Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-12

short, in value OF this Indian gift to General Jack
SON. What citizen is there, Of either party, who
can look at this transaction without the most mark
ed indiunations A public Minister, sent to trans.
act the public business--wel padfor his services by
his own Government--and transmitting, with the
treaty he negotiated, stipulation OF his own agran.
dizement 1t has no parallel in the annals OF the
civilized world A free gift of a nation of wretch
ed, half starved Indians brought to bis feet in un.
recty or indirectly, by General Jackson, to make
him this grant ; Was it reward to him for the
services he had rendered them, in bringing into
their country, the fire, the famine and the sword
Or was it an offering from the ignorance and super
stiton of the poor children OF the forest, to propl
tate him as their evil genius--to soften his heart
and avert his wrath What terms of Reproduction
strong enough to express the adherence OF every
honest man at such Transaction. ms IS specl'
men of his fitness for civil employment. AS sol
der, we see him deliver himself up to his fiery pas
sions and his sword thirstns for the blood OF his
friend aud foe As a civilian, the gross and grovel-
ling spirit Of cupdty takes hold of him. In the
one situation feeling of mercy enters his heart
and, in the other, moral sense OF dccency anu
honour can curb his rapacity.
Our State has been flooded with handbills emit.
tied " General Jochson's dnd Spec,dataonS : in
which an attempt is made to explain and gloss over
a series OF circumstances, any one OF Whch, IN a
citizen of this state, would have wrecked his char
actcr for ever. We would have thrown this into
the mass of offences, which we have passed over
had not the plastic hands of his apologsts endea
voured to convert most reprehcnsbe transaction
into pattern of generous hberality. candidate
for the Presidency obliged to have whltewashlng
committee, whose composition peels of almost as
Iast as it is put on A judge of court-ior sucl
was General Jackson. at the tme-to take lee o
ten thousand acres of land to haze so simple mat
ter accomplished, as the foreclosure of "a mortgage
This suit, he instituted in the court OF the unItet
States OF that districts which court had no Jurlsdlc
ton of the cause. decree of foreclosure is oh
tained--the eighty five thousand acres OF land sold
and purchased for less than two thousand dollars
by General jackson aud company Sales are al
forwards made to settlers, by the purchasers, OF
general warrao deeds which, in Tennessee, a
thar time rendered the grantors liable Tor the i'm
proved value. When il WAS discovered that tn
court Of the United States had no Jurisdiction u
the case. and hat the decree there rendered wa, er
roneuus, the General and his partners became alarm
cd for the probable consequences OF their covenant
of warranty. At this moment it occurred to Gene
raj Jack son that he had an old debt, ct about TWEEN
ty thousand dollars. due him from the estate of tn
mortgager. who had died nsovent, in Georgia
here his heirs resided. To that state he procet
,lrd forthwith, to purchase the equity Of rcdempuo
OF those heirs, for his old debt barred by the statut
Of limitations. lie accomplished this without COZ
siderug that the estate of the insolvent mortgage
: was bound beyond its utmost value, for unbarre
dcpts--and without rehectitS mat te u"e 'or pro-
, ccutng writ OF error 7" reverse me upcree
foreclosure, having elapsed the SAFE unuer 'oe NOR
, gage ai'no originally erroneous hau now peco"
wand, by lapse OF tune. Ills purchase OF Tue nelr
could nave awaited not cent " the ''me OF pr"
ecut,ns the writ OF error IA" not passed oy. =
a would wave been oh'y 'nh" " n'S hanas 'or Y
payment Of good ana suo''s''"S ac1t'. lie mas III
i commute" two n'uh"ef>-"he 10 having ,he So
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OF course was OF no va'"e u' ne resolves 10 mar
It the thorn brlnS form hss' ne turns upon
partners anti his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., n"St 10 stal