The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-04-13
From the Crisis.
Aow jackson Treated South Car.
Olina-HistOry Set Right.

g. The doctrines of the Abolition par,
~ being founded in error, its advocate;
are obliged to falsify history in order
to support their position. Facts,
both past and present, are perverted
/. and distorted from their true meaning
SO as to deceive the masses of the peo.
pie. Wise men, long since dead, are
resurrected and made to teach doc
trines which they never dreamed Of
while living. Abolitionists appear to
act ON the principle that lie, boldly
asserted and OFT repeated, is as good as
the truth, and thus many of their
falsehoods, by frequent repetition, at
length pass for truth, unless they are
promptly and publicly exposed.
In no instance have they succeeded
better in this respect than in the mis-.
+, representations Of General jackson,
and his dealing with the nullifers of
South Carolina in 1923. Quoting
his declaration, "The Union, it must
and shall be preserved" they have
succeeded in making the masses of
10th parties believe that he would have
made war upon South Carolina, if she
lad not "simmered down" and aban-
donsd her position on publication, for
fear of coercion. Apparently few doubt
this, and the Abolitionists tell US Lin
coin is only doing as jackson would
have done, and their orators, from
Dorsey down to their lowest babbler,
persist in comparing Lincoln to Jack~
son. .......
But the truth will out sometimes
A pamphlet, written by John Mason
Williams and published by the 'Loyal
Publication Society" of New York,
nnwittingly exposes their falsehoods
and knocks the jackson out from un'
der tho,n completely. On the second
page of the cover of this pamphlet, the
object of this society is stated to be
"the publication Of documents Of UN-
QUESTIONABLE AND UNCONDITIONAL
LOYALTY" so our extracts from it are of
course "LoYAL." The writer shows
that jackson did NOT crush nullifca>
sion, and censures the old hero for not
doing SO, and refers to Benton's A
bridgement of the Debates Of Con-
gress and other public documents for
proof of his statement. The cause of
the trouble was this: Congress passed
tariff law which South Carolina de-
tarmined to resist, and to this end
passed the Ordinance of Notification
declaring the law null and void.
On page seven, the author Of the
pamphlet says;
"There appears to be general--an
almost universal-popular impression,
shat Jackson, by his energetic meas
zres, PUT DOWN notification, and
crushed the incipient rebellion of South
Carolins in 1888. THIS IS AN ERRo-
FEoUs EXPRESSION. 10 put down is
to suppress, or crush by force, and in
this sense notification was NOT put
down by jackson, or any one else in
1888, or any other time. Substantial
ly all that it demanded was surren-
dered to it by Congress, ON THE UR-
GENT RECOMMENDATION OF PRESIDENT
, JACKSON HIMSELF. This may be
thought very boldand rash assertion
but we make it without hesitation, be.
cause we propose to establish its truth
by the incontestible evidence of Off
cial and other cotemporaneous docu-
ments. We do this, not for the purA
pose Of extinguishing single ray of
the halo that properly surrounds the
memory of Jackson, or of removing
from the chapter of his fame single
leaf that belongs to it, but TO vINDI-
CATE THE TRUTH OF HISTORY, which
ia of greater public importance than
the reputation of any individual"
The writer then states that after
South Carolina passed the ordinance
Of notification, Jackson issued a
sproclamation' commanding the null
lifers to submit to the law, and that if
they refused to do SO, he had no alters
natiye but to enforce it by coercion.
On page Is the writer says:
"Did South Carolina cover under
the weight of this proclamation--this
club Of Hercules, thus raised to smite
her? Did she retreat from her peril
Gus position? Nor AN INCH. She
abated not one jot or title of her re-
quirements. She retracted nothing. :"
On page 19 he states that Jackson
sent special message to Congress on
this subject, and says:
|'In this emergency what course did
she Government pursue? 1t adopted
q COMPROMISING, TEMPoRIzING POLICY,
ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THIS
AMEPREs1DENT." 10 s.a5at
Again, on page 81 he says:
Congress met on December 30,
1852, and we now come to the proof
of our assertion that, substantially, all
that notification demanded, was sur
rendered by Congress ON THE RECON-
MENDAr1oN Of Jackson himself! For
this purpose we call HIM as, our wit
ness. Though dead, he yet speaketh
in his official State papers,"
He then quotes from Jackson's mes
sage to Congress among the rest the
following:
II recommend to Congress that the
whole scheme of duties be reduced to
the revenue standard"
and then he ssys'
"It will be here noted that the Ian !