The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06
POLITICAL.

POLITICAL.
From the Kner0ilIe (Ten) Inquirer
general JAcKsos, ike Cincinnatus, re-
turned TO his plough. Gen. Jackson ,ciI foltOio
in the footsteps Of Washington, the Father of
his country" So say Jackson's admirers.
II is true, Gen. Jackson returned to his farm
but not exactly like Cincinnatus, or even like
Gen. Washington-but as his friends otherwise
phrase it, like the plain farmer of Tennessee,
d. e.) he charged the U. States for attending to
his own business, 5000 per month, and for the
hire of servants, that were cultivating his own
farm, he charged us per annum $672 and up
wards We say he charged as, because acc, the
people, had all these things to pay. For the
rent of his own house, he charged us $500 per
annum. He charged us 1924 per annum, for
burning his own wood, that must have been
burnt in heaps in his new grounds, or hauled |
one sGe to rot and for eating at his own table |
what he had raised on his own farm, be charged !
Us upwards of iorty-two dollars per week But
to the documents The following is the Cen
erals account for one year, while at homo on
his farm, as it stands on the end and Sd Audi |
tors books, of the treasury department and
that too, for the year 1920, when one would
have thought that his avidty might have been |
Is
five years an income of something like seven
thousand dollars per year, without rendering or
pretending to render any sort of service to hiss
country.
Gen. Jaoksons account from Jan. /, 1920, to
Dec. 80, 1920.
Pay, (as Major GENERALLY $4,000 90
Subsistence, 2,l96 90 |
Extra ratons, (wine we presume) ] ,06S 90
Paw. 240 90
Subsistence. 292 80
Clothinu l40 I6 |
Rent of Quarters. 1.-THE HERMITAGE 400 90 |
Fuel, pa O0
Transportation of Baggage, l66 40
While receiving the above as Maj. General,
he received the following sums as commission
er, to treat with the Choctaw Indians in the !
same year, viz
Travelling expenses, for self to
Doak's Stand, 425 So
Bill at Doaks, 156 II |
Pay as Commissioner from the l4th
of September to the 2lst October,
81 days, at IS per day, 296 a
Expenses for Gen. Jackson and suite
their return, 35l 5O
Pay as Commissioner on return, from
the 2lst Oct, to the 10th Nov, 20
DAYS, at So per dav, 100 90
Total amount for 1920, 1,547 AZ
JACKSON AS STATESMAN. The ad
ministration of General jackson, as Govern
or of Florida, has never received that at
tention from the American people, to which
it was entitled. No sooner was he invest
ed with the government, than he abolished
the existing institutions, and established
perfect despotism. He issued what he cal
led ordinances" taxing the people at his
own will and pleasure, and regulating the
civil government without any reference 20
any other laws than his own. The mass of
the people were Roman Catholics, and they
considered some of his ordinances as inter-
fering with those religious rights that had
been guaranteed to them by treaty, on their
being transferred to the United States.
They drew up no petition to Congress, but
merely sent an agent to lay before that
body Copy of Gen. JacksUn's laws. As
soon as Congress received this document
they passed law with great rapidity, and
with almost perfect upanimitY. entitled.
certain Ordinances" The bill was report
in the Senate by Mr.. Holmes of Maine, and
was passed into law with the least posi-
Bile delay. The "ordinances" of Major
General Andrew Jackson" were declared
"null and void," the President of the Unit
ed States was directed to "cause to be re-
funded to any person any sum of money paid
under such laws and ordinances" and it
was further enacted, that any person who
shall in future attempt to enforce them.
should " be punished by fne not exceeding
two hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment
not exceeding six months, either or both of
said punishments."
This law is Chapter Sc of the Laws of
the United States, 18th Congress, First Ses-
sion, (1822.) We do not learn that the
friends of Gen. Jackson have made any use
OF this document to convince the people of
the great Legislative talents of " the second
Washington. "-BrattleborO' Messenger.
JACKSON AND BURR. A correspondence
between General Jackson and Judge Ma
thaniel w. Williams of Tennessee, and al
SO statement of the latter gentleman, on
the subject Of the suspected connexion be-
tween the General and Colonel Burr, have
Just been published. Judge Williams has
subscribed his name to the statements
Under these circumstances, and with his
character unlmpeached, according TO the
rules OF evidence, his testimony is to be re-
celVed as truth, until it has been disproved.
BY the evidence of Judge Williams it is
shown
list. That General Jackson was on the
most intimate footing of association with
Colonel Burr during the Fall of 1906 and
Winter of 1907, at which time Burr was in
the prosecution of his scheme for the sep !
aration of the Union.
IDLY. That General jackson understood
the character and object of Colonel Burr's
monuments, as 10 shnrun by h;s 10 csno GO n