Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-06-29
Fron, The NJ Y Commercial Advertiser, of June 90
MISERIES OF A JACKSON EDITOR

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the Long Island Star in his present affection, set
forth in the subioinei article If, instead of going
yer to the Jackson party after our defeat in 1923, the
editor of the Star had taken his seat the fence
with us, he would have been much better off-be-
he could then have got off the RICH. side:-
| From The Long Island Star Of June l6
.'Who relate such without a tear
| 1t is fact well known to all our readers that we
fell into the Jackson ranks we decently
could after the defeat of the corrupt coalition" and
that 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 in abandoning the honest and prin-
ciples with which we had been before associated
but then such glorious visions of government patron
agenf rewarded editors and of public printing, as
glanced constantly before dazzled sight, enabled
us to huzza IL the greatest and best Of men," las
Secretary Branch calls Inn and became Jack
son man 'dyed in the WOOL" Our majority i'm Con-
gress was overwhelming, and iondly thought
there could be no dang, in being "a decided Jackson
man.. But, alas, mutation stamped all subunary
things Compare 'thc party" at the time we joined
1T, with what it is now, and'still sits Iike-but oh
how different" Then it was the very emblem of in
vnclble strength, 1t is like the albany Regency
swaying about with every breath. and ready to tum-
Bile at the next kick. We f''the STAR were then IL
hope--now, all despair.
The very elements have conspired against us-the
work ng-men, 1T is said are for Cay-the tariff men
are for Clay-tbe internal Improvement mensare for
Cay--ihe old Adams party very nearly equal IN
number to the jackson party are for Cay-,he anti
masons for Clay-the friends of No tona faith and
the enemies of prescription and of punishment for
freedom IN voting, are for Claythe friends of the
Union and all opposed 10 southern dis-unon, for
Clay-the friends of national economy for Clay,
and for aught we by A d 1889, the whole coun-
try will be for Clay. There fearful Gathering of
dry bones in the charnel-hou fold 71ammany as if
| they were seized with "fever and ague"-Governor
Throop eating his last of the Peoples bread and
the young lion of the west" with Frank Granger on
his back shaking his name, and roaring, and there
will be no attempt to check him. from Buffalo to Her
bimer.
| Men prone recount the different symptoms
and stages of the disease when there is hope left
for TIE patient.-So let look for few minutes at
the cause OF the early death of Jacksonism One of
the Indications of health which first denoted long
life, the Generals coming out for the tariff
This ne certainly has done, though rather in a Van
Bureny way aud not, 1t is true, with the bluntness
and sincerity of Harry Cloy. But here we were ra-
Their in pother; for The wise men who control the
politics of Kings county, having ORA their notions
of political economy from those profound and pure
fountains, the NeaD York Courier and Enquirer and
Erenins Post had all previously protested to be anti
tariff. w hat the deuce to be DONE perplexed us
not lt1e.-However, leaders ruminated and
smoaked, and at last agreed to look wise upon the
subject, and when speaking of it. to say that tupon
the whole judicious tariff desirable, and that
the hero of two wars views Iust in this light"
All this went very wei; but comes tho story of
our hero's blunders not like angels visits, few
and far between but like grape shot from a
thirty-two pound battery, like wise and witty
sayings from brother Brch's paper--We (that
is the Jackson party before lOlned them)
had told great many IS about Mr. Adams reward
ing or editors with public printing; and Gen Jack
son has rewarded them wherever they could be found
from brother Birch down to Duff Green and Major
Noah. The s'hero Of the revolution made great
professions against the sin of appointing members of
Congress--whew He has already appointed
than all the former administrations united He had
great horror OF the corruption OF the press and the
post office and has corrupted both to hitherto
heard of extent. He has turned out of their daily
bread pretty much every man who dared to vote for
l;,,a- Al
who commenc d the revolution by throwing over the
tea chests in the barber OF Boston. He has deprived
US Jackson men) of the privilege of calling ourselves
"the republican party" by appointing to office more
ederallsts than have been in Office since the days of
Jefferson such as Mclean. Berrisn and John Ran
doph, the culurnniator of Jefferson, Madison, and
Monroe We didn't, however, mind any all these
things much. though they cooled the zeal with which
we had upheld him before But all put together,
were giving party downhill inclination, when
on came, like steam boat after row boat. the last
session of Congress- In the Senate out for
state rights and disunlon; but that brawny shoudered
New England giant, Webster, knocked our political
brains at two blows and battered the other parts
of our political bodies in such way that recovery
| is despaired Of" There too sanctioned such ap
continents by ''the hero of two wars!' But we did
something here to characters, by rejecting
three four who had been in states prison.
two three who were under indictments for larceny
--one or two who had been convicted of MURDER
and who had been guilty of crime too gross TO
be here named. This an evidence of purity in
the Senate But then, again, confirmed appoint
nenls of new ministers &c and the recall of Others
to the tune Of nearly 100000. We agreed to a
project for driving the poor Indians from their last
acres into the western wilderness and swamps, at an
expense of 100000, estimated, and at the
same Tine the "hero of TWO wars refused to pppro-
pirate $4,000 to work of internal Improvement,
on the ground of ecouomy:-and refused to sanction
| the other bills for internal improvements. on the
ground Of hostility to the principle; this has lost us
the whole WeSt-and these are all The promised re
forms!W!
''Thc greatest and the best of men," too declared
before his election, that should hold the Office
of President for then four yenrS-and here he is
again candidate for the next fourth
! There seems now to be general turning of the
public eye on HENRY CLAY, the only man who
/ will bring back hIgh-ninded, honest, plum dealing,
sincere political conduct, and much as we are and
have been opposed to him, we not how it can