Constitutional Whig

Of Mr. Adams. Jefferson said, "he is a learned and honest man, the best of the New Englanders."

His most violent and persecuting enemies, have done homage to his great and masterly abilities,—
Witness the following:

"I cannot sufficiently express the overwhelming sentiments of admiration and delight with which I have perused this state paper. [Mr. Adams' vindication of our government to Don Onis.] It is written with an astonishing force of ingenuity, and adorned with the most captivating eloquence of all descriptions. It has the air of a man who feels most acutely for the wrongs of his country; who is indignant at the insults offered to her by the aggressor, pretending to demand redress, and who pours out those feelings in the most forcible strains. It is a MONUMENT OF DIPLOMATIC GENIUS. It is an ORNAMENT TO MY COUNTRY. I feel proud of belonging to a nation which has produced such A BLAZE OF TALENT. It shivers the manifesto of the Spanish cabinet in dust and ashes.—
Into what utter insignificance does the redoubtable Chevalier Onis sink! He seems like a pigmy in the hands of a GIANT."—Richmond Enquirer, January 2, 1819.

Of Gen. Jackson's fitness for the Presidency,
his friends have furnished the strongest evidence.—
Of him, Mr. Jefferson said he would as soon think of making "a sailor of a cock, or a soldier of a goose, as a President of Andrew Jackson."
Witness what his consistent friend Mr. Ritchie thinks of him,

"He [General Jackson] is a distinguished soldier: but is he a Stateman? What is the evidence of it? Where are his political speeches: his dispatches? his essay? his measure? Where are the evidences of that skill and attainment in politics to which a life of study, and of experience, is so essentially necessary? COMPARE HIM WITH ADAMS and with Crawford. AND HOW INFERIOR MUST he be—when we take into account the series of his pursuits and the want of evidence which he has exhibited?"—Richmond Enquirer, Feb. 26, 1821.

—It has long been maintained as a maxim, that a man who cannot obey, ought not command; and the editor, in the present case at least, stands upon this sound reason that the man who obeys lust, or will and pleasure the sole rule and guide of all his actions, ought not to be trusted with the large powers of President of the U. States. We want for that office a man who will coolly and carefully obey the laws and the Constitution: for these laws to be his guide. In the administration of his power. Now, Gen. Jackson possesses of that cool, sober-tempered spirit. Which fits a man for an Executive Magistrate? Has he exhibited that spirit in past times? What says, for instance the history of his measures in Fla? Richmond Enquirer, March 19, 1824.

We cannot consent to lend a hand towards the election of such a man as Gen. Jackson. He is too hot-headed a man in his tem perament—his haughtiness and pride fitted to arrive at the humble spirit of the Editor of this
Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 15, 1828.