Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-09-04

4 1870 re AuHbkton OpDh kuN fNJee@"NH VI tn9
Louisiana treaty, was taken a few days before
be reached the seat Of government. The mea-
sures, hswsver, Necessary for carrying the srsars
into effect, we're still under discussion; and on
the question for sppropria.ing the necessary
sums fer that purpose, after an able and srgu-
mentatiye speech, in which be took occasion to
express bis entire assent TO the treaty, be re-
corded his vote with the republican majority.
THis speech and vote may be seen by refer.
encs to the National Inselligencer OF 25lh Nov.
1851
such was the character Of John Quincy Ad.
I sms-such his yirtues-such his Services. He
would next advert to the character aud actions
of bis competitor: He would deal lightly with
him-as much SO, at least, as the offended laws
and endangered liberties Of the country would
permit: What was then the. character Of An
drew Jackson His private life exhibits q tissue
of gross immortality and recorded violenee-a
stranger to generous and humane emoiien-
The champion of the cock. pit and the bFothel!
His public life has been Distinguished by inefi-
cheney and unhtbess-utterly without expert
ence 10 political affairs; and betraying in all his
! ofisial acts, an entire ignorance and disregard
| OF the rights of individuals and of eomnuni-
ties, That this portrait was not overcharged,
he submitted facts to q candid and Discerning
audience.
Was there an individual present who had not
! heard OF his attack upon Thomas Fl. Benton
with the deliberate aad premeditsted design Of
| assassinanng himf Benton himseltbas detailed
the transaction in an appeal TO the puohc, and
| published Jackson to the world as . cut threat
and an assassin: Aye, the same Thomas "a. Ben
ton who is now seen al. humble and obscq.ious
Lazaroni in the Train Of political beggsry, offer.
ing incense to the msn who deliberately sought
1 his bianH-fhR sauna tvhn Iud,fAd kAe cetohrafAd
East Room falsehood--vho publicly declared.
''thst if Jackson was elected President, Sena
tors would have to legislste With pistss in their
pockets" But this, 1t may be said, occurred
in private hfe-that bis public character Should
alone be made the subject ct investigation. Be
II so: He would thea refer TO his pubic conduct.
The name OF L%oUALLJER was doubtless fam,-
liar to most OF them--peFhsps familiar from the
SANDERS wantcniy cast upon his menory-per.
hsps familisr from a generous sympathy excited
by bis late manly and eloquent appeal to the
American nation. 1t mat,ered DO, for the pre-.
sent: His name was Intimately connected with
the merits of the controversy, and with the mis-
deeds OF General Jackson. Aud was he called
upon to point to any single act in the history Of
Andrew jackson, calculated more than any
ether. TO exhibit bis entire ~uutituess for the
Office - which he aspired, il would be to his
conduct in reference 10 that much slandered
and prosecuted man, He knew his countr, meA
well-he knew how heartily they condemned
arrogance and abAorred oppression He begged
their attention, therefore, a few moments, while
he referred to that event. They would there
psrceive the danger of entrustlng uSlimited
power to weak minds-cf investing with office
a man ''wbs makes Bis own arbitrary viii he
sole guide Of his conducts"
1t was, he believed, two months after the
battle of N. 0rleans-certainly fortyihres dsys
after the British army had evacuated Louisiana,
and after II had become distinctly aseertained,
although net officially announced, that war ceas.
ed 10 exist between The United States and Great
Britain. that General Jackson, upon a mos, fri
/ yoious pretence, as viii be seen, issued an Or
der. commanding all Freachznen to ieape the city
o. ,Nez, Orleans .o!th'n three days, and 10 kseb OF a
distance Of 100 na!es fl oan IL. 1he Frenchmen, a
gs'nst whom this order Was PARTICULAR, direct
ed, constituted the lst and I'd regiment Of the
militia of the City gentlemen of family
cEd fortune who had volunteered in It's defence,
and had thro'out the engagement fought with
the moss distinguished valour and success. At
ter the enemy retired, and all necessity for their
further services ceased, they requested permis
sion OF General Jackson to be stationed in the
city-whers they might be enabled to enjoy
The seciely of their family and friends. and yet
'OAA tt NHoItiCS ~ ObtJ III LII
OF their country. This Slight boon the General
refused. he permitted a company Of coiored
men, under Major Daquin. TO be stationed in
the city, and ordered these brave and gallant
Foreigners 10 take their station ON Villare plan
t~ation, one OF the most sickly spots in The neigh
borhood of NO. They complained 90 Gov .Clsi-
horne; Claiborne represented their situation to
Jacksoni when he broke cut into enc of those
frenz'ed and ungoveFnabie bursts of passion
for which he is 80 noted. and immediately is.
sud the order alluded to, commanding all
Frenchmen to leave the city within three days.
LsuailIer, a native Frenchman, who had eIstin.
guished himself by bis ~iiberallly and bis public
| spipi', during the military operations near the
city; and who was likewise a member Of the
Legislature, protested, in the public papers,
against the constitutional legality of the order.
This, he wsuld beg them to bear in mind, was
Gfy-fhree days after Gen Jackson had himself
written to the Secretary Of War, informing
him that the country was free from the enemy.
Foi exercising this unquestiened right Of a free
citizen-for temporarily exposing the illegality
of Gen. jsckson's order, Lousilier was imme.
diaiely arrested and thrown into prison. He
applied to Judge Hall for a writ Of Habeas Cor
pus-supposing. that that sacred palladium Of
OWL liberty, which the Monarch of the Two
Islands Dare not vislate without peril Of bis
Crown, would protect him from the effects of
arbitrary power. Much 10 his surprise, ,he hour
had scarcely arrived for the trial of the writ of
Habeas Corpus, when he perceived Judge Hall
himself, the venerable and independent minis.
ter Of Justice, dragged to the raol. to share his