Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1828-06-07

two rouutrics The same intelligence had re aced
Orleans from another quarter. On the 9Th March Cen j.
received express, by the Postmaster General h.
ing communications from the Government il is 3D.
that the treaty of Peace had signed the Oath Dec
1914 Was it not time then TO close the oous
military power? Did necessity require that MIR. Iuua r.
member Of the Legislature, should be aud con-
fned That Mr.. Hall, Dis,rc, Judge of the u States
Tor issuing writ of hateas corpus application of I
L., s.od himself be seized. da sed General, ca,op
detained in close custody and teh beyond limits
at the emcampme"t, ntl the British shall left the
Southern COST" That the District Attorney Nj Dick who
applied 70 Judge Lewis for habeas corpus Ibera,e
Judge Hal! should bmsehe arrested? Au,l ,at an oder
should D. issued also, for the OF Judge Lewis Were
these ghhand.h measures rendered necessary by cir
cimsamcrs of the case Or 90 ey not raae, beseS liza.
species of fnsr ga Gan: yqcks,", tctich as d.posed TO
MAKE ms OWN WILL THE SOLE RULE OF Ills Ac-
rIONS:"
This language is s,rorg as just, aud placed yon
high among Republicans at the time. | we'll re
member the impression it made upon me and that
part nf's0ciety with which was acquainted Lit,
tie d'd ! tlen imagine what strange things would
come 10 pass in less than three wears from that
date. L;tlo did J any one, suppose, that in less
than ti' years from the 9Th Match, 1924, when
with the spirit Of Republican you Indignantly re-
P'ohated Jacksons outrage upon The personal hber
~ of the citizen at New Orleans, aui unawed by
Tie greatness of his name, warned your counIrymen
against trusting supreme power the hands of him
The sole rule Of is acious, the exact definition of
de%pot; that so biicf space would fad YOU in the
nunher of his staunchest rartizans, and mos, tho
rough "po!osSts. When reading yoIr reflections
quoted above, never dream, that the time would
come and so shortly come, when ! should be de
n'nneed as Ecdef aiist aad Tory Tor retaining the
."pfavoiG3ic impressions of Jackson which they con
tFtbutcd TO make and you be ex,o!ci 10 tic skies
as The t;ne5t and most consistent q; Rtpu5cans for
:cnounc'n5 item. cUCld fare see these ;li;ncrs
for did not aud could not oresee that turn of
events which by making Gen. Jackson more pop
uaT IN Virginia than FIR. Adams, colnpe}ied you to
act upon that excellent maxim of yours SuLn:is-
son 10 he ,cU e Tie 'nnjo,'y and to espoiise his
cause with the same zeal that yon had opposed it,
DO not urde:s ;ant! representing yon for at,sn-
dcntng your sentiments in iGG4 In follow those
Of the MINORITY in 1872? Far iron, nc is such an
intenon--for have already said, iial as ca have
always been IN a ma jority, ard always will be. so
you must needs have always been aol must ever con.
t;nue, 10 DC right Stili could not refrain from ex-
pressing lie natural astonis!nen,, produced by .
comparison OF your opinions in 1924 and ,aa
In farther pursuance of my object of defending my
SELF and others, banhcd from the pa lie of Repub
iicansn for lie horesy u opposing Gen. Jackson !
wall quote His t:ne, but one more trac from, the
Enquirer" bearing date years previous 10 tic a.
bovo. Il relates to Jacksor's conduct to Rabun
GOV RA8CN
"N!Iat would be the situation OF the Srtc,r e,eoe n
III lie midst ri an insccuon they compelled 10 wait
unu tie c"'namdng officer of the stoud ~.
to sn" his order Tor msuring their safely? Or where IS
the respect which States al the mon yo4I3 10
held If their Chief Magistrate snuuf ius he bearded Inv tho
military officers of the T. States Or where is lie ASPECT
which NsSe states might eryeci recc: flo c ta7,G or
gf1f pr,n y u,,,oy,
press then! IN si;ri q ata,.eI.r
Eabun Governor of Georgia. and bein~ in tuie
oici, Commander in Chief Of Der forces presumed 10
exercise his constitutional duty oc making Tie naces
sary military dpositoos. TO pIo,ec: her iroers a.
Ganst tie hostile Indians Upon this Jackson most m
solen'ly rcPlInanded him. ard t!ireatcnd bin y III, SC
we're punishment, if he again presumed to give an or
der, "hiisi he, Jackson, in the field. THIS was
the part Of his copduc which drew from you what all
considered Ia and meri;ed reflections is 30 less
strange, than unexpected that you Rave lately as one
Of tic Jackson Central Committee signed you7- name
10 sUlernn address, part OF which is de, o;cd 10 the
yindc"'ion Of Jackson ayainst this very charge Of dis
>eapect to State Rights, in and through the person Of
Coy Eahun. Some are so unchar.tabe as to say ,n.
on Tbs OCCASION that your conduct amounts to d,roe
Of Inconsistency, approaching TO want CT principle.
The" argue in ili;s way: THAT all the facts were
before YOU il !g!G as well as in lGeG aodare N So
deiniie character, and of such nature that il is I'M,
possible you cuaL have had one opinion OF them then,
ana another "''r Hence they Conclude, that you
were either Insnccio in your censilre Of Jackson in
i', when his conduct had excited much indignation
against hn in Irguia, nsDcero in your defence
Ut ms condnc aoo, when he has become unexpectcdy
iP'prl''" ii is plain ha, those WHO reason in this