Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-04-21

Shrug. MIG rs Hlal, nieleh"' aS JeeSe'
and considerate in the discharge OF his duties
as an officer, he has never rendered himself
hated for his domneering spirit, has never
stained the sanctity Of the ermine by black
guardsm, and bravadoes on the bench, nor
imprudently stepped beyond the boundaries
of law to infiict punishment on men who had
committed no crime! So, at least, say Slmp-
son, Green, Kremer and Leland surely
''thcy are honorable men,
We publish on our first page to-day, sun
dry official documents, which will erenlpHJy
this sweetness oftemper When the reader
peruses the letter Of Andrew Jackson to Mr..
George w. Campbell, let him remember that
this country was engaged in war with Great
Britain--and then ask himself, whether, III,
under any circumstances, threats OF lighting
the flames Of civil war, resisting the mandates
of government, burning its property, and
committing murder, were justihable, they
could have been justified when viewed in con-
nection with the aspect of affairs at that time!
We care not whether Mr.. Silas Dinsmore's
conduct operatsd oppressively upon IndivId,
uals or not, so long as he was not displaced
from Office by the government, he was its le-
gal agent, and every good citizen was bound
to respect him as such. 1.-The transcribed his
powers, what course should Gen. Jackson and
his m yrmidons have pursued? Does not ev-
cry man instncrively reply, "he should have
respectfully demonstrated withthe government
and laid before it statement of facts which
might enable it to decide knowingly as 70 his
alleged grievances? But does the Hetspur
of the West adopt this course? No, While,
in one breath, he talks, in his ususual style
of bombast, when he is permitted to WELD
his own pen, of supporting the supremacy OF
the laws" he in the next, in his brag rdocia
manner, says, that ''the wrath and indigna.
ton of our citizens will sweep from the earth
the invader of their legal rights, and involve
Silas Dinsmore in the flames of his own A
gency house." See how he overfows with
the milk of human kindness! But what does
all this StuE amount to, when it is dome into
English? Simply this: that Gen. Jackson
intended to ''support the supremacy Of the
laws" by heading a band OF mal-contents,
whose determination was to destroy the prop
erty of the government, and to murder the
man whom it had appointed to administer
these laws! Surely this is the queerest mode
OF ''supporting the supremacy of the laws" of
which we ever heard, and Gen. Jackson
should have had premium for its discovery!
II is as if a thief who had been sentenced to
Imprisonment for his misdemeanors, should
murder the Judge, to support the supremacy
of the law he administered!
mo rogue Ger felt The hslter draw
"Wih good opinion OF the aH 20
And it was for this reason that Silas Dins-
more became unpopular in Nashville. In
1912, the population between Nashville and
Natchez was extremely sparse and scattered,
and there was large extent Of Indian country
through which the traveller was compelled
to pass. This afforded to SharpeyS great ia
cilities in kidnapping and running negroes off
from their lawful owners. To prevent this,
Mr.. Dinsmore determined 10 suffer no negro
to pass who had not passport, and in this
way saved great number to their owners,
whose thanks he received for his vigilance
But, as in all such cases, it must unavoidably
happen, regulation which operated general
iy benefcially, fell oppressively upon .je,o
and Gen. Jackson, not having yet learnt,
when his own interests or feelings were con-
must always be surrendered to that of the
greater, even when no laws are in the way,
and when obedience to the government is not
in question; took it upon himself to make
threats which should disgrace him in the es-
timation Of every rejecting man in the COM
munity.
We ask attention, also to the letter of Mr.
C. Stump, to Silas Dinsmore, dated "Nash-
vile, Sept. Is, 1914" which win afford
some insight into the temper and disposition
ofGen. Jacksonville. S. requested that his
name might not unnecessarily he given up,
as Gen. Jackson's ''uioience" was well
known. When Gen. ]. is now charged with
violence of temper, his partlzans at once set
it down to prejudice and malignant hostility
to him on the part of those who prefer the
charge. But MIR. S. it will be perceived.
made it in lSl2, when Barnabas Bidwell
would have been thought of for the Presiden-
cy as soon as Gen. Jackson; and when, if such
proposition had been seriously made, it
would have subjected the proposer to derision