Phenix Gazette

Mr. Cobb, one of the Senators in Congress, from Georgia, who accompanied Mr. Crawford on his journey homewards, gave somewhere in Virginia at a public dinner, a "flaming toast" in honor of General Jackson, which has been industriously circulated. The Georgia Senator is the same politician, who, as a member of the House of Representatives, was the most vehement in the debate on the Seminole war, against the proceedings of the General. His speech on this occasion is on record and worth attention in connexion with his toast.—He affirmed, and endeavored to prove, that General Jackson had been guilty of "a most flagrant breach of the Constitution of the United States." Adverting to the trial of Ambrister, he observed that in the General's conduct there was "a high stretch of power," "a cruelty which excited his greatest disapprobation. With regard to the General's system of retaliation upon the Seminole Indians, his language is as follows :

"In one day has the fair character of this nation been blasted. That character for justice and mercy, in which we thought ourselves pre-eminent, and of which we had so proudly boasted to the other nations of the earth is now prostrated as low as theirs, I turn with disgust from this nauseous scene."

Mr. Cobb contended that the President had failed in his duty, in not having called the General to "a severe account" and in tolerating his "high handed acts." There is another passage of Mr. Cobb's speech, which particularly deserves to be noticed. It is the following :

"Permit me to observe that from no portion of the people have we so much cause to fear the loss of the great prerogative of peace and war as from the military. If it should ever be usurped, depend upon it, it will be by a military man. It is natural to the public mind to admire warlike deeds. In the splendor of military achievements our eyes are blinded and our reason is abused. We become so infatuated with the man, that we lose sight of principle; and we are offering him our worship, before we are aware that we have made him a God. I much fear that this spirit of admiration has already pervaded the minds of the people of this country to a most injurious extent."