Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-26
From Tie ~. Y. Commercial .ARrertiser. Of June s2.
MiSERIES OF A JACKSON EDITOR.

forth In the subjoinei article. II, instead Of going o |
ver to tho Jackson party aher our deiea, in 1873, the
editor of the Star had taken his seat on the fence,
with us, he would have been much better of-bs-
cause he could then havo got of on the RICH, sides
From he Long Island Star Of June ie,
''Who can relate such woes without a teor 4"
u IL q fact well known to oil our readers, that we
fell in'o the Jackson ranks rs soon as we deccntiy
could after the defeat Of the "corrupt coalition" and
that we Shave iabored hard in the cause of"Jsckson
and reform" although We came in at the eleventh
hour True. we had some most cxcruciating twingcs
OF consc cnce in abandoning the honest men and prin-
ciples with which We had been before associated
but then such glorious vi~ioss Of government patron
age-of rewarded editors and of public printing. a.
glanced constantly before our dazzcd sight, enabled
us to huzza ~ 1.-THE greatest and best OF men," las
Secretary Branch calls him) and we became a Jack
son man dyed in the WOOL" Our majority in Con-
gress WINS overwhelming, and we fondly thought
there could be- no danger in being "a decided Jackson
man." But, alas. mutafisn is stamped on all sublunary
things. Compare ''thc party at the time we joined
II, with what il is now, and still 'tis like-but oh
how different" Then it was the very emblem of in
vincib!e strength, now IL is like the albany Regency,
swaying about with every breath. and ready to tnm.
BILE at the next kick. We ("thc Starr were then NIL
hopo--now, all despair.
The very elements have conspired against US tho
work ng-men, It Is snid. are for Clay-the tariff. men
arc for Clay-thc internal Improvement men'are for
Clay--,he old Adams party, vorv nearly equal in
number to the Jackson party, are for Cluy-,ho anti
uasons are for Clay-'he friends of Irrational faith and
lnviolate treaties, ond of the Indians, are for Clay
az cui VI prescription dOu oil punishment IOr
freedom III voting, are fr Ciay-the friends Of the
Union and al opposed o southern dis-union, are for
Clay-the friends of national economy u;e for Clnv.
AMI for aught W. sec. bv A d 1892, the whole coun-
try VIII be tor Clay. There ia a fearful clattering of
dry bones LII the charnel. house OF old Tdmmanv. as if
they were seized with "feSer and ague"-Governor
IhrooP IA eating his last OF the pcnDie's bread, and
the young lion oftie west" with Frank Granger on
MS oaci, Is shaking his name, and roa ring, and there
VIII be no attempt TO check him from Buffalo GO Her
kline.
nien are prone to recount the different symptoms
ana stages OF the disease, when there is no hope LEFT
Tor tie pa'icn,.-So let us look for a few minutes at
the cause of the early death Of Jacksonism. One of
The indications OF health. which at first denoted long
ME, was the Generals coming out for the tariff.
This he certainly has done, though rather in n Van
Bureny way, and not, il is true, with the bluntness
and sincerity of Harry Cloy. Bat here we were ra-
ther IN a pother; for The wise men who control the
politics OF Kings county, having drawn their notions
OF political economy from hose profound and pure
ioun'ains. the Neto York Courier and Enquirer and
Erening Post, had oil previously protested TO be anti.
taritf What the deuce was to be done, perpl-xed US
not ~rt,ie.-However, our leaders ruminated and
smoaked, and at last we agreed to look wise upon the
subject, and when speaking of it. to say that "uuop
the whole n judieious tariff was desirable, and that
the nero OF two wars views il Just in this light"
All this went very well; but now comes the story of
our hero's blun'ers, not "like angels visits, few
and far between" but like grape shot from a
thirty-two pound battery, or like wise and witty
sayings from brother Birch's paper we THAT
oShSo" PuFy Otlore we 1Olned them1
had told a great many IS about Mr. Adams reward.
ing 8 ord editors with public printing; and Gen jack
son has recorded them wherever thew could no found
rom brother Birch down to Duff Green and Major
INoah. Ibe ''hcro Of the revolution made oreat
professions against the sin of appointing members of
Eongress,-whe He has already appointed more
man an the former administrations united. He had
u great horror OF the corruption of he press and tho
post ONCE, and has corrupted both to a hitherto un-
heard OF extent He has turned out of their dailv
W STehu pretty much every man who dared TO vote for
MI. haams' including the last survivor Of the men
VINO commenced the revolution by throwing over the
tea chests IN the barber Of Dos on H. has deprived
usIJackson mem of The privilege Of calling ourselves
"Me republican patty" by appointing to Office more
,surra"s's than nave been IN Office since the days of
emerson such as Mclean, Bcrrien, and John Ran
doiph' the cnlnnniator of Jefferson, Madison, and
hIonroe We didn't, however, mind any or all these
things much, though they cooled the zeal with which
we mad upheld him before But all put togetber.
were giving our party a down-hill inclination, when
ON came, Ike a steam boat after a row boat. the last
session of Congress In the Senate we came ON, for
s,ate rights and disunion; but that brawny shouldered
we" england giant. Webster, knocked our political
brains out at two blows, and battered the other no,ts
OF our political bodies in such n way that "recovcrv
Is ~despaircd Of" There too we sanctioned svcb nm
Po'ntments By "thc hero of two wars." But we did
somet"tns here to save our characters, by rejecting
three or four men who had been in states prisonr
two or three who were under indictments for larceny
-one or two who had been convicted of MuanrnDo
ana one VINO mad been guilty Of n crime too gross to
oe nero named. This was an evidence of purity in
Tue Sena'e. But then, again, we confirmed nnpo;n,.
mems oil new ministers. &c and the recall of otbe,s
to the tune of nearly 81 600. 900. We agreed 70 =
PROJECT for driving the poor Indians from their los,
acres INTO me western wilderness and swamps. at an
expense of ga, 600, 900, as Is estimated. and NJ tho
same limo The "hero Of Two wars refused 10 nnnro.
pirate S'5o'ooo 10 a work Of internal improvement
on the ground of economy!-and refused TO sanction
the other bills for internal improvements, on The
ground of hostility TO the principles; this bas los, ne
the whole Wea-a1d these are all TIE promised re
JormsnW
.ihe greatest and the best of men, tor, declared
ociofc ms election, that no man should hold the Office
Ut resident, for more then fur years-nnJ hero no ;e
again a candidate for The next four!!,
Ihere seems now to be q general turning of the
public eye on HENRY CLAY, as the onIv man who
VIII Dr'ng back hIgh-ininded, honest, plain dealing.
sincere political conduct, md much a. vo 1919"
nave erer been opposed 10 him. we see not how il can
be prevented. ~"