Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-02-03
AIEssA NDAIA,
TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY g. ;s,o

SienefaI ntnseHS VIC nave 10 lear. HI NIL
doubles. conduct himself on tina, as on ,nl
Their occasions, with the plain repubIica, ~
nifty which has always characterized hi, Gf
and which more distinguishes him. n,r,'
than airy other individual in our Country
we do not approve the contemplated paee,,".
because i, is, in the frs, place, entirely o,,.
cessarv, and may, in the second, be her,,f.
re ea,ed and abused as precedent. Sr.nS;,s
as he does, emphalically "6rs, in the hesu's
his countrymen," no parade or psgeaa,ry .n
add either to his greatness, or TO the ponuI,
attachment to his person, whilst all such A.
are utterly at variance with nS
Republican Institutions, and with the tsbi,.
our people. Should General Jackson, her,J
ter, make tour Of the Republic, then lie, 4.
people exhi5i, their respect for him as lhyG
for Mr.. Monroe. or in any other way better ,I
culated to express the enthusiasm Of their "a.
ings But let no pomp or unnecessary sub,, !,
dor attend his reception or inauguration m p,
sident. The chief of republic should B, h.
stalled into office with planness and .imrT
city BETTING the character and institutions d
the country which he has been called upon h /
govern. If there is plain unostentaliou. n !
publican, that man is General jackson him,si
and il was no less for the incorrup,ible hou,.
" of his character, and the pure and drtd,
publicanism Of his principles. than for II,
spIendor and value Of his public services, Tho
he has been looked up to and srlrcled BY Ii.
people as the individual upon whom alone rhu
could depend to restore the Constitution TO-
original purify, and 10 correct The abuses .r
which have crep, into The admins
tra,ion Of our government. Let not The friend
of Reform and 2rpublicanism, therefore, do ,
ny ac,, or exhibit any pagesnlry, which may h
at all inconsistent with their charactr an!
Let not the Republican Andrr
Jackson, be the first 10 be received or insusr
rated as President with pomp or ceremony nG
with regard to any Of hi, predts
sors.
Let no such psgeantry be hereafter imiaW
in the installation Of others, less worthy, per- 1
haps, than himself, and who may possibly n
quire it to give them greatness they mWrG
otherwise possess, but who may yet r'ora
and Justify the practice by reference 10 NR
precedent in the case VI Jackson. Let no such
things become common in this country. Thy
belong properly to the coronation OF kings, 40:
no, to the Inauguration of the Chief Magisnn
Of Republic. Let them be practised by ih
slaves OF despots, but not by the citilrns Of he
United States. The people have already glm
to General Jackson the highest honor in lhsf
power 10 conier-let his friends now do ~
Thing which may possibly de'rac, eI'h'r '''
themselves or him. Chariesion N.rewy
The above extract, from paper Which vi
among the warmes, In its support oil GsnsH
Jackson, and whose editor has even been VIZ
lent in his political opinions, sufficiently shaH
10 wha, light the conduct Of the "man vr'
shippers" is held At distance from the tOe,+
Of their movements, and forcibly enough II
presses the fear that is already arising Of L
lengths to which political idolatry may beo'
ried. The leaders" are already PREPARED
bow down in slavish submission, and i 'bfI
arts could avail, we would have to record that h
Conqueror has set his foo, upon the neck ofthe n'A
We say this, and grie,e a. the deCeneraY
human nature.
"When passed it by, since the great food,
That Rome's wide walls encompassed but one NAL
o! you and have heard our fathers say 81
There was q Brutls once. that would have BROOKE
The internal devil to keep hisstate in Rome
As easily as king"
II seems to be the great and des'ruc'Te"'
Of republics, to make too much Of the'r puo'
men, and especially Of men who have 0''"'
guished themselves in a military point 81 ''''
Rome ceased to be free under her Ceasar-Lns
land under her Cromwell and France u'oe' !"
Bonsparte. How often have these eA'"p'
beer hello up, and how often have they O'e'V1
regarded! They should not however, Cd w.
account, be the less insisted on by an Inosp"
dent press. .s
We trust. reflection will convince 'ho'e'"
have taken upon themselves the man's'"
Of these things, that much OF the SNOW"
glitter and parade with which it is N '0"''
plation, TO honour the Presid.n. elect, 0Os
be dispensed with. Let him, IT 'he pe'P'
i, so, be follow ed in his march with the '"''
and acclama,ions Of the multitude, x 'ne "''
Of praise and victory Of his friends, but spa'S
the pomp and parade, the glis'enIng o. W
nets, and the waving Of plumes, tue "''S l.,
the war horse, and the trumpets elang0f' W"
usually accompany the movements oil "'s r,j