The Madisonian., 1840-01-11
&C" and "Observer," in our next.

The AFFIDAVIT or ANDREW JACKSON, taken by the
defendants in the suit of Robert Mayo Blair and
RiveS, for libel analysed and refuted. BY Robert
Mayo, NJ d., author of Sketches OF 8 years in
Washington, &c.
A pamphe, has Just been issued from the press in
this city, the above title Of which indicates its prn
cipal object, Ii is written in spirit OF remarkable
earnestuess, and with great strength Of diction.-
Whether Dr. Mayo has succeeded in his objsct, the
reader must Judge. private citizen feeling him
self injured by those whose dignities would appar-
emily give them immunity for playing the 'yrant,
should nc, appeal unnoticed to the attention Of his
countrymen.
We copy note, the truth Of which, all who have
had occasion 10 meet the party in power in continued
conflict must strongly feel. II refers 10 that
Systematic Jyng BY which the wicked so often pro-
ess and profane sacred principles Of honsf justice,
morality and religion order to conceal their ultra di-
abolical purposes, which involve the most hagrant in
fractions Of those principles, II would be very IN
sructve lesson at the present crss could the Amer-
can public have succinct epumeranon o the atrocous
deeds that have been perpetraed in all tlnes by the
TURBULENT ANTAGONISTS Oi law and civilization, under
this spccious mask OF sacred principles such Proies-
sons constitute the subs'raa Of all the airy sopersruc-
Of that fraternity Of nnovators dsorganzers an
archiss, plnnderers and destructves, who call them
selves TRENDS oil the people, put JhCoohs
guise all the world over, and only await the fit occasion
10 declare war the knife, to the hI against all
the institutions Of civilization This specious system
o! LYING the sympathetic principle Of instinct by
which Jacobns recognise each other and assert togshe
chea, and suppant the friends Of law, order aud ra-
tional liberty in all countries and continually leopard
ize the cause Of civilization in all ages. Did not this
same sect in the French Revolution, profess the ab-
sract philosophical principles Of liberty, equality and
jus,ice which they rarely practised when any thing
was to be gained by their perveFson! lhd they not
affect 10 accuse that portion OF their ellow-ctizens
whom they called ARisTocRArs, with murdsnng and
plunderng one another, in order to bring disgrace and
nfamy on their friends and adherents the ferocous de-
nocraG whom they had Systematically and ciandestine.
" ins,gaed perform those cruel aud savage horrors!
And is il the universal practice OF the same scot OF
the present day. profess principles they never PERFORM
and accuse their Wing opponents of the denominations
familiar only to their hands, in order TO disguise the
ueror revolutionary purposes with which they now I'M
mneny threaten the country Adserting to the party
incidents that have taken date from the commencement
Of The Jackson era. have superaboundng evidence
Of this system OF deception and fraud in the professions
Of reform made at the ncpience OF his administration
which were only meant, the event has proved, 70
cover the prsmedtaled sins Of official prescription on
the hand and party aporitism on the other to the
infinite embarrassment and deterioration OF the public
seryicen