Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-06

Extract of a letter. dated MONTREAL, Aug.
IS: s.Our news from QUEBEC IS cheering: Cho-
Iera nearly gone. Here, there has been scarce
~ case for two days. The weather Is cold be-
yond precedent.
To the following sensible political article, from
the Troy Sentinel, we direct public attention. -
1t is from candid review Of facts like those
stated below, that we look for the great change
which is TO alter and improve the condition Of our
country.
When Mr. Adams became President, com
bination was forthwith formed to "put down his
administration, though it should be as pure as
the angels.' That administration was "put
down" Mr.. Adams was Indignantly hurled
from office. at the end of his first term.
Yet, what had Mr.. Adams done, to merit this
burst of public indignation? lie was, indeed,
accused Of having done thousand things. Those
who made the accusations. knew better, at the
time; and the whole American people know bet
ter, now. 1t would be diff ut to name Presl-
dent, since " ashinstoI, so WISE 50 patrloric. so
upright, so perfectly pure and singse-m'nded IN
Intention, and so Jealous, sagacious and indus
trous in action. as John Quincy Adams. And
these are facts not merely known, but now frank
ly admitted by the intelligent aud the honest.
even Of thuse who were, while he was in power,
most active and conspicuous III opposition To him.
But purity of intention, wisdom oil design, and
interchangeable zeal and industry in execution.
awaited HIM nothing. He could dn nothing to sa-
tisfy or to please the public.
Well, the people had their way; they put ont
Mr.. Adams, and they put IN Gen Jackson. W.
will not Insult them so much as to ask them what
they have gained by the change. We viii nos
irritate their "wrung withers." bv enquiring
whether after trial, their liking stork" is better
than skiing log;' whether Gen. Jackson has
proved more wise. honest, capable. ai'hful. and
! consistent. than Mr. Adams was All We wish,
is to notice the fact. that while John Quincy Nd
ans could do nothing which was right in the
ewes of the people, it has. until recentiy, seemed
| impossible fof Andrew Jackson to 90 any thing
! which they were willing to consider wrong.
| John Quincy Adams pursued precisely the same
policy, foreign and domestic, which his immedi-
ate predecessors, Madison and Monroe.
roe, had been pursuing, with the full appreciation
of their constituents, for sixteen years; and the
people said-it ,cas all prong.
| Andrew Jackson has pursued course OF poll.
cy never heard of until he introduced it, such a
course as no President before him ever dreamed
OF pursuing; and the people, heretofore, have said
ii Is all right.
| Mr.. Adams. before his election, made no pro.
fessions, pledges, nor promises; and, Of course.
broke none by the course ne pursued after he was
elected; yet the people were dissatisfied.
| Andrew Jackson, since bis election, has bro
ken every promise, forfeited every pledge, and
departed from every principle which, before his
election, he proessed to hold az sacred or to re-.
gard as important; yet the people have borne all
with compIacencv, if not with appreciation.
Mr.. Adams appointed one man who had voted
for him. Henry Clay to an Office; and the PEG.
pie were nearly IN rebellion, and nothing was
heard but bursts of indignation, and cries OF
'bargain and corruption"
Andrew Jackson mas gone. from the COM
mencement of his Administration, upon the
avowed principle of "rewardlng his friends and
furnishing his ensmies;" of turning ont all who
had voted against him. and putting in those who
had voted for him; vet we have no popular cry
of "corruption," and witness no convulsive
throes of popular Indignation.
Mr. Adams Administration paid a messenger.
(Mr. Piea,ants,) fifteen hundred dollars for a
voyage said to be only constructivey performed;
and, If one could have believed the popular out
cry, the country on the verge Of ruin, through
the alarming extent of court favoritism.
General Jackson's Administration have paid
pet minister. John Ranlolph.) twenty-five thou
sand five hundred dollars for years construc-
tive-ten days actual-readence at St. Peters
burg; and not murmur of dsapprobation or of
alarm floats on the breeze of popular feeling.
Swarms of public officers who fIattened on
r" Treasury Pap" and rioted, in ext ravagant sa
iaries, on the substance Of the People. without
the performance OF any equivalent service, and
without any adequate occasion for their existence,
were, under Mr.. Adams. source of great pub
lie complaint and inquietude.
Under Gen. Jackson, no salary has been re-
duced, and nearly thousand have been added
to the number of the officers; but the voice of
complaint has become, as BY miracle, hushed