Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-07-07

tons is at stake?-nay, when q breaci, has been
already made IN the wallis and the citadel of their
liberties has been shaken to its foundations Can
they see ard, seeing, tolerate the DETACHMENT of
the fair form and graceful proportions of our une-
uualed political fabric with the ruthless spirit of
worse than Vandal barbarity!
National Republicans! You may ask if this
appeal to your public spirit and patriotism, is
founded in truth and factor if it is the mere
fervid working Of a distempered imagination?-
Do you ask the question? Do you seriously en-
quire if there is any cause for these complaints,
and this appeais If so, let me ask you, in turn,
if you have been blind to the mOmentous events
which have transpired within the last two years,
and have passed in review before the astonishpd
eyes of the freemen of this country? Have you
not heard the loud complaints of those of our
unfortunate fellow citizens who became the vic
tins Of the prescriptions. for opinions sake, of
the President and his Ministerss IF you have
not, you are among the number Of those ,oho.
having eyes, see not-and hapiag ears, hear not"
A minute history Of those occurrences, would
afford nateriel for volumes; but for the honor of
our country, should it survive the tremendous
shock it's stability has suslained-let us hope that
the charity Of our historians will permit them to
glide into the shade of undisturbed oblivion
Shall specify Shall detail? No! National
Republicans! You cannot be strangers to the
the events of such magnitude. as have filled all
America with amazement! You have seen all
you know all-you have seen the predictions of
the opponents Of this imbeciie administration,
more than verified; and the hopes and promises
Of its friends dashed and disappointed. You
have seen the Executive influence desecrated for
the vilest purposes-You have seen the patronage
of government flowing into the channels of bride.
ry and corruption-You have seen the National
Treasury--the peoples money tributary to the
President, in the bestowment of munifcent
largesses to his adherents and followers, in the
way of Offices and emouments-You have seen
the immense expenditure Of the same peoples
money, in the capricions appointment and recall
of public ministers, cOnsus, and diplomatic
agents You have seen him arrogate the power,
in the face of the Constitution, to commission
agents to make treaties, without the knowledge,
advice, or consent of the Senate-You have seen
him despise and cOntemn that constitutional
branch Of the Federal Executive, by appointing
the very men whom they have rejected. You
have seen him disgrace the seat which Washing
ton honored, by becoming an applicant to the
Legislature of a State, for nomination to the
Presidency--and lending his power and his infu,
euce, and the use of his ranking privilege, to
solicit subscribers to paper now established at
the seat of Government, and avowedly support
ing his reelection to the place he now disgrace
fully fls-yoa have seen his unrelenting perse-
cutlon Of all who have the independence to OPP
pose his arbitrary sway; and his malignant ha-
tired to the great American Statesman of the
West, and all his frieuds-you have seen, and
know all these things, and must, as freemen and
Americans, entertain feelings Of corresponding
indignation and displeasure.
National Republicans! Are these the only
grounds of complaint? Recent disclosures exhi-
bit to US the novel and unprecedented fact of
President Of the U. S descending 10 the shame
full interference in the the fire side relations, and
presc riding the rules of social intercourse. A
late member of the Cabinet declares that an at
tempt was made by Gen. Jackson to force him to
comply with what was inconsistent with honorH
TO all that is despotic in power. base in corrup-
ton, malignant in revenge. unfaithful in Office.
weak and incompetent in the administration of
public affairs, we see added the grossest violation
of decency and morals, and the most reckless.
mean, and officious intcrmeddling IN the sacred
privacies of domestic regulations, and authorita-
tive dictation to the ministers of his Cabinet as
to their company and society Thus the people
Of this country, through their representation in
their Chief Magistrate, become party to dis
graceful private family feud, and appear before
the world in the unenviabe office of iegltmating
the depraved propensities of the worst passions,
of controlling the privilege of ones selecting his
associates, and of sanctioning the open violation
of those tender and delicate relations formed at
an alter whose haluwed rights are celebrated in
the face Of man and under the benignant and aus
pcious smile of Heaven.
An administration whose charac ter is thus mark
ed By every act that can disgrace our country, is
no longer worthy the support of free and en-
ightehed People.
Let US rouse from our present lethargv Let
us break the spell of enchantment by which our
energies are bound. Let US move III concert and
unanimity. and by the favor Of Heaven all diff
culties will vanish. Awake from your day dream
of security and repose. and let us speak with
trumpet tongued Indignation against the foul mis-
rule OF our GOVERNORS At so important crisis,
silence appreciation, and inactivity self ensave-
ment Already our National Republican fellow
citizens of other States are in active motion in
the field. ew-York-slorious New Yorh--has
just shed upon us the bright lustre of her exam
pie. Shall we be behind her in zeal?
Shall we be the last to unite in these patriotic