Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1828-11-21
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 81, 1873
GEN. GAINES.

GEN. GAINES!
We present our readers letter written from Nash
vile, by Gen. Gaines To the Editor of the Louisville
Advertiser, and therefore presume for publication
which think they will agree in thinking with us
the most dose yet concoctcd by the late
Presidential Canvass. u viii DO remembered that
Gen. Games is Brisadiar General in the service o.
The United Stntcs, and that tho President is hi:
Constitutional superior The duty of Il soldier, the
lonourablc delcacy of an officer, should hive res
trained Gen. Gaines from mixing i'll contest which
/, belonged to the citizens of the United States, and
not to the solers in their service to determine 10
desy which is never more engaging than when il is
seen in n soldier, should have whispered him that tho
u States had employee Elm for military purposes, ant
not to write clectionecrng letters 0r the newspapers
equally dsresrcctfui 10 his superiors, insulting TO
large portion OF the people, and discreditablc from
the great degree of ignorance they display, to himself
But there is another aspect OF the which rem
ders the conduct o. Con. Gaines yet more unsoldier!y
and we are compelled 10 say, unworthy. The CON
vicsion is irresistible froma porus Of his letter that il
was written under firm persuasion that the ele ctior
Of Gen Jackson was sure. Il is manifest, that he is
he volunteer champion, not of the Farmer of Ten
who will be- ere long the Commander-in of the
Army, and the Power entrusted with the nomination
,fthe .Tajor General Gen. Gaines viii necessarily
ne suspected of an intention ofhckng Gen. Jackson,
hat the latter may remember him hereaftes! What
IN imputntihn upon u soldier! What stain upon chi
yulry! Insulting the setting and worshppng the ris
ing sun; ard forgetting what owing to his duty as
an officer and his individual self-respect that he
might secure the favorable notice of Gen. jackson
VIII the office of Major General compensate him for
the diminution o. public respect? Does he suppose
that the public does not penetrate his motives and
look with contempt upon their selishness? If Jack
son be the man that General Gaines represents him,
ne too will see through his shallow cunning and dos
pise him for il.
We select passage for the particular attention
Of the reader. Gen. Gaines says, He had been led
to believe that Colo Anderson incapable of lend
inr himself TO n faction, headed by the arstocracy of
Hartford Convention and sustained by the miscra
bic votarics of dcscrticn. Islander and Coffin Hand
bills"
The ftction thus clIaracterzcd is the late Admins
traon party ofthe U. States, embracing at least
fiflhs of their whole population, and 100000 voters
By simple dash of his per- Granny Gaines consigns
some millions Of his fcllow-ctizcns 70 iH!amy-.and
stirmatizes them as lction-and insinuates that
they are led on by traitors. The obligation hope
will not very soon he forgotten.
We saw Gen. Gaines letter with pain. We were
wont to respect the and horour the soldier These
feelings arc necessarily snothcred in contempt for the
mean motives which Dictated the weak brain that per-
mtted and the hberalty that characteristics this let
ter If the breach of discipline and of military pro-
prety is not punished, Granny Games VIII at least
find himself reprimanded, by the general Indignation
which his letter will inspire among all men who are ca
pablc of estimating its extreme indelicacy and nprr-
Thence.