J1L WJ111U9
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SEPTEMBER SO, 1828,
" OUR COUNTRY, AND OCR COUNTRY'S GOOD." '
TOL. I.-NO. 7.
'imnT.TSHEn WEEKLY '
BY JOHN I. PASTEUR,
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chair is a Twrf, and not a rewu,u ,
Administration Electoral Ticket. '
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
FOR VICE-PRESIPENT,
RICHARD RUSH.
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ELECTORS. JTrrt District Isaac T. Avery, of Burke,
Scron, Abner Franklin, of Iredell,
Third, Robert H. Burton, of Lincoln,
Dererrv. of Monteoiiicry.
VflA J as. T. Morehead, of Rockingham,
Sixth, Alexander Gray, of Randolph,
Seventh, Benin. Robinson, of Cumberland,
Eighth, James S. Smith, oi u range,
Xmth, William Hinton, of Wake,
Tenth, Edward Hall, of Franklin,
Eleventh, Samuel IIyman, of Martin,
Twelfth, Isaac N. Lamb, of Pasquotank,
Thirteenth, William Clark, of Pitt,
Fourteenth, Wm. S. Blackledoe, of Craven,
Fifteenth, Daniel L. Kenan, of Duplin.
CHARLES MINER.
from the Villnge Record edited by Hon. C. Miner a
Representative in Congress iroin i eun!.)in-m.
At a meetintr of vounsr men in Delaware coun
ty, friendly to the election of Andrew Jackson,
the following volunteer toast was drank :
Bu a Guest Charles Miner : One of the Members of
f .1 ! . I l. It .nA rt ttte
Congress iroin mis uisinci, nu iwt, m .u
shame, stands recorded against printing the official docu
ments relative to the Six Militiamen Slay the good Peo
ple of this district in October next, cease sending a man
irom Connecticut to represent them, whose every feeling
i at variance with the true interests of Pennsylvania.
f See his vote against the duty on molnsscs and toreign His
lilled spirits. Tun. him oiiL
' All's far in politics," says' Major Noah. Very
well. We do not complain. A few remarks,
however, suggest themselves.
1st. That, if the Jacksonmen don't take care,
they may force me to become a candidate again,
a lainst, &c. dec.
2d. It was a volunteer, l am giaa it was not
one of the regular toasts.
3d. By a Guest. So, so no ono liked to
srand sponser for it. That was right. The old
politician who prepared the toast, was generous
not to ask the young guest to present it as his
own.
4. There were no cheers that's cheering.
The 19 preceding and following toasts, were
each received with nine cheers. That gives me
some comfort. But to the matter.
Extract of a Letter from Major Central Jackson to the Sec
retary of liar, dated Head Quarters, "ith Military District,
Camp jour utiles below Xew-Orleaw, HlhJan. 115.
" Whether it is the purpose of the enemy to
abandon the expedition altogether, or renew his
efforts at some other points, I do not pretend to
determine with positiveness. In my own mind,
however, there is but little doubt that his last ex
ertions have been made in this quarter."
5. " Charles Miner, one of the Members of
Congress from this district, whose vote, he it
said to his slinmr, stands recorded against print
ing the official documents, relative to the six mi
litiamen." I am sure tin comnanv did not mean
1
to misrepresent me. The gentleman who fur
nished the guest with the toast, may, possibly,
himself have been led into error. Charles Miner
did not vote against, and therefore, his vote does
not, and cannot, stand " recorded against print
ing the'oflkial documents relative to the six mili
tiamen." So far otherwise, no man in Congress
was more earnestly desirous that those documents
should bo printed, and widely spread among this
virtuous and intelligent People. He knows they
are just, and tender-hearted. Humanity is a dis
tinguishing characteristic of theAnierican People.
They have a deep ahhonence of all cruel and un
necessary punishments. The hanninoss of the
f poor and humble are dc.u to them. The " feet
that make haste to shed blond," are odious to
them. Charles Miner was, and is, deeply im
pressed with the conviction that the execution of
the six militiamen was illegal. That there was
no legal authority to keep them longer than
(three months. That, even if the point was
Moubtful, as these men did not desert to the enc
liny as the Tennessee Militia had before been
discharged at the end of three months as ihey
.honestly believed their term of service was out
as some of their officers told them there was no
law to hold them longer as they returned home
in the exercise of what they sincerely deemed
their unquestionable rights as American citizens
J -their worst offence, in the severest construc
tion of the case, being a mistake Charles Mi
jner deeply regretted, and strongly censures their
execution. God help us ! Who is not some
times liable to err ? Home was dear to them. It
Sva.s the object of Republican Institutions to make
liome happy and dear to the poor man. That is
our peculiar blessing. John Harris, with a' wile
ind nine children at home ! I do not wonder at
Jus extreme anxiety to see them. Under such
.circumstances, to take the lives of so many Ame
rican citizens, seemed to me extremely cruel.
(The heart must be callous, dead to all the sympa
Juies that render our nature' amiable, who could
look on their execution without having his heart
lent with anguish. . But Gen. Jackson, who m ,
deliborately recorded his objection against Mr.
Madison, that " ho could not look on blood and
carnage with composure," had it in his power to
save them. Their lives lay at his mercy. These
poor, heart-broken creatures, lived or died, at his
disposing will. " I pardon !" these blessed
words would have sent them to cottages which
would have rung with thanksgiving and joy and
from which the prayers-for blessings on his head,
would have risen to the throne of the Supreme.
An agonized mother, as she clasped her son,
would, in giving thanks to Heaven, have uttered
with holy aspiration, the name of Jackson, pray
ing for blessings on him. The infant, as it climb
ed the father's knee, would, in its welcome
smile, have blessed him. The young wife, as she
clung round the neck of her belov?d soldier, re
turned to her almost widowed arms, would have
mingled, in her tears of welcome, tears of grati
tude to Jackson. What beams of sunshine might
have radiated from his tent, to the cottages cf the
condemned militiamen of Tennessee ! It seems
to me the good man's heart would have leaped
for joy at the opportunity of doing an act at once
so God-like and humane.; " I pardon !" Bles
sed words ! But no The pleadings of pity find
no avenue to his heart. Stern and relentless, the
poor condemned American Citizens plead for
mercy in vain.
The enemy had been beaten the victory was
complete overwhelming decisive. All fear of
danger had passed away. Hear what Jackson
himself says, ten days before the death-warrant
was signed.
Whispers of peace were floating through the
city. Pa?ans of joy were rising to the chief
crowns of laurel decked his brow. The victory
was complete overwhelming and joy and tri
umph sounded through the camp. The heart, if
ever, at such a moment, is open to kindness, and
to the pleadings of humanity. Dyonwius, at such
a moment, would have pardoned an enemy. Nero
would have softened into tenderness, and given
liberty to an offending foe. These were not ene
mies, but American citizens. But at that happy
moment, when called upon to decide no ray of
mercy seems to have lighted his dark soul. With
cold-bloodfd apathy, fourteen days after the vic
tory, and long after the enemy had fled, Andrew
Jackson issued the fatal fiat, that four days after
his orders should reach Mobile, John Harris,
Webb, Lindsay, Hunt, Lewis, Morrow, should
be all executed. And they were all hhot,
without legal authority without pretence of ne
cessity and in my judgment, it was one of the
most eold-booded, cruel deeds, that stains the page
of history.
At that time there was. scarce an enemy's foot
on the soil of the Republic. The declaration of
Jackson, above quoted, shews that he no longer
apprehended danger. W hat did Gen. Washing
ton do, when Cornwallis surrendered at York
town T Remember, then, large British armies
were in New-York, and had possession of other
portions of our country. Hear the voice of this
God-like man. Mercy, in him, tempered justice
THE GENERAL ORDERS.
" Head Quarters, York, Oct. 20, 1781.
"In order to diffuse the general joy in every breast, the
General orders those men belonging to the army who
may now be in conmiement, shall be pardoned, released,
and join their respective corps."
Thus, to diffuse the general joy all are par
doned and released ! How noble ! What an ex
ample! How worthy to be followed! But there
is not a point of resemblance between Jackson
snd General Washington ; and it seems to me
moral pollution to name them together. I speak
this, as the conviction ot my solemn judgment,
before the people and before Heaven.
With such opinions of the man and the deed
lie, a candidate for the Presidency, and these do
cuments shewing forth his iniquity, it is against
all reason to suppose that I should not earnestly
desire that they should be printed. I did so de
sire, and voted for the printing. The communi
cation of these documents from the War Depart
ment was undo to the House.
The next day they were called up, and the
National Intelligencer lor the country states that
they were referred to the Committee on Military
A flairs ; and that they were ordered to be prin
ted, nem. con. which the young men, doubtless,
understand to mean, without a single vote against
it. They have been deceived by confounding
the vote on Mr. Hamilton s motion, made Feb
12, to print these documents in a particidar man
ner with the simple vote taken several days be
fore, to print.
From the National Intelligencer, Fi b. 12, 1S28.
HOUSE OF KF.PRESENTATIVES, Monday, Fkb. 11.
Mr. Hamilton, Chairman of the Military Committee,
moved the following resolution:
That the report of the Committee on Military Afl'nirs
made to this House, on certain documents communica
ted by the Department of War, toiu-liing the proceedings
of a Court Martial, which convened at Mobile, on the rth
December, 111, and a correspondence between the Se
cretary ot ar and (inventor mount, respecting certain
draft's of the militia of Tennessee, be printed with said do-
cuments which have been previously ordered to be printed by
this House.
Mr. Storrs moved to amend this resolution by striking
out the words " with, said documents which have been pre
viously ordered to be printed by tins House.
At sonic period during the proceedings, (says
the National Intelligencer,) Mr. H.'s resolution
underwent an alteration, by substituting for the
words moved to bo stricken out by Mr. Storrs,
these words 4 And the documents heretofore or
dercd to be printed, shall, when printed, be ap
pended to said report, in the order in which they
have been arranged by the Committee.
While the motion of Mr. Storrs was pending,
the despotic previous question, so much abused
last winter, was moved ; all debatp stopped the
question on the amendment put out of sight, and
the question lorced by this engine ol political tor
ture, on the mam question proposed, by 31r. Ha
milton. ,
Against that, T am proud to say, to the young
men ot Delaware, friendly, or opposed to An
drew Jackson, I did vote..
The vote -to print I had already given. The
printing was safe enough. I had no objection that
Mr. Hamilton's Report and the new matter
should be pnnteif. fut I was net willing, vn tit
ally, to rescind the. usual and proper order for
printing, for the purpose of having these docu
ments shulileu and arranged, and mixed up by a
party committee for the purposes of parly.
And uow, when the thing is explained, I pre
sume that the candid and fair among the young
men there assembled, will see that they have done
me injustice. -",
The Toast proceeds" May the good people
of this District, in October next, cease sending a
man from Connecticut to represent them, whose
every feeling is at variance with the true interests
ot Pennsylvania. - See his vote against the duty
on molasses and foreign distilled spirits. Turn
him out." ,; " '
Bless my heart! I have not seen the rocky
hills of Connecticut, it. will be twenty years in
October next. After my election to the Assem
bly, in 1808, 1 made my last visit tlicre. If they
were really young men nt the meeting, I have
been a Pennsylvanian longer than most of them,
for I made it the home of my choice thirty years
ago, when a lad of nineteen, and I sincerely pray
that they may enjoy, either in charming Dela
ware or wherever Providence may cast their lots,
for the thirty years to coine, as many happy hours
as I have enjoyed for the thirty years past, and
the wish, I assure them, is a kind one. As to
the duty on spirits and molasses, I claim a good
deal of credit for my votes in respect to these. I
go so far as to express the opinion, that, if the
vote could be taken on its abstract and simple
merits, wholly separate from the Presidential
question, there is not a single person in Dolaware
County, capable of forming an opinion, who
would not unite with me perfectly in sentiment.
The committee proposed an additional duty of
ten cents a gallon on foreign spirits. To this I
did not object. Mr. Buchanan proposed 30
cents additional duty. This I thought too much,
and si id so. Mr. B. himself became convinced
it was too much, and proposed to reduce his own
proposition one half ! As to the duty on molasses,
the most ingenious would be puzzled to show in
what way it will benefit the County of Delaware
a farthing one single brass farthing. But it is
certainly a burden on the poor, and therefore an
oppression that ought not to have been imposed.
It was the opinion of many that it was intro
duced to destroy the Tariff to operate so op
pressively on New England as to induce her Re
presentatives to vote against and kill the Tariff,
so that its failure might be laid to the friends of
Mr. Adams. They saw the trap set for them.
In the first place they tried to get it removed.
But the Southern anti-Tariff men, who were sup
posed to be in the scheme, with their Jackson
friends, stuck to it would not permit it to be
stricken out, and the New England men swallow
ed it, greatly, it was thought, to the disappoint
ment and mortification of some who had become
deeply involved in the mazes of Southern policy,
who professed to be very zealous Tariff men.
In conclusion, I beg leave to give them a senti
ment or two in return.
"The Jackson Young men of Delaware Coun
ty. Health and happiness honor and prospe
rity to them.
" Pennsylvania, and the men who support the
interests of Pennsylvania."
resistance to government.
The following article from the Savannah Mer
cury, is well entitled to notice :
" We were tenfold more insulted, more disgraced and
contemned, by the majority of Congress, than our fore
fathers were by the ministers of Great Britain, at the
breaking out of the Revolutionary war." M'DuJfie's
Speech.
" The memorable scenes of our revolution have again
to be acted over." Milledgerille Journal.
The most wilfully blind can no longer shut
their eyes to the ominous signs of the times.
Men, who have heretofore, to a great extent,
enjoyed the confidence of fhe people; who have
been conspicuous for their talents, and eminent
for their professions, at least, of patriotism ; who
have acted as the leaders of political parties
have within a late period, simultaneously thrown
off even the semblance of a regard for the Union
of the States, and openly, emphatically advised
resistance to our Government, nnd by bold as
sertions and artful insinuations, endeavour to ex
cite the passions of the people, and stimulate
them to overt acts of treason.
Mr. M'Duffie in his dinner speech declares,
that we at this day, have greater cause of coni
plmnt against the Government of the Union, than
our forefathers had against the Crown of Great
Britain, at the breaking out of the Revolutionary
War; and the Georgia Journal, pouring forth its
wishes in the language of prophecy, pronounces
that the bloody scenes of that awful period must
soon bo acted over again !
Has Mr. M'Duffie forgotten the long train of
causes which led to the revolutionary war, the
grinding oppressions, the cutting injuries which
stung to madness the long suffering patience of
our lathers, and finally arrayed them in hostile
attitude against an arbitrary and a tyrannic go
vernment? Has Mr. M'Duffie forgotten all this,
or docs he suppose that the people to whom he
addresses himself have forgotten it? Has the
Declaration of Independence, like the Farewell
Address of Washington, become an obsolete
thing ; and is it hung in our public halls and in
our private studies, merely to become food for
worms, and to moulder away and be forgotten,
like the relics of an old song ? .
If not, how can Mr. Dtiflie expect to impose
upon the people with the dogmatical assertion,
that we have greater cause of resistance than our
forefathers had, at the commencement of the
Revolution? lias the President prohibited the
passing any state law required . by the public
good? Has lie called together the State Legis
latures, at places unusual and inconvenient, or has
he dissolved any legislative body, for opposing
his encroachments upon the rights of the people ;
has ho obstructed the administration of justice ;
has ho affected to render the military indepen
dent of, and superior to, the civil power : has he
protected persons from punishment for murders
committed on tho inhabitants of States ; have we
been deprived of a trial by jury ; hvo eyv citizens
been transported beyond sea to be tried for pre
tended offences ; have our seas been plundered ;
ttir coasts ravaged ; our towns burnt, and the
lives of our people destroyed ; has government
excited. domestic insurrection, end let loose the
savages to murder our women and children t
Does Mr. M'Duffie mean to assert that we are
suffering all this, or that all this sinks into insig
nificance when compared to the. tax on British
Broadcloths? If he docs, if such be his inten
tions whatever his own impression may be, he
will find to his mortification, that it will be hard
to convince the people of cither. Tho intelli
gent "people of this country are not to bo humbug
ged with unsupported averments, or suffer their
attachment to the institutions of Washington,
Franklin and Jefferson, to be dissipated by frothy
and idle declamation.
When, the editors of the Journal invite the
people to act over again the scenes of the Revo
lution, do they realize the awful calamities which
they, are calling down upon their country ? If
they do not, let them pause and consider what
these calamities were. Surely, there are some
grey-headed memorials of the bygone day who
can paint for them the scenes of that dreadful pe
riod. A period when our coasts were ravaged
by a foreign foe, and our towns were divided in
civil strife ; when the hand of neighbor was raised
against' neighbor, and that of the son against his
father; when, brother contended with brother,
and the hearth-stone was made slippery with the
blood of those who had recently knelt beside it !
Who is it that calls on us to act over again the
scenes of the Revolution 1 And why is the call
made ? Is it for a pound of Cotton, or a yard of
Broadcloth?
In the annexed article, our readers will find the question
concerning the Presidency presented in a rather new and
striking point of view :
From the Rochester Telegraph.
The Question. There is one point in the
Presidential question, which we think cannot be
too often brought into view the different nature
of the two political parties. The friends of the
Administration are animated with the belirf, with
tho knowledge, that in supporting Mr. Adams
and Mr. Rusih they are contributing to the wel
fare of their common country, by endeavoring to
retain in its service, two men who have been for
years in public employ, and have ever been
found " honest, capable and faithful to the Con
stitution." Justice to them, no less than a re
gard for the welfare of the Republic, would seem
to require, that they should not be cast from the
bosom of that country, whose honor, glory, and
prosperity, they have contributed so much to
build up and sustain. They are loo (and it is a
coincidence which can never again occur) the
sons of two of the worthies of the Revolution.
Scions of a noble stock the representatives of
two of the illustrious men who declared these
united and now flourishing and happy Republics,
" Free, Sovereign and Independent States, and
pledged "their lives, their fortunes and their sa
cred honors," to sustain this declaration. Honor
and gratitude, therefore, to the men who spake
our nation into being, whose breath
" Did vigor give
" To a.j much virtue as could live."
would seem to require that we should cherish the
remembrance of their virtues and high-born pat
riotism, by honoring 'those who inherit their
worth as well as their name. These are some of
the considerations which animate and cheer the
friends of Adams and Rush considerations which
must have weight with every man w ho loves his
country and reveres the memory of the great and
holy patriots, who watched over the young re
public and directed her infant energies. Arc
they not powerful? Every man must feel that
they are in unison with the best and holiest feel
ings of our nature the love of country and the
pride of freemen.
On the other hand, what considerations prompt
the opponents of the Administration on to action.
What arguments do they use to induce the free
men of America to change their rulers to dis
place such men as Adams, Clay, Rush, Wirt and
Southard ! For more than three years have they
been laboring to prove that these men, three of
whom are tho sons oi revolutionary patriots, uiu
enemies to republicanism that Adams, the most
virtuous and amiable in private and the most ef
ficient in public life, of our best citizens lorget
ful of the legpcy which he received unmindful
of the fame of a father whose name is inscribed
upon our charter of independence, truckled for
power, and corrupted the representatives of the
people. Such has been tho object of all the
froth of Jacksonism for three years : and no man
can be a Jacksonnian without subscribing to the
doctrine that our rulers are corrupt, that they
bribed the representatives of the people and
lured them from the path of duty and that they
seek to..main1ain themselves in power by such
means! "'e will not insult the reader by allu
ding to the grounds upon which they attempt to
sustain these hevy charges. The evidence is
even wtjaker thai! the charges arc unreasonable,
and they make up for their want of proof by their
boldness of assertion. We envy them not the
feelings which can dictate their belief, nor honor
we the mind that can entertain it.
We arc glad to add 'to these hurried remarks
the following extract from a speech of one of the
men of the revolution, Mr. Dcponckai:. It was
made at the celebration of the " Harvest Iloujrs"
by the friends of the Administration at the VaK
ley Forge, (Pa.) More than 2000 persons were
present at the meeting-
" He had heard many objections against the
election of General Jackson ; he could not ex
amine whether they were well founded or not ;
he had heard but one against the choice of Mr.
Adams, and that he considered as an insult to
this creat and virtuous nation. It was said that
ho obtained his last election by means of intrigue
and corruption. Corruption of whom ? he would
ask. Whv, of the representatives of the United
States, of the successors of the immortal Congress
of . '"("), who, a little more than half a century ago
pledged their sacred honor for the maintenance
ol tlie National rights and liberties: and is that
jeered p!edg5 forfeited ? forfeited in ?o short
time ? And has it so soon given place to corrup
tion and vice ? Has eur nation, once so renown,
cd for its republican. virtues, so degenerated in
the short space of fifty years? jor, bo not mis
taken if your representatives are corrupt, you
are corrupt likowise; for they are chosen, freely
chosen, by you ; they are a fair extract from the
national mass. If from a cask of liquor you take
out a cup full, and that cup full is corrupt, the
whole contents must be corrupted also. And
where are the signs of that corruption, which has
so rapidly taken place, without any apparent
cause ? Which of your delegated authorities has
ever made his fortune by the means of the pow-.
ers you have entrusted him with! Surely not
your president Washington, Adams, and Madr
son retired, if not poorer, at least ho$ richer than
thov were when thev rnmn inln often. Xnfforann '-
died insolvent, and his honorable debts are yet un
paid by the country. Monroe retired poor, and
has no reason to boast of republican gratitude.
If you look to your inferior officers, you will find
tlie same results. No, you are not a corrupt
people; but, if you are, as is vilely insinuated, it
is of no consequence who you choose for your
Chief Magistrate. Choose Gen. Jackson, or an'
other man whom you please ; not however, for
President of these United States but make him
King, Emperor, Dictator, Sultan any thing but
the Chief Magistrate of a free people ; for, if you
are such as you arc represented, you are not wor
thy of the name of freemen."
This, then, is the question : Are the people of '
the United States prepared to say, that they are
corrupt, that their representatives are corrupt,
and that their rulers are corrupt ? The answer
to this important question will be given at tho ap
proaching election. We do yet believe in the
virtue and efficacy of our Republican form of
Government.
-SOS '.,
From the National Intelligencer. . .
It is useful now and then to turn back to old
files, and see what those people who are now so
vociferous for Jackson, and opposed to Adams,
have said in former days. Let us take a peep at
the New Hampshire Patriot, edited by Mr. Isaac
Hill, now the high priest of Jacksonism. Speak
ing of the letter of General Jackson to President
Monroe, in which he threatens to hang the Hart
ford Convention folks under the second section
of the Rules and Articles of War, he says, in the.
New Hampshire Patriot, of May 10, 1824 :
" No Republican could have given such ad
vim, and if nnthinir rise, thin At.nvm micrlit fii-.
ever to exclude him from the Presidency."
The same paper, of the 22d of March, 1824,.
says of General Jackson : '
" That he trampled upon civil authority, by
arresting the United States' Judge, and other ci
tizens nt New Orleans, and when he seized and
executed Arbuthnot and Ambrister, in Florida."
In the same paper, the same editor, in refer
ence to Pennsylvania's support of Jackson, says ?
" What with the honest portion of the com
munity who gazo with admiration at his military
prowess, what with a portion of men ambitious
for place and preferment, and what with that par
ty who care not who they support, so that they
make mischief and break up the Republican par
ty, a host in that State will probably outnumber
the friends of any other Presidential candidate."
He adds, he Jackson is, in no respect, quali
fied for tho office of President.
So, too, let us look at the Eastern Argus, tho
Jackson oracle in the State of Maine. In the
Argus of the 25th May, 1824, we find the follow
ing language :
" That he (Jackson) possesses a suitable tem
per of mind and the necessary talents and ac
quirements for a Chief Magistrate, wo have al-.
ways doubted."
Again :
" The General, in our apprehension, is not the
mnn to tnkn tlin Innd nndor our reflnnd svstpm nf
Government nnd our well regulated code of laws.
Where there is no law, a man is excusable for
being a law unto himself; he can only look to
his own judgment for a rule of conduct. But
when society is established under good &, whole
some laws, the man who would tako advantage of
tho military power to effect Ins purposes; in vio
lation of the laws, or who would bend existing
laws to suit existing circumstances, must be con
sidered too dangerous a character to be clothed
icith the highest authority in the land. A singu
lar illustration of the character of Gen. Jackson,,
on this point, is found in one of his letters to Mr.
Monroe, in 1817. Argus, May 25, 1824.
So, too, this same Argus, on the 23th Feb.
1823, thus speaks of Mr. Adams :
" We should feel a pleasure in tho election of
Mr. Adarns, merely from a consideration of his
being a citizen of New England ; but we should
feel gratified mainly on account of the higk opi
nion ice have of his qualifications for the ofice.1
So again, on the 13th September, 1820, less
than two years ago, tho same paper held the fol
lowing language :
" The liberal policy of Mr. Adams, in filling
his cabinet, and his subsequent conduct, have dis
sipated the apprehensions which were felt be
forehand. Still these men endeavor, for it is
.heir last hope, to keep alive the idea that there
is a party in this State opposed to Mr. Adams.
There is no such party ; and while Mr. Adams's
administration is marked with that dignity, mo
deration, and wisdom, which have characterized
jts beginning, there will be none, unless it breaks
forth in the surges of family pride and official
aristocracy. Those who, before the election,
preferred another candidate because they feared
that Mr. Adams would lend too ready an ear to
the interested councils of those who called them
selves his friends, arc more than satisfied. To
ward him thev never entertained other sentiments
than those of the highest respect. They arc the
last persons who would forget the powerful sup-
irf hi Pfire tit fhe. fHnre.mme.nt throuah the r.m-
barrassinrnts which preceded the war. And when
they find that the only fear they ever entertained
is groundless, there is nothing that will prevent
them from sup)orting him witJt tlte ttfw?5 wtb
alitif "--.Bangri Register,