Indiana Palladium, Volume 3, Number 48, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 8 December 1827 — Page 1

EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Bar tow. ' ' . . M Volume III. LA WRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8,1327. Number 48.

FROM THE RICHMOND WHIG. TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA. No. IV.

Which of the two, Adams or Jackson?

has given the strongest pledges of a

wise and faithful administration of the duties that belong to the Presidency? What constitutes a pledge of the char

acter referred to? Qualifications and Services. The gualijicalicms of the two have already been put in contrast; and it is fearlessly assumed that no unprejudiced mind will hesitate in giving the preference to Mr. Adams. Let us now see how the account stands between them as to services. In reference to the office for which they are named, can there be a doubt as to the superior services of Mr. Adams? For forty years with but a short interval, he has been engaged in those public employments, abroad and at home, which were best calculated from their nature to render him familiar with the official duties of a President. Jackson's pursuits on the contrary, have been such as to exclude him from a practical knowledge of those duties; and at the age of sixty, it is too late to commence the acquisition of that knowledge. If Jackson gained the battle of New Orleans, Adams has served you faithfully for forty years. Shall the fortunate result of a battle, the fruit of a few weeks' services outweigh, in the judgment of the people of Virginia, a whole life of useful labors in important civil stations? If this be the scale of rewards, farewell to peace and its blessings! How foolish for a man to devote his life to the toilsome drudgery of civil duties! Let him at once buckle on his armor and draw his sword, since it is to that, and thnt only, he must look to win the approbation of his fellow citizens! But are we yet prepared to avow this pernicious doctrine? The partisans of Jackson

carefully avoid all discussion on principle. They content themselves with

shouting 'huzza for the Hero!' My fellow citizens, wisdom and experience

have left us a homely but valuable adage,

'Let well enough alone. iou have already had the benefit of an actual trial of Adams. Why dismiss him to try another? In the result you may lose, but cannot win. Do you play this losing game in private life'? 1 answer for you, no.

spontaneous respect. Your prudence,

your dignity and patriotism, stood sponsors for this homage. But how is it now? Your Governor with a wilful purpose descending to a grovelling mis

representation of the words of the chief

magistrate of the United Slates and with an impious mockery seeking to pervert a simple declaration of his respect for the solemn obligatiou of his official oath, in a foolish and treasonable assumption of power. Lt us fellow citizens.

relieve ourselves from li e :rr putation tf participating in this abai:.g act, by an indignant frown on its author. What other objection has been urged against Mr. Adams? That he has said that he has power to appoint Ministers during the recess of the Senate. So said Washington; so said Jefferson; and so said Madison and Monroe and the) exercised the power the Senate of the United States, on argument, deciding that it was a necessary and constitutional power. But Adams it has been said, has received more of our money than he was entitled to. A reference to Monroe's allowances, as settled by Congress, themselves, will show that Adams has received les than he did for the same services. Can you censure Adams without censuring Monroe and the Cdngres9 who thought the allowance but scanty justice to him? I have now, I believe, gone over the whole list of objections to the present incumbent: let us turn our attention to those against his competior. To re

count the whole of these would be tol

write a volume. I shall confine mvself, therefore, to some of the most prominent. He has excluded a Legislature fro-n the hall of its sittings. He has arrested, paraded through the streets under a tile of soldiers, and threatened with fi gibbet, the venerable Judge of a national Dis

trict. He has insultingly told the Chief

Magistrate of a State, that he had no right to issue a military order while he. was in the field. He has abridged the liberty of the press. He has disregarded the writ of habeas corpus, designed for the protection of the citizens from

lrbitrary oppression. IIp has wnped

war against a neutral power, in the face

of his instructions. He has exercised

the power of life and death on prisoners.

in contempt of the decision of his favor

ite tribunal, an "independent Court

Martial." He has openly directed the

othcers under his command to disobey

a9 their king, you may soon have reason to repent, and to regret the peaceful administration you have so unwisely aban

doned. I can scarcely think that a ma

jority of you can wish, that this act had

been perpetrated, and Congress expelled from their sittings unless, indeed you belong to the school of a modern orator, who sees nothing objectionable in

Caesar's usurpations, on the liberties ofi

his country, and whose morality converts this monster into a patriot, and Brutus into an assassin. A FARMER.

fcrson and Madison were beset by a com- that should increase his admirers? I ar

the skies?' In plain language, an ob

servatory. That is, Jefferson having caused all instruments necessary for

such an establishment to be procured.

at an expense of some ,50,000, Adams

recommends the building of a house, to

cost about $10,000 in order to render

the instruments available, and hereby

relieve us from the colonial badge o

locking to England for our astronomica

science. He has recommended the es tablishment of an university in the Dig

trict. Washington with the consent of Congress, selected and eet apart in the city of his name, a site for that purpose;

and Jcfherson and Madison recommended its improvement. He is a friend to internal improvement. Jefferson and Madison both declared that the exercise of this power would have the hap

piest influence in preserving this union.

But you are not satisfied with Adams.

Why? I pass over the foul calumny of the orders of the President of the United

jus getting into office by 'bargain, in

trigue and management.' If the com

bination thought they could balance that

account at present without lose to them

selves, I am persuaded they would be

glad to compromise. No man who respects his own character, or your justice

and detestation of unmanly persecution.

will ever again recur to this ground of

objection. This, then, removed, what are your other obiections to Mr. Adams?

He has recommended, 'light houses of hanS whom he pleased : for if he could

States. He has threatened to enter the

halls of the National Legislature -to cut

oil the ears of Senators who presumed

to inquire into his conduct. He has in

flicted death and . ignomineous and de

grading punishments, upon hundreds of

militia, aganst all necessity and against all law. And he has deliberately an-

noonceu to h,s countrymen, tlm ,1 be 50 rontrary , ,vhat has' w.lled; itm the absence of law. he could from ff t nQ find a sanction 'under the 2d fcclion,- to from ,hj, , T

feel justified in hanging in the case referred to under that section, every man

must admit that no case could occur in

which he would not find the same justifi

cation. Now, take one of these offences com

mitted by Jackson, and weigh it rmpar

TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGLXL1. No. V. The question has been often asked us and really I have never seen it fairly answered why we seek to eject Mr. Ad ams from office at the end of one term contrary to the usage established by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, each of whom was elected for two terms? The inference too plainly to he drawn from our violent opposition to Adams -since his Administration has hjen conducted in the true spirit of his

predecessor i?, that he is not one of

a, not a Virginian, but a Yani'ee! If

this be if p.lly the only ground of our opposition, it is far more dishonorable to us than to him.

There is no part of the Constitution,

perhaps, which more fully vindicates 'he wisdom of its authors, than the arrangement of this delicate and difficult

subject. It was found by those sages,

that the election of the President, who by his power of appointment was to be

a dispenser of honors and emoluments,

would he productive cf consequences dangerous to our peace, and even to the duration of our free institutions The

term was therefore properly limited to

lour years. Usage came in aid of the

constitutional provision to re-elect for a

second term. While the violence cf

contending parties was diminished bv

the shortness of tne term prescribed by the Constitution, and a wholesome check

reserved to the People against misrule on the one hand, on the other, the usage established by such high authority offered every inducement to the individual who held that eminent station, to discharge his duties with fidelity; so as to merit a re-election; and re-election in such case has seemed to follow as a thing of course. The advantage of this is, that, instead of oue continued conflict between rival

candidates for the office, the public

mind is permitted to settle down in com

posure for eight years, and for that peri

od to devote itself to the furtherance of

the business and the intertfet of the na

tion.

What has been the practical result 6(

this usage? Let every man s recollec

tion, and our history answer. On the

already occurred

now making to depart

will be found in the sad condition of society, a I have endr-avored faintly to depict it in my introductory number. Violent excitement being necessary to change the settled usages of a country

usages which hae been founded in'

bination like that which now exists, to ob

struct the salutary measures of their administrations; when some of the most des

perate malcontents then as now, threatened disunion rather than submit to their Governments, they cordially supported our Virginia Presidents; they sustained them with fidelity and zeal, and we passed the perilous crisis in safety. They say to us, and they say truly: 41 We, af ter indulging you for thirty-two years

out of the thi rty-six since the adoption of

the Constitution, have placed one oi our own citizens in the post of honor and how have you treated him? What return have you made to us for our cordial support of the citizens ofyour choice? We speak not of those reckless disorganizes who foretel disunron, and rejoice at its approach, publicly declaring that they prefer George the Fourth to a Yankee President; nor of those who proclaim that thev will not nav tribute. I

j i j is a matter of indifference to them whether Old or New England shall be our carriers. But we speak of the unkindness and hostility of the great body of your citizens; who, though stopping far short of these extravigancics, still so far unite with their authors as to give them countenance and support. Had we so acted for we, too, had our demagogues in the days of Jefferson and Madison, what

would have been your fate? What reply, my fellow-citizens, can we make to this severe, but deserved reproach? I know of none. The

existence of this Union, let me as

sure you, does not depend on parchment

tuit in cherishing kind and brotherly feelings, in a spirit of compromise, dispensing with equal hand, as far as prac

ticable, honors and benefits. We sure-

Iv have our share of these. But if, when

ever another portion cf the Union claims

its equal rights, we are to array our selves in opposition, and threaten disun

ion, because the men and measures are

not our own: it men inculcating these

councils are to direct our destiny;

then, indeed, we have arrived at the point foretold by Washington, and against which lie lifted his paternal and warning voice then indeed, our days, as a free, united, and happy People, are numbered.

There is nothing to me so abhorrent, as the sight of a little strutting politician,

wise in his own concert, and talking of

disunion as of an cvery-day trilling ccrurlence. Such men, when the disasters which they have contributed to produce have arrived, are always the first meanly and cowardly to shrink from the. storm. Next to those in contempt is the man

who with talents for better things, and

knowing the di?irracc and mischief

which he must produce, can sit calndy down and indite a string of disorganizing Resolutions, intended to operate ex

clusively to his own aggrandizement,

which he knows may be cflected in the temporary excitement which they en

kindle. Such characters as these, however they may prosper for a time, and seem to have reached the fruition of their hope?, must at last sink into contempt and infamv. I ask you, my fellow-citi-

r v - If i'aii in frtllr ,T7 c 1 1 s 1 1 murine?

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course, winch arc resorted to . ... . " ,

tiallv aeainstthfi whnl lUt fnhWiinn .t ' r.i ; hero-' who mane up in noise ana cia-

to Adams: ask von tn rLiv ;fL.i :.i..r ,i .,i L f mor, what they lack in reason; and, who

. - j 7 viuiuiu it i ai iu iiiut (tiiMiMt l.l lit I'll. 1 1 ' i tiiiu niir i ru-

swer fearlessly that he has not. It is the

duty of every man to think that upon his single vote depends the happiness of his country. Let him reflect, that majorities are made up of individual?. Let no man, therefore, reason with himself that his efforts will be vain; but let him think that treason to his country may consist as well in'acts of omission, as of commission. Let those who ei j y the confidence of iheir fel?ow-ciiiz-ns, becaue they deserve it, appreciate the magnitude of the occasion. Let them mingle with their less intelligent feIlow-ci:izen$ and explain the nature, and the probable result of the contest; and summoning together all who are opposed to the election of Jackson, whether few or many, in their respective counties, appoint one or more delegates to meet in Richmond on the Jirst of January next, to deliberate oil the great question, of zchoVirginia shall sup' port for President.

I he advantages of such a measure arc

obvious. First, you relieve the mem

bers of the Legislature from a service which docs not comport with their appropriate duties, and which produces disorder among the members, most un

favorable to a wise legislation; and, se

condly, because the representation is so

unequal, that the voice of the majority may be controlled. Is it not enough that the minority control in the Legislature of the State; will the majority also surrender to the minority the high privi

lege of electing the President olthe United States? And it may be added, that

this proposed body ot Delegates, thus convening, will be able to bring togeth

er the views and wishes of the People of

V lrginia, and so to regulate their acts by existing circumstances, as to promote

and answer the best interests of the

State in other important concerns. if I am answered, that sudi a step would be vain, I deny the conclusion., eonscientiovsly believe that a mcjority of . onr citizens are opposed to the election cf

Jackson. Activity and concert of ac tion

mr are all that is necessary to make mani

fest this majority. By this step your foim a rallying point tlu indolent and despairing are roused into action the public mind is brcught, to think and I doubt not the best cense queneo w ill be the result. But suppose we fail? We shall find a consoiatii n, in after times in having done our duty. To do nothing, is in ellect,as pernicious and as dishonorable, as though we lent our whole force to the election of Jackson. To do our duty in endeavoring to pre vent this calamity, to ward off this 'curse7 to our country, is all that man can do. The blessings of Heaven is on him who exerts himself. f The sluggard is left un aided, to reap the fruits of his indolenceLet u?, then, my fellow-citizen?, arouse from our lethargy. Let us go forth and act as becomes freemen. The prize' is worthy of the greatest efforts. Let us look with confidence to the aid of Provi' dence. Let us pray that he may enlighten the minds of our fellow citizens and direct their footsteps and that a-s he has so often manifested his kindness to us in times of difficulty, he will again interpose and save us from a threatened curse. A FARMER.

it would not overbalance them all. Speak out honestly and franklv, con

jure you, in the name of that liberty of

which each man is in part the preserver. Look nt his threat to cut off the ears of a

Senator even those of our lamented

floating on the surface of the great

ocean of mankind, gather around them

pie become o accustomed to see the

plainest precept? of morality distorted

and perverted, that they can at last hear

tllll'Ul 1 I I U I t, i III I I I 'I I Mll IKUIIIII III IIC 1.1 I, .1 .1 . I

sentiment; that 'vdl s fair in politics. ' . . ' , .. . . A. . ii r.u i their duty, are swept a ong in the current for this lias been avowed by same of the .... . . . P , ' ? ....

Efpes! See him in the anti-chamber of Opposition. Nor are we left to the u" ue mi?ccl' uc.comcs ineyuaoie, ana the Senate, surrounded bv his borfvLii.nWn mnlnrfnrp ihr.tflm i. n m,.rJt,ie a,ar.m,nS cr' 13 heard through the

guard of aids and dependent?, belching; vaporing. Not many weeks have elapsforth his imprecations, and just ready to!c-.f since a foreigner cherished and honenter the door, when the patriotic De-ored by his adopted country, dared, becatur interposes, and declares if he oassJ ftlre aiY assembly of the Peonle. in the

The latter, in '96, recommended its ex-lit must be over his dead body. Bv this in-l nreenre of the constituted authorities ooJ at heart, have undertaken to warn

eicise in me esiaun&iiijieiii 01 a national , lerposilion alone was tne Senate chamroad through the whole extent of our'ber preserved from the threatened polcountry from north to south; and theilution. When vou have sufficient con-

former did actually exercise it in the templated this scene, let me ask you.

Justices. Four Justices for each town ar to be elected tt the next November elections. After their election', tbeir term of service is ta

land: Let every man save himself who

:an l

It is to avoid thi threatened mischief,

that f, humble as I am, but having your

great road from east to west. Congress

have in a hundred instances done the same. The people of the United States who made the constitution, have so interpreted it 'over and over again. Think you they will have a President

who differs from them? If a majority of

tne American people snouia ever be wrong, who, I pray is to sit in judgment on them? The minority? Reason, and the constitution both proclaim that the

majority should decide, and that their decision shall be sovereign. But Adams claims authority by divine right. So, at

least,. says our Governor Giles. Alas, Virginia, how have you fallen! The

lime has been, that when you spoke or

can this man be fit for the Presidency of to a separation! In this audacity we see

a free people? If you doubt the truth

of the story, besides several persons now living who wrere eye-witnesses of the dreadful spectacle, there are hundreds to whom Decatur communicated it, to

the sage counsels of the father of his country set at naught. He warned us against the coming of itich demagogues.

who would seek the accomplishment of

their own schemes by attempting the dis-

whom I could refer yon and amonglunion of the States. Will you ciin to

others, oicii Senator at least, who wasjthe advice of Washington, or will vou j l r t ii 1: r. c 11 ,1 J

worn, oeiore ne pui on ine nvery oi Jackson, in delineating the character of

his lamented and gallant friend, to dwell

with particular delight on this instance of his firmness and stern Roman patriotism. If you shall still, after this, regard

Jackson as the only man in the Union

whom you will have to rule over you,

be it so! but 1 fear that like the foolish

the scum and foam of the agitating; be designated by lot, the same a the Senators:

'Istorm: while the. more sedate and pru- ana one ,s lae e'ectea every y.r siter. "Iho

present themselves fit office," says the editor of tbe Black Rock GsZette, ' will be a roor interesting question than any connected with tbe former arbitary usages of party. A Justic is tbe conservator of the peact of community; be is a medium thro' whose agency honest men should come to their rights, and rank vilLny get its deserved or earned deserts; he is one standing in bold relief, as a terror to the ragrant, listless, idle, lazy, vifious, and vitube-'

rable characters, which infest, 'hang on th s'iirls uf, bife,tpoDge, and norrode, the popul

ation ot largo towns, or vex tbe communitr in

general. He should be in possession, of talents, legal acquirements (at least a gtlmber of an "old fashioned book " yclept Dhck Com.

proDny, inieiiigrnce. nrmness, aDd integrity, the shield of innocence, though squalled and raggedy be should lie divested of prfjudicc ; he should be clothed with wisdom. He eiihf

with propriety, have old age, wealth, and ease.

in reversion."

of one of the States of this Rennhlie. nnd!yu n tirm hefore the misfortune is up-

on us. I have found it the more neces-

mid arrived when the South mint Hp. sary to do so, because the watchman in

ride whether to submit to onnrrinn or whom we have heretofore confided, has

acted, your sister states offered theirjfrogs, who insisted on having the stork

follow this disorganizing demagogue.

this loreign exciter ct sectional prejudi

ces?

But to return to our old and faithful

servant, Mr. Adams. What has he done

amiss, that we should seek to degrade

him, and promote another? Our Re

publican friends of the East rebuke us,

and with some reason, for our selfishness

and ingratitude They tell us whenJef-

gone oVer to the enemy. We followed him, and believed him, when he told us that Jackson was too little of a statesman, too rash and violent in his temper, his measures too much inclined to arbitrary government, and that his election would be a curse to his country! But now

he cries aloud that all will be well, if

we elect this very man whose portrait he

0 faithfully drew. Can v:c trust him

- j

still? I confess that I cannot.

our citizens entertain the same opinion

of Jackson, which they some years ago

imbibed from the press that we were

pround of. His real partisans are fev.

How stood he at the last election with

Mr. Thompson, in his travels in South-

em Africa, mentions that in one of the inland settlements, at the Cane of Gon

. 1,, ii i 1 iiniT it.

We an Know mai a large majorny oi nope, mere is an immense S'jbtcrrane

us?And has he done any thing 6ince,l transparent.

ous cavern one of the apartments is

uuu icei in lengtn, too feet in breadth, and from 60 to 70 feet in height. The roof was adorned with the most snlcndit

stalactities, many of which were quitf.

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