Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 18, Vincennes, Knox County, 7 June 1828 — Page 1

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t BY EL1HU STOUT. V1NCENNNES, (IND.) SATURDAY, JUNE 7, '1828. Vol.. 19. No. 18.

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stood in the way of gen. Jackson's march. Whether gen. Jackson is the peoples favorite is to be tested by the event, not assumed as the basis of the pending election, i hat his plurality of votes proved him to be the choice ol the nation at the last election, ue confidently deny. It may perhaps be found upon

the expiration of the time subscribed ibr, will! examination, that while gen. Jackson had a

be considered a new cmraccmcnt: & no sub- S Puramy ol electoral votes, .Mr. Adams naa

sing circumstances, and, at last, gave it the public sanction ol general Jackson's name -Mr. Clay again publicly denied it, called for the proof, and challenged inquiry. No proof

has appeared to sustain it, no inquiry has been instituted, and now, in all its phases, it stands

his competitor, general Jackson, is not exposed to precisely the same objection. Wc do not vindicate these opinions, or discuss them, becaus z they fall within the interdict we have imposed on ourselves we differ in opinion concerning them. Nut wc will remind ycu that these opinions, whatever may be their merit, have produced but fevr

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Saturday, Dec 12. Mr. Johnson, from the committee to frame an address, then reported the following address and resolutions . TO THE PEOPLE OF V1RGIXIJ. Having been delegated, by those whooppose the election of Andrew Jackson, as president of the United States, and having assembled in the city of Richmond, pursuant to our appointment, and formed an electoral ticket, we feci it due to ourselves, to those who deputed us, and to our country, to sub mita brief exposition of our views on the vety interesting subject which has brought us together. It is no ordinary occasion, which, at this inclement season of the vcar, has bioupdit so

a plurality of votes at the polls ; and we are confident, that if Mr. Crawford and Mr. Clay had been withdrawn from the canvass, and the contest had been single handed between gen. Jackson and Mr. Adams, the election would have resulted as it has done, in the choice of Mr. Adams, Hut this is not the light in which this question deserves consideration. The minds of the people ought not to be influenced by such extraneous considerations ; and above all, the principles of cur constitution ought not to be abused by admitting lor a moment, that the plurality of the votes given to gen. Jackson, should have governed the choice of the house of representatives. We do not mean to sv, that a nrcner

respect for the wishes of the nation, fairly ascertained ought not always to be observed by

its representatives. Uut wc do say, that the present chief magistrate holds his scat by the will of the people of the U. States, regularly expressed in the only way in which an expression of that will has any authority. They have willed, in the most solemn form in the form of a consiuuion, which they declate shall be the supreme law of the land ; that a plurality of votes shall not constitute an election ; that when there is such plurality, the representatives shall elect, voiinp by states : thus withdrawing from the people that equality ol 'influence which is given them, in the first vote, and transferring it to the states in the second. This provision of our constitution is in the spirit which pervades the whole of it, and widen marks it the result of a con

reprobated, by a body of proof, so strong and j and unimportant acts, during the present adminso convincing, as to require from the least ; istiution ; and we will avail ourselves cf the oc-

charhable, its open dsavowal, and from the

most suspicions, a candid acknowledgment, that they have done injustice in even thinking it probable. It may not be unworthy cf notice, as one cf tire

means by which the public mmd has been prepi

casicn, to appeal to the good sense and good feelings cf Virginia, and invoke its influence, in tempering the asperity of party politics, and in securing to cv cry subject of national interest, a deliberate and candid consideration. We beg leave also to remind them, that the question of constist ilnf i ,TVil l.'iw .irul ctTff nrilirv rr.rr-frte ci.-iti

diced and inflamed, that opinions the most otkn-, thc sllhjtct arc important, delicate and of acsivc to a republican people, have :.;cen imwarran- j kno,vk.(hjcd difficulty ; that there are arrayed or. tably and uncamhdlv interred from seme oi thc i , r,n . 'i ..k

presider.'s communications to congress, and gravely imputed to him as doctrines in his political creed. lie has, on ne occasion, not, perhaps with strict rhetoric propiety, used the expression 41 palsied by thc will of our constituents" in reference to duties enjoined by the constitution. This phrase lias been torn from its context, mis-

riotism and talent, whose opinions should be examined with great consideration, and whose measures, if deemed wrong, after being judged with candor, should be opposed with reason, not with passion, with firmness, not with violence; thatthos- among us who dtny the constitutional power, and condemn the policy, should entitle

1 . , . . , . , . 1 . i our doctunes to respect, by the fairness of our the president is charged with tue heresy, that a i v t,w r. c , , , : 1 . .. .i -n r !ews, ana the iorcc oi our ressomng, and g:ve representative owes no obligation to the will ol ,,., , i , . i -.. , -l .t , weight to our opposition, by its temper and its us constituents On , another oo-as.on, incautious- : ly taking . tor granted, tha. every one w ould un- ; ro, c lhc poHcVf shouhi ob,erx e the most rederstand. tliat thc 1121 ohhr-it-.o'i ut an oath was . ...r , 1. r 1 ' r

111 any of us from our business and our homes.

"We believed that the dearest interests of our ference bet ween slates, surrendering in part,

country were at stake ; that her character, her and retaining in part, their political equality . .1 ! C1...11 m .1 1

peace and happiness, ami even thc perms

nencc of her free institutions, were in peril. We feared thc most pernicious consequences from the election of general Jackson, and wc have come to consult about thc means of aertirn? this calamity from our country. Wc

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Shall this spirit be appealed from, on every

occasion m which it was intended to sooth and conciliate, and thc spirit of f iction be invoked, to expose our magistrate to unjust prejudice, and bring our institutions into dit.cn (lit i These thinrs arc revolutionary in their tend-

believe that thc only means of effecting this ! ency. and ought to be discouraged.

pi eat object, is thc re-election ol toe present

chief magistrate: and have funned un elect oral ticket for that purpose, which wc earnestly recommend to thc support ol the people of Viiginia. Wc know that many of you rttonly disapprove some of thc leading measures of thc

Of like character is the complaint against

thc Kentucky delegation, for disivrardint thc instiuctions of their legisiatuic. We have too much respect for thc- legislature of Kentucky to suppose that they meant to bind the delegation by an inst uclion. Wcrsnrnly

suppose, that they meant to furnish lac bc.-i

"U1UU 110111 ueveune aga:u, pei :i .pb, , t, w)l(WKn-.,. frm " t1w.m v!irili,i r '

without much telic:-, ot pirate, mac,, an ol.'.w, suU thc b,ic ulcyt &ud tranquUily bv confi. though not avov,, . . reierence 10 his oath o;iice, I lh(!ir measures to ohicctsot acknow ledeeel as nnposing an 00. 0 .tion above all human law : ! :md .A intcrtstt bv into then, a snirand this retcrence is tortured into a public avow- 1 . fJ..,. int , ri . . n t, " , , ,. , , , 1 u ot e.VdCt justice, and by ooervinsr in all thmcs

was .vrt- u'ivino. If tliese hal been the taunts ' . 1

11. 111. tuui u cuiili 11 uu. Thus far we have endeavored to correct error and disarm prejudice, that reason might be left free, to estimate fairly, the present administration and its principal measures. Wc have cticred no panegyric on our present chief magistrate; we cheerfully leae you to estimate the value of his long and varied public serice, his great experience, his talent, his learning, and his private vii tues, and to set off against them whatever your

fancy or your judgment may find to blame, in his

and railing of anonymous newspaper scribblers, they won lei have been deemed unworthy of public notice. Bat when such charges are seriously made and reiterated, bv me n ho'dim' vs stations in thc government, and exercising some infiuencc oer public opinion, the" cannot he too st ron v c 01 d e n i ncd.

Mr. Adams, it is said, is friendly to a regulation ot the tariff of duties, with a view to the encouragement of American manufactures, and this is

cbmourously urged against him, as a serious ob- pri ate or publ'C life. When you have dene this.

jeetion, !)y those w ho seppcit thc election of gen.

Jackson. '1 his objection seems to have been treated, he-

tore th'; public, as if Mr. Adams were the found-

rctlect on the character cf the office you are a-

boi't to fill, inquire what feelings, what temper, what talents, what acquirements, what habits.

re best suited to the discharge of its high duties ;

administration have not confidence in it, and 1 mloi malum in their power, of ihe opinions of "would be exceedingly unwilling to sanction! the people, on a question which h;-d ncvot the nriucinlesof construction annlied by the ! been submitted to them. Such i'ormution

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resent chief magistrate to the constitution of

the United States. Hut wc do not perceive in these circumstances, any sufficient reason

was entitled to thc respect due to ., idiigcnt

opinion, and no more. It w as not the constitutional organ, through, which thc will ofthe

for withholding your support from the ticket 1 people was to be conveyed to the rcpicscntavvc have recommended. Wc ourselves aiejtivc. The representatives in congress were not agreed upon these subjects. While j directly responsible to their constituents, not ome disapprove there measures, want confi- j 10 lllc legislature. And an attempt of thc lev. nee in the administration are unwilling to ! gislatui c to control the immediate iepresmtsanction the principles of constrncti.ui adop-1 atives of the people, would be a usurpation ted bv the pi esident- most of us approve thc ' "P(,n the rights of the people ; an act, which, general course ofthe administration, have 'instead of deserving obedience, or even ieconfidence in its virtue, its patriotism, its wis- j spect, required resistance, and even reprobadom, and see nothing to condemn in thc prcs- j tion. The faithlul representative will obey ident's interpretation ofthe federal constituti- i the instructions of his constituents whenever on. Yet, wc do not discuss amoiur ourselves, ! constitutionally given. He will pay a respect-

nnd wc will not t'iscuss irrounds of this difference.

before you, thc We waive such

ful attention to their wishes, and evety evi

dence of their wishes. Hut, w hen not bound

discussion, as wholly inappropriate ; Sc post ; by instruction, he will look beyond thc impcr-

pone it to the time w hen there may he some sct evidences ct their will, informally conchoice offered us, that might be influenced ' vryed, he w ill rest upon ihe conclusions ol his by it. Now there is none such. Wc arc left ' own mind, fotmcd from the Best light he can to thc alternative of choosing between Jack-' obtain, will consult his country's good, and son and Adams; and however wc may differ 'firmly meet the responsibility of those acts in opinion as to thc merits of thc latter, we he deems proper for its attainment. This wc heartily concur in giving him a preference o believe thc Kentucky delegation did. They verbis competitor The measures which were not instructed they did not choose to some disapprove in thc present administrati- shelter themselves from responsibility, under on, none would hope to sec amended under the cover of a legislative iccolmncndalion ; that of gen. Jackson. The district in thc consulting their ow n ju'!gmrnt:thcy prcferprcscnt chief magistrate entertained by some, red the man most capable of advancing the inis lost in the comparison with that which ail crests of his countiy ; and there is no qucsfccl in his competitor; and thc constitution tion, that Virginia then concurred in thc opinwhich wc would preserve from thc too lib?- ion, ami approved the act. ral interpretation of Mr. Adams, we would The vote, which, if lKncMly given, is an af-

yct more zealously defend against the des- fair chiefly between the representative and , enly and habitually violated it ; without coming troving hand of his rival. While, however, his constituents, would not have been obtf'u-! to the extraordinary conclusion, either that a

cr ol a new and odious doctrine, and the father j and then carefully compare John Q. Adams with

Anoie .v Jackson, m reference to the great question, which is most likely to preserve to us the distinguished blessings we enjoy, from which is most danger to be apprehended to cur peace and happiness, our lives and liberties? It is not in wantonness that "e speak, but in the sadness of our hearts, we are compelled to declare, that while we it Id our confidence to thc presc nt chief magistrate hi very different degrees we ai ? unanluiou, and unhesitating in the opinion that Andrew Jaekson is altogether unfit for the presidency, and that his election would be eminently dangerous ; that while we cheerfully accord to him his full share ofthe glory whicli renders the anniversary of thc 6'th of January, n day of joy and triumph to our land, we must, in the mot solemn manner, protest against a cl-uin to ci il rule, founded exclusht ly upon military renow n, and avow that nothing has occurred in the history of our country, so much calculated to shake our confidence in the capacity of the people for self government, as the t ff rts which have been made, and are yet making, to elevate to the first ( Mice m the nation, the man who. riisobeiig the orders of his superiors, trampling on the laws and constitution of his country, sacrificing the lives ar d hbei ties of men, has made his own arbitrary will the rule of his conduct. In stating an opinion so unfavorable to a die.tin-

quisheu man, w ho has rendered valuable service to his coin. try, a proper respect for ourselves arid you, requires that we should declare the reasffis whkh compel uito w ithhold our confidence fr.m him. Capacity for civil affiirs, in a countiy like ours, where the mad to preferment is open to merit, in everv class cf society, is never long concealed, and aidcm left in retirement. General J.-.ckon ha lived beyond the age of sixty years, and was bred to the profession best calculated to improve and display the faculties which civil t mplo ments requiie ; yet the history of his public life, "1:1 those employments, is told in a few brief lines, on a single page of his biography. He filled successively for veiy short periods the office of member of the Tennessee convention reprcscntative and scnatcr in congress judge of the supreme court t f Tennessee and again senator in the congress cf the U. States. Here was ample t ppcrtunity for distinction if he had possessed the talent, taste and application suited lor civil eminence. Hut he resigned three and passed thro all these stations, acknowledging his unfitness in two instances manifestly feeling it in all and leaving no single act. no trace behind, which stamps his qualifications above mediocrity. For civil government and in no station more

emphatically, than in that cf president cf the U.

01 uie measures to wnicn it naa given birth. .Nothing can be farther from the truth. Not a single act of the government, on this subject, has its date within his administration. And so far is he from being thc founder ot the doctrine, that it is traced to thc earliest and purest times of the re public, avowed and acted upon from tne foundation i.f the. government, when the father of his country presided over its destinies. Before the adoption of the federal constitution, the power cf regulating commerce and imposing duties on imports, belonged to the state government:-. and such of ;heiu as deemed it expedient, so regulated their tariff of duties as to giv e encouragement to their manufarf.il es. The constitution trans ferred to the federal government, by express pro is'' -n, the power of regulating commerce, and ofhnpo .;ng duties. An act passed .it the first session 01 the hr.st romrrcss, held under the con-

stitutiou, advocated by James Madison, and signed by (ieorge. Washington, on the Gthof July, I7b: contains the lir-.t tariff of duties on imported goods laid bv the ireneral eov eminent, and its preamble recites, that it was 4i necessary for the support or government, for the discharge, cf the debts of the United States, and the encouragement ami protection of manufactui es." 'I his doctrine was acted upon bv everv succeedinc: ad-

ministration by tue elder Adams, by Jefierson, by Madison am! Monroe. Thc policy of protecting and encouraging manufactures was recommended by them all the tat iff was increased from time to time, with a view to that object ; and jet no champion of the constitution, though many and bold nnd aide the re were, always at their posts, ever charged the authors of those measures as invaders of constitutional ground ; until tim ing the administration of the last president, when the fathers of the constitution having, the most of them, retired from the field of action, a member from Virginia suggested, in congress, the w ant of constitutional power to give protection to manufactures. On this occasion, wc forbear to enter the field of argument; and content ourselves with saving that the power of congress to regulate the ta-

nu 1 l duties, so a" to give protection and encouragement to agriculture, manufactures, commerce a::d navigation, cannot be denied, without e'.enying to the letter of the constitution its plain import, and to its spirit its most obvious and essential attributes ; without affirming that thoe who have administered the government, from its foundation to the present day, hav e either misunderstood the charter of their now ers. cr w ant-

j troying tianu 01 nis rival. nunc, nowevcr, nis cunMiiuc ms, u;um not nave ueeu ocuru- 10 cue cxiraerumarv conclusion, ciiaer uiae a ; cmpli -itically, than m that cf president cf the U. wc'dccline a ducussion of those subjects, on tied on your attention, had it not been counec- power which existed in the state governments, I States a well governed temper is of admitted 1 t i-.rr. ., a . .',ii, nr!..,oni'...I.!r.mn.t .o.i, ., r, ! and was treoucnth exercised bv them, beiore tl;e ' inir,r,r-irr - cr. nrt-im'c (,-',. a. i

w hich wc differ in opinion, and pretermit any ted with a charge of grave import, made upon

general vindication ofthe chiet magistrate, the purity ol the election, impeaching the mliis cabinet or his measures, we cannot pass tegiity ofthe chief magistrate ofthe nation, unnoticed some topics connected with thc and the first member of his cabinet. This last election, and some acts of thc administra- : charge, in its strongest form, imports that at tion, in relation to which, wc think the public the last election, thc vote ofthe Kentucky de mind has been greatly abused. ! legation was in thc market, for the highest Thc friends of gen Jackson have confident-' bidder that it was offered to one candidate, ly held him up as the favorite of thc people ; and being refused by him, was sold to the cthhave insisted that in the last election, his plu- er, and that thc consideration of the vote was rality of thc votes proved him to be the choice ; thc office of secretary of state, bestowed on ofthe nation; and have bitterly complained Mr. Clay. If this were true, we should not

that, that choice was improperly disappoint- hesitate to ahVm, that it stamps inhmv on thc

anil was frequently exercised bv them, before the 1

adoption oi the tederal constitution, was aimmuated by the secret and magical inP.ucnce c f that instrument, cr that such power does not properly

pertain to the legislature ct any trcepeop.e

importance ; gen. Jackson's friends lament the

impetuosity f his, and all the world has evidence ct its fiery misrule, To maintain peace and harmony in the delicate relations existing between the cove rnrncr.t of the union, anil the various

Thc exei cise of this pow cr is necessarily refer- j tati governments in our confederacy, requires red to the discretion cf congress, to be justly and ! a courtesy and forbearance in their intercourse.

impartially employed for the common bench: cf which no passion should disturb : let the spirit cf all ; not to be perverted to the purpose cf advaa-; domination displayed in gen. Jackson ctlt bracing the interest uf one class of thc comnuinf y, ! ted letter to gov. Rabun, warn us cfthe danger or of one part of the country, at the expens- cf 0f committing to his keeping the precious depo-

anothcr ami whatever seme ct us may think as , v:tf sacred to the Union of our republics and to

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ed by the representatives in congress j characters of the guilty, and renders them for-

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a ever was there a more direct appeal to those prejudices anel passions, which, on all occasions the good should disdain, and the

wise should' repress ; never was there a com

plain

constitution, wld.ch has been manifested on more occasions than one, when its previsions

to its abuses uuiier a iormer au:ninitrai.

such abuses under thc present, all urt concur in thc opinion, that the remedy is ne t to be found m

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freedom of mankind. Military men should

ever unworthy of public trust.

This charpc, net so stronplv, however, as

has been here stated, was made for the first . rreutativesin confess . . ... , . , I he opinions cf Mr. Adams and his reccminentimc, pending the presidential election It: . , . , , .

t more utteily unfounded; k never one was promptly met, and challenged by Mr. j prcvt.mci:t ar unpopular in Virgin! j, and have : characteristic of that disregard to thc . Clay, and deserted by its supporters. They ! bet;n artrUeti against l.im with much earnestness,

rauyca again aner tne ciecticn, gave n a icriTi and perhaps w ith some elfect, even tnougti it can-

nev er be allowed to forget that thc obligation to obey ben x, the sole foundation of the authority to

tne election ct general Jackson ; out, u souut a; ; commaral, the v should inculcate subordination.

all, stunilu be looKeel tor m ttie vigilance ana exertions ot thc faitlifid and able senate: s ar.d re-

somewhat Yaried, drew to its aid acme irupo.

net, with any color cf reajun, be contended that

not by precept only, hut by example that pro-

louiiU respect tor the laws cc constitution of tlieir country, is an indispensable guaiantee cf their worthiness to be intrusted with the sword, which is di awn to defend them that they should lose no tit occasion for manifesting that respect, by practical illustrations cfthe principle, sacred in every well ordered republic which proclaim the military luherdinau ta the, civil pcwmtLut

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