Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-20


the adjournment of Congress, and hence it has
failed TO become law. The National Inteigen
Ger enormously states The appropriation to James
River made by this bill, at 1921 ,O0O it was
$4,000.
The conduct ofthe President in this affair bears
the strictest analogy not only to his previous DO
hical course but that of his prominent friends ge
neraily. One calls him "curse to his country"
Out anon, maJorites having changed, becomes his
most supple advocate, his most fawning and alb
Jcct apologist, whom neither recollection of his
own former declarations cah awaken to sense of
decency' nor the kicks and cuffs bestowed by the
feet whose dust he licks, can drive from the repc
t'tion OF the degrading task. Another thou ght.
that tor one to be President with whose wife he
could not permit his wife to associate, was an un
answerable and insuperahle objection to Andrew
jackson; yet that other stands high the list of
TINS same Jackson's favorites. third wished
New orleans had been sunk in tho Mississippi,
rather than its successful defence had created
prospect of Jackson's elevation to the Chief Ma
gistracy; this third individual also stands prominent
on tho Court Register for promotion. A fourth
pronounced Jackson's ncighborhood in Tennessee.
He'll, where mans life was unsafe from his
builes and his honor from his fabricators Of cer
tihcates: this fourth is the chosen Parliamentary
advocate and defender of the Hero. But why swell
the list of tergiversators7 Who of Jackson,s pro.
minent friends in the hour when his prospects
were universally deemed hopeless from the pre-
posterous character of his claims did not unite to
ridicule his pretcnsions to stgmatze his qualifica
tons, and even to question the responsibility of
his individual reputation? And who is the man
among them, to whom the reproach does not at:
tach, of having deserted his own opinions at the
call OF interest, when they became or were beco
ming unpopular and yielding that Difference and
appreciation TO the successful candidate for the
Presidency, which they had denied with scorn. TO
simple Andrew Jackson? We speak of his Dro-
'ninent friends, and affirm that such an one
cannot be found among them, from Crawford in
the South, and Van Buren, in the North, down.
down to Benton in the West
The course of Jackson, has assimilated in its
meanderngs, to the crooked and time serving DO
icy of his chief friends, and indeed, dictated bv
those among them who enjoy temporary asccn
dency in his councils and affections has been
as multiform and diversified, as their prin
ciples were heterogeneous and irreconcleable.-
hn all sides. nothing IL soep but glaring ineonsst
ENJOY, reckless and blasphemous pretences of being
governed by principle, assumed one day to be dis
carded the next and demagogue arts which would
disgrace the county candidate. DISTINGUISHED pub.
lie conduct and the fearless discharge of public
duty is no where seen. The solomnity of the Veto,
the highest prerogative of power, known to our
Constitution, is seized upon as favorobe opportu
nlty TO cectloneer, and the instruments of the Ex
ecutive compound the message which accompanies
IT. OF ncoherent materials, respectively adapted to
deiude the ignorance, and enlist the prejudices of
the various sections of the country. In one year
the Chief Magistrate refuses to recognize as consti
tutionai, any Improvement which is not national in
its character. In the next, he signs bills making
appropriations to rivers heard of but by those
learned In Geography! In the third, he again sane
tions appropriations to the amount of S. 100, OOO
relating to vast variety of Objects and differing in
nationality in the proportion between ss275, and
Notwithstanding the Cumberland River in his
own State! Within fourteen days, he annuls as
unconstitutional. another bill, appropriating half
the sum to navgable Rivers and Harbors, all of
them national, as far as federal Jurisdiction can
make Them so, and none OF them in the interior, or
small other streams which he has permitted To
be cleared of their distractions
If we did not see tho fact before our ewes. II
would be incredible that single disinfeyesfed iii;
zen could be found, capable of defending conduct
hagrantly and atrociotsy inconsistent: 40
evidently and certainly intended to promote his
election. Can any imagine a motive for his
signing the first bill (more Objectionable on his own
principles, than the Maysvle and Frederick Roads.
because number of streams were included, ha.
wing tar less pretension to nationality than those
koads)-we say, can motive for inconsistency 80
manifest be imagined except that the bill contain
cd the appropriation to the Delaware Breakwater,
and that designing to veto the Bank, he felt the
necessity of proPitiating Pennsylvania? And ,chy,
having signed that bill, docs he now refuse his
sanction to the Harbor Bl7 The baseAess of his
course, his selfish and unprncipled baseness, the
unrghteous prostitution of bis power advance his
vile calculations of personal interest are clear and
manifest to every understanding not wilfully bru-
talized.
Richmond thus loses what Congress had conceded
TO her just demands-just, we mean, while the pow.
er OF Improvement continues TO be exercised, and
while other States draw from the Treasury vast
sums which she has equally contributed TO place
there. Cumberland River in Tennessee. and sun.
dry unheard of streams and bays in the North, were
thought by Gen. Jackson, worthy and national
enough to partake of the trcaure freely distributes
but the James, which the navies of the world
might ride, deemed unnational!& II would
have violated his conscientious notion of the Con.
stitutlon, to approve the appropriation to it, Amo,
Kendall, Lewis and Richie told him so, and he was
fool enough to believe or hypocrite enough to pre-
tend belief,
fAmong the Rivers, Bays, &c, enumerated for
appropriations in the Bill signed by Jackson, were
the following, viz
Genessee River Sl6,O00
Cape Fear River $4,000
Al.