Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-11-06

dent, no degree of unanimity on tho part OF the
other branches of the Government should have
any influence him. In this way Inc ondcavor-
cd To UNDERMINE the Judicial power, and TO make
every thing dependant on the fiat oil himself ana
the little lunto who shared his society ana conn
dcnCe. There his counscllors were not the cabinet
recognised by the Constitution, and consisting of
the highest public officers, but two or three OBJ
scurc men, who had wliccdlcd themselves into hiS
confidence by means of the grosscst hattcry, and
whose names have not been transmitted to posteri-
ty.@ IL was as # TO whom Il ship and cargo
had been fooiishly chtruStcd finding himself IN
capable of navigating the one, or diSpoSng oil the
other rave up the whole TO the management of
| the steward, cook, aud cabin boy IL was hence,
we presume that the common people termed tiis
| council "the Kitchen Cabinet"
"Aicr this system OF prescription, intrigue, and
| mis- government had been experienced Sor three
years, the eyes of the Peoplc-whcsc sclt-lovc as
| well US patriotism must make them wish for what
is riyht-began to bc opened. At first General
Jackson was deserted by the more scrupu'ous aud
intelligent, then 10y many others who, though in
capable olcsn,atng the tendency of his measures,
disgistud By the mean acts which were resort
cd to Cor cccting them, and lastly by the more
sHsacio,,s of the merccnary class, who foreSceing
his downfall, sough, To make peace with his oppo-
ucnts. These several classes, uniting with his
original adyersarcs determined TO send him back
to private life, and thus restore the supremacy of
the Constitution, of public virtue and OF private
morals.
"'rhc individual selected to oppose him was
Henry CLAW who both before and afterwards made
so conspicuous figure in the annals of the day;
and who, OF all his contemporaries seemed 10
terrain views of policy most accordant with the
future greatness of his country. The chief ground
of opposition to him grew out Of contt OVERSEES
about the revenue and it's Incidents. Those dis
putes were carried on with fury, which, consider
ing their object, seems inconceivablc in the pre-
sent day. One party conteudcd that the National
Revenue should he equivalent 10 Il dollar head on
the whole populations the o,hor insisted limiting
ii 10 scvcuty-iivc cents One wished to raise it by
an impOst on blankets and bar iron; the other Ia.
boSrcd to extend 1T to groceries: and i'll regulating
the last tax, one wished to lay il on SUGAR aud
exempt coffee, whilst the other would lay it on
coffee and exempt sugar. The latter party was
The strongest i'll the Southern States and therefore
they were opposed TO Henry Clay, although he
was, by birth and education, Southern MAJ, mas
much lis ht wished to make coffee duty free. Bu,
1t seems probable that this Sagacous statesman was
gamer in his general popularity by this course;
for that aromatic beverage was not then, now,
confined to the opulcnt, but was freely used even
by the poorest classes; and the forests of the
sugar maple (acer sdccharinum) enabled every
family 10 make its own sugar, his policy would
exempt the poor from any tax whatever. 1t may
here be remarked in vndcatiun of simple but
virtuous forofathcrs, that tho science of political
economy (now tho eXactcst of all not mathcmati-
cab was then in it's infancy. Adam Smiths work
had Indeed recently appeared but it had probably
not found its way to this side Of the Atau;ic.-
Some of the spccuatons Of the day are truly
amusing. One General Duff, or McDutf, rs said
to have maintained that tax OH any article does
not fall on him who buys the article and uses it,
hut on him who made the commodity by which the
seller purchased it. So that the duty tea which,
Is bought with dollars, fails upon the owners of
The Mexican Mines. Another writer, Niles Carey
or Carey Niles, insisted that it was cheaper to
give two bushels of wheat for article made al
home than one for it when made abroad, and that
one dollar made by manu- lucturiug was equal to
two earned III any other employment.
1--WE have dwclt longer this anomalous adni-
nistraiion than has been done by preceding histori-
aus, who have purpoScly slurrcd over this part of
our annals, by way Of conccaling the national dis
grace. But we have always regarded this Admi-
nIstration It's one of the fortunate events in our
highly favored country, for it practically taught
us, at n time when We could receive the lesson
with safety, the danger of cntrusting high civil
powers TO one who had no experience III using
them; and who finding himself incapable of hold.
ing the reins of government, transfers them the
most adroit irresponsible hands that offers to re-
ccivc them. Of the sevcnty-thrce Presidents who
have administered the dcstinics of our mighty Re
public, Andrew Jackson was both the first and the
last example of so dangerous error"
The sequel Ia ills chapter, MI. Editor, few
days will now determine. 1t is the subject of my
even of my hopcs-not unaccompa.
Med however, with doubts and misgiving about
the result. q. q.
81 oTE.-lt has lately been discovered that one of
Them was named Kendall, or Candle and another
Lewis, or l,ues. 1t has been supposed that these
were nicnamcs given 10y the people TO signify that
one was the humble taper which illuminated the
General in the midnight Of his official dutics-and
that the other ulcer on his employer, at
once foul, dangerous and degrading ma
the General himself was called "Old Hickory" 10
designate his hard unyicldiug nature. But it may
be fairly questioned whether those were not their
real names"