South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1834-11-22


pugn, or even TO inquire into, the Pre-
siden1s motives he had been mind
fuI of the dignity of the Senate, mind
fuI ofthe courtesy due TO the friends o
the Administration there mindful o
the respect due 10 the office Of Chic
Magistrate, and, above all, to the peo,
pie who elevated him 10 it. The Judi
cious and impartial spectator Of the
passing scenes-the historian who
should write the account of these times
when all false CLOSES have been worn
oif-posterity, which alone could a.
ward the just measure of praise OF
blame-would find the severest cen.
sures Of the personal character Of the
President, in the language and conduct
of some of those who call themselves
his friends. There were men, calling
themselves his friends such friends al
il had often been the curse of men in
power to have-who we're daily mani.
testing their opinion Of his heart and
understanding and such an opinion
as the bitterest Of his enemies might
scruple TO express. they manifested
it. he said, in the modes they adopt to
conciliate or TO preserve his favor
they manifested it, in the gross and
fulsome adulation with which they al
ways approach him-sucI, adulation,
indeed, as might disgust an Eastern
despot-they manifested it, in that foul
abuse, in that vindictive, rancorous,
ruthless persecution Of every man
whom they suppose to be an object Of
his dislike, by which they were ambi-
tious to signalize their devotion to "the
greatest and best" He knew, he said,
that fattery SO timid as to seem unpre.
meGtated, SO suited to circumstances
as not TO be oblrusive, so measured as
to wear the appearance of sincerity
well imagined, well timed, happily
turned, fattery, though it had never
been known to proceed from a real
friend. might be, and had often been,
addressed by men of sense 10 tnen Of
sense in power, and might be, as it of
ten had been, successful in conciliating
their favor. But gross and iulsome
fiattery, ofliciously obtruded, without
regard to truth or probability, time, or
circumstance, could only serve to e.
vince that the flatterer has ends Of his
own to accomplish, and holds the UNI
Outstanding Of him 10 whom his flatte-
sies are addressed, in contempt. For
instance, those who persisted in the eff
fort to persuade Gen. Jackson, that he
is the hero oftwo wars, directly contra.
ry to the known truth OF history; those
who compared him in wisdom and vir.
tue to Washington, and in genius to
Bonaparte I, the man who told him
that it was honor enough for him 10
have served under such chief, at the
same time that he was openly aspiring
to be his successor the man, who
wrote letter, with obvious intent that
1T should be shown TO him, intimating
that assumption of demonstrations al
power by him, would be only PERM.
cious as setting an example which his
successors might plead in justifca, ion
of their Notwithstanding, that,
if such patriotism, wisdom, and moder-
alton, as his, could be always at the
helm of State, the Executive might
safely be exempted from the restraints
of law or Constitution-especially, if
this same man should be known to
have entertained and maintained the o.
pinion, that the person thus lauded,
was grossly ignorant, rash, utterly DIES.
titute ofthe virtue of moderation such
fiatterers as these, he said, not only ex-
hibited their own characters 10 the ewes
Of all men Of common discernment, bul
evidced, more distinctly than they
could by any sarcasm the mind is ca,
pable OF conceiving, their real opiy.ion.
that the man Of their idolatry IS the
vainest Of the vain, and the weak est Of
the weak. And those who watcb the
workings OF the passions of a man in
power, not 10 allay, butte CRAFTY them;
who pursue with relentless malice eve.
ry nsan who incurs his dispieasure
with or without cause; who are prompt
to hunt down, without discrimination.
all the objects Of his resentment, to in.
vent or circulate The vilest calumnies
against them, 20 load them with popu.
lar odIum, End to offer them as victims
to appease his wrath--and, especially,
nose Loaf persecute, with peculiar ram
cour, men who entertain the same O.
p.nons of the great man they would
propiliate, which they themselves have
entertained and maintained, and upon
whom they have recently besto we'd their