Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-06-15

urpitrafS power, anu IN prOStratIng at his
feet all who oppose his will.
The Senate, with manly independence,
rejects an unworthy nomination. and it is at
once assailed from every quarter, with cpl
thets too foul TO be merited by any but those
who use them. The official organ of the
Executive will dares even to propose TO the
American people TO abridge its term of SER
vice, and strip it of its powers.
The Supreme Court of the United States,
too, in the discharge of its highest, its hottest
duties, thwarts the Executives pleasure.
and instantly, in answer to the angry de-
nunciations of the would be despot, the adj
der hiss OF the press resounds throughout the
land. Its DEGREES are not 10 be enforced
ITS power is to be set at defiance.
But these are not the only acts Of his NAL
administration. The Offices of Government.
created by the people for their own benefit,
have, as one ofhis friends on the floor of the
Senate shamelessly avowed, been seized up
on as C the spols of the VICTOR" and openly
used as brides and rewards for partizan
services.
Persons grossly and VIGOROUSLY incompe-
| tent and unft-the defaulter, the drunkard
! the debauchee, and even the fugitive felon,
have been nominated for important stations
and when the Senate has refused to sanction
his nominations, he has watched the absence
OF individual members in order again to urge
them. And when this could not be effected.
he has appointed his rejected favorites, dur
ing the recess of the Senate, TO offices not
| requiring its concurrence
He has not only filled the existing subor-
dinate departments of Government through
out the country with the creatures of his will,
but has also created new ones in order 10
reward them.
He has not only employed the whole pat
ronage Of the Government 10 control popular
| elections, but has himself directly interfered
in the election of members Of Congress
! He has not only permitted his satellites to
| assail the coordinate branches OF Govern
ment, but has even, by his own words and
actions, sanctioned and approved of their
conduct
He has not only sanctioned the attacks
made-by his official pensioned press-upon
the Senate of the United States, but has also
ceuntenanced wanton personal violence, of
fered by his political partisans to members
OF Congress, in the discharge of their con-
stitutional duties, thereby overawing the de-
alterations OF Congress, and assailing the
freedom of debate; and may we not appre-
bend, from the PARISHES OF such an EXecu-
tive, darker scenes of bloodshed and outrage
within the very precincts OF our capitol?
He has dissolved his cabinet on pretences
VIGOROUSLY frivolous and untrue, and for
! causes which we will not stain our Address
by even enumerating.
He has lent his assistance to Cypress the
hapless Cherokees, and has encouraged the
State of Georgia in resisting the laws of the
Union. He has said that he will not carry
into effect, as he is bound to do by his official
| oath, the decision of the highest tribunal
the only eXpositor of our laws and our Con-
stitution-and has, of his own mere will,
declared null and void laws of Congress, and
solemn treaties, which, by the Constitution,
are the supreme laws of the land.
And what can even his own party urge
as a compensation for these acts of foul mis-
rule? They point 10 the eXtinguishment of
our national debt, and his successful negotia-
tons with foreign Powers. For the first, he
deserves as much applause as he does for the
returning spring, or for the approaching
harvest; for in them he has equal agency
Most of the treaties of which he so proudly
boasts were prepared or matured by the pre-
vious administration. For one alone he de-
serves full credit-that with Great Britain
in relation TO the West India trade. And
this he has negotiated on terms which former
| administrations rejected as destructive to
our trade, and derogatory TO our national
! honor.
One other negotiation General Jackson is
most anxious TO have sanctioned, and for
that, too, we are willing TO give him credit
in anticipation. 1t is the one in relation to
our Northern boundary, by which militia
ny communication between two of her pro
vinces is given to Great Britain, along our
deienceleSs frontier, the integrity of a mem
Der of our Union violated, and millions of
acres and hundreds of citizens sold for
ruined fortress.
AS statesman and politician, then, Gen
eral jackson merits only the deepest repro
baton OF the people and, should we even
acknowledge the Chief MagistraCy of our
country to be a fit reward for mere military
I services, surely four years of wild misrulc
is a sufficient reward for one brilliant a.
chievement else, what short of absolute and
hereditary sway shall, in future times, be
! accorded TO one who might emulate the deeds
of Washington?
But let us turn from this dark picture of
corruption and imbecility, TO brighter
scenes. The other prominent candidate for
the Presidency, is HENRY CLAY, of
Rentucky-a man whose high praise it IS.
that he is American in every thought, in
every feeling. He has been unanimously
nominated for the office by Convention of
your fellow citizens, rarely equalIed for
numbers, for talents, for intelligence, and
patriotism ; and that nomination is now as
unanimously adopted by an assembly more
numerous, and, as we hope, not inferior in
patriotism We recommend him TO vour
choice, as one combining every requisite for
the Chief Magistrate Of our free, extensive.
and mighty republic Having spent the
preceding part Of his life in the service. not