The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1856-04-18
Cruel and Unusual Punishments.

The Nashville Union is evidently not aware that
there is clause in the constitution OF tennessee
which prohibits the infiction Of cruel and unusual
punishment for crimes othsrwise its editors would
not torture Major Donelson with such infections as
the following
.sWe find among the published proceedings of the
Philadelphia convention speech from MAJOR Donel-
son accepting lis nomination, IN "hch De says tna'
he left the democratic party because OF the corIup
t.ons OF General Perce's administration; 'tnat there
was no hope of promoting domestic tranquility OF
protecting our foreign relations under Nf. flerce'
and he had Joined this organization III nope lhese on
jecjs might be accomplished; and mat ne belleNtu
81 General Jackson was living ne Wonid De "he'e nv
Major DoneI>on} is. When Major Donelson had
closed, he was followed by the ReYa W. Il. brown
low. delegate from Tennessee, who thus dehcatag
comrimented Major Donelson in the course OF hts
remarks .
...With Mi1Iard Fillmore to lead, and 'eih
Tosh GidaiDgx behfud him. we could carry State.
But with this large. patriotic, GREASY TenHeSseam
(pointing 10 Donelson) the Pierce party will be tran
scendental nothing He should go home with the
determination TO jump higrr AMI sqfaH fo"Fer than
any man in Tennessee, and would open the ball at
Knoxville on Monday Ii had been understood,
az ayyaaesd that Major Doneson would be put on
the ticket with ANDREW JACKSON in big letters
and donsIsom invisible, and then the old-lihe demo-
Gratis would think Old Hickory had come 10 Aie
! again -
/ Andrew T. Doneson the candidate of ". u.
! Brownlow and for the great lore Which BTowriow
has for the name of Andrew jackson. that 'the Old
line democrats might think Old Hickory had come
to life again. This suppose, from subsequent
events fell rleaSantig upon the OF Major Donel-
son. II sHouid have conjured mp recoIlectlons tc
bleach his cheek with shame at finding himself and
the name OF his illustrions friend and patron made
the playthng and the sport, al such time and III
( such keeping. What would General Jackson have
thonght TO have risen from the dead and witnessed
/ such bandying of his name between Andrew J. Don
elson and William 6. Brownlow, who no logger age
than 1915 wrote the following upon the death OF thai
old soldier, patriot, and Christian:
"sDEArH or GENERAL hcKsox.--After life o
eighty long wears, spent in the Indulgence OF the
most bitter and vindictive passions which disgrace
human nature and distract the human mind, The eX'
4 stence of Andrew Jackson terminated at his resi-
d-nce near Nashville. on Sabbath, the slh INST, al
6 o'clock, p. m.
e.But still he lived on wrote on and aJHseA ahead
the living and the dead; and in all those letters il
4 which he spoke so freely of his approaching dssolu
tion never could meet with any OF that forgive
ness and charity which belongs TO the faith he pro-
fessed-no reparation offered to the injured and ira
dNced. 10 asking Of pardon from those he had slam
derc@'
ssWe never have, in all oar ups and downs IN life
witnessed spectacle ediying as the last few
years OF Gen. Jacksons W-spe'a IYe
.And, if the naked truth could be come at, ever
! in his last moments portion OF those vile dema
cosues were about him, stirring the pmhers of hl'
ying resentment into flame, and awakening 10 ac
ton the moulderng ashes of that ttfffr TeSentae"
o7id depcageG rinaicrsnesS aehich naale his heart
! Hyoteh 10nc cayeer IN Hfe, r0irqao OF fires 0a4
1ngoreualc paSsioais. The election OF this singnla
man and rU{aar hero to the presidency was the great
est curse that ever yet beirl the nation.
But he is gone 10 a kand NJ aeeP
evt shades, and we willing 10 take our leave o
/ him He has passed ont OF our hands into the hand
/ OF Just God, who will deal with him and by hin
according to his works. We would not if we could
tufn a0de fhe re Of the f"tHre TO show his delndet
! followers ami blind admirers wbat ahrrits him.
TBro1ruIoae's Wig, Jane IS, lS45.