The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-10
GENERAL JACKSON.


way of arrogance, ignorance, and vanity which
we have ever yet seen from him. 1t even sur
passes the impudence which he displayed in
threatening the Senate with the ban of treason if
they should reject the Texas treaty. The old man
must be far gone in his dotage. He seems to
have lost all sense of dgnity-all notion of the
reserve and moderation which an ex-President
should exercise in speaking or writing upon mere
party questions. He boldly thrusts himself for
ward, upon the eve of an election, and attempts
to dictate to the people what it becomes them
to do. The glorious result in New Orleans, in
spite of his indecent and impudent Interference
should cause him to blush for his intermeddling
He should now be convinced that the people of
this country will not be dictated to; and if he
could not learn from the repeated failure of his
attempts to interfere with the elections in his own
State, it is to be hoped that the shameful discom-
future of his efforts in Louisiana will cause him
to desist.
But we have little doubt that Gen. Jackson is
rather to be pied than censured, if the origin and
i" inducement'' of his impertnent letters were
known. Col. Benton boldly charged that his IA
nous letter which was published pending the
consideration of the treaty, was "vcarously OBJ
taned''-that it had been drawn from him by the
potters of the scheme for the purpose of intm-
dating the dough-faces of his party north of Ma
son and Dixon's line. We have not doubt that
Col. Benton was right in his surmises; and the
same arts have doubtless been used by the same
in drou 1 nisiau
letter.
No better evidence could be afforded of the do
age of General Jackson than the summary man.
ner by which he has planned the capture of New
Orleans by the British He talks about the
British " like some gnoramus, who takes it for
granted that :" the British" would scalp an Anne
rcan, of course, wherever they may find one He
talks as if the Brtish,," like the Cumanches or
the Seminoles, were in the habit of making war
for mere plumber, whenever an opportunity Offers
in disregard of the strongest ties of interest," found
ed in the ramifed commercial relations subsistng
between that nation and this. "The British" he
says, would, in the event of their getting footho!d
in Texas, organise an army upon the west bank
of the Sabine, declare war, and invade Louisiana
at once, before we could have an inkling of her
purpose, and that it would not be week before
she would have possession of Baton Rouge, after
which New Orleans would fall into her hands of
course. Now, the least that any sane man could
say in the way of comment upon all this frightful
picture, is, that it is utterly stupid and betokens
either insincerity or mbecility in the mind that
conjured it up. What is England going to make
war upon us for! To destroy her large and lu-
crative trade with us, which every year serves to
augment! Or will she make war merely for the
sake of running up her overwhelming national
debt few hundred millions higher And of
what materials is this army to be raised upon the
banks of the Sabine? And what shall our Go
vernment and people be doing, that no efforts will
be made to counteract the Vaccinations of the
enemy? An old woman ought to be ashamed Of
Gen. Jackson's concet, with which he has at
tempted, in vain to frghten the people of Louis
lana.
The conjecture Of General Jackson as to the
result of the Presidential campaign displays as
much obtusity to the signs of the times as might
have been expected after reading, few lines
above, his plan Of British invasion. He thinks
that Polk and Dallas will get twenty if not
twenty-five States of the twenty-sx! Vain old
man! General Jackson has no other reason
earthly for this ridiculous opinion than that he
desires it. and that he supposes the people will
do whatever he desires. Now, we venture to
predict that should General Jackson live until
the first day of December, he will be as sadly
disappointed as was the Knight of the Ruelul
Countenance when he learned from his faithful
squire, whom he had sent upon mission of love
to his fair Dulcinea, that that enchanting beau.
ty, the idol of his heart, gained her daily bread
by winnowing wheat The most veracious and
candid historian who has chroncled the heroic
deeds of the Knight of La Mancha informs rs
that when Don Quixotte learned these not verv
fattering tidings of his fair one, his fertile i'm
agination instantly changed the grains of wheat
into grains of gold, and took il for granted that