Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-09-18
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From the National Journal.

! No. [.
Io.4.NDREW JACKSON, President of The Uni
ted .Siaies.
SIN: know not whether YOU have learned e,be,
from the course OF your reading, or from those who
now surround you III the capacity OF confidential adj
viscTs, that every citizen Of the United States nos.
sgsses the undoUbted right to address the Chief Nn
gistrae OF the nation in the language of petition and
remonstraDce. When this privilege is exercised
with decoruIn and proprerv of EXPRESSION il cannot
furnish just cause OF ceHsurc: when Tic conduct OF
the Executive Is such violates his duty towards
the community at large, or nfrinpes the RIGHTS NJ
any ndiyidualji 1t becomes matter of imperative oh
legation.
Unless have much deceived myself both Won
ana TIE public viii be satisfied, before the termina
tlon OF this correspondence, that circust ancgs OK
which have created the duty, and that in its dis
charge have not oyerstepped the bounds WHICH
have prescribed TO myself.
SOme men so constitut cd that tho cxorc;so or
this privilege, OH the part Of the citizen furnishes
10 them the only opportunity Of hearing the plain and
honest language CT truth. Elevated by the force of
accidental circumstances, to situations e., ,,I,;nt
neither their previous habits nor educn,Ion aa,,a
them Title, their Ignorance requires to be inf,rT1d
iniihted with vanity, equally eXtrayapant and rI;c
nous they cannot camiy endure advice. Irritable
anu lmPctHnrs In their dispositions an honest ,nJ
candid expression Of difference in npn,on ,v,.i,
deep and permanent resentment. The onoIit;os
VI such men rCpci from their presence all thar ;s
y, nucpehdent' and honest; and equally from their
Institutional predictions and the natural courso f
thinSs they surround themselves with the ;rnoron,
who cannot mortify their vanity by even an accidsn
lal fxhiDton OF superiority: with the fawninc and
obSequlons who can PROSTATE themselves in tLo;-
presence as before an idol; with the fcrocjons and
ma lgnant whose dispositions and propensfies bar
lnoulze with their own or with cunninr and unr,in
cpIed Intriguers, who with an easy supnIansss
assume bv turns all those phases ofcfaracter ,yb;ci
may he efiicacons in rendering their master cor,
tenptibIe tool to crafty their own selfsI, purpos
90 not thnk quite So mcanly oil your understand
ing as 70 suppose 1t necessary to employ LANGUAGE
IL He n,fsy al. 10
whose characters have thus been briefly doljncated
ana grouped Even you can scarcely fii! to r..cor
n'Ze the ignorant and unedncacd being inflated viii
VANITY: prompt and unforgivng N his resentment
MN 81 Sill more humble intellect and prominence nj
moral ouaIitiesthe crngine and ohsonnoms So"
Phant--ihc cold-hcoded npctuous nIal,oi,ar,og ~
Utmost pF2yerbiay cool, calculating, versatile and
seIush poIcan, among those who arc understood to
compose the select group Of which it is your sir,
fortune to occupy the principal place
some OF your eulogiss, and they ARE both nruc.
rous ana noisy, have appaudcd YOU as possessing n
an Uncommon degree, the capacity TO Distinguish The
'oa se'ers o t5osa Nh shor9 you arc b.o9cl -