Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-05-09

account of the vested interests in Louisiana
and the ready market it affords for the surplus
slave population of Virginia, Maryland, &c.
These objects will principally occupy the at
tenton of the legislature during the present
session, which commences on the LIST instant.
There seems now to be little doubt of Mr..
Jackson's reelection to the Presidency, which
mark of public appreciation | think his con
duct well merits.
81 was introduced to him at Washington
his age apparently about 65-his manners
and address dlgni6ed and pleasing; in these
respects he shows to great advantage by com
parison with his predecessor The literary
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Of the latter he certainly
does not possess and does not pretend to them,
nor is it clear, in the government OF commu-
mites, that they are essential. The strong
and discriminating Judgment which can lnstan-
taneously select the truth from mass of fall
lacies, and act upon it with persevering decis-
ion, which quality Mr.. Jackson is eminentiy
supposed topossess, is of much greater impor-
tance.
'sThis portion of the world presents now
an extraordinary object for contemplation and
study. A population steadily doubling every
diture remains fixed, rendering the same tax
alton proportonably lighter every day,-uni-
versal freedom Of opinion existing in its wi
dest sense,-money possessing no political infu-
ence, whilst property has its just weight-the
government established on the avowed prnci-
pie OF subordination to the benefit of the nu-
merical majority, & on basis so secure, that
treason by the constitution. can exist only in
overt acts,-every officer, from the highest to
the lowest, positively servant of the public
and subjected 10 real responsibility titles,
except those strictly official, prescribed by the
moral feeling of the community entails un-
known,-the public debt extinct, and Iegisa
tive exertions necessary to reduce the revenue
to the level of the expendture,-the mass f
the people more intelligent than any other ma
ton on the globe, resulting, not from fortu-
tous circumstances, but in the conviction of
the higher classes, that universal intelligence
constitutes the best security of free republic
add to this intelligence an active industr,
and persevering economy, which even now
drive the English out of every field of compe
tition, in which they meet on equal terms, and
say what is to be the result of such an extra
ordinary combination of qualities and circum
stances? Whatever shape it may take, car
not help thinking that it will ultimately come
by surprise upon the nations of Europe, like
the Eruption of the northern hordes. The gi
ant strength, both moral and physical, whicb
is here accommodating, will not be made appa-
rent by degrees-it will lie dormant until al
object and crisis call it forth. am no;
now echoing the sentiments of those around
me, for | find no Individuals here exalted
in their opinions; | find few indeed, who
will converse with me on these subjects as
much as could wish-my opinions are found
ed upun seriuu, consideration Of operating
causes, which are novel in the history of ma
tons, and must lead to novel results, but of
which the great mass of the natives seem hard
ly sensible"