Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-03-09
CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter of The Republican, Members Of the Nev
York Legislature, TO the President.

Letter 81 me pSpuottC9s 1ue5hOGS " Ge 1SetO
York Legislature, TO the President.
To His Excelency ANDREW JACKSON,
President of the United States:
SR-The undersigned, in the performance of
the duty with which they have been charged bv
the republican members of the Legislature OF the
State of New York, have the honor to transmit
herewith, the proceedings OF meeting held by
them ia the Capitol Of this State, the Sd inst.
In doing so, they cannot restrain the expression
of the strong feelings of indignation with which
they view the act to which those proceedings re-
fer,
A great majority Of the citizens Of this State
have given repeated evidence Of the high estima-
ton in which they have held your administration
of the affairs of the nation. The inhexbe inte-
sr,ty which has marked every act of your public
life the more than military courage with which
the responsibilities of your high station have been
assumed, and the constant regard manifested BY
you to the purity of the Constitution. have
strengthened their attachment to your person and
your government; and they have not been re-
CARELESS of the manner in which the splendid
career of military life has been followed by the
many signal blessings which your civil admins
tration has bestowed upon our country
This State witnessed, with pride. the selection
of Mr.. Van Buren, by your Excellency as your
Secretary of State; our citizens had given re,
peated evidence of their confidence in him. -
With the watchfulness becoming free people,
they had regarded his conduct, in the various
stations to which he had been called, BY the con-
sttuted authorities of the State. They had wit.
messed his attachment, under all circumstances,
to the principles Of the democracy of the coun-
trv, and they had then recently evinced the ex-
tent Of their confidence by elevating him TO the
highest Office within their gift They felt that
your Excellency's removal of him to a wider
sphere vas an act of justice at once to his capa-
city. honesty and fidelity to the constitution, and
10 the character Of this state and the feelings of
its people. They cheerfully acquiesced in that
removal and freely surrendered their most dis
tinguished fellow citizen to your call, because
they recognised IN it additional confirmation of
the high hopes they had lmbibed of the character
of your administration. They saw with undis-
sembled pleasure, his efforts to aid your Excel
lency in your successful attempt to restore the
government to its purity; and when his with
drawal from the high station to which your par
tiality had exalted him, became necessary for
the preservation of your peace against the at
tacks Of those who were alike enemies to your
person and your principles, they behold, in your
continued n6dence in him, irrefragable proof,
that no combination could close the eyes OF YOUR
Excellency to the cause of your country, and no
personal considerations arrest your efforts for the
common welfare. They saw, that amid the as
saults made upon your principles by unfaithful
servants, the honor Of ur country was not lost
to your view, and tbeu felt, that the same ardent
patriotism which had been manifested ON the
walls of New Orleans, had been brought into the
administration of the government. They saw
and felt this, in the effort made by your Extellen-
CIV to acquire, BY frank and honest negotiation,
that for which we had warred with Great Britain;
which had been abandoned, if not surrendered,
by subtle diplomacy; and upon which your Ex-
cellency, at least, had not been silent.
The people of this whole country felt indeed
that their confidence in your Excellency was not
misplaced. for they saw and knew that no consi-
deratlons of private nature could for moment
affect your ardent desire to promote the common
veal.
Ii IA true they were aware that there were citi.
zens in this Union, who could justify and parti-
cipate in the surrender of free trade and sail
the Union," and who could laugh at our calami.
ties in period of war and general Distress
But they could not believe that such feelings
could sway any branch Of our hitherto unsuIlied
government, and. least Of all, that they would
ever dare combine to impede the attempt of your
ExceIlency, to secure that for our country for
which we had expended millions Of our money,
and for which thousands Of our citizens had laid
down their lives.
Your Excellency has ever appreciated the feel
ings Of the people of this country, and it will not
now be difficult for you TO Judge Of those which
peryade this whole community, against an act
unprecedented in the annals Of our country;
which has impaired the hitherto exalted charac-
ter of our national senate; which has insulted a
state that yields to none in attachment to the
Union; aad which has directly attacked an ad-
mlnisration that is founded deep in the affections
Of the people.
The State Of New York, Sir, is capable. in it.
SELF Of avenging the indienity thus offered to its
character in the person Of its favorite son. But
VIC should be unmindfuI OF cur duty, if we failed
in the expression of our sympathy with your Ex-
ceIIencv's feelings Of modification. at CHS de-
graduation o. tie country YOU have loved 30 well.
Ie, be assurs,'. sir. that there is redeemlng
Al l.