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jOK THE FREE rilESS. ACROSTIC. When, O when shall I embrace, Inspiring saint! thy angel form Lo! I in semblance see thy I'ice Love's brightest flame my htvast tUth warm. In vain thee to forget, I strive, About my heart thy image clings; Myself of life I would deprive, Had death in it no piercing stings. As oft in pensive mood 1 stray, Mourning my sad and wretched lot; Before me doth thy image play Left as I am by thee forget. Enslav'd by love's resistless chain Thou art the author of my pain. SUSANNAH. Halifax County, 1S27. TO A DYIXG LYFJ.YT. Sleep, little baby! sleep! Not in thy cradle bed, Kot on thy mother's breast Henceforth shall be thy rest, But with the quiet dead. Yes with the quiet dead, Baby, thy rest shall be, Oh! many a weary wight, Weary of life and light, Would fain lie down with thec Flee, little tender nurseling! Flee to thy grassy nest; There the first flowers shall blow, The first pure flake of snow Shall fall upon thy breast. Peace! peace! thy little bosom. Labors with short'ning breath Peace! peace! that tremulous sigh Speaks his departure nigh Those are the damps of death I've seen thee in thy beauty, A thing all health and glee; But never then wert tiu a So beautiful, as now, Baby! thou seem'st to me Mount up! immortal essence! Young spirit! haste, depart And is this death! Dread thing! If such thy v biting, How beautiful thou art! Oil! I could gaze forever, Upon that waxen face; So passionless! so pure! The little shrine was sure, An Angel's dwelling place! the advice which he gave, and in famous for liis willingness to con nive at the corruption of the body of which he was a sworn mem ber; is this the credible witness by whom Gen. Jackson stands ready to establish the corruption of men whose characters were never ques tioned! When the alleged overture was made, the election remained un decided. Why did not Gen. Jackson then hold up to universal scorn and indignation the infa mous bearer of the proposal, and those who dared to insult his ho nor and tamper with his integrity I If he had, at that time, denounced all the infamous parties concern ed, demanded an inquiry in the II. of II. and established, by satis factory proof, the truth of his ac cusation, there might and proba bly would have been a dilfcrcnt result to the election. Why, when at my instance a committee was, on the 5th day of February, lo25, (only four days before the elec tion) appointed to investigate the charges of Mr. Kremer, did not Gen. Jackson present himself and establish their truth! Why, on tin; I now hold was made to the Sen ate of the United States, of which Gen. Jackson was then a sworn member. On that nomination he had to deliberate and act, in the most solemn manner. If I were privy to a corrupt proposal to Gen. Jackson, touching the recent election; if I had entered into a corrupt bargain with Mr. Adams to secure his elevation, I was un worthy the office to which I was i nominated; and it was tne duty 01 j Gen. Jackson, if he really posses-1 scd the information which he now j puts forward, to have moved the Senate to appoint a committee of j enquiry, and by establishing my guilt, to have preserved the Na tional Councils from an abomina ble contamination. As the con spiracy of Geo. Kremer & Co. had a short time before meanly shrunk from appearing before the Committee of the H. of R. to make j good their charges, I requested a Senator of the II. S. when my no mination should be taken up, to ask of the Senate the appointment of a committee of enquiry, unless it should appear to him to be alto gether unnecessarv. Une ol our T hi sc 7 si d: b 2, tl fi '11 i i (continued from the $t pupc.) Here follows some remarks on the alleged overture and reply of Gen. Jackson. j 'I hope Gen. Jackson did not intend in his reply that the whole human race should also be swallowed up, on the contingeu-j cy he has stated, nor that thevi were to guaranty that he has an absolute repugnance to the em ployment of any exceptionable means to secure his elevation to the Presidency. If lie had ren dered the distinguished member of Congress a little more distin guished, by instantly ordering him from his presence, and by forth with denouncing him and the infa mous proposition which he bore, to the American public, we .should be a little better prepared to ad mit the claims to untarnished in tegrity, which the General so modestly puts forward, lint, ac cording to his own account, a cor rupt and scandalous proposal is made to him; the person who conveyed it advises hi in to accept it, and yet that person still retains the friendship of Gen. Jackson, who is so tender of his character that his name is carefully conceal ed and reserved to be-hereafter brought forward as a witness! A man who, if he be a member of the House of Representatives, is doubly infamous infamous fur Ttii of that month, two days before Senators was compelled, by the the election, when the committee j urgency of his private business, to reported that Mr. Kremer declined j leave Washington before my no to come forward, and that '''if thcy initiation was disposed of; and as knew of any reason for such inves- j 1 had but little confidence in the tigation, they would have asked 'fidelity of the professed friend to be clothed with the proper : ship of the other, lwas constrain power, but not having themselves ed to present my application to a any such Knowledge, they have senator Irom another btate. lj felt it their duty only to lay before was afterwards informed that, the House the communication when it was acted-upon. Gen. which they have received," why Jackson and every other Senator; uui not lien. Jackson authorize a present was silent as to the lmpiir motion to recommit the report, tations now made, no one presu and manfully come forward with ming to question my honor or in all his information! The Con- tegrity. How can Gen. Jackson gress of the nation is in session, justify to his conscience or to hi An important election has devolv- country this palpable breach of his j ed on it. All eyes are turned to- public duty? It is in vain to say! wards Washington. The result that he gave a silent negative vote! j is awaited with intense anxiety He was in possession of informa-1 and breathless expectation. A lion which, if true, must have oc-! corrupt proposition, affecting the easioned the rejection of my no-' election, is made to one of the mination. It does not appear that j candidates. He receives it, is ad- any other Senator oossessed t!, vised lo accept it, deliberates, de- same information. Investigation cides upon it. A committee is in was alike duo to the purity of the session to investigate the very National Councils, to me, and as charge. The candidate notwith- au act of strict justice, to all the standing remains profounlv silent. 'other parties implicated. Tt and, alter the lapse of more than impossible for him to escape from I iu e,us, wnen tne period ot an-;the dilemma that he has been other eleciion is rapidly approach- faithless, as a Senator of the Uni- 11 rr ii. ..!." I I .1 1 I . I . n,o' 111 Htm o is tne only com- tea states, or has lent himself to petitor lor the office, for the first 'the circulation of an atrocious ca- tune announces it to the American public! They must have more than an ordinary share of credulity who do not believe that General Jackson labors under some extra ordinary delusion. It is possible that he may urge, by way of excuse for what must be deemed his culpable conceal ment of meditated corruption, that he did not like to volunteer as it witness before the committee, or to transmit to it the name of his friend, the distinguished member of the House of Representatives; although it is not very easy to dis cern any just reason for his vol unteering now, which would not have applied with more force at that time. But what apology can he make for his failure to dis charge his sacred duty as an Ame rican Senator! More than two months after the alleged overture, my nomination to the ofliee which' lumny. I rejoice again and again, that the contest has at last assumed its present practical form. Here tofore, malignant whispers and dark surmises have been clandes tinely circulated, or openly and unblushmgly uttered by irrespon sible agents. They were borne upon the wings, and like them were invisible and intangible. No responsible man stood forward to sustain them, with his acknowl edged authority. They have at! last a local habitation and a name. Gen. Jackson has now thrown off the mask and comes confessedly forth, from behind his concealed batteries, publicly to accuse and convict me. We stand confront ed before the American people. Pronouncing the charges, as I a gain do, destitute of all founda tion, and gross aspersions, whe ther clandestinely or openly issu ed from the halls of the CapUtJ the saloons of the Hermitage, 0. by press, by pen, or by tong and safely resting upon my COl. scious integrity; . I demand . witness, and await the event wit fearless confidence. The issue is fairly joined. Tiif imputed offence does not compre hend a single friend, but the co; lective body of my friends in Cm gress; and it accuses them of o; fering, and me with sanctionir, corrupt 2Jropodtions, derogatii; from honor, and in violation of tlj most sacred of duties. charge has been made after twe years deliberation. Gen. Jack son has voluntarily taken his p. sition, and without provocates, In voting against him as Vrc.i dent of the United States, i r;iV( him no just cause of offence, j exercised no more than my indi putable privilege, as, on a snbse quent occasion, of which 1 hav never complained, he exerciser, his in voting against me as Seero. tary of State. Had I voted fo: him, I must have gone counter tr every fixed principle of mvpubli. life. I believed him incompetent, and his election fraught with dan ger. At this early period of tin Republic, keeping steadily i:. view the dangers which had over turned every other Free State, 1 believe it to be essential to tk lasting preservation of our liber tics, that a man, devoid of civil talents, and offering no recom mendation but one founded on mi litary service, should not be select ed to administer the Government I believe so yet, and I shall con sider the days of this Common-1 wealth numbered, when an oppo site principle is established. 1 be lieved, and still believe, that now. when our institutions are in com parative infancy, is the time to es- military qualification alone is not a sufficient title to the Presidency. If we start right, we may run a long race of liberty, happiness and glory. If we stumble in set ting out, we shall fall as others have fallen before us, and tali ; V without even a claim to the regrets or sympathies of mankind. I have never done Gen. Jackson knowingly , any injustice. I have taken pleasure, on every proper occasion, to bestow on him merit ed praise for the glorious. issue ; N the battle of New-Orleans. No";; American citizen enjoyed higher satisfaction than I did with the ' event. I heard it for the fir.-! time on the boulevards of Pa- ris. This concession is no: made for the purpose of concilia ting the favor or mitigating tlw n wrath of Gen. Jackson. He has erected an impassable barrier be- tween us, and 1 thank my GoilV;, that Me has endowed me with a, . soul incapable of apprehensions ' from the anger of any being bat himself. I have as your Representative freely examined and inmydelibe- rate judgment justly condemned. ' the conduct of Gen. Jackson in some of our Indian wars. 1 be lieved, and yet believe him to have trampled upon the Constitution of hi3 country, and to have violated the principles of humanity. En tertaining these opinions, I die not and could not vote for him.
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