Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-12-04
For the alexandria Gassile. J


The knel has rung The stroke has fallen.
Our hopes are crushed, and the Toes OF ''oetty
are exulting amid their fell antieipatlons. All
that yood men could do, we have done. All that
prop6ets or patriots could do, we have done.
The old and the wise Of the land came forth:
trembling, irom their cells. and cried aloud
apains, the blindness Of the multitude. The
hoary veterans of the revolution raised their dy'
inr bodies from the couch OF age, and crept out
once more in their country's cause. The young
and devoted sous OF the Commonwealth rushed
forward in obedience to the call OF revoutiona'
nv age and wisdom. They threw themselves IN
to the foamng current;-but all was unavai'ns'
The torrent rolled on furious, alpine, Overpdwer-
ing. The last RATHER Of our independence -
swept away. God grant it may not bear down
the very pillars OF our beautiful institutions.
II it be the especial will Of Heaven that Geo.
Jackson should continue President OF these Unit
ed States. that will we ought and must obey
If it be the mere result Of our own wIlfulness
and folly. then may gracious Providence avert
the dangers which beset US. and suffer not our
madness to recoil on our own heads. Good men
there are some, who have contributed to his ele-
vation--patriutic and conscientious men. who.
if they have done wrong. are. in heart and mo.
tive, innocent. They still see not the boding
evils which hang around rs They still think
they have done the patriots part. May they ne.
yer have cause to repent MAY they be right!
/ May we be wrong! Any humiliation are we
willing to endure in preference to so appalling
calamity as the dissolution of our Union. But
should they find themselves deceived and wresth.
ed in with corrupt. designing and bad men, let
them ring Che alarm at NICE. These he our trust
and safeguard. These be the nation's sentineis
in the hour of dark conspiracy. These be the
faithful warders of the constitution to expose the
secret workings Of unhalIowed ambition, and
sound the trumpet at any pollution Of that holy
instrument which was, with 50 much solemnity,
guaranteed and consecrated byour foreiathers.
We have heard it whispered that the Uni"n
will not last: in the very midst Of these noun.
tains have we heard the unearthy echo The
Union will not Iasi!' We have heard the Union,
with daring effrontery. termed a 'tope Of sand
and the very temple Of liberty itself quivering
with the sacrilegious sound. We have heard
the cry of-Let the Nation bs rent in twan-let
the Potomac be the dividing iine-Iet the States
of the North begone to their sel6shness and
rend each other TO at0ms-,et the States Of the
South form one close empire within Themselves,
and wall out the incurslnbs Of Northern Plrts
and Yankees. The work Of ruin strides on un.
der ground. Anon. a cloud of terrible APPEAR.
ance rises in the South. There it hangs. From
every quarter the denunciatons Of the p ess
break forth; but the storm dIsperses not recedes
NOT, shrinks not There il hangs. brewing dark
err and darker, and threatening TO enguph our
fair aud happy, country in all the accumulated
horrors and dreadful dire commissions Of intes-
tine war. Where will this end? |, our present
Chief Magistrate fit to rule in such crisi.!-
Has he the mind to sway the fiery elements of
the human soul?-to turn aside the impending
whirlwind Of prejudice and passion? Has he
the magnanimity to stand forth now as our com
mon parent, to take broad. impartial. dIscri-
minatins view OF the whole s enc; To deDOunce
or conc,liate, to precipitate or temporse. to co.
cree or persuade, as may be most expedient,
and thus allay the infuriate South and restore
those naughty children of Carolina to their duty
and their senses? May Heaven accord it, Let
the President do this. and no longer will deter
mined opposition raise its head against him.
crown Of glory, bright with the praises Of the
present and the future. will await him. His
ashes shall mix in fellowship with those of Frank
lin and Washington HIS name will b. forever
enbaImed IN the hearts OF Americans. and no
longer will men smile in ridicue at hearing him
class ed with the best and The greatest.
There are those who think that Jackson Is am.
bitous-that he is aiming at regal sceptre -that
the scheme is already founded, broad and deep
and comprehensive, to sustain him upon the
dizzy height. Is he not, they ask US, at this We.
ry time engaged in laying the ground work Of
wlde.extended and overwhelming patroDagef is
not this his purpose in filling important offices
with hireling parizans? Is not this his purpose
in putting down the present bank, on the plea Of
its vast influence, and establishing another Of
his own in its steadl Jackson, they say, is we'll
aware that the people are not yet ripe for despot
ism;-but is he not eodeavoring to inurr them
: to the tyrant's rod? Is no, this his purpose in
dsregarding as idle wind the solemn DEGREES of
the Supreme Courts In placing hi, own con.
struction upon the awsl In countenancing the
acts of daring desperadoesl In dcm,nerring
over the Senator In refusing his sanction to the
acts Of Congress! In attempting TO consolidate
the three branches of government, and unite the
legislative, judicial and executive in himself
alone, already originating laws and essaying to
/ palm them upon the representatives of the PEG.
piri These are charges IF tremendous import
! They may or may not be true. For myself,
ha vp fea oe the roaulf No st;tt