Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-09-09

suSSeCuiHS EreSiueht, SnOulu De OVertnrOWD, 10
give place to the new tangled doctrines of a
JACKSON DYNAsrY'
1io'e CLUB LoD-Jacksonism- Liberty of
the Press. and the Right Of Speech hvaded-Ma-
gisirotes nsuited ,odie in The Discharge Of their
Duiies.-Judge Williams, in letter dated Car
thage, (Tenn.) August Is, 1928, details heart
sickening account OF Jacksonism in Tennessee
On the fourth of July, WHILE THE CouRT WAS
IN SESSION, /. {. lsaacks, a member Of the
house OF Representatives, came into Court, a.
dorned with hickory bushes, and seated him
self opposite to, and fronting Judge Williams,
and, at the same time, some so or 100 persons
Of all ages, following him. Isaacks looked sig
nihcantly at the Judge, and from him to the
crowd around, seemingly to indicate and say
there is our victim.
The Judge goes on 10 say, that after the adj
journmenl OF Court, a crowd, with lsaacks "a
mone them, paraded before his door back wards
and forwards. "!n these proceedings they had
General Jackson's image hoisted upon pole;
and when occasion required them to stop, they,
or some Of them, would fall and yell TO the
iuoi, 81 many SaVdBeS. III Sc
proceedings continued until late al night, and
abou, IL or 10 o'clock their music ceased
flies and drums when, as / was standing be-
fore my door on the pavement, ia the light Of
candle burning in my room, some half dozen
Of The party came within fifteen steps of me,
swearing that they would now have the dam'd
calumria,nr of Gen. Jackson: then, when they
discovered me, stopped, and after cursing and
abusing me for the slapderer Of Jackson, went
off, On Sunday, afer Armstrong was whipped,
Hampton Williams, Esq. Attorney at Law,
and as | am It'd, under the influence and pa
tTonage oil lsaarks, came within 90 steps of me,
aud Said audibly, chat Armstrong had been
justly whipped, and that Judge Williams de-
,rrYrd 10 nave as much" "Yrs," said Ben.
Estii, sanding by with a hickory club, "bv
Cd, vel give i; to him well " They both
Immediately left the COMPANY: Williams went
to the court house, and Es,l to his shop, a.
cross The street | ail rwards enquired the
name uf E.s,ll, and observed 10 the balance Of
TIE company there, that these gentlemen had
incuried The penalties Of contempt and on
Monday | should proceed against them. On
a consultation with my friends, declined pu'
aishing them; for was told The fines would BE-
borne by the company, and that the Governor
would relieve from any imprisonment IN gE,
fore supper, whilst | was seated before the
tavern door with Col, raa and Abram Martin,
Esq attorney d, Law, from Bedford County,
in Iri hmar, in state of apparent intoxic arion,
come rushing out of the do"r with his knife open
swt airing bit he was "horsr, a horse, by
Cd: aud would use up any man, no matter
how high IN authority he nigh be, VINO would
acknowledge himself 10 BE- The author of the
piece in The Knrx,iIlr Enquirer" i was be-
he Ell by Marin, Tall, and myself and others,
that d r Irshmao's illusions were to me. While
this conversation of the Ir,shman was going
on, several Young men were dumping thr
benche with their la &c hickory sucks. AS
gentleman and myself arose up from supper,
one Of these hickory sticks was mashed down
on my straw hat, then lying on the bureau,
which h. obser, ed wa, a little ominous OF the
result; being advised by my friends, not TO
proct ed against ih-m for contempts, deter
mined TO adjourn the court"
Are not such scenes, sufficient to make US
tremhe for our liberties? Order and decency
are outraged in the most shameful manner by
mrn elevated to high and responsible stations.
Benton in his hunting shirt, and lsaacks
tucked off with hickory boushs In court OF
justice, are fine samples OF a "blood aud car
mage" party. united to "pu, down the Admins
ration; though pure as the Angels at the throne
God"
Men Of peace! Friends Of ,rdei. Citizens
and countrymen! We call upon you, TO prevent
The ascendancy of such party, avowing such
principles, ard composed of such materials.
The South Carolina medicin, begins TO ope-
rate. The reaction has commenced.