Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-07-18
From the Louisville Focus, July /.

From, the Louisville Focus, July /.
The interrogatories contained in the following
communication are founded, we believe, correct
information, and will therefore, merit the attention.
Of the gentleman TO whom they addressed.
Editors ofths Focus
TO THE HON. JOHN ROWAN.
SIR: You have made the declaration, or at least
expressed an apprehension, that, # John G. adams
be 4're-etected TO the Presidency The neat Congress
spall be the last that giH SIT in the United States.
If am not msinformed, you have expressed your
self to this effect than occasion. Per-
init me, therefore, to put the inquiry to you--upon
rehm grounds do you entertain this apprehension?
You have been placed in high and responsible
office by Kentucky you know that your constitu-
ents are warmly attached to the Union, and, 10
present Republican institutions and it is your duty
as a faithful servant of the People, to them
publicly of their danger, if you have ascertained
that they are really approaching so frghtfuls pre-
cipice, dissolution of their present National
Government 1t seems to me that yon Cannot, With
out papable derelicon of duty, withhold from
your constituents the grounds for your belief that
ifa majority of the People are in favor of John O.
Adams, the minority will not submit peaceaby to
their decision, but will endcavor to dissolve this
Conlederacy. There plausible circumstances
tending to Justify such suspicion of the leaders of
your party which renders it the important
= that you should give candid statement your
information, of the grounds for your fears on
this subject.
will notice some of those circumstances. Some
prominent men of your party, both in Congress and
out Of it. have expressed opinions to this effect
that the present administration is grossly corrupt
and that, when the civil functionaries in Republic
have become corrupt, and the People have not virtue
enough to apply the proper corrective. 1t is better to
! reform the Government by the sword, submit to
Military Dictator, than to live patiently under such
J corrupt Civil Government. The inference from
these opinions is too plain to be mstakenitis, that
if the attempt. which your party assumes that 1t
e. now making to put down corruption should not be-
e successful it would then be patriotic and right to
vouoniZe the Government by tOrce--and this in
e ference corresponds with your avowa that, in the
n event of your d-eat. the next Congress would be
II the last in the United States.
d! There is another strong ground for suspicion. The
y Southern politicians officially, and in solemn legsla-
OIL tive acts, have declared sentiments leading to dis
souton of the Union. rather than submit the 9e-
~ ricaa System. It is needless to recount the many
acts and declarations to this effect, which have been
t, witnessed in that quarter. The present Admins
II tration has nailed its flag to the American System
rs hence the probability that the violent partisans Of
y the Opposition in the South may have determined,
if they be defeated in the Presidential Election, to
raise the military standard in the South for sepa-
n rate empire-and your knowledge Of this fact may
ne be your ground for apprehending that if your par
ty be found in the minority, 1t will subvert the pre-
em sent Constitution.
~ have also been automatically informed, that the
: subject of dssovng the Union canvassed seri
o,sly among the leaders of your party at the last
session of Congress 1t is not probable. that the pro-
~ ject has been concealed from you and would now
.o ask you, WHETHER as Senator of Kentucky, you
can Justify to your conscience to your country, and
to your God the c0ncealment of such treasonabl.
sentiments and designs! Your opposition. on prin
81 cipe, to the American System and the present Ad
minstration and your desire to place General Jack
ln- son in the Presidency, will not justify you in con
Inc nvinr at the reasonable views Of those, who coop
40 crate with you IN pursuing these objects.
OF You know the temper and views of the leaders o
OF the Opposition and in them you must have ground
ow for the apprehension you have expressed. Let u
and tract There can be possible ground for appre
se bending. that mere civilians, put in office by tn
the People, would attempt to destroy Government
OF which they are supported by the majority in admin
AN is,ering. Such a fear would be ridiculous. Yo
os do not entertain it. So far as you assigned req
at son for your opinion, it was the dissatisfaction whic
ling would be produced in the country by the re eiectio
the of Mr.. Adams-tbat is the dissatisfaction Of The M
IN yority Whatever agency you may suppose CORFU
ton has in preparing the ruin OF Republic, 20
to know that its fall always consunated by the swor
xa 1t must hence be from the sword OF your own part
led, that you anticipate the final dissolution OF the
to public, if that party be found in the minority at til
we election. You can tell, whether an occasion fo
Of drawing the sword is to be made by resisting tn
am American System in the South. According to tn
sentiments you have expressed, the leaders of til
rti- Opposition are determined to possess the Govern
cob ment; and if the People will not give it to then
e to they will take II by force.
said learn from the National Ineliigencer that. sine
not the passage of the late tariff act violent excsmer
he prevails in the South. The subject Of dissolutit