Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-08-12

hesr private and their public lives have done equal
honor to themselves and their country. Distinguish
ed as was the victory of New Orleans-and we
are willing to give it Importance which has scar
cey been claimed for it, as frustrating under Pro-
whence, a scheme Of peridy in the enemy which
will ever be a blot on the character of Great Bri-
tain--the achievements of our Naval Heroes and
our gallant tars, rescuing our flag from the huma-
ton it had undergone, 10 the unhappy affair of the
Chesapeake, and giving to our star-spangled banner
to shine with unrivaed briancy and gory ON
every sea and in every harbour, are more precious
in the estimation of every genuine American, and
have more truly illustrated the character of our
country, than hundred such victories that of
| New Orleans. The measure of our nations hon
our was full and overhowlng, when the battles of
the lakes came, almost with the fascination of re-
nance, guided by the youthful heroes, whose names
will forever live in the story of our country, to
give the proof that ship to ship, or fleet to fleet,
we need fear enemy and that the people of
this broad spread and rising empire. while they
| true TO themselves, and animated by the noble ex-
ampes set them, may go in safety and honour
, to every part of the world, or dwell at home in
peace and independence Our ocean shore Of
thousand leagues is grit as 18th wall--and our no
BILE rivers and our inland seas, are alive with the
song and the sail ofthe mariner.
/ Was it not enough to satisfy Gen. Jackson, that
the country assigned him his place among the he
roes Of the nation? Was 1t not sufficient that the peo-
pie were willing that the mantle Of oblivion should be
thrown over private errors and public transgres-
sions, which no victory could redeem, which no tro
; ply could hide? Gen. jackson should not have
suffered others to thrust him forward into stua-
ton, where sacred duty TO the public rendered it
imperiously necessary to strip from him this MAN.
tie. 1t was, indeed wretched mscalcua!ion,
upon the character of the people Of this country,
that they would be so dazzled BY the splendour Of
single victory, as to be incapable of examining
closely and clearly into his pretensons for trust, in
the highest civil employment in their gift. With
full and perfect knowledge of his untitness for eli
vii Office and of the transgressons OF his private
and public duty--proclamed with their own lips,
from the house tops, to the people, they have com.
mtted great crime against their country, and JUST
" forfeited, themselves, all right to fair consera.
. ton, in dragging him forward candidate for lis
= highest honours.
The great security for the continuance ofour re-
- public is to be found in the frame four government,
and in the character ofthe citizens of the u States.
" The constitution was formed and adopted at time
= peculiarly favourable to calm and careful deser
ton. 1t was the work of the best and ablest
in our country and came to us under the sane
u ton, and with the earnest recommendation, of
= Washington. the most ilIustrous patriot the world
:, has 1t contains every provision neces
sary for the safeguard Of our religious rights and
o. civil liberties. The people have only to hold eve
ry public fnconary to the strictest observance of
" its niunctions, and to trust no man who shall be
" hardy enoughto commit upon it the slightest viola
" alton: and the great truth which has now gone
le forth to the world that man is capable Of govern
e. ing HIMSELF will be sustained to the total overthrow
V of the false and degrading doctrine, which it has
suited the lordngs of the earth to preach up and
a. nculcate that is too weak and impotent
re ture to do without master. Gracious God need
nj we fear that the time has already comeat the end,
H. too of the first half century, during which much
has been done to illustrate and establish this great
re this noble truth--hat we are to give itup as a
'st splendid but hopeless illusion !? The time has
come--yes il has already arrived if the citizens Of
en- the u States recreans to the cause of liberty, can
no regard with base submission and apathy the open
20 violation of their sacred charter J-and it, in the
fair temple of their freedom, they raise their
ely voices and sing Hosannas TO the guilty volator.
they have made it the great sepuchre oftheir coun
try Need we advance to the proof that Gen. Jack
ms, son is that guilty vioator We ask you to spread
The before you the great charter your liberties, anti
est to place your finger upon the most efficient and
and phatic provision for their security You refer us
to the habeas corpus the same institution to which
to the immortal Washington, in of the portraits
pie of the father OF his country, is pointing and
an seems as if he would say, preserve but this, my
ed. beloved countrymen, from unhaowed touch, and
full your liberties are safe And yet Andrew jackson
and has twice rampled this under his feet not merely
al refusing-whlch wasin never ventured upon before
lar either in Great Britain or this country--to yield II
I'M the promptest obedience, but dragging 10 prison
of the bearers of the sacred symbol.
ark It is not our intention to gu into detailed enume
in ration of General Jacksons transgressons but we
GAL ask you to select the next most prominent feature III
the YOUR Government. You refer us to the arrange.
,w ment to preserve the independence and integrity Of
ell the State within the spheres marked out for them to
net occupy. The violence which Cromwell committed
ike upon the Parliament of England when, stamping
by his foot the floor, he ordered them to depart
Ter which the soldier Napoleon exercised towards the
his council of five hundred, when he put them out from