Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-06


The lavish expenditures Of the last Admins
tration stood in the most urgent need OF correc-
tion-and retrenchment and economy were IN
scribed in staring capitals, Oh the leading banners
of Jacksonsm.
Under that banner, Jacksonism triumphed-
Gen. jackson came into power: anu what mas
been the consequence? Has the promised re-
trenchment been effected So far from 1t, the
expenses of the present Administration, Tor the
last two years, have exceeded those OF the t"o
last years of the preceding Administrator, oy,
in round numbers, one million SIX hunureu a"u
thirty-two thousand dollars; and yet we near NO.
thing about ruinous extravaganza.
Under MIR. Adams, not the most insignificant
clerk in public office could write private let
ter expressing his individual political views or
preferences. but hue and cry was raised about
" off cial influence" and about the interference OF
public officers with the purity ct elections.
Under ia, kson, the Comm ,sioner OF the Gen.
eral Land Office, and the Fourth Auditor OF the
Treasury, write and frank circulars to all parts
of the Union, earnestly soliciting subscriptions
and uubounded circulation for the Weekly
Globe 1.-THE political newspaper OF the Admins
tration,) upon the express ground that 1T would
render essential services In all elections and
furthermore it has been in one case judi cally
proved, that an Inferior officer hal 25 per cent.
of his legal pay withheld by his superior, as his
quota of fund for electioneerIng purposes; and
there are good grounds for believing that most If
not all the present official incumbents are requi-
red to bleed in not less than the same proportion,
for the same purposes; vet, where now, IS the
popular dread Of official influence?"
Again: when aud where did Mr. Adams ever,
on mere grounds of expediency, veto law which
had duly received the consideration and sanction
8 ~ al ha Al rI
contemn decision of the Supreme Court; or set
himself up as independent OF the decisions OF that
Court upon constitutional questions; or take up
on himself tn disregard and to consider as null,
treaties solemnly made and ceustitutionaliy IA
titled; or to brUwbeat and rebuke the Senate tor
an independent exercise of their constitutional
rights and duties as to confirming or rejecting
his nominations; or assign as reason tor vetolnS
law of Congress, that he had not .'been called
upon to furnish project of such law, before
Congress proceeded to enact i'f-Never.
But Andrew Jackson has done each and all of
these things.
FROM this view, brief as IT is. OF the compare
tive do,ngs of John Quincy Adams and Andrew
Jackson, it is most evident that they have not
received from the American People need of
appreciation, p~oportioned to their actual deeds
or to their ostensbe merits. And why have
they not? The answer is plain and undrniable:
albeit not very palatabe nor complimentary
The people in relation to these two individuals,
have been too much under the influence OF their
feelings to suffer their understandings to sit ia
Judgment upon them.
Such has been the fact. But we reinice in the
belief that the time is a, hand, il not already ar
rived. when such will be the case no longer. As
| respects Mr. Adams. the mist' have already pass
ed away. As respects Gen. Jackson. they are,
to say The least, rapidly passing We have not
a particle Of dauht, that within TWO years from
thi, day. four fiiths OF til" American People will
ask themselves, with the most upieigned ast0-
/ ni.h nent how it was possible that man who IN
his first Presidential term had proved himself 80
utterly unprihcped and incompetent, should
have ever found single independent freeman
disposed to support his pre,ensiuns to a second
term; and we have good grounds to believe that,
within two months, enough Of the People will
have asked themselves this question. to prevent
such a curse upon cunInnn country as would
be the re election of Andrew Jackson.
The name of C. C. Cotton is familiar to all
our literary readers. and his unfortunate end at
tracted mnch attention and excited a great deal
of sympathy The following biographical notice
of him is from late London paper.
The Rev. Charles Caleb Cotton author OF
{" Lacon," and other works, put period to his
existence at Fontainbleau, on the 28th April, ny
shouting himself through the head his motive be-
ing to escape from painful surgical operation
which his medical advisers informed him he must
IN lew DAYS undergo. Although his life had
been chequered by nearly every scene OF good
and adverse fortune, and has at times been in
state bordering on absolute penury, there IS no
reason to suppose that want had any share IN the
deed He had recently reestabshed himself
as wine-merchant, and was in possession ct
sufficient stock to preclude any idea OF indulgence.
His first appearance before the public was 10
pamphlet, called A Pain and Authentic Mar
ratve of the Stanford Ghost" published in 1910.
In thus affair Mr. Cotton, who was then curate
of Tiverton, Priors Quarter, Devonshire, had
rendered himself conspicuous tor, anything but
wisdom In the pamphlet. he asserted his conf
dent belief in the supernatural agency OF the dis.
turbances at Stamford (rather closely paslarlsed
from the ghost Of Cock lane.) and wound up all,
b, placing in the hands of the Mayor of liver
! ton bond. by which he engaged to pay 200 to