The Litchfield County post., 1828-05-08

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 "the truesi of all test of a chief-what splendit
 display oi that highest of all the gifts of Heaven tn, ! capacity to lead men," When the petty chiefs, o
 those imaginary sOvceignties called States, thu
 ,eservedy sI turned by the Heroic General, how wil they be enahIed hide their diminished heads ;pro
 ded they shall be suffered keep them) before the future "commander in chief civil and mtary9" Note K.-Iet you bOOkSsaH be 6urm He was tru |, grea man who burnt tlFe AIexandrian Library What pity our great men cannot do the like by that t Wash'ngon---mOre especially the Register of De. hales.
 Note 1.-The notes Illustrating these passages; & preliminary poscripts are reserved for some fu- tn ue edition of this mag ficent Poem, which the good rste of the public wil! doubtless demand.
 \" Command in chief in cira Hfe"--The great beau- force, and novelty, ot tis expression, well de- -erVes to be noted.
 tNo;hing can be more unreasonable. than to object
 D a President, or Commander 'n Chief" civil or nary, because he has not Book -arning ' for, as
 he great Patrick Henry said "NaiteraI parts is het-
 than all the learning the yeartb"--[ [Wirts life of Patrick Henry.] Among the greatest improvements i modern times, (nOt excepting steamboat naVIga-
 on) is the felicity afforded of conducting schemes, moral and rmmoral-poitca &zc. by means of Com mttees. We have had committee to take charge sf Gen. Jacksons character, commonly called the Z: :Wh'te-washng Committee" and another to assist m m the august ceremony of eating dinner, winch n gh properly termed the "eating," or for the sake oi Euphony, ''The Gastronomiesl Committee."-Why not give him ccmmttee---not of Lunacy---exaCty--- C case, must use a new work ---to do all those little matters such as reading, writing, or spelling, which vast ' beneath the attention of great men, and should al VIZ e done by proxy?---for what would be easier, shD. the Hero he elected, than to send the young President elect school ,deyotng the Iaudabe pur- pose of paying the professors who should find out royal or heroical road to learning portion of the funds saved by the speeches ol Retrenchment?
 fIruy this expression would seem to some countehance to the oprnon imputed to Mr. Adams, that the right to govern mank nd is jure diyine.
 9Nlr Jefferson, lt IS wei known had no military Capacity, and his administration would, of course, have been attended with |" no advantage the gov ernment, l"r credit to mself," but for the support kindly afforded him by the Orator on Remenchment, mentioned in the following passage-"l supported for more than 5year> the admlnisrratlon of' Mir. Jeff ferson l--Agan'' separated myself from Mir. Jefer- son when Barnabas B.dwell and John 0. Adams joined him.
 "Never was an administration brilliant than that of Mir. Jefferson ap to that period" Speech on Reuenchment, and note.
 Had the "Father of his country" been an Amer- can of our day. it is amost.certan that he too, Ike the foolish Hsop, would have sided against the ''He- TO-" He took sides aganst Cesar.-In his letter to Tyro, he says, "Rumquam majore pericuLo ciUitaS Jut nusnquanU t'npr06i eipes habueruM PA IRA IIO- REM DUCEM"-Cic. Ep.: Book XVI. Ep. H.: which for the benefit of the GREAT UNLEARN- ED, may be thus done into English: never scas c State tn greater danger had aoicked citizens prompter ieader. Yet to ''render unto Cesar the things which are Casars"-in other words "to give the Devil his due," Cesar like the "Hero," was a patriot, victorious defender of his country'' and though despot, by means we'll qualified re- gard 'blood and carnage with heroical" "composure. % PREFACE. s@sn.
 The object of the Poem which preceded the pre- face IS aiIay the and the preudices excited by tine CANT about MILITARY CHIEF TAINS; to rescue the character of Cesar, Cron- well, Bonaparte and Caligua, and other excellent despots from the oboquey which has been cast upon them; to show that Gen. Jackson though not lear ned the most of them, (and therefore greatly their superIorn gnorance----l possesses all the rest of their great abilities and in eminent degree that best of Heavens gifts the capacity TO LEAD MEN. In fine to demonstrate that PURE MILITARY DESPOTISM, the favorite of heroes, and the usual consequences of investing them with the control of civil affairs, it the simplest, it is the hest of all the forms of governmen, invented, and most pe- cuary adapted to lhe genius of a FREE and RE- PRBLICAN PEOPLE.