Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-06

whose pretentlonS we support. VI 'hose WI"
are before the people, our preference is decided
ly for Mr.. Writ. We are aware that these re-
marks, are not calculated to advance our private
interest; but we disdain coneealmeht; we seek
no end which is to be obtained by indirect means
We entertain no opinions which we lear to avow'
If we have not heretofore been equally explicit,
It was because no occasion demanded US 10 Dc So
1t is nov due to ourselves and to our press that
our course should be distinctly understood, and
our motives placed beyond misconcept'on.
From Poulson's american Daily .7drertiser.
Mr.. PouLsoN:-T was more pleased with the
&C count of the redoubtabe General Houston's'
reception at the Theatre in Cincinnati. extract
ed in your paper day or two ago. than with
anv item Of news have seen for some time
MY satisfaction looked farther than the fact that
~ the people" had beset and eiectually ''punish-
eds a troublesome and reckless individual: saw
in it ga sigu," too long sfed, but al last prac-
ticay telling the present Executive and its 'halt.
horse" friends, that their day OF retributlon is
coming. II was slip of the pen with the pei
son who describes 1t, 10 call the treatment of Mr..
SamueI-Houston at Cincinnati San outrage
the term was probably used from its habtual con.
nexon with the name Of Houston. 1t was no
''ouirage" Mr. Poulson; it was forbearance in
the people OF Ohio, to pound sticks and scrape
feet on the fuOr, at that man who last winter
pounded budgeon and stamped on the body
and head Of one of their Representatives, in Con-
gress for doing there his duty. 1t was virtue,
and the triumph Of good principles will hereafter
call it so.-The case Of people executing the
law Of decency upon him who had defied it; exc
cutting it too, soberly and in moderation.
1t was an "outrage" in the Spaniard Nina to
poison Mr.. Chapman; but it was no outrage to
hang Nina for it. Let US call things by their
right names. They that stake the sword' shall
per,sh'' by it: and when General Houston, or
his "persona friends" from Major Heard to
the Lowest inclu,iye,) tine lovers OF brawls
and the users Of b'udgeons. dirks and PISTOLS
when this sometimes political and sometimes In
dian chief. receives hootings and Kisses, in re-.
qutal for his blood. dealings and his outrages;"
pray let us not whine about him, but content
eddy see him receive s'justice' in decent "mer-
cy." 1t is this. General Houston's" noto.
rious and undenied connection with General Jack
son; it is his stalking at large "the personal
friend" the approved champion and buliy OF the
President; words justified alone by the memory
OF cred ink that "points the moral'' IN the
recent scorn manifested for him by poPu-
lace, by that popuace which his ''lriend," BY
agents sucn as MT. l1OusiOUs udS 81 lOiS
Ii is admitted to have been no ''Clay cOntriv.
ance." no one.sided political riot; 1t was the
Judgment. not the passion of the people, that turn.
ed General Houston'' out Of the theatre; their
honest and allowable voices voted him out OF the
house; and the same feeling will soon eject his
ilustr,ous personal friend" from his wild play
House at Washington.
is idle to blame the managers of the theatre
for having given public notice that - General
Houston would be at the performances" sea-
son ago and the managers would have sighted his
patrons If he had omitted it. Aye; the times
are changed. and such " blame" is the best
proof of it. Could any manager have then sup.
posed he would do ought but please his audience,
bg promising them the presence of this walking
and bclted - Hurra for Jackson " 1t was mis-
calculations; and twill be good lesson for Ma
jor Heard, Colonel Pluck, aud some few other OF
our modern '.publc men," repeat, MIR. Poul-
son, that am glad this quiet little ron has hap
pened. 1t is little cloud. " not bigger than
mans hand" but portends refreshing waters
from I" the West" waters that shall help to
cleanse UGH foulness in our political land.
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