Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-02-23
Ebs Constitutional gWbig.
TUESDAY MORNING. FEB. .. 1881.
MEssRs. ADAMS AND JAcKsoN.-The Correspor.
dent of the U. States Gazette of late date, saws

COrresDor-
dent of the U. States Gazette of late date, says
There is circulation part of which is founded
10 TRUTH but think the other part merely coniec
The true part is hisa, correspondence for some time
9efn pretty actively carried on between General Jackson
eno MT Adams That originated with General Jackson
am very much Inclined believe or the this
Lsspondence r"nor much but the possibility that muc!
mat runor says not truth Ii said object one of
e onec OF this correspondence, the part of General
Jackson rs to ask advice of Me- Adams
~ which the General finds himself placed This partly
u VINO nave also the opportunity seeing things
managed mat there great eplexy in the Executive de
Hehension in those who regulate affairs
aken and the operation OF which de
conduct of the Govenmen-These things be hid
den IN the administration Of government than The
management Of family Rumor further says, Presi-
cent troubled with mgivings to the ability,
rarhnent to himself and his views of tose abou, him
who are constu''onay his advisers and tina, begun
discover That they either actuated selfish
or from other that they do give
whch accords with the wishes of the people II in such
emergency with such impressions mind should have
applied to MIR Adams, will shew either good
dispersed every feeling to do what IN the day
OF high triumph aud high he would have
there doubt that General is now sasfed-now
that Mr. Adams no longer his competitor longer
able statesman Time will him bye bye that he has
also done injustice TO Others and injustice which
Dever be repaired Whether thing
anIe OF this correspondence be correct otherwise,
OF me tone of the current rumor."
Part of this letter probably fancifui; for however
much the condition of the public Departments (bad
enough in some of them might be improved by nj r.
Adams great experience, nobody suppose that
the humlliating confession would be made to him.
But there hos been correspondence without doubt,
and we imagine, in reference to Mr.. Adams agency
II the transactions of 1915 with view 10 make it
part of the reply which Gen Jackson meditates, to
Bfr Cahouns Pamphlet.
Thereis infinite satisfaction to a well disposed mind
In the reflection, sustained by wha is even passing
before eyes in the moral world, that retributon
overtakes every departure from truth and Justice,
sponer or later; and that very generally, this retribu
ton springs manitestly out of the deviation ITSELF
We see beautiful moral propriety in Mr.. Ad-
ANS being beaten by Gen Jackson--that the very
man whom he saved from punishment and disgrace,
when he had richly deserved both, should in the
process of time, become instrument in the hands of
tate, to avenge upon him. his protection and defence
of lawless and unconstitutional conduct.
To Mr. Adams strenuous stand for him in Mr. Mon
roes cabinet, Jackson is indebted for mpunty in his
Florida conduct-conduct for which, Mr. Adams him
self admitted, shooting in the of subordinate
officer, would have been too good. That impunity,
IN the elevation which it gave Jackson, above the
Constitution the law, and accountability became the
fountain FROM which the waters of bitterness have
since flowed. Had he been tried and cas1iered, he
would have sunk TO his proper level, and his name
never have been so much mentioned in conneXon
with the Presidency. 1t was but right IN the order
ofmoral retrbution, that the who produced these
consequences, whether honestly otherwise-witfl-
ont whom, Jacksonsm and its long train of violence,
desPotsm tergvcrsation mendacity, ingratitude and
ferocity, sweeping through the country invertng the
NATURAL order of things, filling it with divisions zeal
ousies and party hatred, and within the space of a
Few years, urging the Union itself to the verge of dis
Solution- was but right that Mr. Adams, the author
and father of jacksonsn, should fall the first unde-
served and barbarously butchered victim to its lrum
plant career. Not from the hand Of Jackson, had
he deserved to be sacriced-not from him or his
friends, had he deserved the vile persecution, the
base ISLANDERS and unprincipled misrepresentation
which be sustained during four years with such calm
and undlsturbed dignity-but expiration due to
the constitution and laws of his country, for the out
rages he had suffered it to receive, and defended in
1919, and Providence, in its inscrutable wisdom.
placed the sword Of retribution iD the hand which
ought to have been palscd by gratitude from welding
it for the blow.
The purposes of faction answered, we now hear &C.
casonal compliments to the character and abilities of
John Quincy Adams and it is not improbable, but
thot, smtten by late compunctior, and the
lated proofs that to him he is indebted for his carac-
ter in 1918, and his subsequent brilliant political for
tunes, the Hero has sought correspondence with
Mr. Adams, for the purpose among other things of ad-
dressing atonement for his black iDgratitude,
and his personal ISLANDERS towards his benefactor If
this be So we trust Mr. Adams will receive the propi-
tiation as he did the Djury-with cool and dignlfed
contempt.
aT In the statement of the parts taken by the Sc
veral speakers in the debate Of Saturday, OF the
motion of Mr.. Goode, to postpone The loan bill, we
represented Mr.. Garland of Nelson as opposing the
motion, and advocating internal improvements We
should have stated that while Mr. Garland was q
most decided friend of system of State improve
ment hsviDg in fact, learn, drafted the Report;
Of the Commttee) he hostile to the bill before
the House, as embracing subjects not of sufficient
dignity to be cIassed State improvements