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be published, the essay aforesaid, did
relieve, barbor and protect the enemies
of the United States, and did hold a cor
respondence with, and give intelligence
to said enemies, all at the city of New
Orleans within said encampment, and on
or about the third day of March, 1915.
Despotism-In Eaton's life Of Gen
Jackson, there is a letter fremthe general
to the secretary of war. from which we
make the following extract. The letter
is dated Nov. 40, 1914:
Permit me to suggesta plan, which
or a fair experiment, viii do away or
lessen the expenses under the existing
mode of calling militia forces into the
field. Whenever there happens TO be a
deficiency an The regular force in any par
ticulnr quarter, let lie government deter
miae on the necessary num6er. THIS
SHOULD BE PORTIONED AMONG
THE DIFFERENT STA rES. AND
CALLED GINTO SERVICE FOR
AND DURING THE WAR."1
We have quoted the above paragraph,
as one among the hundred other reasons
to prove that Gen. Jackson's principles
are hostile 10 the genius Of our govern
ment, dangerous to civil liberty, and
should disqualify him forthe office which
be now seeks at the hands ofthe Ameri-
can people. The plan which he propo
sed in 1914 for the adoption of our GO,
vernment, is just such an one as no per-
son but a confirmed monarchisi, or the
most inveterate despnt could have tho't
of. The conscriptionof Buonaparte was
preferable to it. .baryiandss.
The mode of filling up the Russian
army is something like this: All the male
inhabitants between certain ages, in par.
ticular towns or districts, are drawn up
in a line, along which the officer designa-
ted for that purpose, passes, and from
which he selects such as be may fancy
Those thus selected are immediately
taken in charge and forced into the army,
from which they are seldom or never re.
leased. This is something like the system
which Gen. jackson wished to introduce
into this country. In his letter to Mr. Mon.
roe, dated20th of November, 1914, he
says, "permit me to suggest a plan, which
or q fair experiment, will do away or les.
sen the expenses under the existing mode
Of calling militia forces into the field
Whenever there happens TO be a deficiency
an the regular force in any particular quar-
Ter, let the government determine on the
necessary number! THIS SHOULD
BE PORTIONED AMONG THE
DIFFERENT STATES, AND CAL
LED fNTOpSERVICE FOR, AND
DURING THE WAR"pf 1t will per.
haps be recollected that, during the late
war, those who were drafted for three
months thought it long enough; and that,
in the case of the six executed militia
men, the whole offence consisted in an
unwillingness to remain longer than
three months, that being there legal term
of service. Gen. Jackson, however, is
not only in favor of making militia men
soldiers "FOR AND DURING THE
WAR" or FOR LIFE, if the war
should last so long.-But, be goes fur
Their. In his letter to Col. Humphreys,
which letter is now in the hands OF the
coionel's executors, in Philadelphia, the
general says, THE GOVERNMENT
OUGHT TO BE DAMNED. IN.
STEAD OF REDUCING TIE AR
MY, THEY OUGHT TO INCREASE
1T TENFOLD M REPUBLIC LIKE
THIS" That is, they ought to increase
it to 100, 600 men!-the expense of
keeping up which would not be less
than forty millions of dollars a year;
whereas the whole expenses Of the army
for The last year, were only 50, 4e5, 96s as;
and the whole expenses of the govern