Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-08-04
For THE WHO.
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Mr.. Thomas R;,c5;,

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menced with the last scenes of the Sem;noIa 49,
and you cared but little what words were cmnovsd
SO that nhey were sufficiently strong for yonr nur
Posc' ne INVASION oil neutral territory; the can
| .ure OF OF, marks, Pensacola and Fort B,ropcas
together with the contempt which was o,y.aS :.
tue Court Martial in the cases of Ambrister nd
buthuot, and the fate of these two in,l;v;J,ai.
,ho a, INTO action all your angry passions, an,
."e'eea your pen with blood: added to all this u.
! limits. s"'""h'h our owr
SIR, when think of tho language which vo,
towards General Jacksonup on these seyora
occasions, am at n loss to know why no docs mo,
now That no has pocer, order you to he sono.J
tar worse than this has been done bv him snd n,
you justified. If tho President has nnv ot 81 :,
=, ana honest feeling which has been attributed
~ MN, you must with IAN, be an object of seorn
contempt and pity: i, who was ALWAYS his oo,onon,
Ieit that you had far transcribed the bounds ne do
eehcy and decorum and could never consen, 20 COO
suIn language used, as was used by YOU, without
,eeiiIg strong emotions of condernnaton ST.
nave yon file the Enquirer about the t;mo H.,
zen jackson was at Washington, attending an in
qu ~ into his conduct entered upon by the Sen,a7
Ho you remember what you said about I.acock,s ro
fooi S"h you recoliect your language towards Gen
SSaacRson, upon the rumour that he would denr;vo
MI Eppes of his ears7 Permit me IN asL ,h,
YOU WIN now give your readers a few extracts in
oiohen doses" from the Enquirer of these CIV
~. ho'hing assure you, would afford
.ne"' moro amusement; and when you hayo potten
through the extracts drawn from the c,rcumsi,ncoe
already mentioned. look at your culogy of "Alger-
non "idney'" published by you, about the sans
I Examine hrst, what A. S. says of Ger eral
JACKSON; rePu6tish them, for the benefit of vour
readers, and annex to them your own renarks-
ashamed know you will be; but do not be afraid:
VIII endeavor to have you protected against both
the shears and the rope--al these incidents occur
red, before the presidential election of 1924 had
taken decided character; and when Gen Jackson
was hrst announced, you laughed more than anv
BODY else; and said, very gravey, that the public
nn
tning more, than personal compliment TO tho
General, adding, that it was sporting TOO much
with the Generals feelings, thus to expose him TO
iiaicuie and merrimont. In this way you treated
.e SUBJECT, until you very unexpectedly found that
ms nomination was seriously supported. and thai
ne was the most formidable man. in the wav ne
mr. crawford You suddenly become alarmed:
you assumed tone towards him, almost cruel. if
'Iueeo' any language could be too cruel, when APP
Piicd TO HIM; you exhausted tho vocabulary of
words In finding language to degrade him. who is
now stronger in your affections than LETTERS on ever
was; II we are to Judge from the columns of The
Enquirer Is all this true Sir7 Turn to vour files
and answer the question; for will have no other
witness against you but your own dear self Sir I
do not mean to stop here; you shall have some sne
cl1catIons You said that you were amazed at the
noid attempt of republicans, to place in the Presi
Denial chair, man who had violated oil la,cs
moral religious, and diuine you said that Won were
astonished at the desire of man to place him
selfin situation where he would have to expound
al ~ Vn
ignorant as not to be able to understand one plan
fdau---ali this you said and after exhaustive your
mind IN the selection of terms sufficiently repre-
hensble and approbrous, you said that the election
OF OF General jackson would be "a CURSE UPON
The COUNTRY" Whilst you were engaped in
this bitter and vindictivc course against General
Jackson, the Presidential election of 1924 was
gong on; Judge Roane was dead and Won had
taken SIDES for MIR. Crawford. During this whole
time, MIR. Adams and Mr.. Clay had escaped your
rancour; your course towards them was at least dec
orous, and although Virginia was giving her sun
port to Mr.. Crawford, all knew that Mr. Adams
was her next choice, and that she cared not much
%nlch OF the two should be elected: against Gen
Jackson alone, your whole force was directed: and
your battery played upon him with fatal effect:
lie could not have gotten the vote of Virginia al
that time against any other of the candidates. and
may fearlessly say that before the people of Vir
ginin, IN 1925, Gen. jackson could not have obtain
ed five hundred votes for you had taught them to
believe he was monster. Such was the existing
state OF things when the electors were chosen in
1874, and though the ballots not to be count
ed until 1925, the state of the vote was well known
Mr. Clay was excluded from the choice to be made
by the House of Representatives, and the selection
was limited to Gen Jackson, who received 90 cleo
toral votes, Mr.. Adams who received a. and Mr.
Crawford who received Al And now Let US see
how far you regard the ,oiH Of the people, upon
which you have SO long and emphqtically dwell in
after times Though Gen. Jackson's electoral vote
over Mr. Adams was SO great, it was soon ascer-
tanned that there was but small majority of the
people who preferred him to Mr.. Adams, whilst YOU
and every body else saw and knew that Mr.. Craw-
ford was n favorite where except in Georgia
~. Carolina, Virgins and Delaware; the first a.
mongs the smallest and The last the smallest state
In the Union. You could not mis- axe the fact
that Mr.. Crawford could in no way, be considered
the choice of the people; and with this undsputed
fact before you, what did you say Why YOU
told the world that Mr.. CrawEiEd ought still 10 be
supported, that the House of Representatives ought
to choose him, and finally that that the colours
ought to be nailed to the head and sink NTH
the ship"
These were your words sir; you then held the
Peoples ,oH in utter contempt, and you declared
1t through the columns of your paper. And who
but high-haaded Despof, and fulL-toned Arstoerat
would have dared thus 10 against the Peoples
viii What apology have you ever made them
Tor this fragrant outrage of principle None,
Whatever-the offence is still without atonement,
and IS still due with all its compound accumulated
interest. Under such circumstances, how dare you
to talk of your regard for the will of the People
Is your contempt of this will upon the occasion
referred to any proof of your sincerity Sir, am
slckened as | WELD my pen. In due season, tho
choice OF a President, according to the command
of the Constitution, came before the House of
Representatives. and Mr.. Adams obtained thirteen
States upon the first ballot, which closed the
chat had been going and now sir, new views
open upon us-Up tn the first Wednesday in Feb
Tuary, 1925, you had been the eulogstic friend of
Mr. Adams, as politician, and although you had
ceased to praise him, you had not denounced him.
Mr. Clay stood before the world the champion of
freedom; unsullied in his principles, and sdn ed by
all, Tor his universally admitted talents No man
in the United States had as high claims to public
favor as had Mr. Clay. Mr.. Adams first duty was
20 organize his Cabinet, aud though he had not
been very friendly to Mr.. Clay personally
yet laying aside all these considerations, no