Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1837-01-07

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siderable length We oaly mako ios the latte
part TIE 6sss part review Of Gen. Jscksons histo
", md the principles upon which hs sosssed into Once
MI. WISE sail:
] have done no wrong to jackson then, a.
IlIl candid minds will bear me witness.
have given him credit for every s1captive he
has brought to ROme.' At the same time
| i do not mean TO say he has not committed
many grie vious errors. For many ofthem
can well account, though l cannot pardon.
We are taught in history that suspicious
princes often promote the last of mankind
from vain persuasion, that those who have no
dependence, except on their favor, will have
mo attachment except to the person of their
IbeneiactOr."
/ In a certain event, if the election Of Presi-
dent had failed in this house, an stumbled
and disarmed Senate might have been found
"a .tractable and useful instrument indeed
to elect an EIagabaIus, under whom another
Hierocles might have enjoyed the honor of
being '.cm press, husband;'' and under whom
"a dancer might have been made project Of
the city, charioteer project Of the watch, a
barber project Of the provisions and all sre-
recommended as fit officers-enO,nsitate naenabr0-
rum! Sir, might enumerate numberless
such excuses for numberless such errors of
the President, or rather Of the Presidents
ministers. But enough has been said, and
mean not to condemn or accuse him, l repeat,
but to defend the people whom 'the party ac-
cusc and condemn.
| II it be true, as we are told, and I do not
say it is not true, that the President has
made and unmsdc men in office has prescribed
the faithful, has corrupted the pure, has hum
bled and disarmed the Senate, has made the
House of Representatives servi!e and DEEPEN
dent, has seized and squandered the public
money, has deranged the currency and en-
dangered every mans estate, has controlled
tclections, has assumed royal prerogatives,
made himself a king, and a king his success
sor; and lift be als, true, which utterly de-
nv, that the people have sanctioned all this
exercise Of absolute power, | ask gentlemen
Of all parties, those even who claim to be the
exclusive keepers of the kings conscience, It
this does not prove one vlrtue--the virtue OF
consiancy, at least in the people! Have they
not been constant and confidIng beyond mea-
sure IN their attachment to him. Has their
,constancy!
| If what they say be true, and it is u main
argument with them, that 'the voice of the
people is the voice Of God;' that whatever
Jackson has done Mey have sanctioned; that
he spake and they willed it; that he vetoed
and they voted with him; that he dictated,
and they obeyed, is not this proof positive
that their affections and their voices have ev-
er sustained, have ever animated, have ever
\ H.
Such unexampled confidence, such unexam-
pied constancy. such une xampled attachment
and affection were never witnessed before in
any people towards any ruler; and put 1t to
the candor and sense OF justice of all men to
say, whether what the people have yielded TO
their favoritc has not been more, treb!y more,
than reward enough for all his services and
sacrifices, however great? Admitting the
debt Of their gratitude to HIM to have been
ever so great, ask il the debt has not been
more than paide Whether the President does
not now owe more than I've can ever pay to a
generous people, who have confidingv, to a
criminal degree, entrusted him with their all
their Eonors, their rights, their liberties,
their sovereign power? SIR, what can one
aged man, fast hurrying to the grave, pay to
a people in consideration Of what all the trea-
sures Of earth, and all the blood of them and
their children, may not buy. Nothing! No
thing! Yes, yes, there is one boon, one sa-
cred legacy, Of ines,imable value, which, in
parting from them and the world, he might
have left them. He might have left them the
truth. and solemnIy imprinted it upon their
minds and memories forever, that 'ihey had
trusted him too MUCH and his advice to them,
never, never in their history, to trust anoth-
er man as they had trusted him. and he might
have returned to them their trust, and have
restored them to their senses. This, aud this
only, would have repaid them. 1t would have
restored to them what has been taken from Z
Them, which alone can compensate for itself.
The last message Of such President to such c
, people should have been the {. farcueT' Of a I
:, 10 Or, h;s ch;lIrcp IL should have hooo Il