Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-08-11

severe calamity for their sins and ingra'ilude,
he would supplicate him 10 send any temporary
.coaree rather than such permanent curse;
tina, he would invoke the Almighty Ruler Of
Nations TO infiict upon ps any of the calami,ies
which. in ancient times, he had offered 10 tue
choice Of his servant David, and his highly Ia
yored people of the house OF Isrsei,-a tempo
rary foreign war, a temporary pestilence, and a
temporary famine,-rather than rivet upon NO
the iss,ipg adamau,iBe shackles OF inexorao'e
military rule. Such appear to me- accoru."e
to the impression remaining upon my mind, 'he
nature and purpose of Mr.. Clay's address.
II is worthy OF remark, that in the PROPOSE,
tons sect by the Prophet Cad, there was no.
thing which tended to impose upon the people a
permanent calamity, or 10 require them 10 sheo
the blood Of each other. This circumstance
might have induced David to choose the pes
thence, to bow his neck under the sword OF the
Lord, and to acknowledge the greatness OF his
mercy.
I, NAV be proper 10 observe, that have had
scarcely any acquaintance OF Mr.. Clay, and that
have never been personally or polite ally at
,ached 10 him; but something is due 10 every
one.-eyen a whip for fool and common IL
beller's back.
II remains tina, give my opinion relative 70
the origin and progress Of The mardsrous spri I
that has been, as Duff lays, stalking abroad IN inc
Lond--remarking, that if those al the head OF
the Administrations ia Washington are SO re-
yardless Of self-respec, as 10 patronage and pay
unprincipled men for abusing and libelling in
discriminatory the most worry citizens IN the
nation, they have no claim on the courtesy and
respect Of other pc sons.
a r hi. Er<.,
Louisiana and the Mississippi, had, after long
and unnecessary de,en,ion a, Ncw-Orleans. on
the terrnina tion Of the last war, returned to
thrir homes, attention to priva business seems
ed amos, wholly 10 occupy their time, and So
ciety reposed in peace; and this happy state
nigh, have long continued, had not the latter
ers aud applauders OF General Jackson brough'
him conspicuously into view, while his situa.
ton was still rendered more prominen, by the
unmeriled applauscs and honors idly lavshed
upon him by the Government. This public ele-
walton Of man. who, by precept and example,
had signalized himself in outrage and blood
shed, could not fail 10 have a most pernicious
influence on population composed like that
Of The South Wcs'ern quarter Of the Union
Every man Of true blood hound propensity be-
gan eagerly 10 snuff up the gale. and scent, and
y
Of high standing and gcnerA IL estimation In so
ciety, seemed TO think that existence was into.
lerable until ;hey had an opportunity Of she'd
ding human blood. The murderous spirit few
rapidly from Louisiana and he Mississippi TO
the Woodward, through the Arkansas settle
ment osfhe Missouri, and, more Eastwardly,
through Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
NVhile common murderers aid assassins acted
without rule, the dueli,ts pre- ended 10 be gov
erned by what they called The laws Of chisalry,
and the conduct and opinions of General Jack
son were received and admitted as inconlestib!e
authority The slaughter was great--a num-
Der Of valuable citizens perished, and the ira.
gic scenes, Of couI Sc. made tC,dotcs and orphans
During, however, the gubernatorial term OF
II, nry Johnson, the immediate predecessor Of
The present Governor, few Of some note in
were tried, condemned and hanged,
and others sentenced to confinement and hard
labor The removal Of these, and the murder
and Eight of b greater number; the serious turn
given to duelling by the use Of muske loaded
with bucksho:, in case in which one Of the
parties was MORALLY wounded, and the other
he bat'le-royal which took place
a, a sand-bar above Natchez, when after duel
the friends Of the parties met, andin which 'wu
OF them were killed and others desperately
with some other deeply regretted
cases, and the more destructive ravages Of the
yellow fever in the summer and autumn Of 1927,
began 10 produce serious reflection, and to
throw some obstacles IN the way of the MUIR
der0us Spirit, whose career had been for a long
time 100 successful. If the address Of Mr.
Clay, delivered nearly a year afterwards, had
any effect, il is presumed to have been more sa-
lu,ary ;lran otherwise while the libels and bias,
phemies published by Duff Green, aud others
OF his faction. have probably been the cause Of
o number Of disputes which have te minated ia
tally. a Word from the West.
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