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The following well written article,
from the Albany Argus, will bo read
with interest.
Os the character of the late political
struggle, we have already freely spoken.
It has been peculiarly the triumph of the
people, and their own candidates, over
the wealth, the aristocracy, and the cabi
net means and influence, of the country.
In no possible way could the integrity of
of the people, and the insufficiency of the
seductions of power with a viituousand
intelligent community, have been more
fully exhibited. This is little else than
the repitition of a remark which is very
happily illustrated and extended in the
following observations of a correspondent,
the potency of whose pen contributed in
no slight degree to the great result. We
owe it to the writer to add, that it is the
language of a familiar letter to the editor,
not designed for publication.
‘Of the final succes* of Gen. Jackson I
permitted myself to doubt. I well
knew if the whole case (as the lawyers
say) could b* spread before the people,
that the event was certain: but to ensure
success , t was necessary to produce the
ev tlen e, and to prepare the argument,
otherwise the torrent of calumny which
ran with surh fury from the presses of
the Administration, would have swept
away the popularity of a Washington.
The result of the contest furnishes the
in st • fleering evidence of the native hon
esty of the people. Had it terminated
otherwise, I must confess that my strong
convictions that ihmr virtue was the sure
corrective of all public evils would have
been shaken. If my efforts have tended
in any‘degree to stay the plague,’it will
be a source of consolatory reflection thro’
life.
‘The recent battle has been on paper,
—-the ihief warriors, ‘ the knights of the
Press. It has been a controversy singu
lar in character, and in the attendant cir
cum Unces. Wealth, and the numerous
dependants who full w in her train,
against us the Bar against us
the Pulpit against us the Universe
ties, tron the venerable Harvard to
the youthful Transylvania, against us—
the Literary Aristocracy (for however
strange it may appear, the Republic of
Mon irehies is an Aristocracy in the Dem
ocratic Republic of America) against us,
with a few distinguished exceptions in
your s'ate, —and even imperial Fashion
Came in with her-sweeping and conquer
ing dictum ihat it was vulgar to be Jack
sonian,’ and ‘good society’ instantly took
their places in the Adams ranks. Most
of the names of note which have been
Sounded by the party trumpets for thirty
years, were u*ed for our discomfiture.
Albert Gallatin and gen. Dearborn, two
of the cabinet of Jefferson—seven of the
eight surviving Jefferson electors of 1800
in Virginia—John Marshall, and I be
lieve Oliver Wolcott, of the cabinet of
John Adams—John Jay, Bushrod Wash
ington, Levi Lincoln, governor of Mas-
SAciosetih. the • epresentative [as Mr.
Adams would say] of a"other member of
th*> Jefferson Cabinet—Gov. Randolph,
and ti- son T. J. Randolph, the represen
ts ves *>f Mr Jefferson, though enemies
of Clay, fr ends of Adams—Jones, Crown
inshi dd, and Eustis, of the cabinet of Mr.
M dison—the Judiciary of the United
SUk*—Smith Thompson in the field as a
partis in.
All those names too which the federalists
had berni taught to respect; Harrison G.
Otis, Josiah Quincy, the families of the
la'i* Chief Justice Parsons, Governor
Strong & Governor Gore, Gen. Van Ren*
selnei, Mr. Van Vechten, Rulus King, &
many others well known to fame in the
itvddb’ & eastern states; Gaston & Web
ste<7 thi revolutionary names of Wii| e t
and Fairiie; many of the chiefs of the late
Crawford party gov. Barbour, Mr. Rush,
<§v„; and it was at least a matter of doubt
whether the two surviving Presidents
were not both against us. And yet we
have conquer* d,— gloriously conquered,
—d’ven our enemies fiom the field, with
all the aid of the patronage, (he bank and
the treasury. And what is more aston
ishing, the administration, with the most
learned and taleted men of *ke nation rea
dy to wield the pen at their bidding ,have
been beaten as thoroughly in the field of
political controversy as in the Electoral
Colleges. The productions of the lead
ing Jackson presses can sustain the ut
most seventy ot critical comparison. Ev-i
en Parnassus was seized by Jackonians
and their enemies were driven in disgrace
from the region of Muses. This howev
er, is not so wonderful. Poetry otten a
bandons the soft seats which taste and
luxury have prepared tor her, dj* wanders
in the fields amongst the Peasantry.
Shakespeare was a vulgar fellow, a sort ol
a hurra-boy,—combed wool poached in
Sir Thomas Lucy’s park, haunted tav
erns and held horses; &. Robert Burns
drove a plow.
Correspondence between Mr. Crockett,
of Tennessee, Mr. Clark, of Kentuck*
y, and Mr. Verplank, of N. York, all
three members of the House of Repre
sentatives.
House of Representatives , Jan. 3, 1829.
Uisak Biu—Forbearance ceases to
be a virtue, when it is construed into
an acquiescence in falsehoods, or a
tame submission to unprovoked insult.
1 have seen publish, and republish
ed in various papers of the U. States,
a slander, no doubt characteristic of
its author, purporting to be an ac
count of my first, visit to the Presi
dent of the Nation. I have thus long
passed the publication alluded to with
silent contempt. But, supposing that
its republication is intended, as in its
origin it evidently was, to do me an
injury I can submit, to it no longer,
without calling upon gentlemen who
were present, to do me justice. I pre
sume, sir, that you have a distinct re
collection of what passed at the din
ner alluded to, and you will do me
the favor to say distinctly whether
the enclosed publication is not false.
1 would not make this appeal, if it
were not that, like other men, I have
enemies who would take much’ plea
sure in magnify ii g the plain rusticity
of my manners into the most unpur
aileiled grossness and indelicacy. I
have never enjoyed the advantages
which many have abused; but i atn
proud to hope that your answer will
show, that 1 have never so far prosti
tuted the humble advantages I do en
joy, as to act the part attributed to
me. An early answer is requested.
1 am, sir, most respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
DAVID CROCKETT.
Hon. Jas. Clark, of Ky.
[A similar request to the above was
communicated to the Hon; Mr. Ver
plank, of N. York.]
Washington City, Jan. 4, 1829.
Dear Colonel. In your letter of
yesterday, you requested me to say if
the luclii rous newspaper account of
your behaviour when dining with the
President, which you enclosed me, is
true.
1 was at the same dinner, and know
that the statement is absolutely
titute of every thing like truth. I sat
opposite to you at the table, and held
occasional conversation with you, and
observed nothing in your behaviour
but what was marked with the strict
est propriety.
1 have the honor to be,
With great respect,
Your oh’t servant
JAS. CLARK.
Col. D. Crockett.
Washington, Jan; 4,1829.
Dear Sir: 1 have already several
times anticipated your request in regard
to the newspaper account of your beha
viour at the President's table, as I have
repeatedly contradicted it in various
companies where i heard it spoken of. I
dined there in company with you at the
time alluded to, aud had, I recollect a
good deal of conversation with you.
our behaviour there was, I thought, per
fectly becoming and proper, and I do not
recollect or believe that you said or did
any thing resembling the newspaper ac
count.
lam yours,
guliaS c. verplank.
Col. C ROCKETT.
Extract from Mr. Berrien’s remarks
on presenting the Georgia Protest to
the Senate of the U. States aginst the
Tariff.
It is difficult, Sir, to repress—it is,
perhaps still more difficult appropri
ately to express the feelings which’
belong to such ail occasion as the
present. I have been educated in
sentiments of reverence tor oar Fede
ral Union, and thro* iitr, i have ha
bitually cherished these sentiments.—
As an individual citizen, therefore it I
is painful to recur to that disastrous j
policy winch has imposed on tne :
State in which 1 live the stern ticcessi*
ty of assuming this relation to the
Government of this Confederacy.
As one of the Representatives on
this floor of that State, whose citizens
have always been forward to mani
fest a proto mi and and devoted attach
ment to this Union—of a patriotic
aud gallant People, who would Ireely
yield their treasure, & unsparingly
shed their blood in its defence, the oc
casion is one of deep and unmingled
humiliation, which demands the de
posite, in the Registry of the Senate,
of this record of their wrongs.—
There may be those, Sir, who vvii
look to this act with indifference—
perhaps with levity; who will consid
er it as the result of momentary ex
citement—and see or think they set
in it merely the effusion of impassion
ed but evanescent feeling. 1 implore
those gentlemen not to trouble them
selves, on a subject in relation to
which error may be like dangerous t
us all.
Forty years of successful expert
ment have proved the efficiency os
this Government to sustain os in ai
honorable intercourse witn toe otbe (
nations of the world. Externally, i
peace and in war, an id the iiin tua
turns, of commerce, ami the strife c.f
arms it has pro tec ted our interests
and defender our rights. One trial,
one fearful trial yet remains to be
made; i is one under the apprehension
of winch the bravest may tremble
which the wise and the good will anx
iously endeavor to avoid, it is that
experiment which shall test the com
petency of this Government to pre
serve our interest peace wherever a
question vitally affecting the bond
which unites us as one I’eople, shall
come to be solemnly agitated between
th ’ sovereign members of this confe
deracy. lo proportion to its danger
should be our solicitude to avoid it,
ny abstaining on the one hand from
acts of doubtful legislation as weil as
by the manner of resistance on the o
tiier, to those which are deemed un
constitutional. Between the inde
pendent members of this confederacy,
Sir, there can be no common arbiter.
They are necessarily remitted to their
own sovereign will deliberately ex
pressed, in the exercise of those re
served rights of sovereignty, the dele
gation of which would have been an
act of political suicide. The desig
nation of such an arbiter, Sir, was,
by the force of invincible necessity.
casus omissus, among the provisions
of a Constitution conferring limited
powers, the terpretation of which was
to be confined into the subordinate
agents created by those who were en
trusted to administer it.
I earnestly hope that the wise and
conciliatory spirit of this Govern
ment, and of those of the several
States will postpone to a period f r
distant the clay which will summon
us to so fearful a trial. If we are in
deed doomed to encounter it, 1 cs
earnestly hope that it may be entered
upon in the spirit of peace, and wish
cherished recollections of former an i
ty. But the occasion which shall im
pel the sovereign people of even one
of the members of this Confederacy,
to resolve that they are not hound by
its acts, is one to which no patriot
■can look with levity, or yet with in
j difference. Whatever men and free
! men may do to avert it, the People of
Georgia will do. Deeply as they fed
the wrongs which they suffer, they
will not bear and forbear. Though
their complaints have been hitherto
disregarded, and their remonstrances
have been heretofore set at nought,
they will still look with confidence to
the returning justice of this Govern
ment.
From a correspondent of the J\'ew Fork
Enquirer.
Washington, Dec. 23, 1828.
We are in the midst of the holidays—
of fashion—of gaiety —and of the closing
administration of the second Adams.
B ith houses have adjourned to next
week. The business which has been
transacted, and left in midway, will be
resumed with great activity after New-
Yr ar‘s day.
Since the opening of the session, all the
ta kof th 1 * day hu9 been ‘who will form
the Generai’s cabinet 1 ’ The topic is
now completely exhausted. As the high
tide of fasiiiuo sets in, these grave mat
ters begin to die away. When the Gen
ea! approaches the capital they will a
gain be revived.
Last Monday, Mrs. Secretary Porter
gave her first party- The talent to lead
fashionable society is peculiar and origi
nal. Ihe French are said to possess it
above &tl other people. It requires a
k owledge of character, acquaintance
with forms, brilliancy ot imagination, de
licacy of mind, as well as moral cour
age, and a rapidity of invention and tact,
which few females possess. Mrs. Porter
is a chartniug woman, and ectirlv tak'*s
the lead of all the gay cofemratraries of
the day now in the capital. Formerly
possessed of much personal beauty, it has
°°vv assumed an air of dignity with
which her fine figure correspond* ex
tremely. She keep* up the whole spirits
of the Adams party. She sustains the
whole administration with her cleverness
•nd her versatile talents. I think the ap
pointment of Gen Porter, on that account
as been quite a hit. Mrs. Porter is per
fectly acquainted with every political
man, and even Clay himself would not
nesiate t * take a lesson from her judg
ment. Notwithstanding all this, some of
th Adams party despond dreadfully.
,\bus * avent point de rernede pour i-ame.
Dancing, wine, canvass backs- all will not
heal the poor souls. Their only consola
tion is to launch sarcasms; and irvent
hoaxes about the inaugeration, the ball,
the next campaign, &c. They have al
ready cut up the whole establishment of
Gadsbv, and foretold everv movement
that will be made on sh- great occasion
which is approaching. Ha mg lost their
political i, flu. nee entirely, the ohj ct f
he ‘remnant’ is to infuse heir indue nee
into the fashionable iu!es and regulations
of the next administration. Accordingly,
their invention is set to work, and they
may succeed in passing laws for the cut
ot the c*at, the cock of the hat, or the
mode the indispensable should set, dur
ing the next term.
Mr. Clay‘9 first party for the season
was held last night. Heretofore, this has
has been considered the leading soiree
but it now falls back, and takes its posi
tion behind that of the Lady Secretary
of War. Mr. Clay made an eft’ rt to be
gay and nonchalant , and succeeded toler
ably we!|. He says he is very much
pleased with the election of Gen. Jackson,
it has afforded him much relief; and afer
the ot March he mounts his horse,
crosses the mountains, and turns farmer
in Kentucky. Little V right, of Ohio, it is
said is to be called to the beoch of that
state. 1 his is the only portion of the* weet
meats’ he can get, and it is pr bable he
will accept the di?h. lchabod Bartlett,
of N.II. who was so well dressed last
year by J<,hn S. Barbour, has cast his eye
upon Gov. Woodbury’s scat in the senate,
if the latter should be called to
Jackson’s cabinet; he is, therefore, pre
paring the way, by a resignation of his
present spat, Avery powerful original
Adamsman was here the other day, from
the banks of the Hudson; he advised with
Mr. Adams, settled Jackson’s cabinet,
fixed his leading policy, appointed his
successor, turned on his heel from Clay,
and then took his departure for the north.
must not, therefore,give you’9elfany
further trouble about public affairs—ail
is n ranged.
I understand great discontent prevails
about the nomination of Mr. Hughes, who
is considered unfit forthe Netharland em
bassy, involving, as it does, the north
eastern boundary. I should not be sur
piised it the senate were to let several ap
pointments lay over till the next adminis
tration come in. Ihe country would
gain by such a course. The whole polity
ol the Adamsmen is to talk about the mag
nanimity of the General, and abuse his
prominent friends—expecting by this
course to keep their places for themselves
and triends, and get what they can cut of
the old hero. I hope they will be cut*
gentralitd in this plot.