The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-09-05

command" cannot bear TO be accused Of such
things OF such things we should not have
accused Him nor did the Senate. lie accused
himself, after Judgment passed upon the trans
action BY the Senaies and as he claims the act,
il must be set down to his debit or his credit as
the People shall judge of it. For our part, not
agreeing that any man was . born TO command
IN this country, and recognizing therefore no
duty of obedience 10 the behests of General
Jackson, we protest against the whole tenor of
those Instructions as the consequence either OF
ignorance ut of indifference to the national
honor and renown when the interests of party
arc at stake,
We have thus touched, in its chronological
order, Though its full development is of recent
date.) upon the second leading trait in The his
tory of the present Administration Having
distributed among its adhei ents the honors ano
emoluments of .hc vanquished, Ito use the
party phraseology,) without taking the tronbl'
TO consult the Senate on the subject, the mex
faur pas was the determination, cost what il
might To make an arrangement with Grea
Britain one which would tell not so much u
favor of the country as against the late Admin
istration The arrangement which was tht
! consequence of the instructions dictated by
J the President, We know, turned out failure
though heralded a most glorious triumph
over the diplomacy Of tho late Administration
w nat lultuSF glory Is YET W sutuHS hdfo 1tpu
| the bead of tho Administration from this sOurct
we should probably have known before now !
a contunacious Senate had not put the seal o
! reprobaton on what had been already done.
! We come now, to the third chsp,er nf thf
| review, being the acts aud opinions of Presiden
I jackson, disclosed during The FIRST session q
! Congress after the inauguration. All that wa
kaO1rn, up to the commencement of that SEES
sion, Of the principles which would govern tn
| Administration, was IFS recognition Of system
| of Rewards and Punishments, and The DISPOSE
tion TO treat with disrespect the rights of tn
! Senate. The prescription, however, for
month or two befure the meeting of Congress
| had relaxed: the wounds it had inflicted were
not healed, but they gave less pain. Hopin!
! against hope, many who were not psrtiIaus o
the Administration, hoped--wished, rather thai
! believed or expected, that ths Executive, in
structed by public opinion ,hadbecome convinced
| of its having gone too far, and, though il coul
not :etrace It's steps, would make no farther in
! novaiicns upon established usages, nor any fur
Their entertainments upon the rights of co-nrdi
! nate branches of the Government Above all
1t was confidently expected IN reference TO a
| previous evidence of Gen. Jacksnns own opiu
ions, that no change would he attempted in iii
national policy, under which the United State
had become a great, prosperous. and happ
! People, advancing with rapid steps to the FRS
I rank among the Nations.
| 1t was with this mixture Of hope and appre
hensiun that many looked 10 the opening of tn
/ first session of the Twenty-first Congress, G
which in our next number, we will recall {
memory seme particulars.