Imagination has been exhausted in her efforts to
deck him with revolting and inhuman attributes. Tyrant, despot,
usurper; destroyer of the liberties of his country; rash, ignorant,
imbecile; endangering the public peace with all foreign nations;
destroying domestic prosperity at home; ruining all industry, all
commerce, all manufactures; annihilating confidence between man
and man; delivering up the streets of populous cities to grass and
weeds, and the wharves of commercial towns to the encumbrance of
decaying vessels; depriving labor of all reward;
depriving industry of all employment; destroying the currency;
plunging an innocent and happy people from the summit of felicity
to the depths of misery, want, and despair. Such is the faint outline,
followed up by actual condemnation, of the appalling denunciations
daily uttered against this one MAN, from the moment he became an
object of political competition, down to the concluding moment of
his political existence.
The sacred voice of inspiration has told us that there is a time for
all things. There certainly has been a time for every evil that human
nature admits of to be vaticinated of President Jackson's
administration; equally certain the time has now come for all rational
and well-disposed people to compare the predictions with the facts,
and to ask themselves if these calamitous prognostications have been
verified by events? Have we peace, or war, with foreign nations?
Certainly, we have peace with all the world! peace with all its benign,
and felicitous, and beneficent influences! Are we respected, or
despised abroad? Certainly the American name never
was more honored throughout the four quarters of the globe than in
this very moment.
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