Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-07-10
.ArrIfHEx ~ ErlD8IAe
rurruSnAy MORNING, JULY 10, 1913.

,hs Central Committee Of Kentucky will be
read with interest; Along with the fact thai
III. letters 10 Mr. Blair, OF which so much has
b,en said and written, furnish no evidence what
ever of the bargain affair, but directly the re-
verse; il proves the Inconsistency and iaisehood
and biackness Of heart of the would be leader
Of the Jackson patty IN the West.
II is, when such men as Amos Kendall uni'e
and conspire to destroy our best men and pur-
est patriots, that we should adopt Cicero's
uious aspiration to the gods, and like him pray
for our eountry-"ui perdihssimorum c'U'um
nsfayio scsisrs defendant"
A witty and ingenious writer goes into an
argument Of some length TO prove the advan'
,aees of having no head! "Now," says he, "h
man could but leave off al his neck, make his
shoulders the ultima Thule OF his figure, he
would no, belong to either the families of the
I.ongheads or the Wrongheads; he would be
neither headstrong nor headlong; he could not
b, over mead and ears in debt or in love; head
ache, s face ache, and tooth ache, and ear ache
harpies "Let The CALLED jade vince, his with
ers are unwrung." All ordinaries are at his
mercy; he may gorge with his friends Till the
revel rout be dispersed by The watchmen. The
sloe juice aud ratsbane and such kind OF stuH
b. il ever so villiannus can never get into his
brain, and as to the reckoning in al! these cases
il IS SO much head-and what is that TO him. !"
DO not some Of our politicians reason some,
thing in thi, manner? We will see. A man
with no brains, it is argued, fares better than
one vita tuN supply OF that article. Jacksons
waai or qaal 6ca,ions, they say, constitutes his
4 CHEF qualifications. Rather paradoxical 10 be
! sure, bu, nevertheless Jackson paradox-so
! let it pass he can neither write dramatically
nor spell correctly. Granted-But so much
1 the better, he vii not be troubling Congress
! and wasting tir,s, with sending messages. lie
! is no statesman, he does no, understand dlplo>
macy GranIcd-bul better still He will ne-
yer NEEDLE with what ne don't knew, and con-
\ seQutntly can never bring u, ipto disputes with
f,rrigh nations nor any "rn,anchng alliances.
He is 4 man ot violent and irrascible temper
Cer,ainlv-& for this reason When he is cloth
ell with power our enemies will h sha'e before
they ,hrea en- and our STATE Governments dare
not ,alk Of resistance. Ills habits nave be ir-
regular, and his character foru.ed amongst The
! worst OF society. Yes-but am,ug,t III Sc he
! learned to be true republican, and his former
! ACTIONS have b EN- lesson II him. He does not
4 understand the law, Of his country, or at least
| or various oc, a5ions has Will ted 'hem-Wc
! know u, but he bottoms bis conduct on the
broad principles Of jns,ice, and despi,es the
/ perv shackles which the law might throw a
round him.
Now ,ce 10 not say, lNa' a Jackson MN ever
said, Jacksons disqualification should elevate
him 20 the Presidential choir, but we do say,
that their answers TO the objections urged are
4 generally in the style above, or not much better
a They admit. for admit they must, facts which
are as plsin and palpab!e as the sun at noon
day in a cloudlevs sky, and seek to qualify their
admis lion by but, whic h does not in The least
mend ;h~ mater. Thus his ignorance, his in-
experience, his violence, and his contempt OF
the laws are readily conceded, and turned to
his advantage, by contendiug as we have JUS
shown
We do not know to what cause to attribute
the obliquity oil Ineotal vision which character
izrs some of our political opponents, who were
formerly so clear sighted-anI on the otbei
hand, cannot see why those who were so long
in darkness and obscu,i,y have suddenly emerg
ed TO illumiue the world with that great and
sublime truth-"Iha' WANT OF SENSE, is sENsE:'
"Is it that added brains perchance,
n When the scuii's dark wthignorance,
Like rotten eggs surveyed at night,
Emit temporary light
Oris il that heated brain,
whenit is rubbed against the grain,
Like cats back, though dark as charcoal
Will in the gloom appear to sparkle"
AS kind Of offset TO the "Half mast bust
ness, which some Of our vessels had the folly
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