The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-04-04

n crisis was, is to be preferred TO surren-
der of the American System, by which sur
render, our manufacturers would lie broken
mn: our agricGlturists see their produce
rot on their hands our working men going
about hegging for Bit of bread or piece
of cloth for Ii covering our villages pros
,ra;ed; our cities sunk in ruin, and now
confiding, happy and prosperous People sub I
icuted TO the direst desolation and misery !
10 become but the merest automatons Of
whatever foreign nation who should make
ms their hewers of wood and drawers of
water" - Portland advertiser.
WASHINGTON, March 90, 1882.
| am occasionally inclined to think, that
the reelection of General jackson will he
attended with beneficial results. We have
u government in operation, but it is vIrtu-
ally dissolved, and another term of four
years cannot make things much worse than
they now are. The imbeciiity aud the I'M
sound principles,-to make use OF no harsh
er an expression of the President,-and the
pernicious advisers who surround him, will
be so apparent at the end of another term,
that the detestaiion in which this admins
tration will he held, will stand as beacon
in all after time, to guard against the cleo
tion of man having no Other than mill
tary qualification. And it will also he Il
beacon, against electqg headstrong, pas
sionale, obstinate old man, "who never nc-
knowledges an error,-never sorglves an
injury and never repairs wrong"
have lately seen a letter written by n
gentleman of high literary attainments, OF
unimpeachable veracity, of great candor
and of sterling integrity, who was intimate
with Gen. jackson for several years, and
has as perfect knowledge of him as any
man living. This letter gives more accu-
rate information of Gen. Jackson's ruling
passions, and of his intellectual character
than has yet met the public eye, from a
source equally authentic and Intelligent
Whether the fncts disclosed by the writer
will be needed or not, at present, admits Of
some doubt; hut, FOR the historian, they are
invaluable. | think the letter will be pub
lished Iii the course of this spring. The
writer says, it is principle with General
! Jackson "never to acknowledge an error
never to forgive an iuiury-and never &c
repair a wrong" He was present wher
| Gen. Jackson took up a New York paper
and first saw his name announced for the
! Presidency. Alter reading it TO the CON-
! -. the General remarked, lido they
tSAl8 am such fool as not TO know | ain
/ not fit to he President of the United States
/ | think | know my qualifications-l car
command men in my rough way" The
writer designntes the communications that
/ Gen. Jackson wrote himself, so far as they
have heen published, and among the num-
Der is the Dinsmore letter. Most Of his
communications, both public and private,
were written by the members of his family,
from very imperfect memorandas indicating
the styles, of which he gives an example.
Since he has been President, he wished an
answer written TO a letter received from a
distinguished General in one of the South
ern Republics, and he gave this memolan-
dun to Mr.. Van Buren-"Write an an
/ swer, such us would become SOLDIER
The writer says the General never gave a
toast at public meeting, without asking
some person to compose 1t for him. lie
gave the following toast to him. when he
:, was commissary Of the Generals idens,
which the General offered at public din
ner some years SINCE -" John c. CalhoHn
an honest man ia the onhlest work of God
He says the toast drank BY him at the din
ner got up here in commemoration Of Nj
: JefierSon's birth, three YEARS since, tina
. ":he Union must he preserved" was givel
: TO HIM before he went to the entertainment
= The Presidents disposition, he says, i
arbitrary, and his temper, petulant. HI
says the President ia vain and ambitious
: and as evidence of the former, the write
+, sage, he frequently copied letters that ha,
been prepared for him, in order that the,
might he in his own hand writing. If h
continues before the public as candidate
or if he shall be reelected, his true charac
ter will he developed, and although tha
will stain the pnge of history, useful les
son will he taught by it.
.Neu York .4duertiSer