Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-10-25
Richmond, October 90, 1898.
FaIENDs AND FELLow-C Citizens !

$50 vs. lr 9. SO =.
The astonishing Efforts that made by our political
opponents, induce once more to address you. The
Adams Committee OF this City have collected
funds, which they have employed in scattering handbs
and papers among the Citizens of Virginia. friend of
writes from contiguous county, that is de-
,uged by incredible number Of printed Documents,
boypg the BLACKLIST and infamous charges against An
drew Jackson and active partzans introducing them
into every accessible house in the county" Did these Do
cumcns contain the truth only should be the last
object to their circulation But know the sort stuff
Of which they made and the effects which they are
intended to produce. Yet they confined ,ocu
ments aloneWe understand, that the infamous Coffin
handbis have found their way into of counties;
and though cannot suppose the Adams Committee would
soop to such practices yet of the partzans the Ad
mnistraton have been found willing them.
trick SO very unworthy OF any good cause, and in
sutng the good of the Vrgnians resorted as
the last exPedcnt OF falling party We cannot speak
upon this abuse with coolness We denounce it
without the warmes indignation. The cause which stoops
to the employment of Coffin Handbs. to gull the public,
deserves only their contempt and reprobatiOn.
Never has any candidate received such ungcnerous treat
men from the hands OF his opponents Andrew Jackson
With what transgression has he not been chageda What
charity has he experienced? The first blow aimed
the honored laures which bloom around his He had
saved his country from inolerabe disgrace. He had
wested the most important point of frontier from cap
ture and page. lie had beaten unparalleled
with disciplined miitiamen the flower of the British
troops He had caused the heart OF every American
beat high with joy and prideand he had filled the world
with the glory of our arms The war ended brilliantly
and Andrew Jackson stood the first this nation
the first in first in glory. the first in the affections
down to the most distant posterty-Rut, inuriated
party have thought it necessary to outrage his countrys
gratitude and tarnsh his glory by deprecatng his
merits stripping him of his laurels and transpantng
to the head of Gen. Adair.
The work of defamation being thus commence has been
pushed without bounds moderation In the sweep of its
influence it has spared neither the virtues of the man.
of his private life the character of
The dart which aimed at him would have pierced at
the same time the bosom of his wife. He painted
seducer, and adulterer. Truth could not save him
am caumny decency could protect innocent aud
respected His friends, however have rallied
his defence and have cleared them both from the foul
cusatons The respectable and of his vicinity
those who have known them long and most Intimately,
came forward with their testimony to wipe off the
bic aspersons, and his enemies if possible, with
shame
The torrent of defamation did stop here. They have
ransacked every act of his life and coorng suit their
desperate purposes, they have painted the patriot of
his country, the very whom their leaders
emulous to honor him, have they painted as an obi
monster. They have represented him the murderer
OF the Six Miltamen the uneeDg bucbere of
pushed Indians at the battle OF the Horse as the
brutish duelst and the assassin of Dickinsona negro
trader-as abandoned by the violence Of his
temper to the most shocking profanity land traitor
aye, traitor to his country and the colleague
Burr They have trnnped up garbed letter of his
Major Humphrey of Philadelphia. which his brother
has condescended to perver for the sake of his party with
the malignant purpose OF proving that jackson the FREUD
OF an enormous standing army. Why do they garc the
letter by not publishing the whole of it, that may Judge
1t for ourselves? The people of Philadelphia upon whom