Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-11-05
BEAUTIES OF JAcKsoNIsM.
DrseRAcErrL JACKSON RIor.

time for our city TO recover 1t is well known
that last evening had been selected by the Jack
son Nominating COMMITTEE, for The General
Meeting Of the party, 20 confirm or reject their
tickets, and il is also we'll known that several
Of those nominations were Of so graceless a cha
racter. that there was spontaneous deiermina-
ton OF the more respectable portion oil the par
ty, 10 oppose them. In order to prevent
defeat al the meeting, where il was well under
stood the nominations for county officers would
be stricken out by overwhelming votes, II no
me isures were taken To. drown the popular
voice, the leaders Of the faction resorted to ex-
traordinary means 10 prepare FOR the CONTEST
and secure the premature occupancy oil me
room. For this purpose, the hist sep reso'V>
ed upon was TO raise hickory tree, the emniem
OF Jackson idolatry, in from, oil iammany Han.
This ceremony, it was well understood, would
collect a mob, which proper use OF sTiMu-
LASTs would not only keep upon the ground,
hut prrpare for the execution of whatever
ulterior measures might BIZ dee med necessary
10 ACCOMPLISH the purposes of the leaders,
About two O'CLOCK, detachment OF SIX or
eight men with pickaxes, under corporal or
some other officer proceeded to wound The f1'n'y
bosom OF the pavement in front OF Iammany
Hall. and tear up with violence the unotiending
stones. They were told that they would be put
into Bridewel, for incumbering and breaking
I'D the streets The Corporal, like true pa
,rio,. thereupou folded his arms, cooked up his
nose impuden,ly, and said Then will go
along with hem
In the course Of the afternoon the Hickory
Committee" as a long procession was desIgna':
Ell, arrived, with their pole. & carriage iull OF
drums, ffes, bagpipes, and other dlscordant
instruments. The Committee walked two and
two, with hickory leaves in their hats, and we
were sorry to see among them some gentlemen
Of good repute, and some civil functlonaries,
who had suffered their brains TO become so
much FREQ and freuZied, as TO Turn out TO assist
at this worse than ridiculous, and almost pros
fame, ceremony The pole was erected amid
loud yells, which swcled upon the gale as the
beer-barrels were rolled out; and it required no
vivid imagination 10 Distinguish III the uproar
tn" yell of the hyeua, the cry OF the panther,
and the hoop OF the Winnebagoes The heaGs
of the beer-casks having been knocked in, the
soverergns were refre shed and exhilirated, and
i. was wisely foreseen that they would thus be
Kept together uniil the hour of meeting arrlv-
ed, Previously, however, under the pretex,
that none but members Of he dominating com.
mi tee would be admitted before the appointed
hour, & o'clck.) band of chosen spirits.
consisting OF some hundreds, were prvily in
troduCed into the wigwam, and posted IN dis
ferent quarters, to command ana overawe the
meeting. " I, Commercial
We here insert the account of MIR. Webb,
member OF the Nominating Committee,
prominent Jackson man, and one Of the editors
of the Courier, repeating at the same time
remark of the American, that Mr.. Webb is
son Of soldier of the revolu
ton, he himself, until recently, soldier, and
incapable, as we believe, alike from education
s character, of misrepresen,ing in any par,icu.
lar the transactions Of last evening. With him
we differ entirely in poli'ics-and cannot but
think tina, he is already reaping IN his own
person portion of the whirlwihd, Of which
he, with others, has been instrumental in SOW
ing the seed. But he is citizen Of .especta-
bili,y, and The violence done him-if done with
be repeated upon any other
citizen, until social order is dissolved, and the
law of he pistol and the dagger, which Mr.
Senator Benton predicted as the necessary
result Of General Jack>on's success, be its sub
st'tute."
NOAH. MOB
The extraordinary proceedings at Tsmmany
Hall, las, evening, by men who are disgrace
any country, and who, unfortunately for The
reputation Of the la",v, all themselves Jackson
men, appear TO require from me- brief ac-
count Of the circumstances that led to it. The
following call had been widely circulate thro'
the city:
PUBIC MEETING.
The Democratic Republicans OF this city
and coun,v, friendly 10 the election of General
ANDREW JACKSON. and 70 the regular
nominations of the party, and opposed to cor
ruptiop, postacy, management and intrigue,
ar. requ, sted 10 meet at Tammany Hall THIS
EVENING, the 5lst INST. al O'Clock, to re
ceive tue report of the General Nominating
Committee
JOHN w. HARDENBROOK, Chm.
J.F. SHE'LL, ie.
G. Z. MORGAN,
/ am, and have been. since General J ckson's |
,ame was first mentioned as a candidate for the |
,ffice of President Of the United States, an ad,