06092 9677 Political Extracts from... The Massachusetts Journal, 1828. iii 1 0 "i give the/0 B 'aoks • iLnisiSiaisy • 1927 POLITICAL EXTRACTS >"r* FROM A LEADING ADAMS PAPER, THE MASSACHUSETTS JOURNAL,, EDITED AND PUBLISffeD IN BOSTON DAVID L. CHILD, RECOMMENDED TO PUBLIC PATRONAGE H. A. S. DEARBORN, I ABBOTT LAWRENCE, JOHN WELLES, GEORGE BLAKE, SHERMAN LELAND, JOHN P. RICE. THOMAS H.PERKINS, CWUU5 i INTRODUCTION. 05s* The extracts which are -submitted to the public in the following pages, are from a leading Adams print, edited and published at Boston, (Mass.) by David Lee Child, and recom mended to patronage by a Circular, under the hands of H. A. S. Dearborn, Collector of the Port of Boston, (1) — John Welles, a distinguished Federalist, — Sherman Leland, President of the Senate of Massachusetts, — T. H. Perkins, one of the Massachusetts Ambassadors, appointed by Caleb Strong, of *' Bulwark memory," " agreeably to the recommendation of the Hartford Convention," — Abbot Lawrence, merchant, Somer- set-st. (see Boston Directory,) — George Blake, (2) U. S. Dis trict Attorney, — and John P. Rice, merchant, No. 24 Fayette place, (see Boston Directory,) and brother-in-law to the Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, of the U. S. Senato, and B. W. Crownin- shield, of the House of Representatives, from Massachusetts, ardent supporters of Mr. Adams, and patrons of the Massachu setts Journal. It will be seen by reference to the circular, which is herewith submitted, that these gentlemen, among other objects, had in view the breaking down of the great Republican Party, or to use their own language, " an oblivion of obso lete party distinctions." To that party two of them owe their present offices under the government of the U. S. viz : George Blake, Esq. who has held the office of District Attor- (1) See Appendix A. (2) See Appendix B. 4 ney, for twenty eight years, and H. A. S. Dearborn, Esq. who, and whose family have been so long the special protegees of thje government, that they seem to entertain the opinion, that they have an hereditary claim and right of presentation to all the good livings in Massachusetts and Maine. The support of the principles of " social order," " or personal and politi cal security," was another object to which the ^divided ener gies of these gentlemen have been especially directed. And last, not least, an ardent desire to prevent the dissemination of " wilful and malignant falsehoods among the people, respecting the character of some of our most distin GUISHED citizens," is most sincerely expressed in their circu lar ! ! ! How far they have adhered to the original purposes of their publication, in relation to the two latter objects, the few extracts exhibited in the following pages will abundantly show. How far they have been successful in breaking down the Re publican party already appears. CIRCULAR. The circular published below, was extensively circulated in the States of Massachusetts and Maine. It also appeared in the Massachusetts Weekly Journal, of September 3, 1828, un der the following editorial remarks. " The following testimony in favour of the Massachusetts Jour nal is submitted to the friends of our present undertaking. It was not intended originally for publication, but one of our neighbours having ferreted and brought it out as a proof of a frightful amalgamation plot, we have now no objections to its appearance any where." Boston, May 20, 1828. Sir, — The undersigned, Subscribers to the Massachusetts Journal, being firmly persuaded of its utility in the cause of the Administration, in the cause of Massachusetts and the Na tion, and convinced of the existing necessity of affording it an increased and efficient support, in order that its editors may be enabled and stimulated to persevere in the course they have hitherto so ably and indefatigably pursued ; take the liberty of addressing you as a friend to the important objects above stated, and of urging you to afFord to this paper such a portion of sup port and encouragement as you may find convenient. They would not on any account, interfere with the patronage of any other friendly and well conducted press. They are aware that there are many such ; whose claim to public favor rest on solid and long established grounds, from which they neither can nor would detract. But they believe that the Journal has strong claims on the community, which may be satisfied without injury to the rights of others. The leading principles of the Journal are, a strenuous sup port of the National Administration, and an oblivion of obso lete party distinctions ; of distinctions originally foun ded ON AN HONEST DIFFERENCE OF OPINION RESPECTING MEAS ures which have long since become matters of history, but which have no longer any practical bearing on the political principles and interests of the present day. The Journal took the lead in resisting the election of a gentleman to the united states' senate, who was supported on the ground of old party services j and who has since avowed himself friendly to the election of General Jackson to the Presidency. An allusion to the firm and spirited conduct of the Journal on this occasion, is peculiarly gratifying, as this resistance proved successful. The Journal afterwards supported a liberal and frank Union of the friends of the Administration in the Spring Elections of last year : and this union partly succeeded in this metropolis, and was still more successful in many of the country towns. The consequence was, that Massachusetts was enabled to hon our the man whom her citizens delight to honour ; and by so doing not only secured credit to herself, but important assist ance to the Administration in the National Councils. The Journal has since persevered in the same upright and undeviating course. Its undivided energies have been directed to the support of the principles of social order, of domes tic industry, of personal and political purity ; and of that government by whom these principles are adopted. The zeal of its Editors, supported by talents, and directed by an honest patriotism, has been certainly unsurpassed in our community. Now then, that we may enjoy many of the fruits of their zeal, let us not forget to reward those that procured them. Let us not imagine that any republic can flourish without a constant reference to the political character of those who as pire to office. The right of exposing the disqualifications of candidates for public office, is secured to us by the Constitu tion ; and it is one that should be exercised with firmness and intrepidity, yet with moderation and a strict regard to truth. The abuse of this sacred privilege, like that of other excellent things, is one of the greatest curses to which this na tion has ever been subjected. Corrupt presses have been found from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic to the Ohio, which have disseminated wilful and malignant falsehoods among the people respecting the character of some of our most distinguished citizens. We are a- ware that the number of these truly corrupt presses is small ; but their pernicious influence is great, and widely spread ; nor does any other effectual remedy suggest itself as commensurate with the disease, except a liberal and .cordial public patronage towards those editors who have distinguished themselves by the defence of the injured, and by the exposure of their accusers. These general views and principles relative to public affairs, which we have thus briefly expressed, induce us to recommend to your notice the Massachusetts Journal. * We remain, Respectfully, Your obedient Servants, H. A. S. DEARBORN, JOHN WELLES, SHERMAN LELAND, T. H. PERKINS, ABBOTT LAWRENCE, GEO. BLAKE, J. P. RICE. mwt of <&m. $mU$ou. EXTRACTS. No combination of circumstances could produce that effect (the election of Gen. Jackson), not even the death of Mr. Ad ams. The more the people reflect upon the conduct and CHARACTER AND WANT OF PRINCIPLE OF GeN. JACKSON, THE more they shudder at the thought of his being chief Magistrate. He has served the people for a short term, (we believe his SERVICES HAVE BEGUN SINCE Burr's CONSPIRACY) HE HAS TAKEN FROM INDIVIDUALS LIBERTY AND LIFE, NOT ONLY WITH OUT L'AW, BUT WITH SIGNAL MOCKERY OF ITS MOST SACRED FORMS. For all his faults and crimes he appears not to possess a sin gle redeeming quality, but the bravery of a ruffian and the warlike cunning of an Indian chief. Were he the heir expectant of an European Throne, would not his future subjects groan in anticipating the sway of one whose charac ter HAD BEEN DISTINGUISHED BY VIOLENCE AND BY A RECK LESSNESS OF CIVIL AND DIVINE LAWS. ********** Constantine was violent, uxorious, and a gambler — Jackson is all this, besides being a Duellist and a Murderer. We recommend that all our friends do read the sixth number of the " Tennessean " — that they loan the paper to the honest 9 friends of General Jackson and circulate it widely as possible. Is it not amazing that such a man as this Andrew Jackson should have been able to stand before the public so long with his falsehood proved so by his own witnesses, his chicanery, his brawls, his swearing, his shooting and daggering. New-Orleans had better been lost a thousand times, than its defence should have brought this scandal upon the country. When this Election is over, and the man of the " Pistol and Dirk," the fireside Hvena of character is put down, we must have a LUSTRUM performed in the land — we must HAVE THE CONSTITUTION CLEANSED IN THE SAME MANNER AS THE FARMER DOES HIS WHEAT FLOOR AFTER CATTLE HAVE BRO KEN IN AND PASSED THE NIGHT THERE. He (Jackson) is a brave, hard-fighting man — he is a pro fessed Duellist — one bet of $5000 on a horse-race caused him TO KILL ONE OF HIS NEIGHBOURS. * * * The prominent acts of his life are acts of rashness, and a temper ungoverned has led him to a disregard of Laws hu man AND DIVINE. The General has no doubt given liberal promise of what he knows will cost him nothing ;— but as we are fond of having every one suitably rewarded, it might as the only resource be well for the Hero to recollect the blank commissions in his old Bureau, intended for the famous Burr Expedition, and fill them up for his " Brevet" expectants, which by the way will do just as well, for none of those for whom they are intended will ever recover sense enough to know the difference. " Catch before you cook a flounder, Cried the learned Hannah Glass, Maxim wiser and profounder Than our Jackson sages pass," 2 10 General Jackson's connection with Burr's Conspiracy confirmed. There can be no doubt about the fact ; for independent of all circumstances and statements, which we have been spread ing before the public for the last two years, we have now positive evidence of Jackson's guilt. ***** We have known ever since the year 1822 that Jackson was confederate with Burr ; we have known and we have endeavoured to make others know it. Reader — Have you seen Richard die ? If you have you can comprehend our idea of the present desperate condition of THE TENNESSEAN SLANDERER— THE GREAT WESTERN BLUE-BEARD. Gen. Jackson swore at Baltimore that he would cut off the ears of that grand rascal W. H. Crawford. Jackson is a candidate who is destitute of every qualification either of temper, talents or experience. It is not yet quite certain that posterity will vote a Statue or Picture to be erected or suspended in the Capitol in honor of a man who has threatened to cane the Senators of Sovereign States within those very walls, and to cut off the ears of the representatives of the people. Appropos — We should have had a hint for Allston, if Hamil ton's proposition had passed. We would have suggested to the artist, the propriety of giving the General (Jackson) a Senator's ear for a cockade, and six dangling militia men instead of twist ed bullion for his epaulette. As for dress, we would have advis ed him to cover him with the red-skins of Indian women. 11 The Victory at New-Orleans was more owing to the impru dence of Packenham than the wisdom of Jackson. * * * Gen. Jackson spent the prime of his life in gambling, COCK- fighting and horse-racing, and has all his life been a most bloody duellist, and to cap all his frailties he tore from a husband the wife of his bosom, to whom he had for some years been united in the holy state of Matrimony. ******** I call it (the execution of the six Militia men) Murder in principle, and this bloody act in my opinion should forever debar him from the Presidency. Many more cases may be named of the cruelty and tyranny of Gen. Jackson, but shock ing to the feelings of all humane men, must be the cases named and if true which I have no reason to doubt, it must astonish all reflecting minds that there is in this intelligent community men that claim a decent character and common sense, that are so regardless of their duty to their Country, as to put in nomination for President of the U. S. Andrew Jackson. On LANDING AT THE MOUTH OF THE CUMBERLAND, SOME ONE told him (Jackson) of Mr. Clay's pamphlet in which he HAD COMPLETELY PROVED HIS OWN INNOCENCE. The PIOUS AND accomplished Hero jumped to his feet, and stretching out HIS ARM, SWORE BY THE IMMACULATE GoD THAT Mr. ClAY AND ALL HIS FRIENDS WERE G D D D LlARS BY G D. There is a manuscript of Gen. Jackson's now in the hands of a member of Congress, in which good English is shockingly vi olated. In twenty-five lines there are twenty-three words mis spelt. He spells Canada — Canaday. Have we filled out the list of Gen. Jackson's qualifications ? We have shown him ambitious of power and reckless of the 12 means of gratifying his ambition, — a man to be feared. We HAVE SHOWN HIM DESPERATE AND BLOOD-THIRSTY SETTING AT DEFIANCE THE LAWS OF GoD AND MAN, A MAN OF BLOOD. It REMAINS TO ADD ONE SHADE TO THE PICTURE. He IS A MAN TO be despised. A friend describes the General as most devoted ly and laudably studious. He has gone back to the elements and daily exercises in Murray. WThen he writes he is flanked by Walker on one side, and a Dictionary of quotations (recom mended by Major Lee as a most valuable auxiliary to the learn ed) on the other. In Tennessee the Jacksonians knock men on the head who spread information before the public. i These Jackson men and Jackson principles would have war every where would envenom every thing would rupture the tenderest and holiest ties j and blast the FEW FLOWERS WHICH STILL FLOURISH IN EdEN. THIS IS THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE JaCKSON PARTY ; IT IS THE SPIRIT OF HIM, WHOM THEY WORSHIP AND SERVE. Jackson, — The great moral Vampyre of the West, who is so distinguished for his love of human blood and recklessness of sacred things. A sign of the times- The Planet Mars, the patron of war-hawks and military Butch ers, was nearest to the earth, and shining with his greatest splendour (as if rejoicing in the probable success of his client and pupil) on the 7th of July last, the day on which the elec tion in Louisiana commenced, since which day, he has receded and will continue to recede from us, with constantly increasing velocity, until he becomes a mere speck in the heavens, just large enough to tell us he once was. 13 If we countenance such principles, (Jacksonian) if we ALLOW SUCH MEN AS JaCKSON AND THOSE HE WILL APPOINT TO ENGROSS THE HONOURS AND EMOLUMENTS OF THE NATION, WHY THEN FAREWELL, A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL OUR HARD-EARNED GLORY, TO OUR UNEXAMPLED PROSPERITY. ' SHmse of J&r$L Station. Is not the Honourable Chairman of the Boston Jackson Com mittee now on a pilgrimage to and with the master spirits, Van Buren, Cambreling, Calhoun, and even to the Chieftain him self and his Lady (risum teneatis) in Tennessee. Who is there in all this land that has a wife, a sister or daughter that could be pleased to see Mrs. Jackson (Mrs. Roberts that was) presiding in the Drawing-Room at Washing ton. There is pollution in the touch, there is perdi tion in the example of a profligate woman — " Her ways lead down to the chambers of death, and her steps take hold on Hell." And shall we standing in a watch-tow«r to warn our countrymen of approaching danger seal our lips in si lence, in respect to this personage and her paramour, great and powerful as he is and captivating as he renders himself with his " bandanna handkerchief", " his frock coat", his amiable condescentions, and the fascinations of his Bar-Room and pub lic TABLE TALK. ******* The terror of Jackson's name and his daggers and triggers may have frightened the managers of a Nashville Assembly and COMPELLED THEM TO " ADMIT " HIS SPOUSE AMONGST MODEST WOMEN ; IT SHALL, HOWEVER GO HARD, BUT HE SHALL MEET A FIRMER RESISTANCE BEFORE HE FIGHTS HER AND HIS OWN WAY INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION. 14 ABUSE OF THE Senate of t$e Wnittt States* The sleeping partners. We have understood from a re spectable source, that an appropriation of 15000 Dollars extra was necessary to defray the expenses of printing for the Senate at the last session by the Telegraph Establishment, it seems that the Jackson men who are a majority of this Body have taken care to oil their press in time for the approaching drought in October next. Can the Jackson Senators individually LAY THEIR HANDS UPON THEIR HEARTS AND IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD SWEAR THAT THEY HAVE NO INTEREST, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN VOTING THIS EXTRAORDINARY Q.UANTITY OF printing into the hands of the Telegraph Establishment. Opposition Movements. Revenue Laws. — Mr. Livingston moved the consideration of a resolution he offered sometime since, on the subject of a Revision of the Revenue Laws — but the motion was negatived. Under pretence of instituting an examination and re vision of the Revenue Laws, the real object was to constitute a Jackson Electioneering (not white-wash ing) Committee at Washington to set through the sum mer, to be paid out of the Treasury and to carry on their operations under the advantages of an official authority and form. ®i)t p?ou. Jttattin fftttreu* Shall we surrender ourselves into the hands of Van Buren & Co. or not ? For our part we feel an inexpressible indigna tion and a most thorough disgust at the idea of yielding up the government of the nation to those conspirators who are tra- 15 VERSING THE COUNTRY, CHERISHING A VENOMOUS OPPOSITION, corrupting the press, &c. Shall they succeed in their base schemes ? Will you permit a few political pedlers, who are wending their way from North to South to barter away their consciences and their country for the promise of a place ? Will you permit them to controul your destinies ? Van Buren — that arch and irresistible intriguer. O ! Martin Van Buren ! If thou art not too far off, too busy to hear our small voice, be advised — change thy Editors or thou art undone — and all the expense and labour of so much writing, intriguing, travelling and printing will be thrown away. Thou must not make use of vessels which are so shallow, that they run over when thou attemptest to put enough into them to last during one of thy peddling peregrinations to the South, or of thy visits to the sensitive, blushing Van Ness in the North. It is the midnight cabals of Van Buren &; Co. it is the development of a gigantic system of intrigue and cor ruption — these it is, which have produced the present state of public opinion. This print (the Troy Budget) accuses us of disrespect to Mr. Senator Van Buren, in calling him an " adventurer", a " ped lar IN POLITICS" ; HE IS BOTH : NO POLITICAL INTRIGUE IS TOO VAST AND COMPLICATED FOR HIM, NO TRICK IS TOO LITTLE. We do most sincerely believe every word which we have said of Mr. Van Buren — the Kinderhook Horse Jockey* VAN BUREN'S PANACEA. Agreeably to our pledge in the 98th No. of our Journal of making known as extensively and as promptly as may be, the 16 nature and effect of this wonder-working compound, we trans fer the following well attested Certificate from the columns of the N. Y. American to our own. N. Y. Agency Office, April 9, 1827. To the Editors, — Not having observed the certificate of the late Governor Van Ness of Vermont among those published in your paper of the 6th inst. in relation to " Mr. Van Buren's Pa nacea," and concluding that its omission must undoubtedly be the result of an oversight of the inventor, I have deemed it pro per to furnish you with a certified copy of the one given by this patient, public for the benefit of all persons labouring under diseases of a like nature. Yrs &tc. Agent. C. P. Van Ness of Vermont, Air CastU Builder, having been for a number of years much troubled with a disease called Itch for Office, which a short time since assumed the United States Senatorial type, he had been induced to try various remedies for its removal — such as the expression of an unbounded confi dence in the present administration of the general government — and supposing that the remedies he has made use of had almost cured him, he had accordingly applied to a couvocation of learn ed Doctors for the requisite certificate ; but to his infinite dis may they reported unfavourably upon his case. The shock subsequent upon his loss of the " Loaves and Fishes " was so great that for a time he was completely insensible. On reviving however, he found that the itch had left him, but in its place, as he was assured by some of his acquaintances, he was com pletely covered with blotches — the sad effects of remedies he had so ill-advisedly used. — To remove these Blotches, a Bo lus y' cleped recantation was recommended ; but to his horror he discovered that his gullet was so straitened that he could not get it down. In this perplexity, the Panacea was urged upon him, as it was represented to be of so emollient a nature as to 17 render every one who used it, capable of " swallowing a camel," although formerly they might have " choaked at a gnat." Af ter using five bottles, (the case being desperate) the recantation not only slipped down without touching, but the patient was en abled to throw up, without gagging, a huge quantity of bile and a long string of accusations against the President and his friends which for several weeks had been collecting on his dis eased stomach. He is now in his opinion, completely restored to his pristine health and is fully able, without exhibiting any hectic flushes to gulp down the pills which in the shape of con tradiction, charges of misrepresentations, Sic. may from time to time be administered to him. In short he can well swallow any thing or everything. A true Copy compared with the Original, Agent. A little more and Vermont would have been cursed with a Senator appointed by Isaac Hill and Martin Van Buren. &tmge of <£ou* eifttton* We will, however, add a word on his (De Witt Clinton's) general political character which we find in a letter recently re ceived by a friend, fee. — It happily touches the point in dispute. " The Federalists of New- York" says the writer " have always .regarded Mr. Clinton as a bargaining political scamp." With this we leave him and proceed to his worthy friend Mr. Martin Van Buren. This gentleman was originally a dealer in horses, as he now is in animals akin to that nob#e beast. &fmse of arjje fflon.®mon & ^atrrte* He has placed himself before the people of Maine " a fixed AND LASTING FIGURE FOR THE HAND OF PUBLIC SCORN TO POINT ITS SLOW UNMOVING FINGER AT. 3 18 ABUSE OF artie P^w* 3to!m 3Etauirol|>*). John Randolph is the chairman of this responsible and im portant body (ways and means). John Randolph ! John Ran dolph ! who is physically, morally and intellectually disqualified for labour and application. John Randolph who has been on many committees without once, even by accident, betraying any capacity or inclination to digest the details of public busi ness. John Randolph who has been denounced as a queru lous MANIAC SUBJECT TO INCESSANT EPILEPSIES OF INTEL LECT, NEVER TO BE RELIED ON LIKE A STRANGE BEAST TO BE GAZED BUT NOT ADMIRED, NOR IMITATED, NOR ASSOCIATED with. We are not frightened at the denunciations of crazy Randolph, nor of wicked Mordecai with all the dregs of the New- York populace around him and before him. If it Were necessary to prove that the mind of John Randolph has been unhinged and that he is now Little better than a maniac, the proofs multiply on us every day. We know that there are hundreds and thousands of excellent and reflecting men all over the Southern States who despise and deprecate the bullying — Hotspur spirit of the McDuffies, the Hamilton's and Randolphs. if It appears that Orcobrand (the Editor of the Boston States man) holds sweet communion with the wild and malign spirit of Roanoke ! A very cosey couple, undoubtedly they must be. We hope that they will be mutually edified by the correspond ence — injured, they cannot be ; they are perfectly safe on that score. One word to Mr. Randolph. — You deceive yourself most miserably if you believe that by flattering and cajolling or bribing such creatures as Isaac Hill, and Nathaniel Greene, you will be enabled to wield the " Democracy of New-Eng- 19 land." The strength, virtue and intelligence of New-England loathe those scurrilous characters. Your old latin saw Ache- conta movebo will not serve. Honest George Kremer and consistent John Randolph, crows of the same nest — brothers in the same party family — fellow- soldiers under the same standard — worshippers of the same idol — will go down to posterity together and the only remaining de sideratum is that, in the same historical record which does hom age to this Damon and Pythias of the 20th Congress, the full length figures of these political gemini may accompany the records of their oral exploits. ***** The Judgment as well as reasoning power of Mr. Ran dolph IS ON THE LEES. ****** He (R.) is a Defamer, Declaimer and a Demagogue. Let us explicitly say that John Randolph is not a clear white man, but one whose stamina is savage. He has the education of a white man superinduced upon an aboriginal In dian NATURE, IN WHICH THE SAVAGE ABOUT EQ.UALS THE CUL TIVATION OR RATHER SURMOUNTS IT. ABUSE OF J$U\ iHtDuffifc antr fjfs <£o#at?fot$» " Lay on McDuff— And damned be he who first cries hold — enough." This (an extract from Mr. McDuffie's speech at Charleston) is a beautiful specimen of Southern Patriotism — it may be said Southern Treason — " Moral Treason" at least, as Felix Grun dy would call it. — Such however as in France would introduce Mr. McDuffie to the guillotine — in Spain to the Inquisition — ' in Russia to the knout — in Turkey to the bow-string, and in every country but this to the gallows — and why not in this ? Be- 20 cause (we speak of our native New-England) we would not TAKE THE TROUBLE TO HANG SUCH A FELLOW.* He MIGHT PROBABLY BE DISTINGUISHED HERE BY A COSTUME OF TAR AND FEATHERS, ACCORDING TO ANCIENT REVOLUTIONARY USAGES, OR BE SENT TO THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION, WHERE HE MIGHT BE TAUGHT BETTER MANNERS. ********** Who is this Mr. McDuffie ? Answer — He is a trouble some, forth-putting Demagogue in Congress from South Carolina. Out of Congress he is by trade a Duellist. But nevertheless held in contempt by the real Gentlemen of S. C. * * * * * There are others be sides McDuffie. These are the gentry who are shaking the nation to its centre, to force upon it a vindictive warbiour for President ; — and this his only qualification — half horse — half alligator. From such a calamity and disgrace may God of his infinite mercy preserve our Country and posterity. abuse of <&en* J»e&eati— $ost JWaster General* How prevent the Journal from going to Maine, if people will send it or send for it — unless that good Jackson man John McLean will order his Post masters to suppress it, as many of them have done. We presume this course would be full as lawful, as righteous and as honourable, as other things which McLean has done. ********** It is discouraging to write and print and then have John Mc Lean to appoint Post masters who will burn the papers. * " / to such blockheads set my wit, I damn such fools — so, so you 're quit." 21 ABUSE OF <&m. 33ttff <&ttm, utOt otfjer BtetfnflttteDetr JACKSON EDITORS. Duff Green. "This wretch" fee. * * * * Most assuredly, we think it unfortunate and scandalous, that that profane, false and lawless ribald Duff Green of the Telegraph should receive emoluments, fee. The base Telegraph, of Washington, travels every where. That and the equally base Statesman of Boston overspread the land like the frogs and flies of Egypt. Portrait of the Telegraph. U. S. Telegraph. — The paper published. at Washington under the above title by Duff Green and Russel Jarvis has no parallel for the scurrillity of its columns and the ferocity of its nature jn the history of politics. And yet on this statement (Binns' apology for the famous forged letter of John Harris) Binns has been gravely charged with the attrocious crime of " forgery," and that too not only by the Washington Telegraph, the Boston Statesman and the New- York Enquirer, but even by the Richmond Enquirer, General Jackson himself, and by S. D. Ingham, a. member of Congress, whom except that he is not a member, we should rank with the former scurrilous and cut-throat class. The foregoing extracts may be found by reference to the fol lowing numbers of the Massachusetts Journal. December 16, 1826. June 12, 1828 April 1, 1827. April 7, 1827. k 17, it " 10, " June 25, 1828. " 14, " a 18, ct " 21, " u 14, Cf " 24, " July 26, (( March 17, " k 22, (I July 16, " January 5, il December 25, " u 17, ti March 15, " ci 29, li April 28, 1828. March 29, il February 28, " <( 28, 11 March 15, " April 28, a September 2, " May 24, a July 12, " August 12, a January 29, " it 5, (( August 12, " It 19, il December 11, 1827. September 13, il July 22, 1828. April 17, 1 1827. " 19, " June 5, ) 1828. February 27, " APPENDIX. [A.] The following is an exhibit of the amount of monies received from the fovernment by the members, lineal and collateral, of the Dearborn family. t was first published in 1833. Since that time other individuals of that family have been appointed to lucrative offices under the government. The heap of patronage has rapidly increased, and it may be safely calculated, that at this day the members of the Dearborn family have pocketed more than half a million of dollars of the people's money. The forego ing pages show the manner in which some of it has been applied, in New- England. 1801. — Gen. H. Dearborn, head of the family, Secretary of War, from 1801 to 1809, 8 years, Salary $ 4,500 per annum, - 36,000 1801. — Joshua Wingate, jr. his son-in-law, Clerk in the War De partment from 1801 to 1805, 4 years, at $ 1,500 per annum, 6,000 1801. — Joshua Wingate, father of this son-in-law, Postmaster of Hallowell from 1801 to 1822, 21 years, fees of office $350 per annum average, ----- - 7,350 1801. Gay, son-in-law, Postmaster of Gardiner from 1801 to 1823, 22 years, fees $ 200 per annum, .... 4,400 1801. Hobart, another son-in-law, Collector of the Port of Bath from 1801 to 1806, 5 years, fees and perquisites $ 2,500 per annum, 12,500 1805. — Joshua Wingate, jr. a son-in-law, translated from a Clerk ship in the War Office to be Postmaster of Portland, fees $ 1000 per annum, from 1805 to 1806, 1 year, - - - 1,000 1806. — Joshua Wingate, jr. promoted from the Post Office of Port land to the Collectorship of Bath, on the death of his brother- in-law Hobart, from 1806 to 1820, 14 years, fees and emolu ments on an average $ 2,600 per annum, - $ 36,400 Extra perquisites in 1813, - 30,000 Do do in 1814, - 35,000 101,400 1806. — James Wingate, brother of Joshua Wingate, jr. Postmas ter at Portland, vice Joshua Wingate promoted, from 1806 to 1816, 10 years, $ 1,500 per annum fees, - - - - 15,000 1809. — Gen. Henry Dearborn vacates the War Office and takes the Collectorship of Boston from 1809 to 1812, 3 years, at $ 10,000 fees and perquisites, 30,000 24 1812.— Gen. H. Dearborn resigns the Collectorship in favour of his son and is promoted to be Major General, $ 8000 per an num pay and emoluments, 3 years, ----- 24,000 1812. — H. A. S. Dearborn, Collector of Boston, vice his father, promoted, from 1812 to 1823, fees and emoluments $ 10,000, 11 years, - - 110,000 1812.— Wm. R. Lee, brother in law of H. A. S. Dearborn, Weigh er, Guager and Measurer in Boston from 1812 to 1823, 11 years, fees &c. $3,700 per annum - - - 40,700 1820. — Joshua Wingate; jr. the son-in-law resigns privately, the collectorship of Bath, and Joseph F. Wingate, his brother appointed in his place, fees and perquisites $3,000 per annum 3 years ----- 9,000 1820.— Gen. H. Dearborn, Minister to Portugal at $9,000 per an num,— 3 years - - - - $27,000 Outfit - - 9,000 -36,000 Three Grand-sons and one Nephew educated at West Point at the public expense, at $950 each - 3,800 Grand Total - - 437,150 The money as distributed among the members of this favor ed family is as follows, Gen. H. Dearborn — Secretary of War - 36,000 Collector - - - 30,000 Major General - 24,000 Minister Plenipotentiary 36,000 -126,000 H. A. S. Dearborn — Collector ... 110,000 Gen. J. Wingate, jr. — Clerk . 6,000 PostMaster - 1,000 Collector - - 101,000 $108,000 W. R. Lee — Weigher and Guager, &c. - 40,000 Joshua Wingate, Post Master - - 7,350 Gay, Post Master - 4,400 Hobert, Collector - 12 500 James Wingate, Post Master - 15'000 Joseph P. Wingate, Collector - - 9,000 Grand-sons and Nephew's Education - 3,800 $437,150 [B.J At the meeting* on Sunday evening at Paneuil Hall, the following letter from the Hon Daniel Webster was read from the Chair and ordered to be published.— Mass. Journal, April 3, 1827. Saturday Evening, March 20th, 1827. Gentlemen — The fatigue of a long journey, does not allow me at the moment of its termination, to meet you and other friends at Faneuil Hall for purposes connected with the pending election, as you have so kindly requested. It would otherwise give me great pleasure to be present on the occasion, my opinion on subjects of this kind are I hope, well known, they were fnrly expressed on a similar occasion two years ago, and I take the liberty to say, that all subsequent experience has tended but to strength en, and confirm them. To me it has appeared, and now more clearly than ever appears, that our duty and true policy require us to cultivate union and conciliation among ourselves, to give to the Administration of the General Government an efficient support against all opposition, which is ground less or merely personal, and to take especial care in important elec tions, so to conduct them, as not to stifle that general approbation, which is undoubtedly felt toward the measures of the Executive Government ; but on the contrary to give to these sentiments of approbation their natural, full and entire effect, undor these feelings of duty and propriety. I shall most cheerfully give my vote on Monday for the re-election of the present distinguished Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth, and for such candi dates for the Senate as I believe to be disposed, disregarding distinctions, WHICH HAVE NO APPLICATION TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THINGS ; to give a serious and cordial support in all just measures, both to the National and State Administrations. Repeating my regret at the circumstances which prevent me from meet ing with you to-morrow evening, I beg to assure you of my regard, and am Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant DANIEL WEBSTER. To Messrs. G. Blake and S. A. Wells. *The above mentioned meeting of which Georoe Blake, Esq. was Chairman, was called for the purpose of opposing the election of the Hon. David Henshaw and Andrew Dunlap, Esq. friends of Gen. Jackson, who were nominated on the regular Republican Ticket as candidates for the Senate of Massachusetts. ADDENDA. EXTRACTS From the Address of the Central Committee, appointed by a Convention of both branches of the Legislature, friendly to the election of John Quincy Adams as President and Rich ard Rush as Vice President of the U. States, held at the State House in Boston. June 10, 182S, to their fellow citi zens. 'From a careful attention to the progress of events, through out the whole canvass, we find that the sober, thinking, and es pecially the aged people, with the young men, who aim to ad vance themselves by diligence, industry, devotion to business in their calling, and attachment to principle, are almost unani mous for the administration. On the other side, are as generally enlisted the political managers, the unsuc cessful politicians op all parties, the unreflecting, and the "adventurers. ********** Presses, conducted by men without character and lost to shame, have been put forward, in front of the array. One of these has been selected for the patronage of the Senate of the United States, a body, which till the organization of the present opposition, had preser VED ITS DIGNITY IN THE DARKEST times. Others of like stamp are scattered over the Union, and have given a character to the 27 controversy, which reflects discredit on the country. Our me tropolis presents a signal example ; so outrageous is the press, enlisted in Boston in the cause of General Jackson, that a new opposition journal has been started, on the alleged ground, that the former was a scandal to any cause. ********** Violence, scurrility, invasion of private character, and systematic disregard of truth are deemed essential to the presses, which oppose the Administration. ********** We are called upon to trample upon the principle of our in stitutions, to permit an uninformed warrior, in the language of Mr. Jefferson, on another occasion " to ride booted and spur red" into the Presidency of the United States. * * ** * * * * * * Nor is the theory behind the practice. While the subordinate partizans are plying the people with every art of political in trigue and management, goading them into madness against tri ed and faithful servants, and exalting beyond the bounds of hu man merit a man, whom they themselves had just taught the community to fear and despise, the leaders are occupied in POISONING THE SPRINGS OF THE PUBLIC JUDGMENT, AND IN VENTING NEW TESTS OF MORAL AND POLITICAL MERIT. ********** It ought not to be omitted here, that in one of the districts of Tennessee, the friends of the administration are unquestionably a majority. But as club law is introduced in that region, and any person signalizing himself, as an opponent to the candidate of the majority, is subject to personal outrage, assault and assassination, it is not impossible that the friends of the ad ministration, consisting as they do of the friends of order and peace, may be driven from the polls, by mobs of armed des peradoes, and prevented from giving their suffrage. 28 The Document from which the above extracts are made has been publicly attributed to the pen of the Hon. Daniel Web ster, which is not denied by him or his friends. It was signed by the following individuals. SHERMAN LELAND, WILLI \M W. PAEEOTT, WILLIAM B. CALHOUN, JAMES SAVAGE, H. A. S. DEARBORN, JOHN E. ADAN, TIMOTHY FULLER, ABBOTT LAWEENCE, LEVERETT SALSTONSTALL, JOHN T. WLNTHEOP, THOMAS WELSH, Jr. JOHN B. DAVIS, FRANCIS C GEAY, S. C. PHILLIPS, JOSEPH E. SFRAGUE, Massachusetts Central Committee,. Hi IliiiiS hi ! ::