Phenix Gazette

[From the Chilicothe Supporter.]

The following paragraph, extracted from that old compound of bold assertion, impudent calumny, and vulgar invective-the Circular of the Jackson committee in Philadelphia-is republished in order to put the people on their guard against the various attempts now making to deceive them, with respect to the state of public opinion at a distance In this precious piece of composition, the Representatives of four states-Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Louisiana--are audaciously accused with having betrayed their trust, by giving their vote to "Mr. Adams, in favor of whom not a single man, of their constituents, had, by suffrage, declared himself." But, how have the people of those states responded to this grave accusation? Have they unanimously spurned the Representatives, so unblushingly charged with treachery to their constituents, from their bosom; and by their conduct at the polls, declared them unworthy of their future confidence? By no means. In Louisiana-the state which is said to have been most abused "by two of her Representatives,"-a new election has taken place; and those very Representatives, although opposed by the whole Jackson interest, have been re-elected by handsome majorities.-"The Representative of Illinois," who is also said to have "acted in the same manner," has met with a similar fate--having again received a new proof of the continued confidence of his constituents, and not a doubt exists, but the two other states - Missouri and Kentucky---will likewise return administration members--the charges of "treachery," and "unparalleled ingratitude," to the contrary notwithstanding. The truth is, that the people have seen through the flimsy veil which concealed the objects of the leaders of the opposition, and have determined to take no lot or part therein. They are satisfied with the measures of the administration; and consequently will yield them a firm and cordial support: and it is now reduced to a certainty, that the opposition, erst so formidable in the art of speechifying, will expire "by limitation" on the fourth day of March next.

"It will be remembered that in the House of Representatives, the presidential election is conducted by states: that Gen. JACKSON, though far ahead of his competitors on the return of the electoral ballots, there received but eight votes: that the Representatives of Kentucky, gave their state vote to Mr. Adams, in favor of whom not a single man of their constituents had, by suffrage, declared himself: that the representative of Illinois unmindful of a public pledge, acted in the same manner: that the representative from Missouri followed in this wake, even after the repeated and protracted struggles of a conscious sense of duty: and-that Louisiana, whose soil had been redeemed, and whose matrons had been shielded by the transcendent heroism of JACKSON from the barbarous pursuit of 'beauty and booty,' abused by two of her representatives, turned upon her preserver, and against the will of her citizens, pierced him with the fang of unparalleled ingratitude. Nor can we forget that the master spirit, by the power of whose influence, mysteriously exerted, these effects, so opposite to republicanism, were produced, was himself instantly rewarded with the office of Secretary of State, long an object of his ambition."