The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-03-26
GEN. JAcKsoN.s cRuELTIEs.

We wish the reader not to be startled al the
ltls we have given TO this article. The crisis
requires that things should be called by their
proper names the honor of the country, and
the permanency of our happy form OF govern
ruent, are considerations OF too sacred nature,
in our estimation, to be ieoparded by false mo-
tves of delicacy The official faults of Gener-
al jackson, like those of all other men, are, we.
conceive, legitimate objects of criticism and
while we shall refrain from violating the saactu-
aries Of private individuals, we shall freely ln-
vestigate the misdeeds of those, who have abus-
ed the power with which they had been invest
ed Had General jackson remained in private
life we never would have attempted to drag his
enormties into light but should have been viii
ling TO assist in throwing the mantle OF oblivion
over them as he has, however, thought proper
to ASPIRE 10 the first Office within the gift of the
people, ii is bdt right that they should know
how dangerous depository of their liberties he
might prove. Having promised thus much, we
shalt give an extract from his letter TO General
Finckney, dated the 25th of March, 1914. On
the preceding day. Gen Jackson had found at
an Indian village, at the bend OF the Tallapou-
sic, about 1000 Indians with their Squa1cS and
children, I" running about among their huts.
The following Isl account of the sangulnary
massacre which took place it is Gen. Jack
sons own, and therefore must be received as
sufficient evidence against himself He says
-. DETERMIEING TO EXTERMINATE them, de-
tached General Coffee with the mounted men,
and nearly the whole of the Indian force, early
on tho morning of yesterday, to cross the river
about two miles below the encampnlent,' and to
surround the bend in such manner as that
none of them should escape by attempting to
cross the river" The result he then details ;
-" Fire hundred and .ftty-Seren acere LETT dead
on the Peninsula, and great number OF them
sccre killed bg the horSemeR an attempting TO
cross the riucr, until ace 'oere Prereisted 6y the
night. We continued to DESTROY many Of them
,rho had concealed themselves uader the ban6S
of the ricer, until ace aoore preUcnted by the
might. THIS MORNING WE KILLED 10 WHICH
HAD BEEN CONCEALED.
We ask YOU to pause and reflect that the
above tragic narration of cold bloosled and mer
ciless cruelty, is taken from an official commu
nication made by General Andrew JACKSON
and that after being the chief actor In this de
festable butchery, and fixing an lndehblt
stain upon the character of our country for hu
inanity, he has the hardihood to ask those whom
he thas dishonored TO lend themselves to hi
ambitious purposes, and by their sanction OF hi
conduct to adopt it as their own. We all recol
lect the sensation created throughout this land
when we heard that at the battle of the Rive
Raisin, our counlrymen had been murdered b.
the Sarage allies Of England, while Briton
looked on without raising arm to rescue iron
the tomahawk and scalping knife those who ha'
sprung from the same stock as themselves. W.
recoIlect that the vengeance of this nation wa
then invoked against the British, for quietl,
overlooking those horrid transactions, the re
cital Of which had filed every breast with un
speakable sorrow and Indignation. If the Brit
ish were SO Justly censured, and that they wer
so no one will attempt to deny, how much NOR
so was General Jackson They plead in ex
tenuation of their CRY ~ sin, that, the Indian
being so much more numerous than their ow
troops, they could not control them; not S
can plead Gen Jackson-he has nothing to Of
fer in palliation of his outrage upon humanity
nor does he attempt to conceal his moustrou
determination q to e1terminate," the miserabl
race exposed to his fury. His crime was con-
nssive-that of the British, omissive they pei
haps left undone what they ought to have done
III a'rptv ~ls.1ror ~ dr4y
sleeping with what composure, we cannot say
through the night ensuing the tragedy we spea
OF. awoke IN the morning surrounded BY tn
eorpses of " five hundred and seventy fello,
creatures, to cause by way of worthy afterpeacs
sixteen others TO be dragged from their cor
eeaIments, and put to death in cold blood w
cannot boast of more than common sersibit,
but we must think that to witness such an act
would make ours a little cold also. What ar
the Generals words these " this mornin,
we killed sixteen which had been concealed'E
and the man who acts and speaks thus VIII
has half as much blood upon his conscience. a
he has upon his hands, he, forsooth. is 10 be cal
led the peer and like of Washington, the ham,
warrior