The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-08-15
From the Frederick (.Nd.) Eramiu

From the frederick (.hd) Examiner
We have had occasion heretofore, 10 condemn
.he obsequous and servile flattery of the
presses devoted TO Gen. Jackson But what
will the religious and moral part of the commu-
nifty think when they see his followers actually
comparing him with the Saviour of Mankind.
In the following bIasphemous effusion, which
we find in the Richmond Enquirer, and which
is believed 10 be from the pen of Peter " Dan.
iel Lieutenant Governor Of Virginia, and one of
the Vice Presidents Of the late Van Buren, Com
veniion, the veto message is compared to the
Sacred Scrtptures-and the agency of Gen
Jackson in its composition, TO that of the Sa-
viour in the inspired writings Of the New Tes-
lament.
The earlier acts of Gen. Jackson's life were
constant offences against morality and religion,
and now, when age and infirnity have taken
from mm both the power and the will to con.
tnue the pernicious example in his own per-
son, his followers and parasites would invest
him with the attributes not of royalty only, but
OF Divinity. To show that our structures are
well founded, we subjon the article from the
Richmond paper:
Old Hickory has been the idol of my ,cor-
ship, every hour Of every day i0hich has pass
ed orer my head slnce that same 9Th Januaru.
1913. then aVowed confident assurance
that the day would come, when the people
gratitude for that days work, make him
their Chief Magistrate. | was no false
! prophet. From that hour, even unto the full
| filmen, of my prophecy, never did cease
my aspirations for the coming Of that event.
| Never did enthusiastic IsrdeHleS breathe q
more terrent hope, a more confident reliance, in
The coming of him toho tSas to be Of the house of
David, and reign ouer the seed of abraham.
Nh hope has been realized, if his has not
That which to him is still but hope, and
hope deferred, to me is estaisc reahiy. Ian,
in lis full fruitiOn Tapped tn Eigsium.--
But never until no,o did | feel the ftlLness
I Gifts joy. AS devoted as for years have
been to him; clinging the firmer, the more
! he was viilifed, never did feel towards
him rs now. | confidently anticipate that
the shameless flock Of raven printers next
will croak, that this message is not his
Who cares for their croaking? Who cares
whether it he or be not his, I'd EST, toorOlsd
by him? Say, if you will, it was not. Still
it was done by has Order-fashoned con-
formally TO his directions-co containing his
every sentiment. Let these snarlers re-
member, that that book about which thew
pirate SO much, and of which, Judging by
their works, they knew nothing, was not
ieriHen by him whose testament it is. but
only by his inspiration, has order. For one,
Icare not if he 1.-THE Presidency never saw il
(the messagel until ready for his signature /;
he can fairly claim it only by adoption. Tir.
in ITSELF so admirable, that to me it should
be n polar star, though it came frsm the
hands of Long Harry of Kentucky, nay
even even from those Of Old Harry himself.
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stockade in the lead.mlning country, (lllinoisl
a resort has been had to the manufacturing of