Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-29
AMERICAN ELECTORAL TICKET.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, 1856.
mr. jaime. williams and Gon. jackson

Mr. James williams and Gen. jackson.
This gentleman appears 10 his speech of the
18th inst, to have no higher aim than to re-
cord bis undying hostility to the memory of
Gen. Jackson. BE starts out as if he feels
himself competent to enlighten the public in
all that concerns the political history of the
last thirty years. But upon close examination
we think it will be found that he is the repre-
sentative of no sentiment or feeling but that
which identifies him with the party in Ten
nessee, originally opposed to the elevation of
Gen. jackson to the Presidency, and never sat.
isied with the measures which signalzed the
administration of that illustrious patriot and
statesman. he takes up the cause of Buchan-
an for the same reason that the nullifer and
the freesoiler do, not because Buchanan is
right, bat because he is the most suitable in
strument wherewith to assail the character of
Gen. Jackson.
When Gen Jackson was elected to the Sen
ate in 1928, he was brought forward by the
people to break down the corruptions engeG
dered by the caucus system. The Virginia
school of politicians saw, with alarm, that
their favorite leaders would be forced into
private life in order to make way for man
who did not owe his popularity to the machin-
cry of party. Gen. Jackson did not hesitate
10 speak of the leaders of that party as
impractcable men, unfit to represent the
people, and unable to appreciate the eIi-
gences brought upon the country by the ma
chinery employed by the politicians of the
day to make Presidents and reward political
partizans.
This party in Virginia and Tennessee, which
struggled so bitterly for the preservation Of the
caucus system, employed every engine with
in the reach of personal malevolence and cal
umny, to destroy the character of Gen. jack
son. 1t was stated in some places that he
spelled Congress with K, and that Mr.. JEFF
ferson had denounced him as an unlettered
tyrant. And we incline to the opinion that
this Mr.. James Williams, familiarized in bis
youth to these harsh epithets, is unable to
speak or write about Gen. jackson with i'm
Partially or fairness.
We do not propose to examine here the de-
tails of the election of 1924 5, or the state
ments made by Jackson or his opponents rela-
tive TO the charge of bargain and corruption.
The public is already in possession of all the
facts relating to that transaction, and we think
that no impartial mind can cone TO any other
conclusion than that Buchanan deserves all
the censure which has been thrown upon Mr..
Clay, in consequence ofthe belief that his vote
for Adams was the result of an understanding
that he would be made Secretary Of State in
consequence of that vote.
Gen. jackson, Just before his death, receives
letter from an old friend, informing him that
Buchanan denied the statements he had made
to him in relation to this important event of
bis life. What more natural than that, he
should reiterate with emphasis aud prompt
ness the substance of the information on which
he had acted, and that he should throw back
upon Mr. Buchanan the responsibility of the
injury which had resulted TO an innocent man.
At that time Jackson's mental faculties were
unimpaired. His correspondence, whether of
friendship or public business, was kept up with
steadiness and ability. Alive to everything
that concerned his country, he often sounded
from the shades of the Hermitage the voice of
warning, and in no period of his life were his
words clothed with more power over the minds
and actions of his coUntrymen. But weighty
as were lis duties to his country, Jackson re-
membered that he owed TO his maker higher
and more solemn responsibility. This senti.
ment had been implanted in bis youthful heart
BY mothers lessons, and it had been nourish-
ed by the example of his wife, one of the excel.
lent of the earth. This sentiment led him TO the
Garden and the Gross where be openly enlisted
10 the army Of the faithful, and svowed before
the world the hopes be had there received
Devoting himself with ohlld-like docility to
the duties Of q christian life, he finds in them
the appropriate effects, peace with God, forti.
tude in suffering, resignation in the midst of
pain, and serenity In the prospect Of his de
parture 10 another world. 10 this frame Of
mind, reviewing all the acts of his life, be SOL
emnly afirms that Mr.. Buchsnan's statement
TO him was what he said it was in 1924, and
that it involved the charge Of deep corruption
against Mr. Clay. 1t was in this frame OfInnd
that he used the following language: "The
only ambition can feel is 10 scquit myself to
Him to whom must soon render an account
Of my stewardship, TO serve my fellow men,
and live respected and houored 10 the history
of my country"
II may be an easy matter for Mr.. Williams
20 say that Gen. Jackson was nisiaken, but we
think IL will be impossible to convince the
great body of the American people that Mr..
Buchanan did not say exactly what Gen. Jack.
son says he did.
But We notice no further the impotent ct
tempt OF this Mr.. Williams against the memory
Of Gen. Jackson, and pass on TO bis allegations
respecting Mrj Donelsop, which are alike dis
gnsting, vindictive and disreputable.
He says, ''of al ths mes sskO hOr breathe
under the broad sunlight Of HedrsR, the tee
who sosrc most intimately identified, personally
and politically, t0ith The giant struggle 6etvesa
Jackson and Clay on tAs question Of bargain,
intrigue and corruption, are James Buchanan,
Of PennsylpGaia, aAd AHdrev Jaeks0A DOnsl
con, Of Tsnassss-Ar buchanan as The dStaR'
der and Mr.. DOnslsOR az 10 untiriA0 GOcussr
of Mr. Clay" Such language as this could
eminate from no mind that Is not animated BY
the lowest spirit Of malice, add ir totally at
war with the truth of history and With jus
tice.
Whoever heard before that james BuehGn'
an ,r.s ,ba SsCssJsr and Andrew jackson