Franklin Repository, Volume 3, Number 17, Brookville, Franklin County, 26 April 1828 — Page 3

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,,: we iltlerve not the contu tnlinii of h Mcs?:ns He ha hll"l our nioun..u,,iand our plains with minerals w ith I id. iron, and copper; and given u? jiit.ite and soil for the crowing of ,?,rp and wool. These beh j the materials of our national h Luie, they cujjht to have extended to th"iii adequate ard f;;ir protcc t'on, 'that jr wn manufictoue ai J laborers w,v he ph.ord on h fair compel ition .h those of Europe, and that e inn j,,f. within bur country, a supply of f -ifc le-f di nr: and important articles, y essential iu wr. Deyoml this. 1 look at (ho latii?', wiili an eye to the proper ji-trilio'ion of labor, and to revenue; Sn.i wish a view to discharge our natiini! debt. I :-im one of those who do pot believe that a rational debt is a r.a tit-nal blessing, but rather a curse to a r'r'nVio, in?much, as it is cnlrul add to f ii-e around the admiiiistratic n a monied ans'ccaey, dangerous to the liberties f the country. This tariff 1 rrca. a ju -scious one, poss?c more fanciful than H danger. I M ill a;k what is the re al situation cf the ncricuHuralist? IV here has the American farmer a mar let for 1:18 surplus product? Exc pi f?r cotton he has ncl:her a fore'gn, cr h.ii e market. Does rot this clearly pi ,ve, wh'jn there i? no muket cither at h;mc or abroad, there is toa much latour employed in agriculture; and that t!m channels for labor should be mult; fiiod? Common sense at once points t'jf the remedy. Draw from agriculture this superabundant labor; employ it in tn cha i;m and manufactures thereby creating a home rf.nrkef for your bread tiiT-a: d distributing labor to the most tvoliulde account; and benefit!! to the crj.itry will result. Take from agii tul ure rn the United States, six hundred widusai.d mer, women and children, !,il ou will, at once, give a home mar.t lor more bread-elufP, than all Ew r pc i;ow furnishes us. In short sir, we ii'.vu been too Jong subject to the poli d of the. Briti-h merchants. It is time that we should become a little more .1' wrkanizoi; and, instead of feeding the p.wptrs and laborers of England, feed cur own; or else, in a short time, by r!mtijuin our picsent policy," we shall ail be rer.dercd paupers ourselves. it if, therefore, my opinion that a careiul and judicious t u itf is irueb w ant eJ, to pay our national debt, and afKud u? tin means of that defence, within cuiSihes, on which the safety and lilor b of our "country depend; and latv, t.'.ou'i not leait, give a proper distribijlion ol t;iir labor, which mulproie heir ekva o .;e Inppiies?, independence, and wealth cf the commurity. 1 his is a short culling ol my opinions, gi iier.iiiy, on the s u t j V t ct cui inqui rv.ainl believing fi rm ccr.ee !, and tab t'llated to further tlv? rr-isfi--l ity a"ei hi!f i.iriess of mv coa-.tn, ! declare t m, I would not barter t-icn? i r anv of e or thuution of a tetrp .i:.u r.tiaract:i, tii tt coul.i be given me. i haw. pn-seMed u Ky opinions freely, hcrauj-e 1 an vitht ut concealment; ;.nd sr., old. iic ffd. despise rojself, if I rou'd h. Iiev rn-elf capa'-le of desiiinj: the coiiiideucc vlany, by means so igr.oble i am sir, vtry re?pectfj!!y. Your most obt. soi v't. (S :ned) ANDREW JACkSO l L. II. CoLIZMiv, V aricnti-.n, North Carolina. I ".T.VfcOl'fi'.-TifJrW Vrfnlmrt iress. Th. f I-"dan Times i now rrinlcd on a rrcsf. n h'rh in consequence of improvemei ' E ':le by the oiiir.at inventor, throws' e if J thousand iinp-fssiom in an bour. I i.e follow it p is the language of the litres: "The fiift machine piintcd but fl'iM n hundred sheets in the houi ; the ttadcr row hrlels in his hand bii impres!i' " w' h h a t ew irachine has yielded at ifo rate if Jour thoii3.r,i an hour Such rase, rapidity, and s.truracy united, b.'.rulv ever before atciibed to a v fabconstructed by the. hand of "man; thither is now pcsiible, we conceive, for 'epiintirit niachii e lo receive any farmer iinpiovement, or to ariive at a more oirjicfe degree of perfection. Let the a.ler but tontemlatc, if he can, what "ist be the rapidity cf those motions Tl'ii!i t'.irew oil lour thousand printed !'t!.'t5 jn every hour, or nearly seventy !na n.inute?" Alr, G.z. i ci I'm me xenuickv Advocate. I'... Vie have reveived the olheial documents en the subject cf the six militii Xc.Xi the publication of which we will 'uaanenee in our next. The Jacksoi (!ir,init.;ec in Coi giess to whom tl.e 'eun.cms were re.'en. d, hae accour ' ;!'" J their publication wp'i a report ,!l "Ideh they labor to td iclii ie.vt rai he !;? tt fu.mtlie isdamou, rami of tathe liv.s of six of his u how beinr. ctiary to law, eontraiv to evidence. .u cctan:ry to tbe best luclings ol the h!maa heart. Lhit the veil istoo thin to tour the ctioimity of his conduct, aid jtMer ri attentive peru-al the cuttients, w e have tio douht that i vi0 I cnestui.d impartial man will award 10 Jtl . Jaeksotl tile t l.swrUr l.o tin rvi s, tl-miufaii unfeeling aud tjrdfikal

SJTUHUiY,. 4PIUL 2G. 1822. - authorized to announce the fol low iny 'em ;i as Candidates foi Shtiifi at the next it election. john itoor, 15 EN'. I AIM IN S. NOBLE, THOMAS G. NOI5LE, A!iNE!l M'CARVY. AND KE'.V S l'.ASCLT. Vc arc ant'ioried to sinnn Mvre the fol lowin gentlemen as ('ani.latcs Tcr Coroner, at the r.et August e'ction. JAMES JOHNSTON, JESSE FIXE.

To trive place to the corr??roi dence lete"n Gor Ray and Gen Jchscn, w? iiae been obliged to suspend the j ubHca. tion of our series of extracts &e, with some otl;er mattert. They will appear heil w cek. We have no FOREIGN NEWS ef any crcat motrent tr. the American people. The affair of Greece, by thelatrst account we have seen, remain much in tbe. gaT.e situation as they were immediately after tbe 1'attle of Navarino; except that it is stated in some accounts, that the Egyptian forces were withdrawing from tbe contest Russia still mamtpins her warlike aptitude, menacing Turkey, and the Turks p-epar-ing to repell attack. The ministers of the three combined power, have left Constantinople, and returned to their several Courts. Mail Stage. A Stage, transporting the U. S. Jlail, commenced running between this place and Lebanon, Ohio, by the way of Hamilton and Oxford, twice a week two or three weeks since. It arrives here on Mondays and Fridays at G o'clock P. M. and leaves on its return, the following days at 5 o'ebek . M. Farc'from Brook . vilie to Hamilton, by way of Oxford $1,81 ; and from thence to . Cincinnati by canal packet boats, 75 cents. We hope the proprietor may meet with ample patron, age. Political meetibq We are requested by a respei tattle number of citizens, to L,ive notice that such a meeting, by mutual agreement between the Triends oftlie two candidates for the next Presidency is to lie. held in blur creek settlement, at the place of Mr. Jesse Pyb, about two miles liora ti.is town, on l'ie second Saturday of May ensuing, for the purpose of discussing the Presalential cnptiion. The meelinw to cox n ence at an t-arly hour, say 10 o' clock A. M. We hope the m eting may ,ie generally attended by botu paities in this vicinity at leat. Con Ray ai'.d Gen. Jicksmi. We have drvoff-d a large portion of to-day's paper, to tbo coirepor dence between hisescellet ry Gov. Pay,andGpn. Andrew Jackson, herttjfore referred to; to tbe true character of which, we would invite the oipartia! attention of the reader. It will now, no doubt, be said, bv the partisans of the General, and the presses devoted to his service, with enresive e'ations of trnirrph over the doubtful in tbe case, and the friends of the Administration, who bavc denied tbe fact of hii friendship therefor, that be bai put to endless s;ippce every objection urged against h'tu on the question of the "American System," and husbted pII restless doubts reipecting his fttlar.hment to it; and we shall expect to see thoe who have been baltinz and un decided, as to giving him their support for the Paesidercy, for want of a conviction cf such attachment, tn wonts at least, Ike shad in a fishing seine, hauled by thousands to t' e shores of Jachsonism. . We happen to think, however, that a litt'e reflection accooinanied with correct easouing, aside from partiality and fis sion, wi;l ei able them to arrive at tbe coniuion, that cloud of a deep?r sable, and more impenetrable density, envelope the subject, tiian did before; and that breathless silence on the part of lie General, would have been quite as much lo his credit, to say the least, as any tbinp lie has said in bis answer to the Governor's letter. Tne enpuiry of the Senate efthisSl&te, (iirough its cxecut ve oiScer, wai not, ivtiethtr he (lh3M . jcksnn) voted fo? the iunlf of IGi l w: tther be voted for an appropriation lo improve the navigation of the Ohio river. Etc. Sic whether be wrote a letter to Ijct Coleman of North Carolina, underlie same date, giving him "a i;c!t outline ofv his "opinions'' oa the subject of domestic manufactures, nor whether hi "opinions, at prcsenl, re precely what they were in 1823 and 21." Had ibese beeu the points aimed at by the enquiry, the answer would have been appropriate; but as the case stands, there isjust 1 abuut as much relcvaacy ia ihetcrdy to

the enquiry made, as there would be in

I the answer of a man, of xvhom yon should ak the time ef day, who fhuld give for answer, that it was tareive o'ebefe yesterday, when thu sun was at his meridian n'titudt?, and that be was still cf the same opinion, and no more. It ia cptta'm he would say something about some tima of day, while he would leaveyou fo guess at tbe hour called for, and w.o'd tell notliinc but what every body knew bT re, exeppt that bis op'n ions bad not changed since yeterdar, and that hirn?e!f w is an inso !rnt feHow. .id so, Gcr. J-uksor, it is trpe, has hinted sometr.in about internal inoprovementsi and has sdd a numbpr e things on the subjct of domestic manu. fact res in tbe Cel'man letter, which he hs made "a partof" bis ,'conTnunicationM o Gov. Ray, and conndenfiy "trusts," thst it ''will be received as a nfficient answer to tha erquirici sncgRstc d by tbe resolution of tbe Senile," especially, as it is accompanied with tbe declaration, that bis "opinion remam as tbey existed in 1823 ard 24;". leaving the public to guesi what those cpiaions are now, or were then, in relation to the points at issue; and thu. by studied evasion, couched ia the soft, insinuating language of respect, friendship and flattery, really insults bis excellency, the Senatej and good people of Indiana trifes with their cemmvn senst and mocks their auxious solicitude to knout, and only to know, whether ha "believes that Conre8 has powtr to appropriate moncj' from the common Traasury of the Union, to make roods and conn;1' and whether he believes that it is expedient for them to exercise that power whether "it is" his '-opinion that Congress has poutr to make interna' improvement! ia and through Ha e sovereignties w ithout tbe consent of the slates?' or whether, "it is" bis ''opinion that, toat body can only appropriate money from the Treasury, and put it under the agency of the Slates for application" wheth er he is "n favor of the woollens bill which was before tbe last Congress" in a word "whether" (to use the language of the Senate) he is infaver esuch a system of protective duties for the benefit of American Manufactures, as will, in all cases where the raw material, and the ability to manufacture it, exists in the country, securt the pfro?jage to our own manufacture, to tbe crcii;on of those of other countries;'1 and whether, if elected President of the United States, he will, in bis public capacity, foster av4 supjwrl thti -Jiincriean System.'' TiiESfc! These were tbe roinfsto be settled, and of which the Gonemor, Senate, and CiV izens of Indiana, were anxiously solicitous to be informed, "that they may have an opportuuitj to Vote uncfmiandingtyat the next Presidential election;" for, as their interests are deeply involved in, cr essentially connected witb, these politi cal doctrines and measures, we are confident they will reter support any man for that high office, who has them not txflici'ly incorporated in bis political, national creed; and, we repeat, that,Gen. Jackson, by substituting, for a r.;dy to these points cfpnq i.ry, what is entirely foreign, has nocked the anxious solicitude fir direct information respecting Ids views and opinions cf them, c.f tbe Governor, Senate, end Citizens of Indiana. Yes, he has as grossVj mocked their auxious solicitude in that respect, as.would an unfeehng father, the hunger of a cLild, who, on his asking for bread, should give him a etcne. It wri! ba trifling with the good sense cf the public, fc) pretend that we have given loo high a coloring to this business;-or that we have exaerated the matter. For, if the doctrines, essential to tbe American System, believed in, and tcalously contended for, by Indiana, are not so clearly to be seen in his votes of 1824, and his let ter to Dcttor Coleman, as to remove doubts from the putdic mind, respecting his belief and opinions of them, then, we say, that a reference to them, in answer lo the interrogative put to him by Gov; Ray, for tbe express purpose of obtaining Mich a decisive answer, as would remove doubts respecting his belief in those doctrines, it nothing else but insult and mockery. But, on the oihst hand, if he himself believes, that those political doctrine and measures, are so clearly to be seen in the sources to which be has referred for information, as to remove all doubts respecting his opinions of them, or if he designed them to pocsess that character, as be well knew that both had, for several years, been bs fore tbe public, and, in that case, that whoever had heard of the onp, or read the other, most have long since bsen in pos. session of tbe fact of his opinion and be lief of those doctrioesyUnd coul i, therefore, on that supposition, hae felt no more del icacy shout giving a decided and uoeqiir

ocal, a'iirmativa sr3'ver to ma questions j

propounded t'i hi.n by his excellency, than in making tbe references he has; nor have had any more reason Id be "apprehensive that" his "appearance before the public, at this time,'' might ''be attributed to improper notives;"' for the cases would have been so nearly parallel, (differing only in fjtms of speech) that, in point of fiCt, it would have prtsen'ed noth ng new to any body rou'd have made o new impressions any where, and, of courre, his"moircs" for appearing 'before the public a. this time," would have been viewed precisely in the same light in the one esse, as in tbe otbpr; why then, if such be t!ie character of the sources referred ti for satisfaction oa tbe points of enqn":ry or, if he snppospd it to be such or, if he intended it to be so undrstood, why, wis akwithhold a direct answer, to the in'errog. tives proposed? No posihle Veon can be assigned for it, upon the supposition, that he believes in our doctrines, than a want of sufficient independence to meet the result of an undisguised avowal of that baUef, among bis prtizans in Tennesse and the Southern States, w hich are ail (Louis iana excepted) the rank enemies of those doclrioe, and now support him on the ground of his supposed ennvtij to them likewise; v But, if he do not believe in those doctrines and measures, why withhold his denoaciation cf them, whn his opinion has been so plainly, but respectfully solicited, as it has bsen. by. lb Spnateand Executive of this State? The answer is the same in'the other case, ha laeks that independence necessary to meet the result of such denunciation, ameng bis present partisan? and suppnrtpra in Indiana, and certain olhor States, where the doctrines and measures proposed for hia sanction or re jection, are predominant among all parties. The plain conclusion then, to be deduced from L course is, that, however be may have voted in 1824, in relation to certain cases of internal improvements, and whatever he may have writen to Doct. Coleman on the subject of domestic manufactures, as tbe mere ''outlies of b'is cfinions," he intends if possible, to make fair xeealher, both with the friends and enemies of the cardinal doctrines and measures of the American system, by equally avoiding an avowal of his belief in, and a denunciation of them, uniii after the presidential election; when, not having committed himself, he will be at hbetty lotuoto tbe teigAf of bis iufluence into that side of tbe scale, on those points, which he shall find likely to preponderate In a word, to use a modern figure, he is "on hefnce," and, in that position, he intrmds to remain, until be ascertains on which side his interests and popularity, require him to dismount. What strengthens Ibis conclusion, or rather renders it unavoidable, is, that, after having fairly'inuited the application made to him by the Senate and Executive of tbe State, to be informed of his opinion re'peting any subj-ert of the character of that proposed for h: decision, by this h'gh and respectable aulh rify, and after promising not to withhold, but t.berally, fresly, and readily to give bis opinion, declar ng it to be his indispensible "duty'' to do so, he should evade an answer to every question propounded. Yes, we say, ho invited, and premised to answer the questions yes, promised to answer them; f ir he kays, "I am fifo' cotucomenl" and "as my nam? Ins b 'en brought b j fore the nation, fir the first office in the gift of the people, it is iacum6fnt," that i, a duty imposed, "on me, when asked, frinkhj," that is, IberaHy, freely and read.ly, "to dcclars my orivio.v upoa any political, national question, pending before or about which, the country feels an interest.' But he has been ''asked" his opinion of a question a question now pending before the country a poli t cal, national question a question about which the country feels, acu'cly feels an interest he has beeti asked it by the highest authority of the state of Indiana he has been plainly asked it so plainly that thei could be no mistake from the ambiguity of language ao misunderstanding ns to the end desired to be attained he has been respectfully asked it; but has be "frankly- given his 'opiaion on" tbe question, or rather On a number of questions? Has he expressed his belief, or the revers?, of a single point proposed? Has he given his '"opinion" either pro or con, respecting a single political doctrine or measure propoundpd for his sanction or rejection? We say he has not, nor yet dooe that which is eq nvo'.eot defy successful contradiction, aud appeal to the public to decide whether, agreeably to bis oisft showing Geo Jacksoo

is not sdl cuno'cied. before the woild,Ci a pc!prtrle dereliction from "dot';" "a duty" too, of the hzes( grade c,a duty" resulting from -the fact, that bW 'na're bit been brought before the nation, for the fu st office with n the gift of the peopls; who have, unq-iestionally, an in.Weaai'jh right to know, before they bestow that oA fice, what bis views and opicions ar, o? every "ptical national question," involving either their liberties, riehts or h i teresls; ind how he will employ lht office when bestowed, in relation to tbosa ubj-cts, We fur'b'r appeal to the pu1 -lie ta decide, whpther he has not violated, good faith with his country-men, by defining "frnnkly to declare" bis "opinion, oa" the "political, national questions" r for red ti him for that express purpose, by ' fliv Senate and executive of this State, r.-Tr "p?ndirg teforr, .uj about which the c- jr.try ftels an hi:?-!8t;, and wheth. er they 3re prapaved to bestow ao offica of th3 highest resp-mrtbhvy n.Vjy in tbeTc gift, upon ti;p man, wir., f.?r having drl clared claisf to be "iciihoul coieeal.-nenl as to his peiitirai opinions, slo;ks behind the screen of evasion, when those ''opinians" are ' nsitd" 6n sul jects abcut witch" he has publicity d c'ared it to be his doty mnkhf to g ve fh.n. Ofbert may do it, or employ t Uir r.fl jence and exertions to uo i-, b it we cornMetftiy say; tbe peop'e of Indian i no( To conclude. Tne method adopted by Gen, Jackson to eid an answer to his excellency's enquiry respecting his belief of the constitutional powers of congress ta appropriate money for internal improvementsto make improvements in aai through state sovereignties, 5 c. &c. is really rid.cuhvs, self puffing. He 8i,ySj .j wiil further observe, to your e3ce!lcy, that my views of coostitutioml power, and American policy, were imbibed in no small degree," (cone quedtly in a great degree)' in t.ie Unies, and from the sages of the revolution." Andrew Jackson, an oisctir. boy, not exceeding 8 or 9 years of age at most, when the revolutionary war commenced, nor more than 17 or 18 when it terminated, living in a part of t!; o.iunlry alternately ia ta2 ha,dj cfthe. British and America, long before ths constitution of the Uniied S-'u'.fs wis ever thought of, ar d cons"qu&oUy as lon betore any system of American pr,;iCy connected with f, could bare entered inr to tbe n ind of mortal; the vhseurebcy, Andrew Jickson, "m do email degree iu.bibed his views ef caniihuiioual power aal American plhcr,' ia ths limes, and frotti theiagfi of the revolution. This Malar ment of tbe Genera', is too ridicob-Jaly absurd Si improbable to de?rve comment: But admiiting tho existence of tba Constitution (which is not true) ''in the times of the revolution" and that the constitutioual powers of the Government werft then set'.isd, and a system of American policy developed, witb whom of ihe sngs of th. te "times" did lh: vbzeure boy, between the age of 8 nod 1(3 year, cssociate, 1 3 hear 4,c jsons" on t'oose sublime subjects, As he has bsen eniphal'srAlij siiled, the Hemo of two wars by bis ad ilators, and that be entered the ranks of ths soldiery at an unusually esrly age, and continued in that association ur.til peace took place; in this association; whatever number of h:tucs might luve been bis coin panions, we should suspect that he met with but very faw sages. Of all the wretched blunderers, and seif-committing wtiters we have ever met witb, Gm. Jaclcnc is at the head; and W have often thought, if we were to judg by bis writing, that he bad blundered iat his military successes, rather than that ha ha achieved thea: by superior skill it generalship. We would net, however, if we could, pluek a singiG feather from the cap of his just, military fame. Bemj endowed with ao intellect peculiarly military in its order and geniu, fiited to the noise of wsrand deadly bti ife, and having acquired ao adequate koowieda of milu tary tactics, a class of taclios best suited to bis genius, in addition to military habit formed in early life, hi skid oud valor have been croWned wiih access: Let him wear the laurels he has wi,n in (ha sanguinary field; as they are the only lau. rels that ever crowned, or will ever crowti his head, and wc cauaot wish to plunder him of them. We do r.ot say the or':tr boy by xv&i of contempt. The idea is not a creature of our owu: we have borrowed it from his partisan eulogis's, who, to aud 1 nature; to his character have told the world that "by the energies ofhlsown mighty mind; he has raised himself from deep obscurl.

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