Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-03-07


rlcate. remember we'll the nick names undes
which we passed--yes, sir. can proudly say ne,
although the hunblest in the ranks Mr.. tiallatin
was CIroyEN GuILLoTINE. with lie petit fenstre
national, at his back. The caricature. then. as
well as now, constituted no small part Of the
munitions OF political war. The pencil and the
lgraser they had want Of tools of any sortl
lent their aid to the pen and the ballad and the
military baud Of music. :. Down with the French!'s
ltha the best men OF our countryS) was the cry,
NJ excellent and noble colleague, MIR. Nicholas
one OF the rurest and most pous of men, who al
forwards reno,ed to the State OF New York, aud
was model of Republican ,irtac aud simplicity
that might have adorned the best days OF Sparta
or of Nome--be, Sir, having the misol tune to lose
an eye, was held up to ridlcne as Potyphemas.-
You are shocked at this, Sir; but let me tell you
that it only little innocent. harmless, fede-
raj witt and the author was the especial proege
of Government and its adherents All chuck
led over the Porcupine. To that party the pre-
sent incumbent then belonged--and another mem
Der Of this pure Administration and these two
se'lition.law, black cockade heroes, are recon-
mended BY the $ .fmi Jachson Con,erton,'' I'd
Virginia for her President and Vice President.
They have not even the merit early CONVEX.
sion. They are true Swiss state print I'ars
gant, pint de Suisse. NY venerable fileGd from
North Carolina, was MONSIEUR MACON. with o
cpdiiIa under the C. 10 mack hims,he for G.
IFrenchman. forget the cognomen of the learn
ed gentleman fran Louisiana. NJ Livingston y
| know that he was never spared remember
well mX own: wish, Sir. II applicable nows
| for was then boy. Every sanctuary was then
invaded AS TO Mr.. Jefferson every epithet Of
yituperaton was exhausted upon him. He was all
| Atheist, Frenchman we were all Atheists and
Traitors; our names and causes associa:ed with
the CannIbais and Canniiiasm ol the Re, oution-
AIRY Tribunal, aud with all the atrocities, the most
atrocious ami revolving Of which has this day been
|prasented TO the House by the chaste imagination
OF the gentleman from Massachusetts. Yes, Sirs
then. as nov, group Of horrors was pressed upon
the public imagination, 70 prop the sinking cause
Of desperate Administrations Religion and or
der were to be subvertea the National Debt to
be spnngpd and the country to be drcnCheh in its
best bload by Mr.. Jefferson and his Jacobln adj
herents. Even good men, and not unwise men,
| we're brought to believe this Mr.. Jefferson was
elected and know what followed. iut this,
| it NAV be said not done by nwn people it
was done by foreign hirelings, mercenarles. Sir,
it is not only Of this desert pton # persons that
speak. 1t was done in the glorious days of tho
Seditiun Law and the black o0ckate, when we
found in General Shee and his lie. ion, protection
against the Pr9toran bands of the Administration.
These brave fellows were many Of them irish nr
German. and nost of them of iish or Ge man
parentage, chiefly from the Northern Liberties,
then the strong hold Of Repubcanis,n and,
therefore. branded with the opprobrious name oil
the Fauxbnuch St. Antoine the most Jacobin
quarter of Paris.
At the very time that the act noted by the gem
tleman from Massachusetts. was passed, MAY
| 1907 when Professor Cooper escorted III Jail,
victim Of the Sedtion Law. the New York cleo
ton. then, of late, rung the knell of the dep TT
| inc Administration. Sir, when the gentleman IA
yored us with his opinion OF the present stnpeHd-
Gus Administration. | imagine he drew 1t from a
comparison with some fthe Administrations which
proceeded it. In compa ison with some OF these,
even this administration is great; tor we have
the least oil all pus,be thnss-the poorest OF all
poor creatures that ever was manufactured into
Head of Department, (dnI that's bold wurd,)
a member of Il fOrne tdministiatiOn.--aluUst
satire on the name This parsonage, as have
very latel, learned, ia imitation Of another great
man from the same State took some liberties in
public, "ith my name VIXEN he had the Atlantic
for barrier the summer before last. Like his
great friend, his courage shows itself three thou
sand miles uf 1t is in the ratio OF the s,,pare Of
the distance of his adversary. Sir, should like
to have seen how he would have looked, if, on fin
ishns his harangue. be had found me at his elbow
| think can conceive how he wuuld have felt.
Sir. have much to say, which neither my own
weakness. nor my regard to the politeness of this
House, will permit me now to sa. a. | have ex.
onerated the principal in that weighty ana If the
billiard table also exonerate him and his Lieu
tenant from every charge of colluson-in the first
instance and if ii is in order, will state the rea
sons for nv opinion. When the alliance was first
patched up between the two great leaders of the
East and West, neither OF the high contracting
parties had the promotion of the present incum-
| bent at all in view. Sir speak knowingly as tc
one Of these parties, and with the highest degree
of moral probability of the other. Can it be ne.
cessary that prove this? The thing proves itself
The object was to bring in one of the parties tc
the compact, whom the constitution subsequently