Massachusetts Spy And Worcester Advertiser

FROM THE CONNECTICUT MIRROR.

GENERAL JACKSON'S LETTERS.

"And the king, they say, kickit Sir Robert Walpole, for no keeping down the mob of Edinburgh—but I dinna believe he would behave sae ungenteel."

"Its doom's truth tho'" said Saddletree, "and he was for kicken the Duke of Argyle too.'"

"Kicken the Duke of Argyle!!" exclaimed all the hearers at once, in all the various combined keys of utter astonishment.

Heart of Mid Lothian.

There is something particularly amusing in Gen. Jackson's letters, and folks of all parties in this region seem to turn to his complimentary notice of the Hartford Convention, as containing the cream of the correspondence. Now, if the ultimate object of that great zeal which called these private letters into print, is understood, it is to prove this proposition, unfavorable to Gen. Jackson, viz. that he is a Federalist. If it does prove him a Federalist, it proves, at least, that a man may be a Federalist without going the whole length of the Hartford Convention, and the case of Colonel Drayton shews that a man may love his country, and fight for it, and that too without turning tolerationist—a thing which Gen. Jackson is too much of a man and a gentleman, not to despise.—It is no more than honest to say of the General, that he discovers in his letters some traits of genuine Federalism. When he speaks of the ruler of a nation as distinguished from the head of a party—of talents, integrity and patriotism, as being in reality, better than the party words of Federalist and Democrat, he gives evidence of brotherhood. These letters are full of correct sentiment, and are certainly very well written. They are in the style of a scholar and a gentleman throughout with the single exception of his zealous abhorrence of the Hartford Convention. It is with regard to this point only that we find fault. To be sure the day has now gone by, and the temper of the times has changed. Yet there is a respect due to the State Sovereignties, and Constitutional principles, which are never tested but in time of need—a respect due to rights constitutionally reserved, which are never exercised, but on emergencies, and a respect due to morals and talent greater than Gen. Jackson can pretend to. There were men in the Hartford Convention, whose memories must never be blasphemed in New England, and whose lives could never have been in danger, under the articles of war from Gen. Jackson's Court Martial. Unpopular as the Hartford Convention may now be, it was organized by Legislatures, and its report was accepted by Legislatures, and the man whose extreme unction would have been, that three of that body should suffer death, must submit in his turn, to incur the strong antipathy of New England. Does he know who the men were, that composed that Convention? They were not Aliens, they were not Spies, they lurked round no camp or garrison, they were not hot and fiery spirits; but men so far advanced in life that many, if not most of them, are gathered to their fathers, and have left a memory far other than that of treason. They had no agency in their own appointments and could not have been ringleaders. All they did was, to make a decent, peaceful, constitutional representation, approved of by the Legislatures that sent them there. Surely they hardly come within the letter or mischief of the 2d Section of the Rules and Articles of War.—But enough—Gen. Jackson is as he says himself, a free spoken man. that is, very ready to express an opinion, before he has the information requisite to form it.