Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-05-20

ana nave descended to the tomb, without adding
one hair to the head of the orator. The last, the
speech of speeches, the Baltimore speech, for its
assuming dictation, and the attitude OF defiance,
deserves to be recorded as the naddest prank Of
ambitious game. The peoples determination to
make jackson President, is called blind and heed
less enthusiasm 1t is represented as cause fer
Divine displeasure:' 8. scourge," and heI
impiously impiores, that our favored land may be
visited with "war. with pestence, with famine.
with any scoutge.'' rather than the election of
Jackson. This is his meaning though not his
words.-Anti to prevent Jackson's election, he de-
clares himself willing, to electionecr from one
end Of the country to the other and says, 81" would
visit every state, go to every town and hamlet, al
dress every man in the Union. and exhort him.
&c. The speech however will be found III Oh,
columns, and readers will judge Of it for them
selves, and it they do not pronounce il the bodest
the maddest folly, we shall be astonshed
His ideas OF " military rule" and military re
nown, taken in the ABSTRACT. are the sentiments of
every friend to his country. and ae SO deeply footed.
that no lecturer is wanted to nculcate them. But
they are sounding words, well calculated to catch
those who suffer others to think for them, and have
been sc,zed upon BY him. and spoken in the same
spirit, ami attended 70 mean the SANG thing as the
tpthet " military clieftain' and u be applied d,
that was to Gen. Jackson.
The onnon rp,ort i an ambitious iemagogue is
to prate about him-ei tell Of III, own put ty, his sac
rices, his love of country This speech is full Of
this ful,ome trash - honored Object" CLAIMS
upon the Justice and sympathy of the people,
public character dearer than life. $50 conscious
All these pretty words, are very prettily spoken,
and adroitly opposed to military rule" He
might as we'll have said openly, j" am the man that
the people must adhere to; 81 am the friend of
liberty, and there is no one like mel al, the
country and you must support me--you must let
Adams rule four years more, because that was the
bargain. Then you must make me your presi
dent.--If You will not, pray God to visit this coun
try with war, pestilence, famine, any scorse- and
will if I can go to every man IN the country.
electoneer myself. from one end OF It to the other
will tell every body, that now is nay only chance,
if YOU elect Jackson, never shall be your ruler.
and shall die of disappointed ambition. unless
can invent some way to bring down the heaviest
curses upon the country--war, famine and pesti-
ence y
The Genius Of Ebony prcsides over this mans
destiny, he is lost, wrecked, swallowed up OF am
biton.
But contrast the holow-hearted preteuce made
in this speech, Of fear Of military rule" with what
Mr. Clay said on this subject in his speech on the
Seminole war, in 1So.-Efe said, she was far from
ntimating that Gen. Jackson cherished any de
signs inilnical to the Liberties of the country. He
believed his intentions PURE and PATRIOTIC.
lie thanked God that he would not, but he thanked
him still more that he could not if he would, over
throw the liberties of the Republic
| Then Mr.. Clay was IN his own character; then
he was not Secretary Of State. then Gen. Jackson
was not candidate for the Presidency, then he
did not bar up the road to the contamination of
Mr.. Clay's ambitious Whistles. But hear him again
in 1917. in Congress, before envy had taken hold
of him, and rooted GU, all the generosity Of his ma
ture He said
Have We gained nothing by the war; Let any
look the degraded condition Of this country before the
wartie Of the ese, the contempt OF ourselves
and tell me if we have ganed nothing by the war;
What is present situation? Responsibility and char
acter abroad, security and confidence at home The
GLORY acouii ed by gallant tns-bv our JACkSoNS
and our Browns the and-,s THAT NOTHING I" t*tt'
"Yes, national GLORY which, however the cxpressors
may be condemned by some, MUSE RE CHERISHED ny EYE
ny GENUINE WHAT do mean by national G(oiy
such HUI of the Constitution JACKSON, Lawrence
and Perry have acquired And are gettcmen ,nsensible
10 the VA LIE OF THEIR DEEps-o vais of them in ami
mating the country in the hour Of peril nereserf Did
the battle Of Thermoyle preserve Greece but once
Whilst the Mississippi continues TO bear the ,rb es OF the
Iron Mountains and the Allegheny to her Delta, and to
the Gulf of Mexico, the Eighth Of January shall be remem
beree and the GLORY Of that day shall stimulate future
patriots and the arms of unborn reemen in driving
the presumptuous invader from our countly's soil"
| Time smoke Henry CLAW of Andrew Jackson be-