Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 22, Richmond, Wayne County, 7 August 1824 — Page 1

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PRESIDENTIAL.

From the Cininnnti Gazette. j GENERAL JACKSON,

The rights of suffrage. 1 is not generally known to the freemen )hio, that Andrew Jackson, who has 3 erroneously designated "the people's Uintc," in the convention in Tenneswas warmly opposed to the general tof suffrage. He wished none entitled he dearest privilege of freemen (the it of voting for those who arc to govern Ii) unless they were freeholders, and ied a certain quantity of land. How y of Gen. Jackson's supporters in this 2 would have the privilege of voting him if none hut Freeholders could vote? ii the zealous Editor of the Nat. Repub3 would be disfranchised. Let the ti)f pepfe's candidate, therefore, he no jer applied to one who was the warm xate of so aristocratic a measure. I the Pae speak in a voice of thunder 'say they have no such candidate. it! are the poorer class of people, who tthe battle of their country, who pay f hard-earned pittance to support the .rnmeiit, not to he entitled to the privof saying who shall govern them ? As J miglit we have an hereditary monh, if tfie majority of the people have no ;e in electing their rulers. Our governT. would he in everv sense of the won! Jpletely Aristocratical ; the minority "jld rule. It is useless to argue to the icmen of Ohio, t!iat the right of suil rage m inestimable blessing. They know it;' 1 will resign it only with their lives. t them distrust those politicians w!io )rcGen. Jackoa unfriendly to free and restricted suffrage, and vet wish to force 3 upoti the people as th;ir candidt:ie.iuu 2 true and genuine Republican. When i people of O iio exercise the right of 2emeu at the next Presidential election, them remember Andrew Jackson, who ;uld deprive them of it. SCYE VOLA.

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i From (he Cincinnati National Crisis. x. Editor, 7hen letters are published to the world, rportinglo be the correspondence of dis!guishcd individual, they are to be tana genuine until the supposed authors 11 think proper to disavow them. Whater motive may have first brought to the fblic eve those letters which passed in the Jar 1817 between him who now is Presint of the U. S. and Gen. Jackson, who :aspiring to that station, there are sentip;.ts developed in one of those written by

t heneral, which should put the freemen

this country on their guard in their

ice of a man to fill so high and respon-

leanollicc. It, by mischance a man of lent arid arbitrary principles shall be e-

tJe d, a man who disregards the forms of

jw and the spirit of our constitution; the j'.rties of this nation, our hard-earned.

T-bought liberties, the happiness of us

) i ot our children, may be bartered away r the splendorof what some will be pleas- ) t call an energetic, government. As the advocate often gains much illll, because he guards a bad man's rights ) a court of justice, so it is hazardous to X'nment en even the worst of sentiment-, they have been uttered any way in opiitlonto a cause that merit !i uisapprobap. But the Judge ought to be impeachi i i i . . '.

h iio siiouiu punish the t notorious

defactor without a tiial. It isnomatter hat may have been the object of the Hart-

hd Convention, nor what specious pref1 ye may be sought to sap the principles f freedom on which these republics are Jhlt. Men have a right in this country ) ineut and consult, to mention the tv-

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It is the priv ilege of an American to think and to speak without molest so long as he demeans himself in a pe hie and orderly manner. It is a priv for which our lathers forsook their na' country; for which they flew to arms the war of the Revolution: and for wh we.their children will, be alwavs readspill our blood while the spirit shall tinue to exist,wbich animated themin that have .gone by. Who is he thai dare to bridle .the thoughts and feelit the citizens and curb their resentme the force of military power? Who? is "free to declare, had lie commande. military department where the Ha: Convention met, if it had been the hi; -of his life, he should have punishea three principal leaders of the party;" ; that he "is certain an independent c martial would have co; damned then; der the 2d section of the Act establis rules and regulations for the governrr of the army of the U. States?'1 Gene Jackson is the man. These princip would suit the atmosphere of Turkey mui better than that of America; and yet ti man who has avowed them is offering hit

self for the highest station in our repul-

can government. Turkey, abject and d graded by despotism, might tolerate th military officer, who should act in confor mity to the General's sentiments: but sure am I he would not be tolerated here. I appeal to the spirit of the nation, whether we would submit if the experiment were .made, to .any military officer who should attempt to institute this trial by a courtmartial, for the sentiments we entertained or the speeches we may have uttered. Our lives and fortunes are not subject to the tyranny of such a mode of trial, either under the control of an inferior olhcer or the commander of a department. We hold them by a moresacred and substantial tenure, that of the constitution and the laws. What! by a court-martial, which is intended merely for the preservation of discipline ai.io..g oldier; ti v the common citizens for their riots, thr-ir seditions, their conventions and debates! Draw off the cognisance of crimes from the civil to a military tribunal! Change the laws to which we are amenable! And, in short, subject the civ il to the military power! We ask Gen. Jackson, and his adherents, who, without thought or fear are pushing their idol into office: tell us if such thoughts could enter his head when he is only the commander of a single department, what would he do when commai der-in-chicf of the land and sea forces of the nation with the sword in his hand and a thousand ollicers in his gift? We call upon him, who is held forth, for the protection of our liberty and laws, to atone for his political a-po-tacy, before he can expect the support of sober-minded voters.

But perhaps this is all unjust; since", if

there were such a law, the General might put it in execution. Peihaps this 2d section of the Act contains some unconstitutional clause, which might seem to confer the power that has been pretended. It relates then, to the punishment of a spy, who lurks about the camps of our armies to gain information for the enemy, and according to the sanguinary rules of war declares, that he shall sutler death. "Not a citizen of or owing allegiance to the government, " he enters our lines in time of war, and must sutler for the rashness of his attempt. What connexion has this with the punishment of tiio-e who art; "citizens of and owe allegiance to the government," who perhaps hold high stations in the coun

try, and are bound to do it by every tie of

interest and of sympathy? By the constitution of the U. S. individual security is fenced about u ith every precaution which the great and good men who formed that instrument could devise. It is declared, that no person shall be convicted of treason, except on the testimony of two witnesses, testifying to the same overt act, or by voluntary confession in open court. And the right of trial by a jury of the stale and district, where an offence shall have been commits d, is declared to be inviolate. If the citizen is accused of treason, he is secured by the letter of the law. He shall therefore be charged as of a different offer.ee. and that which, in the reign of the Edward's ahd the Henry's was arbitrarily made treason, shall now be -construed into a crime, which is rendered cognisable by the military tribunals. The citizens of this republic should protest aguhibt such doctrines; and the writer of

asupeiciDic oojt, ... et' sions. And we suspect when Wa'-'u-ton's troops were marching to the v torrushthat r beilion.Mo! sieur was thiing of an rlcvntvm quite different from proposed by King Caucus. Speaking the Caucus Adieus which was sent fo with the nomination, the Boston Couriet Crawford paper, thus holds forth in rer to Mr. G. "We respond, most cheer the expressions of the committee's lie that it is unnecessary to speak of Moj)s; Ga!iatm' r.oble deeds in the times 1 tried men's souls. It is altogether r less to talk of non-entities. It woub much more profitable to go back to vrhisK u nbclllmiw Pennsylvania, and how"noblv he stood by" the insurg. and with what "unrivalled ability" he deavorcd o'stp dc zeclsnf dc govern xt. To the emphatic question, at t lie close the above extract, we answer, asemprr ically )Vs; and we answer,in the name the whole lmerum people. It is ' great a reward for anyyregncr, though services exceeded those of Mr. Gall an hundred fold, to seat him in the C f the Second Magistrate of this Repu If the fortunes of Mr. Crawford are to identified with those of this insurgent ' eigner, he must not expect, nor can l true American wish him to succeed." jY. Y. spectator.

From the Cincinnati Gazct' Going, Going. The Philadelphia St; man, a paper of considerable political tluence, and hitherto a warm supportc general Jackson, has recently deserted cauce. This is the second public jour in Pennsylvania we have heard of that ha bandoned the Harrisburg candidate.Many others are wavering; and many dividuals of high standing and politn weight, are beginning to despair of t General's election. The Statesman hasa long article r-n subject, which concludes in the folluwi words: "Every week brings intelligence some newspaper, and every day of soi individual, w ho has abandoned the cac of Jackson. The few public meetings th have since been held for him have genera been .abortions. In Salem, N. J. the were less attended than signed the ca It may now be considered as a moral ce tainty, that whoever votes for Jackso throws his vote away. He has not t least chance of the electorial vote of a New England state, New York, New J sev, Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky, Ob Indiana, Delaware, Missouri, or half Maryland. These constitute about t thirds of the electoral votes of the Uni so that it is certain the General cannot chosen by the people; and if the elect! goes to the House of Representatives, i. a well known fact that the members fr but six states out of twenty-four will vc for him under any circumstances, great has been and continues to be change of public opinion, that it is i even doubtful whether he will receive i votes of Pennsylvania or Alabama. ' Taking into view these considerat wc say, that as democrats, we cannot s-