Delaware journal., 1828-01-29

eniphatcaly than that of President of the U. States
IA we'll governed temper is Of admitted impcr-
tance. General Jackson's friends lament the i'm
petuosty Of his, and all the world has evidence of
lis fiery mlsrule.
TO maintain peace and harmony in the delicate
relations existing between the Government of the
Union and the various State Governments in our
Confederacy, requires courtesy and iorebearance
in their intercourse, which no passion should dis
turb Let the spirit Of domination displayed IN Gen.
Jackson's celebrated letter to Governor Rabun,
warn us of the danger Of committing TO his keeping
this precious depose--sacred to the union OF our
Republics, and to the freedom Of mankind.
Military men should never be allowed to forget
that the obligation to obey being the sole foundation
of the authority to command, they should lncucate
subordination, not by precept only; bat by exam
pie that profound respect for the Laws and Con-
slluton of their country, is an Indispensable guar
antee of their worthincss to be entrusted with the
sword which is drawn to defend them; that they
should lose no fit occasion for manesting that res
pect, by practical illustrations Of the principles sa
cred in every we'll ordered Republic, which pro-
claims the military subordinate TO the civil power
that mercy even TO the guilty, and Immunity always
TO the conquered and the cnptive, are part of the
law of God and man, found in every civilized code,
writtenin every human heart, and indispensable to
the true glory of the Hero:
General jackson has been unmndful of these
truths. Though he has enjoined subordnation by
precept, and enforced it by authority, he has not
recommended it by example. He has offered in
dignity TO the Secretary of War; in the very letter
which assigned his reasons for disobeying an order
to disband his troops; he has placed his authori
ty in opposition to that of the War Department
by general order, forbitlding the officers of his
command to obey the orders Of that Department
unless they passed through the channel which he had
chosen to prescribe; and he disobeyed the orders
of the Government in his military operations in the
Spanish territory.
He has been unmindful of the subordination o
military to civil power, and has violated the law
and the Constitution, by declaring martial law a
New Orleans, and maintaining it, of his own arbi
trary will. for more than two months after the enc
my had been beaten and repused, and all reasona
BILE apprehension of their return had ceased b,
surrounding the hall Of the Louisiana Legislator,
with an armed force and suspending their delibera
lions; by seizing the person of Louaer, fire,
citizen of Louisiana, and member of their Legisla
ture, and bringing him TO trial before mtar,
tribunal for having the boldness todenounce througl
she public press, the continued arbitrary reign o
martial law; by disappearing the acqutal of Lou
alher upon his trial. when, to have condemned dnt
executed him, would have exposed the actors in tn,
fatal tragedy to the legal pains of death by suspen
corpus, when the Legislature Of Louisiana had re
fused to suspend it on his application, when no la,
of Congress authorized it, and no imminent DANCE
pleaded its apology; by arresting and imprisonin
Judge Hall Tor issuing the writ Of hd6eas corpus t
relieve Louallier from Illegal confinement, and al
resting and imprlsoning two other officers of tn
law, for appealing 80 civil process agains ha tyran
mic rule !; by the arrest, trial, and execution, of 81
militia men, who we're guilty Of no other offenc
Al. 20 Al.
home, after their legal term of service had expired
by organizing corps of volunteer militia, and AZ
pointing its officers without any warrant for so d,
ing, and against the provisions of the Constitution
which expressly reserved the appointment of III
officers of the milItia to the States respectively
and by making war upon the Spanish Territor
selzng and holding Spanish posts, in violation oftl
order of his Government, and whilst peace exste
between Spain and the united States
That mercy and humanity may unite with the @
Tended Law and Constitution, in accusing Gen Jac
son oil being unmindul Of their voice, and in refll
ing to his laurel own the rays of true glory, vi
be acknowledged by impartial poserity when tn,
review the history of his Indian campaigns al
especially when they read the stories OF the col
Soloo]ed massacre at the Horseshoe; of the deco
ed and slaughtered Indians at st. Marks of Il
wanton and uneyampled execution of Ambrister.
fngllshnan, found fighting, it is true, in the ranks
the Semnoles, but taken prisoner tried, doom
to a mder punishment and executed by order
the commanding General against the sentence oft
tribunal appointed by himself; and of the still mo
injured Arbuthnot, another Briton not bearing arr
at all, only found among the warning Indians, a Il
der, and an advocate for peace.
We have done with this siclSening catalogr
You have now a brief summary ofthe evidence,
the authority of which we regard Gen. Jackson
wholly disqualified for the Presidency, and look
the prospect of his election with the most gloo
aorebodiugs.
You think, perhaps, we pay poor compliment
The virtue of our People and the strength of our