American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

FOR THE WATCHMAN.

Messrs. Editors—The vain-glorious Editor of the Gazette has presumed to notice our last observations published in your paper. He has either misunderstood or misrepresented us, much to the disparagement either of his head or his heart.—When we are told that a man employs others "to supply his own deficiencies," surely it does not mean that he is possessed of transcendent abilities. But Mr. Harker, without giving his readers our motto, literally, unjustly and untruly intimates the following as the sense of our observations: "A certain writer in this neighborhood, who has very much darkened counsel with words without knowledge, says that the declaration made by a Jacksonian, that the Gen. would collect around him, to compose his Cabinet, the best talents of the country, amounts to a confession that he is incompetent to administer the government himself." These are the misrepresentations of the Jacksonian champion. Our text was before him, and the spirit of our communication could not be misunderstood—The following contains that which nothing but the audacity of an eleventh-hour Jackson man could say was favorable to the character of the General.

"He (Jackson) is an indifferent writer and an equally indifferent speaker, but such is his natural sagacity that he will surround himself by persons who will supply all his own deficiencies."—Phil. Gaz.

Now we would ask our readers, is a person so completely deficient in the essential qualifications of a President, of whom the above is a true portrait, deserving of the suffrages of a people who are jealous of their national reputation and safety? If such a man is fit for the Presidential chair, how many thousands can we discover who are equally capable of filling this high and responsible office." Even Mr. Harker himself might lay claim to the honor and profit, if he had the natural sagacity to surround himself with persons who would supply all his innumerable deficiencies. But when men will consider what is due to their own understandings and their country, Gen. Jackson's election will be as improbable as Mr. Harker's.

But the people have been a long time gulled by the false reports of Gen. Jackson's wisdom, intelligence and mental acquirements. At one sweep of the pen the whole truth comes out. In two (writing and speaking) of the most necessary powers of a President he is deficient, and the third (penetrating natural sagacity) extends just so far as to give him intelligence to know that his deficiencies must be supplied by talented men.

Heretofore the people knew who was going to administer the government, but this is not the fact in Gen. Jackson's case. He is to have the whole honor and the profit (unless he compromises with his suppliers for a share of the latter) of being President of the United States, while every movement of the government is dictated and guided by agents unknown, and irresponsible, to the people.

But why should the appointing of the acting President, be given to Gen. Jackson? Does his natural sagacity, or his knowledge of worthy citizens, surpass that of his fellow citizens, that their inestimable rights should concentre in him? If he is not to be the President why should we vote for him? And that he is not, the above sentence quoted from the Philadelphia Gazette, a Jackson paper, is an open acknowledgment.

RODNEY.