Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-05
ALEXANDRIA,:
=. r1TRDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1884.
DIR MAcNEyEN.

rich Patriot Macneven, driven from his
FIR defending liberty and opposing pow
n0'' ,r,,e 10 his principles, has come out in his
,.n,ad home on the side of justice and free
ao0p That common libeller the Globe insinu-
u - therefore, that he has been bribed. What
an - ,r;shmen say to this calumny against their
countrymehs ~.
.rons answer to committee, in relation to
s;dont Jackson's measures. 1t is a manly,
tentative, consistent reputation of Jack
@5 s;.r Touching the removal of the Depo-
~. this veteran champion of Liberty says:
q Since there was no sufficient measure, fiscal
anI;tical for the act, it was unwise and I'M
ol..ppSmanlike. 1t required no great sagacity to
s lasos that if must cause arrangement in the
ioiee,,orcial operations and credit of the coun-
CoiDI and where no good could ensue, it could
NY NY, no nnder the dictates of passion that any
c@1liy5out;ve officer would run the risk of sub
800 the country to the evils that attend any
Jc. "s nJ3arangement After these evils had ac-
sui occurred and could no longer be denied,
.u~ na'onanimous mind would have retracted, in
S.aad of persevering in the error"
aIcannot sustain such motive. 1t is pal
ohio infringement of the laws 1t is equally
pontrarv TO the spirit of our Constitution to the
principles of genuine liberty, and ofrepublican
"'s aThe conduct of the President in this is
.raatlv aggravated by the circumstances by
yhich Il was accompanied. 1t was done after
conoress had passed judgment on the acts as
or;hed TO the Bank, and declared it to be safe
Ssnository of the public monies. 1t was done
without waiting for the opinion and action of
+ha new Congress, in the recess of the Senate
nv an officer not confirmed by that body, and
selected for one express purpose"
He observes, further
81 cannot subscribe to the test now imposed,
Of approving in the mass, at all events, and
whatever they may do, of our National and
state Administrations, or of Sanctoning even
tbe most dangerous measures, because they
have originated with our chief magistrate
Loyalty to his king is indeed, the pretended vir-
tue of the subject of monarchy. To live un-
der government of laws and not of men. is
be boast of the citizens of our republic.n
"To you, my friends and fellow citizens who
know me, | need not say that am not rich, that
Iderive my means of existence from the mode
rate profits of my professional industry, and |
am. and cannot cease to be, democrat; that
have lived friend of liberty, and have once suf-
fered for that cause. For my zeal in its de-
fence became prescribed exile from my ma
tive land Here, in this asylum of the Cypress
ed, + have now lived almost Twenty-Five years.
| have, you well know, no other country. am
identified with its interests, its prosperity, its
glorious institutions These | cannot desert.
On their preservation depends our happiness
and that OF our posteriy. They are the boast,
the model and the hope of the friends of liberty
throughout the civilized world. | adjure my
fellows citizens not to blast those hopes and the
high destinies to which this nation is called; to
preserve those institutions inviolate, to defend
and protect them against every attack and
every attempted Infringement from whatever
source, or from whomsoever they may come;
to bring back the administration of our govern
ment to its native purity, and to leave to their
children, entire, unshackled, and unblemished
the sacred Inheritance such as they received il
from their fathers"
The letter, however, leaves no doubt of the
Doctors present sentiments; and it is said that
Counsellor Sampson, Dennis Mccarthy, Esq,
and other distinguished Irish-American citizens
in New York, agree with him in opinion.