Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-05-18

of those few who have been thus charged their mis-
conduct reported was unsuspected. until the prying
eyes OF their TO inspect the official
records of their proceedings when their delegated an
geHufy, as III duty bound could do no less than ind
them guilty and therefore could not have been the
cause OF their dismissal Yours, therefore, Is not the
Jeitersonan Rule. You ask, respecting mcuinbents
and applicants, other questions than, sis he honest, is
he cdi0bte:" and the your questions decides
the applicability of your RUE. BY thus ascertalnins
what your secret rule not, we may easily come to
the discovery OF what it is Surprising you serious
when you say you controlled By rule, and that
you do not move blindy like other storms, but that
you have eyes Which see, and cars which hear, and
hence that have not yet described your rue there
remains, however, but one motive which could posi-
bly, have governed you-'punShhae.9t # your pot,tt- /
cal opponents, and reparls for your friends" This
is your rule, and however you may wish to disguise
it, to deceive the world into the belief that your
cre principle is something of nober Sort the true
one Is visible to every eye, and like red meteor,
beams through your midnight administration, portcn-
ding and working mischief and rum. 1t was pre-
scribed to you before you had the power to pursue it.
by one to whom you allied by happy congeniul- !
| ty; whom you have neither the ability the wi:h 10
disobey, before whose omnpotent breath your Prcsi
Dental strength lies nervccss infancy; who, while
he suffers your heart pursue its onted palpatons,
seems to have locked up the closet which confines
your intellect. In this Imprisonment of your mental
powers you with his eyes, and hea~ with his
lis misfortune for this great nation that you were
born for him, and He for you. At one and the same
time he is your mnion and your monarch, your priest
and your demon-your pubic counsellor and your bo-
soui friend blush Ter my country when see such
unnatural formations, such generous eXcreseace
fastened upon the body polite and tho footsioo OF
| the President converted into throne for slave.
/ The INJUSTICE of your principle of Reform"
would have been too glazing, had it been at once
boldly unfodet; and hence is it that il was brought
| out by degrees Al first IT pretended that those
only who had made Of office engine for cleo
tioncering purposes were TO be ''rofornlcd away"
But when it was discovered that there were lii place
very many your friends who had been ruitv OF this
| vou have hoo
ed TO call it, who, contrary any feeling ograitude
or sense of duty had s,unG the bosom which warm
ed. and the hand which fed them making OF their
! Office IN the gift OF Mr.. ADAMS the means of fur
therlns your designs upon the Presidency 10 his en-
cislon, and that yo"r it:!e u two-edged sword
which, If honestly borne, would 'cut upon bot Sides
1t was soon carefully withheld, and finally gave way
to o much more comprehensive scheme of seform
| 1t was next declared that those in Office Who in
vioonco:of opposition, had offended you in one par
tcuar, need not name it should meet with con
6ign f:,,;skmlens Indeed 700 intimated in your pr
vate conversation with my husband, that those who
had passed that Ru5con had sealed their destruction.
But the misfortune attending this rule was that there
were none III Office upon whom it could operate Has
the charge alluded to been fixed upon any indi-
vidual OF the multitude of those who have been re-
formed away? Was 1t ever even whispered in regard
to my unfortunate husband You know that It was
But boldly declare that such rule is altogether
unworthy ct the Presidential Office of magnanimous
nation! What! WELD the public vengeance for your
the bolt of destruction your private fnes Was the
power dignity, ana wealth of the Union concentred
, in your Defsa' 20 be SO nisused? Had n foreign
j tfince or Ninlstc- committed like ofiince With
tie same Proprety might you have made it cause
Of public quarrel, and sent from the ocean and the
land nd hecntombs of apPeasing ghosts.
alhe whole circumference Of your rule Mt Ieuo
expanded itself full to the public view; the repn of
terror was unoided, and principle unprecedented
: even IN the annals oftyrauny, like destroying an
gel ranged through the land blowing the breath of
mt tha bah,
enemies. Your enemies sir, Ne; your political on
popents on call them eaearies; but were thew so?
Can there be 10 difference of opinion without enmtv?
Do you believe that every-nan who voted for Mr. Ad
ans, and who had not received from YOU some nor
senal injury, preferred him because he hated ysre-
9 Think you sir that there is medium between idol
airy and hate! IL is not because YOU think there is
10 such medium but because your cheated ambition
VIII allow ofrone. This makes YOU look upon all
D those gho voted against you, as your bitter
, l most hrmiy believe TINT, saving those whom you
mad personally made your enemies, every honest
man, in giving his suffrage to Mr.. Adams obeyed
the dictates of judgment, and that many did so in
violence to their warmer feelings towards you
My husband, sir, your enemv In the
overlooking patriotism of his heart he gave YOU the
full measure of his love for your military services
lie preferred Mr. Adams for the Presidency because
ne thought HIM qualified, and you unqualified for the
station. He would have been traitor to his ceun-
try, he would have had even my scorD, and have de-
served yours, bad he supported you under such cir
cun1stances. He used no means to oppose you. He
DID PATRIOTS duty, in patriots way. For this he
is proscribed-puashcd! Oh, how punished! NV
heart bleeds as / write Cruel Sir! Did he commit
any offence worthy of Punishment against God or a
salnst bis country, or even against you' Blush while
you read this question; speak not but let the Grim
son negative mantle your cheek! No, sir, or the
contrary, it was OF the best acts of his life
r W hen he barred his bosom the hostile bayonets
OF his enemies, ne was not in the line Of his
duty, than when he voted against yeu; and had he
RI fallen martyr the field of fight he would not
r more have deserved monument, than he now de-
serves for having been than murtyrcd in sup
port OF the dearest privilege and chartered right Of
American treemen. Careless you are about the
effects of your conduct, it would be idle TO inform
you of the depth and quality of that misery which
you have worked in the bosom OF my family. Else
would tell tale that would provoke sympathy in
any thing that had heart gentle drops of pity
from every eye not accustomed TO look upon scenes
OF human cruelty ''with composurc." Besides, ycu
were appraised Of our poverty; you knew the depen-
dence of eight little children for food and raTnent