The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 5, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 September 1828 — Page 2

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Secretary, but out of kindness to the general, admitted the member who had presented the memorial, to withdraw it this lie did, and in a short time afterwards the same paper was ngain offered to the Senate, correct«d by a ••friend on the spot, some of its

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vulgarities and rude epithets

wpre expunged,

reance of Jackson's rage, or on live ether to forego and disregard the sacrcd irjunctions-of an oath,and the solemn obligations of the.r official dutv. Fellow-citizens, I was your

re5resentat»ve,

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did I

This report

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its course billingsgate

.:*• stvie somewhat chastened ^aud imProved, and in this shape it was read and presented, and thus it has been passed off upon the world as the genuine production of the head and heart of Gen Jackson

rrhose,

I was

and I had voted for

the war, I had voted for the means of carrying it on, and felt the full -weight of my responsibility imposed upon m*, by the important situation in which I was placed, for the success of thrtt war, ia which I had contributed to tnvoive my country, no man living felt a-greater or deeper anxietv and I aver in the sincerity of my *oul, that I never indulged a teeing jn relation to generS Jackson, other tnan gratitude, tliauklulness and r.riue. for the part he tnok in fighting The battles of our country, and advancing our national fame—and with

undertake

vestigating his official conduct on that occasion. But sucii were the disclovires made, in relation to his conduct iu the course of that esatninptidn, and such the outrageous conduct of the man himself, that to have been silent on that occasion would been a dereliction of duty, and Un\e "surrender of the civil authori ties of our country into the hands of a military despot.

Such "was the opinion of the committee, and they toek the r«.*ponsibility of saying so, in the form of a riport,-b-.it in that report there is not au allegation slated bnt what is sustallied'by undeniable facts, nor is it couched in terms, illiberal, harsh or severe bi'4t in those of temperancc. sobnety atfd moderation.

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V' It is uot my object to animadvert noon those strictures at Urge. When they were first presented for publica tion they contained language too gross aud abusive to be admitted into toe' columns ot'auy -decent papei, an was not until after much pruning aud correction that they oMamed a (ilt.ce in the "Intelligencer." In Uke man ner, at the -commencement ot «he next session of CongPess, (181- ,) Gen. Jackson (havipg had the whole summer for preparation) sent a memorial to the Senate of the States this was a second edition of the €iricteres, and couched in language so in--i decorous arid abusive that the Senate did not allow it to be read by the

however,

who wish to see the original in its deformity, (for it can still be decipher e'H wilt find the paper on file in the office of the secretary of the Senate —or as general Jackson said (in the

of the six miiitia men) yishould

be there 'f1 .*

seems to be a sinking tnu

"the character of Gen Jackson, as it has been in the character of every rant,

not

to admit their infallibility

to be questioned, nor to ailow any man to speak of them.but in terms of adulation and flittery, and those who liave been hardy* enough to venture

on a different course have'had to encounter their vengeance This was my situation, and inat of

majority

of the committee of the Senate -who -.were charged by that body -with the investigation of Gen. Jackson's conduct °They wer* compelled to haz avd on the one hand the lurv and

*nHi feelings and an anxious wish ington," merging his lofty oharactei fo uistifv bis conduct in the Seminole, into that of a pitiful village gossip. it. N

compatible with my duty,)

the painful

taskof

will be found in Niles

Register vol 16s page 33 I pray you. frllow-counirymen, to examine it dispassionately, and to bear in mind that general Jackson was a military olficer, and as such held strictly subordinate to the civil authorities of our country, ami that in accordance with this fundamental principle, general Jackson w^s, by an act of Congress, made liable toba%cnshiercd or othernise 'punished by court martial for s'ueakiw disnspcctfnl or contemptuous words of either house, of Congress or the legislatures or governors oj the steles.11 Yet notwithstanding he^e solemn prohibitions and legal penalties the general is found indulging liimself not only in vulgar abuse and threats of personal violence, against committee

acting

under the author

ity and «s the organ of tbe Senate, butUis with great difficulty he is i)j evented from breaking into the senate chamber, with savage ferocity anil turning the sanctuary of the laws into an arena of "blood and carnage," as he had done, unto the lodgings ofTol Benton and the Tennessee judge, in the town of JSashville, on a former o(%slon.

And will recollect, fellow-cifi-

ecus

that all these outrages, caicuia-

fed to destroy the existence of civil iberty, were committed by genera Jackson without provocation, or an} rational case of anger or resent ment- What think you of such a

man?

Is he fit to govern otners-

who cannot or will not govern himself? and who, regardless of legal, moral and social restraints thus gives a loose to his fiery temper and unbridled passions?

Jask-

And although we find Gen son turned from his deadly purpose, for the time, by Corn Decatur an his other friends, still his design personal revenge remains unalterably fixed. He assails the committee, especially the chairman, through the medium of his strictures, were written at his lodgings in the language of a bulley not a gentleman they were sent to the printing office,, by two young men of bis staff or family, imbued wilh a full portion of his spirit These young men authorised Messrs G.iles and Seaton to give their names, as

responsible

heart, •fonsless, standing a frw va

for the

personal abuse contained in the

stnc"

t?ires, it is impossible to mistake Gen. Jackson's object in all this parade Ihese yonng men were but the "Henchmen" of a "mighty chief: The armour bearers of the modern Goliab, that were to hurl defiance at thecivil authoritiesof the country by such means the general expected to en^a^e the members of the commit tee5and their friends, in a personal broil, with himself and his nivrmi dons. Depending upon his skill in the use of deadly weapons, it seems the general intended to decide a gi eat constitutional question with the nation and the members of the senate, who had exposed his crimes and errors, in the manner he had previously settled a dispute at a Nashville horse race, between himself, Charles Dick erson, and two negro boy^- In this case he deliberately siiot through the de-

then (carrying his enmity yond the rrave) he "forbade the frieuds of this unfortunate mfin to mourn j'cv kirn, or mingle tlieir tears ot sympathy with those of his sorrowful wife and fatherless children!!!"

And in like, manner., and in a kindred spirit, it appears Gen. Jack sou's design was to wreak his personal vengeance upon the members of 'he committee, in the manner he had done upon Col Benton and others, or to provoke them to single combat, and thus to despatch them by his professional ckill as a duellist, nor would this hiive'filled up the measure of his implacable enmity, for we find him providing means tor carrying his resentment to the destruction'b} character as well as life.

He says in his strictures, speaking of the chairman dt the committee, "Mr "Lacock's sou was the contractor's agent and failed in supplying fort Scott, it has been

nor

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that ihc father was concerned in the contract—Here"we find the ''hero uf two wars, the compeer, of Wash-

It has been

irahnatcd, says the i-ene-

ral. This is the true gossip stjle & manner, the idle tattler alway* deals sly hints or "intimations"—sucn know that the tonguegander i* pro li!ic,tiiat an evil report, if started, in creases like the snow ball in iN progress. Nor was the general -disappointed in his expectations. -Ha*ingby "intimation'' propagated viiaf he knew to be false in relation to my Krister connection with Mr. Orr, in th*aruiy since proven, to tne contract,

his miuions have

the father

the slander, made criminal, but hi son

involved in the guilt, ibis youn man, it is said, was driven from th southern army with infamy and di •rrace, ike. &c.

I conjure you, fellow citizens, to! open the stores and burning the read impartially the following facts,! bake-house, &c —this statement heand decide for yourselves knew to be untrue 1 he cnarges

When general Jackson had made|tt,ade and the evidence tak.n by the and published the above mentioned court martial were before him, they charge against me, I repelled it instantly the same paper and in my own name, I provided, likewise, and nuhlishcd tne following deposition nf Col Grr, the contractor in question, and who was then mayorot the cifv of Washington. fVa hingtan county,

District of Columbia, toi»it

*Personally appeared before me the subscribe**, a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, Benj. Grr, and made oath ofi the Holy vangelitits of Almighty God, that Abner Lacock, late a senator of the state of Pennsylvania, was not diructly

indirectly,concerned w4th

him in any contract which. he had hnl with the war department, at any time, and particularly, *ith that for the

state,

ot Georgia, which the au

thors of the strictures oft- the report of the select committee, say, **it has heen intimated, that he was interested" in, neither was his son at all Concerned, turther than as an agent at a stated salary per annum.

deponent further says that a

few dajs, prior to the appearance of the strictures, ia conversation with prove the

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Gen. 'Jackson, on the subject^th' .eport of the committee ot the^ ate, he was asked by the General 1. Mr. Lacock, whe had been

entertained,

Dick^rson, dispensed vvith, when having closed

When accused of ordering John Harris and the o'ii»r militiamen to he s''0-, the gen-iui, to screen him seif ft-un le*. ^--d censure, wrote a etter ^ibiteil ^3rd ot June, 18-7\) to a friend Baltimore. (See Ntles' letter has been material

In is

lurni-:I«.l! (acts, to he a ti.sue falsehood.

many ne'v and cnlarge.l a.ldition4 ol (ro^n end to end he lu„t says he had

is not only! noli-.iog to do in the btiiiiiess was liai been

:*s

innocent as the resident of the

United States," la)s the blame, il the any there was, on General Winchesli^ ter, he charges the preacher Harris with robbery and arson, breaking

contain no allegation o* proof of the kind, all was a wicked fabrication! the bake house was never burnt nor had the unfortunate Harris any hand in breaking open ihe 9ture house— this has been abundantly proven. Was it not enough for Gen. Jackson illegally and cruelly to take tho life of Harris the preachsr, wn.», like the martyr John :dger^, another preacher, left a wife and nine children to lament his untimely end. Hard and indurated indeed must have been the heart of that man, who, the dav after the glorious victory ol Orleans, could have ordered to bt shot to death John Harris, leaving hitn only lour days tor preparation! b,ut still more unfeeling and inexorable must be the man, who could afterwards deliberately highten and aggravate the sorrows and anguish of the living, by falsely defaming the memory of the dead:—and yet it a melancholy fact, (which no decent man in his own name dare deny) that Gen. Andrew Jackson is tha man. .*

The next case I shaH mention general is destitute oi

fr„th

h,s

nt Fort Scott, was the son ator of that name, and on

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we red in the affirmative, he further asked if he might so state it, th ponent answered, thrt a fact ht might dispose of it as he.pleased, but thtt he could not perceive any con nection between it and the subjec of the report of the committee, an^ having 1een told that morning that a suspicion

(said

that.^"

Lacock had baeu a- partner in Georgia contract, the deponent 4oo that opertunity of assuring Jackson that it w^ wlwdiy wtthiut foundation, which the General admitted he was apprised ot, and turther the deponent saith notj

Sworn before me this 27th day 01 March, 18»19

JOSEPH roaKsr.

The above is the deposition of a gentleman whose veracity was never doubted, and it proves-conclusively, that General Jackson did.publish in relation to me what he knew, had acknowledged to Mr. -^r* few days before', tu he utterlybe and without foundation, ^-r.

A few observations are necessary in relation to Mr Lacock th- youn ger. He went to the south some time previous to the commencement of the Seminole war, an agent tor the contractor, was there during its con fimiarfice and remained in the discharge of his duties beven or eight mouth? after its close on his return Home, tie called at tne cty ot W a^ti* Hilton, wus recommended, h5*, states, byCol. Gibson, vvith whom he had served in tiie soutti, and received the appointment of military storekeeper. l'his wan a responsible situition. He was ordered to Detroit, where he served for several jears, d!td until those offices were by Lvv

and settled his accounts, to tne silisfiction of ad concerned, he retu. notne, r!ie c' i*rcctn"ss o! his moral 'a d's unimpaired, and His-character, ai 1 believe, uninipeached. iOere is not a man, who feeis th moral restraints ot truth, lienor, oi justice, that will.publish or propa ate, to the ingury ot hU neighbors' character, what he docs not with certainty knoto to be true. B'-it v/e find Gan. Jackson never hesitates, wtiep it answers his purpose, to assert or publish what he knows to be false He did sw in the case ju-t mentioned in relation to myself be did so when he asserted thai he would prove uy Mr. Buchauan, a corrupt bargain iiLd sale, between MeSsia. Adams and Clay, for Buchanan denied having aiiv knowledge ol the tact. The general tells us in Ins letter to Carter Beverly, that the fii'st time he mentioned tiiis corrunt bargain and sale, wn9 at his own taole at the Hermitage. The Uev* Mr. Wiley and many others have crrtrQed, that he told them the whole slanderous tale some time before:—and that from his own lip* it was made the subject '•f bar room and steam-ooat cuver nation This then was onother de liberate falsehood, written by Gen J.ick-i,"n.

I have before

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justice, or humanity, rs that of at l.ie Hern»:«aq-, ,hn yVoods. Tiiis was a youth !m hors struggling},,

than 18 years old. A short time .if- him these exhiubaa-i! ter joining the army as a militia »ab ^titute. he was placed on guard, go, leave of the officer on guard to ge* jv_ ini his Ureakfast, while c«u ordereed «i«ti curses by anotne, person

rv a WAV some bones anil filth from tiie camp, he refuafd, alled| in^ hiwas on EUi«l, an altercation took place, gen. Jack*m is called, swears horribly, orders "ten balls t°J? bhvm through the rascal, no bo dv was found cruel enough to shoot him, he walked to his guard o-a^e "up his gun to his captain, vvas arrested, tried by a court inartiai. and condemned to be shot. Great and almost universal exertions were made in the army, to

move

the gen

eral to pity and save the life of this tender and promising youth, who had previously sustained a fair character, but the stony heart of Jackson could not be softened. lie ordered him to be shot to death, and it was done.—-But the most detestable part of this transaction is yetto be stated: When gen. Jackson was charged in the papers, of inhruuvanity 'he ex ecution of this youth, be undertool to excuse or justify himself by pub* lishing a general order, said to have been read at the time, in this order he states thatk Woods had previously committed the crime of mu tiny and desertion, that he had been brought back and received a pardon from his general." Now, fellowcitizeus, what opinion can you form of the character *)t gen. ick%on. when you are informed, that what states were in his pretended gener al order, in relation to Woods' prrvious desertion, his arrest-and pardon, is totally ui.founded, and a sheer fabrication—and yet such is the fact, established upon by the testimony of James Harris, the captain of John Woods, and the mo«ter rolls «f his company, and likewise by the evidence of VVilban1 Steward, Joseph Alexander, Isaai Ande son, Abraham W hirtery, G«jo.

Btock, I homas Couch, ami Sam ue! Hanna all belonging to the same coin pan with Woods, and all^ testifving the same tact, that SV ood never was guilty ol, nor charged wifh, mutiny or "desertion, previous to the time when he refused to carry away the bones, and lor which he was shot and to confirm and fortify the evidence of these witnesses, (and to prove the fallacy of Jackson's charge on W oods,-) we have the testimony ot twenty-one respectable citizens of Tennessee, as vouch era for the good bility of thu.-ie wi

publication and comment, ,,{Mrd„u,

cases, founded upon incnntest ble evidence, and all going to prove that gen Jackson (apart from his other crimes and follies,) indulges, without the compunctious visitings of conscience, in tne dangerous and contemptible vice of speaking* wntinw and publishing what he knows to be destitute of truth or rmlity.

I shall not however fartner connue t» multiply proof or narrate in sickening derail additional facis Tof iove who con-ider mural purity, fi tfMitv and truih, m-cessary prere uotes in cur chief magistrateenough has been said to baniah from their minds, forever, the choice oi gen. Andrew Jackson l\ith those who think that personal courage an military bravery in a civil ofliccr. should -compensate for t.ie absence of everv social and moral virtue, it, is* in vain to reason, and a natio/. thus infatuated, mu^t b*». left (unless providentially saved) to perish in their sins.

I am. fe I low-citizens, your's See. A LACOCK. Spring Dale, Jiug 1 IS^S._^

Bearding the Lion in his den.—The^ Tennessee (lvnoxviile) Uegivter thu.« replies to tne vulgar remarks of a Jackson paper, published in the same town

Now^f these gentleman editors will* assert generally that general Jickson is better qualified than Mr. Adams tliat point we will discuss .vith uiem. If they will deuy spe cilicat that gen. Jackson was a land jobber and swindler, on that point we will meet them. If they will deny that j^en. Jackson was employed as a lawyer to foteclose a mortgage, and in that foreclosure he lelt a chasm, rhrough which he afterwHrds\'ntered to speculate on those who first employed him, we will take issue with iim.— If they will deny that whei 'he nation just got through with tuv late war, and when tiie private sol diers were disbanded and sent adrift fo work or starve, and when we were essed to the earth with direct taxttion, general Jacksou maintained lis rank lor six years as Major General in the army, receiving during that time all the emoluments ot tlu office which amounted to something iike geveu ur eight thousand dollarvear, and this in time of profouiu p«mce and while he was living quicv-

ra}H

to be on officer.) locar-

nothing. De'iy thos,.--.vill take i»sue with y(n, J-ihn Wuodo. au

meet VOU4-.

son in his sentence ti» to die, incorporated

that'Or

cruelly an-l il!e^iiv a a a ii

ew'i-

general

iy that

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mto

tence a falseliood. by a^prt:" Wotids formerly deserted, 'h1''!1?1 and we will prove that for tl1P°^ pnseo? throwing

shield

himself, general Jackson ,li(jU, porate into the sentence

Siiy

that general

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which he passed upon him,

hood which lie must hive knu^' the time was such l)etly prime of general Jdckso,^

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spent in gambling, in duHii,',.. cock-fightin», and horse racin^\,J we meet you. D*nv that' concerned in the ilurr against his country, and yon./»J)eny that gpneral J-icks^ in favor ot a standing army of peace, and we'd h«a(| ny that ei:eral J.itkxjo while !j0Vf|" nor of Florida, for o»ly

|UI,

ciarged us one thousand dollars upwards for the

Si^e a,,Jr^.

.vine. Deny these tf.in^^in(i|j

Jackson

Tiie

Is a^'

conomical Republican, & wenlck ourselves to prove the facts cW4 against him, and then we will let't^ people infer who is the Kt kenub. Iican, Adams ur

Jackson."

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Reporter ot the 13tH....

holds the following extrauaUnary language, with respect toK^-Vorj-'•And if there slioulci be any doubt ••bout the election of general Jackson, when the Legislature convenes in September, the electoral law will be altered from districts to a general ticket. l'his will satire tho whole thirty -six votes of New-York, for Andrew Jackson."

It was not to be supposed that any mail would have ths harthiu to assert a doctrine so monstrous, or that any part.vj however deeper.ite, would avow, much less justify it.

The contiary, however, is tiie fact, The editor no doubt speaks fromau--thority. He is a men.her cf the central committee of the Jackson party at this place, and has lately returned from New-York. Ai he is there, fore learned ou tiie subject of New. York politics, and acquainted with, the plana and policies of i.is pirtv, we may rely \^ii!i safety oil bis assertions.

The paragraph is intended to in* struct his party, that it the eicctions

character and.ere4i- jm the states ofLouisiina. ^tauj itnesses and Indiana should result favo.Oi me and' marlc-d f„r tiie adminutration pj-tr aaa teeov the election of tne hcrflbt -Mfc

t!lat

!:he

theo the l^»!at«re

of New-York, for the purpose Selecting him (Jickson,) rigiit or wrong, wil! usurp the people's r: li. of electing by districts, and compe*hem to elect by general trc-cot, astu Pennsylvania. Tut fbjoct

for or against a era tV.

suui a

"novement cannot be iRisidiveiii is here distinctly av.iweil, as well 35

ft^r that gives it '.nstance. will b^ recollected that at tne^ $ election in 18*2-4, in l^cto^s were electetl fy 'f55,a •urc by general ticket, t:iat vote of the whole stite

ei'je'

nurel). :er,

I lie following or sejwd

vc3,

by an act of Ike ItpW""* no on

in act of the legislature. Ic of ckction bj 5«

fra

mer and desired they deemed the preterat"*electingcf Under th\s follows the people ha*®

,,:iad an ekction, aail

opportunity of testing Jacksonites now k'tow siiajocity of the ekciiirf1 that state will be gi"" ams, if the people »tro

vote under the present wish the legislature (a

was ot both purtie9, Ofcause the peopledkf latter, mo lie c'

altered by the common coJrf'n nth n^rtie9. to elect by l,lv" dislikeu tih1-

ne.!r\..*Di»

y'^^,

wtiich are J«cksun

M)eilvit

a vote by district*, with t-J

Jiey

may

wye

give the

state to him, winches ing to the people of tna are not to be truste u» is

in wliolii or i» 1*' .^

for Adams,

if we make you vote by

uU.

et we can sink your vote jority for Jackson. Thus far luve tl ed. Their intention is understood to be a ^tlam3 ift on the supporters of that state. pleaded. 4 No pie on th desired by them

11: -1 tf

aVOw*',

tlier publitlV no A" ft

from

,— No clia"se." oeople on the subject.

i.,, rart hv tiiem.

orl.,i)

(lift a

.»nly in the fact

lJ. nUle»»

ihe legislature iare Javkbecome alarmed di

nave itc fortunes

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ut tneir tv

•i»ei'f 90!'''®

tt e_

trie11

hat unlew tley itJi»b ,r device, .Iclrau, ,f tlieir iiglitb. au

,he vole ol lint er oust sink and tail iu ADfttt this

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