IF b;s country O,poSed =,
''..o,"a - r, @ NJ
soeh CONSTRUCTOR d. mas oF'" P"' uPo" MI
JEFFERSON ioasl, we have III our possession
conclusive testimony that the sentiments which