Literary Cadet And Rhode Island Statesman

Spirit of Jacksonism. We have never had cause to fear so much the mischief Gen. Jackson would do, provided he should be elected our next President, as we have to shudder at the spirit manifested by those who would elect him. Never has this country, from its independence, to the present day, experienced a political mania so deadly and fearful among its citizens; and one which withal presents a more threatening appearance. Few papers come to hand, from those sections of the Union, where Jacksonism prevails, but contain accounts of violence and outrage from the hands of its infuriated votaries. If we may credit the reports which daily arrive, and we believe them generally well authenticated, there is now not a place in the Union where General Jackson's ranks are not fast diminishing. In Tennessee and the Southern States, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and New York, we hear of the general and well attended meetings of the friends of the Administration. It is this circumstance which has incited the Jacksonians, in the true spirit of their leader, to be guilty of enormities and crimes in defiance of the law. Citizens, who under the honest conviction that they have espoused a wrong side of the question, in supporting the military claims of the chieftain, and have manifested their intention to support the Administration, are assailed by Jacksonians, with brutal violence and publicly beaten in the streets. An instance of this kind has very recently occurred among other outrages of a still deeper dye. The house of Judge Williams, of Tennessee, was beset in the night, by about three hundred men, armed with hickory clubs, because of the late exposure made by the Judge of the connection between Burr and Jackson; and the most villainous insults offered. The office of the Cincinnati Crisis and Emporium was broken open on the night, of the 19th ult. and several materials were destroyed and stolen. The Crisis is an Administration paper, and it was ascertained that several handbills were about to be issued from the office, exposing some of the high-handed acts of General Jackson. These, however, are but a few instances of villainy and outrage. It would be superfluous to refer to the assaults of Duff Green, Russell Jarvis, George Kremer, and others.

The principles upon which General Jackson's friends have acted and mean to act, are now too palpable to admit of question; and they do not themselves pretend to disavow them. In this one thing, let it be said to their credit, they are consistent. The course which their candidate has ever pursued to accomplish his purposes is of the same stamp and character. In the execution of this last enterprize, it would be extraordinary if he should lay it aside for any other.