Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-13


and the oawnees, the Cherokees who nave
taken 20 carding and spinning and The ereeks'
of whom such as General Jackson mas F'''
have moved Wesi to a great buffalo Prarie oe'
yond the salt mountain. These tribes can mus
ter, pei haps, on an average, two huhdtea wa.
riors piece; but, il is believed, wei resu!''
ed Court Of Sessions can Go all the hgntihg
Ia, is necessary, with these hea,herS. men
we have Mexico At the South, and there are
some rccen, instances Of piracy mr. what rs l't!f
better, commi,ed under The flag OF that repuh.
lie which some of ournava! commanders shouiu
hr seat TO see abou'; but we believe Iehera
Jackson has no skill in that service. ne Dfoau
Atlantic rolls on our EAs'ern frontier, ana II
would puzzls Jackson man 10 tell what Inc
General knows about our foreign relations
Don Miguel is supposed 10 20 great iaVorte
o! his: but we never heard OF ANY other no
lions entertained by him on the subject. Bon
gal and the West ladies abroad are to him, as
we understand, undiscovered regions; because
that part Of his g. ography book was torn out,
when he wen, to learn polite letters! But TO go
back to Mr.. Jefferson The llerkim er genlle-
men, 2rrsuming upon the ignorance CT their
partisans as 10 what This great man actually hio
say, have worked up beautiful lycarymose
piece Of seniime nlal rwaddle, all abou'-"aiarIn'
ing apnrehrnsions"-."cris s"--"tnomentous
eharact,r"--" broad dootrin""--" Unlimited
wer"-'prcmatursides,r ""and ali that
sort Of thing as that melancholy gentleman,
Mr. Mathews would say, ending with the FOL
lowing Hpuish:-
Alarming, with anxious solicitude TO the dis
tnguished citizen whnm he spontaneous voice
of the republicans Of the union had p'oc' famed
as their candidate, he announced him TO III,
counlrymen as the only man, through whose
integrity ana judgment, The Constitution could
be saved from the Dangers with which 1t was
surrounded
! Now, good reader suppose we become grave
enough to quote what Mr.. JeH'rson did say
He told Co. Coles, that "nothIng had led MIN
SO much 10 disrus, the durability OF our re-
public an institutions, the manner in which
so many Of our citizrns run after mere mills
tary man like Gene, al Jackson. As wei, SAID
he, might you think OF making sailor OF .
cock, or a soldier OF goose, as President oil
General JackSon!
Bat we are getting too grave: SO now look
ou', friends, counrymrn and roglodites! Mark
This, native federalIs's and democrats, natural
, Ized and urnaturaiZed Ci'iZrns!
Oh reader! if that thou can'st read,
Lock down upon this
Extract from the iIerkimer Gent!cmen's Address.
81, IS not cur province 10 eulogizr our candi
dates; hut We should he wanting in common
gratitude AMI justice, were we 10 omit pass
ing tribute 10 one whose public services have
heeu 50 eminent and illustrious. lie comes re-
commended TO us by the hig e7' considerations.
He was born republican Even when an or
phan, he WIS, in the revolutionary ranks, re-
>is'ing oppression and struggling for indepen-
dence. IN that school, his republican princi-
nles were & ST callrd INFO actin t"
''Hr was D IN repu blIcan. Some E,en are
bonn with one rye-some with one leg; and
some uniorruuatts ale born with grrae or
less. complement Of members, and serve to H.
lu,tra'e the books on physio al science. Some
men are born IN New York, others in Mrsopo-
ramia, and therefore sid TO b. born New
Workers, OF Mesopoiamians. Bui how a per.
son can be born republican unless several
| Twin IN Others and sisters were born along with
him, and hr had made up his mind. before his
hlr h, 10 establish a commonwc allh with his
conah, the gentlemen of the Herkimer Corver-
ton can alone explain. They cannot surely
mean that Gene al JAG kson was born in Ireland
We d" not believe this; though it would soyr
the d ficulty. II he.was born 10 Ireland, his
election would be void, even though he should
DC elected President We know nothing about
hr matter; but, if we are % borrow our chief
magistrates from foreign countries, we would
IS lief take them from Ireland as from any
whers else. There are good and brave aud pi-
Gus and patriotic men enough in Erin, 20 apo
| "gzr for the sins of great many General
| Jacksons.
But-"when an orphan, (having only one pa
rTnI,) he was in the revolutionary ranks" &c.
The General was nine years oil at the period
| referred 10. We have not the tragedy Of Tom
| Thumb before US. or we might make this pas
age more paihe'ic, as well as sublime, by a
| quotation. We regret that Fielding died be-
| fore Gen Jackson was "ho,n a republic am"
and We also r. gre, that all our historians are
so utterly silent abou, the re elutionary deeds
Of this precocious military infant.
The document which we are reviewing, next
states that the General never went to any aca-
deny, which seems to be repetition that he
was educated in his own country, (Which we do
not understand, as i, may IN an ireland, land
then comes 'waddle supplementary
The catastrophe is an address 10 The people !
OF this Stale. And as the people Of thi. Suate