Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-25
MIsERIEs OF A JACKSON EDITOR.

MISERIES OF A JACKSON EDITOR.
Most heartily do we sympathise with the editor
of the Long Island Star in his present afiiiction.
as set forth in the subjoined article. 1t, instead
of going over to the Jackson party after our de-
feat in 1928. had the Editor of the Star taken his
seat on the fence, with us, he would have been
much better Otf-because he could then have got
OF on the right side.-N. Y. Com.
From the Long Is'ard Star of June IS
"Uho can relate such ,Ooes rifhom tear"
It is fact we'll known to all our readers, that
we fell into the Jackson ranks as soon as we de-
Gently could after the defeat Of the IS corrupt
coalition" aud that we have labored hard IN the
-. cause of jackson and reform" although we
came in at the eleventh hour. True we had some
most excruciating twinges of conscience III aban-
donlng the honest men and principles with which
we had beenbefore associated-but then such glo-
rious vsionsof government. PatronaSe;oi rewarded
editors and of public printing. as glanced CON
stantly before our daZzled sight, enabled US to
huzza TO 1.-The greatest and best OF men, las
Secretary Branch calls him.. and we became a
Jack son man sdyed in the wool" Our ma lori
ty in Congress was overwhelming, and we fond
" thought there could be no danger in being "a
decided Jackson man" But, alas mutation is
stamped Oh all subunary things. Compare i" the
party at the time we joined it, with what it is
now. aud still It's Iikc-but oh how different"
Then it was the very emblem of invincbe
strength. now it is like the albany Regency.
swaying about with every breath, and ready to
tumble a, the next kick. We [''the Starr were
then all hope-now, all despair.
The very elements have conspired against us
the workins-men, il is said. are for Clay-the
taria-men are for Clay-the internalimprovement
men are for Clay--the old Adams party, very
nearly equal in number TO the JACKSON P'rty' are
O. t,tuy--rne aIiI-masOns are FOR Clay--the
friends of national faith and inviolate treaties.
and of the Indians. are for Clay-the enemies of
prescription and of punishment for freedom in
voting, are for Clay-the friends of the Union
and all opposed to southern dis-unon, are for
Clav-the friends of national economy are for
CLAW. and for aught we see. by A. ID. 1852. the
whole country will be for Clay. There is fear
full gathering of dry bunes in the charne-house
of old Tammany. as if they were seized with
..fever and asue''-Gov. Ihroop is eating his
last of the Peoples bread. and the ''young lion
of the west" with Frank Granger on his back.
is shaking his name, and roaring. and there will
be no attempt t. check him, from Buffalo to Her
kimer.
Men are prone to recount the different symp-
toms and stages of the disease even where there
is no hope left for the patent.-So let us loos
for few minutes at the cause of the early death
If Jacksonism. One of the indications OF health,
which at first denoted long life. was the Generals
coming out for the tariff This he certainly has
done. though rather in Van Bureny way. and
not il Is true with the bluntness and sincerity ct
Harry CLAW. But here we were rather in poth
err: for the wise men who control the po!i'ics Of
Kings county. having drawn their notions of po.
al
fountains. the Ne.c York Courier ant EnqnGrer
and Ereaing Post. had all previously professed
to be anti-tarii' What the deuce was 70 BE-
done. perplexed us not little. However, our
leaders ruminatcd and smoaked. and at last we
agreed to look wise upon the subject and when
speaking of it. to say that ''upon the whole a
jmdicious tariff was desirable and that the 'hero
of two wars views it Just in this light" All
this went very we'll: but now comes the story OF
our hero's blunders not Like angels visits, few
and far between" but like grape shot from
thirtv-two pound battery. or like wise and witty
savings from brother Breh's paper. We THAT is
the Jackson party before we joined them had
told a great many IS about MIR. Adams reward
inc three or four editors with public printing
and Gen. Jackson has re'carded them wherever
they could be found. from brother Birch down to
Duff Green and Major Noah. The :" hero of
the revolution made great professions against
the sin of appointing members of Congress
whew! He has already appointed more than all
the former administrations united. He had a
great horror of the corruption of the press and
the post Office, and has corrupted both to
hitherto unheard of extent. He has turned out
of their daily bread pretty much every man who
dared to vote for Mr.. Adams, including the last
survivor of the men who commenced the revoIu-
ton by throwing over the tea chests in the
harbor of Boston. He has deprived us Jackson
men) the privilege of calling ourselves "the re-
publican party" b, appointing to office more fed
eralis,s than have been in Office since the days of
Jeifarson-sucha as Mclean, Berrien. and John
Randolph the calumniator of Jefferson, Mad
isol and Monroe.
We Didn't, however, mind any or all these