Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-05-14
LITERARY CADET
PROVIDENCE. WEDNESDAY. MAY IA.
yNgEGySs ss"oyE."ss
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN QULNCYaDAJuS
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
RICHARD RUSH.


we have for moment entertained doubt ss
to its final result t. not because We have de-
SPARED Of the reelection Of our candidate
but because the political elements have as
sumed an aspect 50 exceedingly angry, that we
| have thought that it were better TO let the
subject settle down on its own intrinsic merits.
Beyond this, We have not been Of an opinion
that wo could do any good. if we wrote whole
volumes, aud from our own observation havo
become completely satisfied, that in this FREE
COUNTRY, tho PEoPLE-the sovEREIGN
PEOPLE, will have their own way, and will
| not be led to the right or 10 the loft, by the
address or persuasIons Of newspaper editors.
The friends of General Jackson We all know,
will not yield an inch the pariizans Of Mr..
Adams, arc obstinate, though it is true, that
the friends Of the republic. and the admirers
Of the present administration, have succeed
ed in a larger or lesser degree, IN con-
vincing men Of the error of their ways, and
like Paul, they have been converted to the
true principles, Of the Political Church Of the
day.
In conducting elections in this country,
We too often suffer our zeal to outstrip our dis
crotion;- we make too much Of them, and ie
ono half Of our Glamour were omitted, our ends
would be attained with moro ease, and we
should avoid those unnecessary disse nsions,
which too often distract the country. We
have our favorite candidates others have
theirs, and if We were to present their respec-
tive claims to the people to decide, wo should
not be subjected to those acrimonious warnings
which at present exist in republican America.
But according to the rulos which arc laid down
by modern Ofico Hunters, VIC now present our
candidates and their claims TO tho pcople;-
this done, we next begin to tear each others
eyes out, and to depredAte upon the sanctuary
Of all the hallowed feelings Of the heart; and,
in the end, produce Earrings, anmosites. jeal-
ousies and personal comhats, and he that sue
ceeds n attaining the goal for which his am
bition pants, sttains it at the price Of the blood
of some modern Hotspur. or some restive and
unprinsipled politician" Since the commence
ment Of tho present political canvass, no less
than seven duols have been fought, all orisi
mating in the Presidential qnestion-two have
proved sangunary, tho others have been less
fatal, and yet these bloody events, have not
caused the question to waver one title. This
is not all. We have seen the farest reputa-
tions blghted-the noblcst works Of man ira
duced, the best men Of the notion villified and
mathematical like felons, and language ap-
piled to them, the utterance Of which would
disgrace the vcricst scoundrel Of Billingsgate-
and this We are told, has been done as a mat
ter of expediency-to promote the salvation of
the country.
What epithet Of rcproach has not been cast
at Mr. Adams He has been openly dcnounc-
ed as an apostatc--a monarchst "a jacobin-
a tory and traitor-as a man who would sell
his country! And efforts have been made TO
impose upon the minds Of tho less informed,
that he is actually struggling to wear a crown,
and to enslave the people! Now, who believes
this DO they who make such general and
sweeping denunciations believe it! No. Tell
them that they do, and they will resent the
assertion as an insult offered 10 their better un-
derstandng! And yet they tell us these things
these falsehoods and misre presenta tons must
be uttered, rs a matter Of eXpediency-we
must destroy Mr.. Adams. to make room for
the promotion Of General Jackson.
What language has been too gross-what
falsehood has been too vile, 10 be applied to
HENRY CLAY, man, who previous the last
Presidential election, stood before the people,
untarnished and untouched - their pride, their
boast, and their acknowledged champion!
Mono. In tho darkest hour of our udversty,
when "the clouds did lower upon us"-when
tho myrmidons Of Britain were sacking our
towns and desola,ing our church yards. he
was found firm, erect and undismayed, and by
the powers Of his eloquence, and the night
ness OF his intellectual resources, encoura pinp
the discouraged, and giving new energies TO
the nation.
The whole nation no aored Him - but because
he exercised his constitutional privilege, and
{ to save the nation from military despotism,
t voted for Mr.. Adams, the psrtizans of the mil
i,sry chieftain, have industriously sought his
distinctions; and now, like him Of old who
walked through the marke, places, to receive
the merited and spontaneous honors of the
good and the just, he receives the sneers and
the Kisses Of tho rsbbls. But Mr.. Clay will
triumph over the miserable chickering's Of the
few, and his country will sustain him.
Whilst We complain, that Messrs. Adams