Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-15

ARRAY, but was absent by the permission oi General
jackson, as he has since proved by the Generals
certificate certificate which reflects know not
whether less honour upon the General or upon the
Captain.
s, That this attack was made upon me in the
house we're the Judge of the District, Mr.. Scarcy,
had bis lodgings So little are the law and its min
listers respected Nor has the civil authorities yet
taken cosaizauce of this horrible outrage.
These facts are sufficient to fix the public opinion.
For my own pat. think it scandalous that such
things should lake place at any time ; but parlcn-
lary SO at the present moment, when the public
service requires the aid of all its citizens. AS TOR
the name Of courage, God forbid that should ever
attempt to gam it BY becoming bully. Those who
know me, know full well that would give thou
sand times more for the repu alton Of Chrogan IL
defending his post, than would for the reputation
of all the duel!iss and glsdators that ever appear
ed upon the face of the earth.
THOMAS HART BENTON,
Lieut.. COL seth Infantry"
Should the reader not yet think that we have
made out our case as to what is the spirit of jack
sonism, we will quote another description OF Gene
raj Jackson by another friend now equally warm and
devoted, in his attachment 10 Jackson with Colonel
Benton. Mr.. Pinkney, the Editor otthe Charles
ton Mercury at meeting II. Columbia, South Caro-
lina in 1928, made the following speech on the
proposition to substitute Gen. Jackson for MIR. CAL
houn, in the nomination for the Presidency:
6. MIR. Chairman-l am astonished that any one
should have appeared here TO night to mar our pro-
ceedings, when it is well known the object of the
meeting was to recommend JonN c. CALHOUN TO
the Presidency. But when we insulted with the
most PERFECT TYRANr UPON EARTH, the man
who SETS ALL LAWS AT DEFIANCE, who IS stained
with the VICES of the DEEPEST DYE, one whose
WILL ALONE is his RULE OF CONDUCT, whose life has
"a, 1,,,on
PRIVATE RIGHT, my astonisbmen can scarcely be
expressed. | had rather see the arch intriguer
Crawford the ploddng, systematic yankee Adams,
or the unprincipled Clay, nay any CITIZEN howe
! ever high or however low, made President, than
this MILITARY DESPOT. hope we will take the
vote upon my motion and settle the question at
! once"
| Add this picture TO the one furnlshedhy Col Zen
ton. and think you will have likeness sufficient
ly horrible, TO warrant us in calling the attack on
Dr.. Armstrong the spirit of lacksonlsm.
i JttN People role for General Jackson 10 cause
an unconditional repeal Of The 1arV,' for the Pur-
pose of .aHdyiag Southern Ercnement?"
From the National hateHgencer.
THE CRISIS
The Augusta Chronicle furnishes us with glow
Ing account Of an s'Ant- Tarf'' meeting. very re
Gently held ut Edgefeld, in the State of South Car
Dina. There were present, it is said, three thous
and persons. The occasion is said to have been sol
emn, and the incidents Of the day inspiring W.
have doubt that all this is true but to realize
in all its exciting circumstances, one must have
belonged to the class to whom General Jackson il
said to have been referred by Of his ablest ad
, vocates, mir. Hamilton of South CarolinaJ that i
to say, "Southern man, with Southern feelings
: Mr.. MDuFFIE. who present. delivered
dad
IT published, shall have an opportunity of judgln,
+. of it from the report, which will probably give US
much better idea of it than is to be gathered iron
h the newspaper description. The following passag
e is remarked by the narrator quotation, and W
5: suppose is authentic:
81 (said hey am not one of those who have ad
vsed to of rashness, but do not hesitat
" to sa, that the charge of treason is much more al
Of pcabe to those who attempting to promote tn
views ofour oppressors. by hypocritica cant abou
is the dissolution of the Union intended to subserv
the mere purposes Of faction. than to the most ras
lie and impruden of those of fellow citizens, who
al feeling the wrongs of South Carolina, with spr
that becomes her sons. are resolved to "vindicat
v. her rights and preserve her Iiberty.'
I'd How it can be reasonable factous to depreca
nd dissolution of the Union, if that be the meann
ne of the Orator. we cannot well make out. And.
Mr.. M'Dufie meant to DENY the fact OF the exisenc
pfuJcCtS Hoot'iC w t"e ~ 10 ouHiScHt
NJ US to appeal from M'DuFFIE to Governor TAYLoT
III who, we suppose. will be higher authority with NJ
NJ M'DuFFIE, than the thousand evidences which mig
b. produced from the public prints in his Stat
He is not himself :" one Of those who have advise
le- to measures Of rashness.' We are glad that he
not one of them-but the very disclaimer is dstin
admission, by him, that there are such
lex The resolutions, which were of course unanimou
me y adopted, are sufficiently violent, denouncng
In il .islation FIR the nrotecti0n Of
yht ''the very essence of Legislative tyranny The
was great dinner after the adjournment of t
Zee Meeting at which we remark, that in one toa
md the Tariff is ascrbed to odious ''mercenary sp
md it," and, in the next, JOHN C. CALHOUN is toast
ing in the highest strains of euogy. who was up to