The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-06-28
POINTS WELL TAKEN.


John g Riyes, in his last Tuesday evenings Globe talks
with the spirit Of the oden time Intimately connected
with the administration Of General Jackson and with
Francis r. Blair the trenehant editor Of the Globe in by
gone days he can speak by authority Of Hod Hickory
His notice Of Major Donelson in Tuesdays Globe fol-
lows
There great meeting Of the nothings in New
York the evening Of the 18th instant for the purpose Of
ratiyng the Philadelphia PLATFORM which ratified by
camaton. There great crowd, and dozen or two
orators who had to be heard and heard and
less applauded There orator, however, whose
speech could said be heard did make il
vpa voce, alleging bad cold impeachment, but he
wrote IL out and 1t has appeared among the rest In the
newspapers and is the longest OF them all This orator
the Hon. Andrew j. Donelson, we'll known the private
secretary of President Jackson, and minister to Prussia
during Mr.. Folks administration He commenced with
these words You desire to hear how old friend and
relative OF Andrew Jaeksonhs private secretary during
his presidency and for than thirty years 70 the last
hour n his e enjoying reest all his papers,
and maintaining the most intimate confidential relations
with hmcan defend the principles the newyorganized
American party,
After this exordum, Major Donelson proceeds to tell,
taking several columns do it, why he know moth
ing His whole speech nearly is TRADE against President
Plerces administration and its measures of which have
had the good fortune meet his appreciation which,
sderng his present position and his political predictions
thing be expected and perhaps very devouty to
President adopt suggest any that would be
likely have the sanction of General Jackson quondan
private secretary. For best known to himself,
though altogether unknown to Others he has got him
self counted out Of the democratic party and he IL OF
hostile TO democratic principles and forced by the
screws of secret political society to be. We regret
this for several reasonsfor autd lang syne account
Of our reverence for the memory of the Old Ro-
man, and of the relation in which Major Doneison
so long stood towards him his friend, protege and
nhatv- ,ya ylic np lint mot rel
tive exactly, his printed speech represents him to be-
We have pretty trenchant structures this por
ton OF Major Donesons remarks and have say that they
nnmertd if he has represented himself to be the
blood relation of General Jackson which he assured not
any than he of Alexander the Great The word eu
tive Ia parlance almost invariably relation
by consanguinity and not by affinity, although it may
times include the latter. The Majors consists in
attending this distinction for cannot suppose him to be
guilty of the egregous and ridiculous vanity Of representing
himself to have in his veins the blood that flowed in
those of the who filled the of his countrys
gloryalsey representing, too. His political somerset
omersau!t, sobresau whichever it is deplore and
condemn but aequit him Of the paltry prerarcaton
which has led him into and desire pass
himself off for what everybody knows he is no-Gepera
Jacksons blood relation.
major Donelson, in the Of his printed but not
spoken speech says that the Union sentiments of Washngton
Jackson constitute the nothng platform and
are bound suppose that he believes it but called
upon say anything particularly wide of the truth this
mark would tho purpose about well as thing
think Of BY pervertng misquotng distorting, and
classifying few passages to be found in Gen. Washngtons
writings and applying them to state of things to which
they applied and never would have been by him.
know nohings manage to show that he during the
Of the revolution inclined to trust natives than for
eigners But that either of those lustrious men, if
alive would give sanction to sayings and dongs OF
the American party it not oyermodesy calls it.
SELF is not only improbable, but utterly incredible.
The trusted by General Washington, perhaps,
than any otherAexander Hamiltonwas according to the
nothing definition, foreigner several Of the
generals and other officers who stood highest in his
He did not like Gen. Charles Lee Can Engshman but it
because he foreigner for there
officers who had much of his confidence. And il
would be difficult to any two who would have been
further from prescribing tue Roman Catholics account OF
their religion than those two whose glorious have been
used by who should have been among the last to
them give ustre and dignity to nothing principles
which from them would have had counenance and would
had and emphatic condemnation In their truly
AMERICAN and magnanmous bosoms such ilberal unpatr
Otto unchartabe and proscptye sentiments could have
had no place"