Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-02-02


first Year of his term?
WE have no proof beyond what is coni"'"c.
IN the following articles, aud in the statements
ofpersons who have seen General jackson; but
that proof addresses itself to our minds will
conviction. We believe him rapidly declining
in body and mind.
Read and then act. But tho people shall
know tho truth, if we can discover it. That
those at Washington, who keep General Jack
son for their own purposes, know his condition
to be such as to unit him for ANY ollicc-that
they propose to use his name to elect q Vice
President, who will preserve THEM in their pla.
ccs-that they fully expect that the Vice Presi
dent will be tho President DE rAcTo, at an ear
ly period after he election, either by death or
resignation, we have no doubt.
We ask attention to what follows
From The u. S. GaSette.
10 not think that the President is in that
immediate danger Of going off the stage which
some appear to believe. He was out taking a
walk on Saturday. There is no doubt that great
change has taken place in his health and an.
pearance within the last Two months, and
inc opinion is yer; prevalent, that his con-
stituton has given way, and that the court
physician is required to be in pretty con-
slant attendance, taking daily observations
OF the prognostics of diagnostics which pre-
sent themselves. He has been subjected to
crosses and veXations since the meeting of Con-
gress, which have had considerable elfGct on the
temper OF TIE various materials of which he is
constructed; and the chances are, that he may, i'm
one OF the paroxisms TO which he is subje ct,
suddenly go off.
From the u. s. telegram.
las ,f.s to the VICE PRESIDENCY, Van Buren,
h,,t No.
NEVER MAKE HIM PRESIDENT, and the
IRUE POLICY now is, to start candidate in
EVERY STATE. 1t is said that tho Senate will
reject his nomination to England. 1 HOPE so;
Tor then his election v. p. and afterwards Pre-.
sldent is rendered morally certain"
Such is the machinery by which it is intend
ed tc smuggle the arch intrigueant into the
highest office in the gift of the people, for the
real OBJECT is not to make Vice President but
q President. 1t is avowed in the letter that thew
CAR NEVER MAKE HIM PRESIDENT" but by first
making him Vice President. We will explain
this mysterious expression. AS painful as it is.
we feel It to be our duty. There never was q
time when the people were so gullod so betray-
ed; so deceived. They are made to believe that
they are about to choose a President for
the next four years, in the person of An
drew Jackson; when, in point of fact, every
sensible man here, of every party, knows that
instead of choosing the next PRESIDENT i'm Gen
Jackson, for THE NEXT TERM, as the people sup
pose, they will choose him in the person of the
Vice President, whoever he may be! So infjrm
Is Gen. Jackson now; SO little prospect is there
OF his living through the next term that the pro-
figate crew who are living upon his influence,
and are controlling the movements in the cleo
ton of the President and V,ce-President. are
trembling lest he should expire before the period
of the election arrives.
We feel 1t our duty to speak boldly Every
one who visits him, is struck with the fact, that
he is fast sinking and that, if possible, his men
tai faculties are giving way faster than his ply
steal strength. 1t has no parallel in this coun-
try, but In the gross imposition attempted in
the case of Mr.. Crawford: who was supported
aud voted for, as President when it was known
that both body and mind were so paralized as
utterly TO unfit him for the office; and it is str-
KING and remarkable fact, that tie same indiyi-
duaIS who were prominent in that case-now
acknowledged to have been so gross an impos-
ton on the American pecple-are equally pro-
mInent In the present. 1t would be curious to
look over list of those who stuck by Mr.
Crawford to the last, knowing that he was in
competent to perform the duties of the Office,
ana sec how many of the same are performing
now, similar Part. We may ourselves, shoulG
we have leisure, present the list.
1t is thus that MIR. Van Buren, and his parti
Fans, while they are nominaliy pressing upon
Tue American People the reelection of General
Jackson ms President, are, in reality, conspiring
10 cofraud them into the election of Mr.. Van
Buren, as Presidents by presenting him nominal
Iy, as candidate for the Vice Presidency.