Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-09-20

p,1EITY. we would point TO ms oaei WIN
Line, ayery-,he Observation-Disclosures eAe''-
,n,s. two boys, Donald and Winston 10
sss,--bis brawl with Swami on the race course
His duel with Dickenson'-hls attack o"
-, Jackson. in which he stabbed HIM IN
,r.h .c, his sword passing through his body
.nd coming Out Of his breast-his disgraceio'
..,,I, IN the 3entons--his execution oil inc
,;,;,;,men-of the two Indian prophets
8 ,,bu,hno, and Ambrister-of the BOY
,vood,--his determination OF deleneeiess An
dans For proofs Of his
IGNORANCE, we would refer to the fact OF
,is having resigned several civil Offices, ae-
kDowledgng his un6tness tor them, and the IN
iurv he nigh, do by his erroneous decisions
r,s course while in the Senate oil the United
S;,,ss-and his published letters. in which Is
d;solsyed his ignorance Of even the common
Jules Of grammar and photography.
man with these three prominent traits oil
character, must have others, naturally arising
from and growing out Of them We will not
oo.anv further now in the sickening catalogue.
!, mains US TO think that such man should e.
,sr have neen thought u as President OF the
United States and more, to see how madly
some are ben, upon his elevation, and the arts
hey resort 10 for the purpose OF effectins 1t.
We ask those who are TO decide the great
question, and particularly the people OF Virgil
MIA. 10 look al, and examine, the charges that
have been made uf General Jackson, VlO-
LENCE, CRUELTY and IGNORANCE
and 10 weigh well the evidence aadueed in sup
mort Of these charges; and then Sc, # they Can,
70 the polls, and vote for the Military Chiei,ain.
." You that haze tears prepare 10 shed them nop!!'-
lis already known what deep feeling was excited at
the death Of this unfortunate man, whom Jackson so
deliberately shot, DR. Watkins, who, after suffering
the charge to go unconradicted for so long time,
and after quarrehDg with Jackson on account of this
very due, --being one of those who requested the
Editor of the Nashville paper to put his paper in
mourning. lamen,ing the 'un,imely death" of Dicken-
SOn,-na now Writttn lctter, enueHNorilS eASui'
pate Jackson, in which he says
"ur Dickinson requiring that might not be alb
sent from town the next day, If wounded he should
send an express for me. The expresscame; accom-
panied his weeping wife in her carriage, near fifty
miles that day and night, 10 her husband, at Major
flarrisonS, in Kentucky. sustained her, on our srri
val as she sunk lfeless on his dead corpse. Could
forget the particulars of a scene like this"
The editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, rsmarking on
Watkins letter, and particularly this passage says
"Ths passage does carry conviction to my heart
conviction that the man who occasOned this misery TO
ahelpless wife and mother, ought to be rresi.
ient of the United States: Conviction that the man
who could witness this scene, and let alsehood go
broad concerning its origin, is base and hesr,less
wretch, whose subsequent corrections much more
likely TO grow out of political design, than cut of
love Of truth Conviction that those who pretend to
find in it vndication of the homicide are fit ascot
ates for the perpe.rator and the witnesses Heaven
help country, when any such are in credit enough
to be candidates for its highest Offices"
NJ, n,l.o. Al &. m