The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-10-16
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not make them 80.
We might large upon the statement which seems
Shock" your ''moral sense'-Ib,!,y so very much
o; 1t unnecessary. We say, the dueiIist, who kills
man, murderer: you may call il by some softer
une ifyOu please; hut we are very prone to call
ngs by what we conceive to be their right Names
We say also that the man who kills another ID dis
pute, is murderer you may say he is not, because
such transactions are common in Kentucky and Ten
nessee, well as in Cuba, Portugal, Spain, and Tur-
key; but not in the habit Of believing al
lowing that custom can change the moral nature Of
moral acts, render crimes any the less offensive
ganst the moral law; and he who can deliberately,
and with "composure,'' send fellow being into
the eternal world, would uot be allowed to live long
| afterwards by the laws either of New, Old Eng
lard.
| Andrew Jackson "has filed the most responsible
stations in the gift of the people," In the name of
candor, what people? Is the appointment OF District
Attorney Gin the gift ofte people " or is the appoint
ment of Senator to Congress, or Major Generain the
army, Gin the gift Of the people,? If MIR. Wells real
y thinks that such is the fact he had better go back
the Schools and study the first principles Of our
! form of government. Has Gen. Jackson ever been
Representative to Congress? We have never heard
that such is the fact Was he Governor, cho-
sen AT popular election! His friends have never
SAID this of him. Did he ever hold any important Of
fee, which emanates directly from the people? If he
ever did, the public have yet to learn the fact his
friends have hitherto been silent upon the subject.
! That the victory at New Orleans was an important
event. history will always allow; but history will also
say that circumstances entirely unknown in bat
ties, greatly favored that result. Is it thing known
in the history of battles, that four thousand
troops have been cut down in few hours, by ar
my of undsciplined militia, with scarcely the loss Of
ten men, without the Intervention of peculiarly favor
able circumstances We are not disposed to detracl
from the real military merits of Gen. Jackson to him
belonged the charge Of defending New-Or, ans: and
to him belongs the honor of having defended it; but
was the digging of trench and the throwing up of
breas-work, original with him Was the standing
behind that breasl-work and firing upon the solid
cuumns of madly rash advancing enemy, new thing
in our country? Were the thousands
he had with him men of his own training The for
est game ofthe West will tell where they learnt to hit
history tell all the circumstances in this case, and it
will tell that which honorable to Gen. Jackson, but
| not that which will eclipse, even compare with
| Bunker Hill, Monmouth Saratoga; or even with
the stormng of Fort Erie, the battle of Brdgewa-
ter. The other great actons' ofGen Jackson, may,
or doubtless WILL olive in the page of history" but
they will prove blot upon the escutcheon of our
country, which neither time peniience can wash
away. What, because he with the resources Of ten
millions of freemen at his command, could carry
sword ire-brands, and death into the villages of
few feeble Indians, will hao ofglory be edupo"
| the historic page of our country What mention vii
be made of the destroying of prisoners, who had been
decoyed into his hands by means OF false colours!
When nqusition is made for blood, who shall answer
for the sixteen Indians who shot, twenty-iour
hours after the entire defeat of their BRETHREN and the
destruction of their villages? Mr.. Wells may curl his
lin in scorn at the mention of like these, and az
feet to pity the weakness of the men who censure
them; but when reason and virtue shall assume their
empire over the heart of man, then will the acts of
powerful professedy Christian people, done against
ignorant, weak, and defenceess savages be viewed
in their light. 1t belongs neither to the policy OF
angels cIVliSed men, to deal with Indians az In
dams deal with us,-ths policy ought to belong ex-
clusively to demons intent upon torturing demons
We boast of our light and knowledge and oft al
most infinite superiority Savage darkness, gnor-
adce, and superstition. Our government and our
people spend tens of thousands of dollars annually, in
the attempt clvzing and Christianzimg these sons
of the forest. Christian teachers constantly en-
ployed in telling them OF the mighty difference there
is between our moral and civil condition and theirs;
and yet history to record with the strongest marks
of appreciation, that one of our ''mtary chieftans
! in all his wars with Indians-and he haswarred witt
none other than Indians, with the single exception al
New Orleans-laid aside the benignity and mercy OF
the Christian Lamb, and met them only with the fero
city of the Savage tiger! What comment, upon
Christian aud phanlhropic professions Passion and
parry prejudice may blind the mind against all the
Heaven daring enormity Of such conduct; but the his
tory which shall be read and approved by future gen
erations, will not be written by parIisans and para
sizes that will tell the plain unvarnshed truth, aud
it's readers will draw honest and correct inferencea
| from its statements.
! five have used strong expressions in this an,
| other article, relative to Gen. Jackson, it must be
charged TO the Of the case and not t.
any object he supposed to have in view in thus