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BELLEFONTE, CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, PRINTED BY THOMAS J. PETRIKIN.
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DREW JACKSOW, convene
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instant N. Giron, Esq
as president, and ALrkep HENNEN, Esq. sec
jetary.
The meeting was opened with eleqnent and
yprepriate adgresses by/S. H. Harper, Eq
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which, the {o}!
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owing address, reported by I. T.
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hat purpose, was upanimously ad
d ordered to beiprinted.
Preston.
pointed fort
opted
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:ns oF Lovistaxa 3 The time has ar
rived when we are galled upon to think seriously
on the choice of a chief magistrate. The choice
of a chicf magistrate! transcendant privilege
Americans! the time bas passed away when
kings, 2s siupid as their original clay, were hort
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to rule you, or prope by nalure to every vice,
and instinctively averse to every virtue. Alfred
o! England, was a great and good king 3 but look
throngb the long list of his successors for key
centuiies, and which of the Edwards, the Rich.
ards, the Htnrys) or the Gé6iget, was a great
and good king! Louisianians! you were once
roled by the race of Bourbons. Liberty abhors
that name : it hes dyed France, Spain and Italy
with the blood and whitened those fair countries
with the bones of patriots. it was a necessary
result; because your kings were born in the
seourss of vice and corruption and extravagance
" They saw nothing but the thoughtless, useless
“waste of lives and substance of their subjects.
Fhey were taught tyranny alone, because to
leap the prerogative of a king coostitutes the
sole educaion of the heir apparent.
To choose your chief magisirate, then, is a
transcendant privilege. How did we conquer
that privilege? Ttis now half a centuiy since
the standard of liberty was raised in America.
Kings and nobles, and wealth and power, would
bave hewed it down, and destroyed all who
sought irs protection. It was not ¢ the summe:
=n'dier por the sunshine patriot’ who raliied in
the cause of freedom against such mighty odds
It was 2 little band, with Washington at thei
head, without clothes to their backs or shoes tc
fe hom the victorious army of despo-
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their f
tis tracked by their tlood through the snows ol
New Jersey. Itiwas the brave peasantry of the
Carolinas, who, rather than wear the yoke of
despotism, abandoned their wives and children
to heaven, and their homes to the enemy, and
fed to the mountains or slept in the swamps.—
Tat the race is not to the swift, nor the battle 10
the strong.” The God of liberty, that animated
the patriot hearts of our fathers at Saratoga anc
Euatau springs, united the heroes of the north
and the south at Yorktown, and there terminated
the sirugele of freemen in the triumph of free:
dom amidst the bleze of victory and glory, A
ely W
grateful country has bestowed all its honors on
the heroes and statesmen of those times that
Is there one left on
ried the souls of men.”
T whem we can pour out the swelling tide of out
gratk vie, and
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the slande Hat
gia! JacrnoN 1s the ast,
No yood was mingled x
‘who began the political emancipation ef the
‘worid,
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athey eandidates for the presidency.
Since the revolution, €
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was amon the hardy proneers of the west, w he
with the nfle in one band defended themselves
against the savage, and with the axe In the other
jeited the forest, He assisted in forming the con
stitution of the state he had assisted in creating
administered her justice from her highest tribu
pal, and represented her in the Senate of the Man.
United States. Toere he was notime-server o
public notice,
hail room, on the evening of the fifth
was called to the chair
.. Davrzac, Esq. and/ Gen. RipLry; after
wash from the page of history
republics are ungrateful ?
There is one ; but, melancholy reflection, Gen.
The blood of ys very
at of the heroes
Sacred drops ! each one spilt in that
* baly warfare excecds the preiensions etal the
reneral JAckson has de-
yoted to the service of his country a life of ar-
dent, energetic and incorruptible integrity, He
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SATURDAY,
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country, and marched against the capital. The
whole upton looked with confidence to the pa-
triotism and valor of its defenders. None doubt-
ed that our triumph would be signal, and tha
even if the nuinbers of the encmy should pre-
vail, the brave men charged with the deposiis
of the nation, the sacred tomb of Wishington,
would at least unsheathe their swords, throw a
way (he scabbards, and die glorious'y at their
posts. It was not 50 : ali was ignominiously lost
The capital was nothing ; but patrigiism anc
honor were blotted from the page of Americar
virtues. Nothing but a triumph more trans
sendently giorious, if possible, than our disgrace
was famous, could save us from the last of
cvilsy s:lf-destruction. That triumph was re
served for General Jacrsown., Intoxicated witli
beir success, the conquerors of Europe, then
numbers and preparation doub ed, dirccred thei
mightiest efforts against this weak and ¢xireme
part of the union. Even hope for our satety was
extinguished, Our destruction was recorded in
the public journals. No calculating man could
believe it pussible for three thousand new and
undisciplined militia to resist fourteen thousand
ol the best troops the world ever saw ; and the
soldier, while laboring at our feeble brest work.
was but digging his own grave. But the aiden
soul of Jackson dissipated such reflections. H
encouraged the fearful, inflamed the brave t@
madness, inspired all with confidence, and whel
the roar of artillery and the coiumis of moving
arms announced the combat, no cheek bianchéd
with fear, but the eager hearts ofall panted for
the contest. And there was achieved a victory
unparaileied in history. Tbe pass of Thermo-
pyle was the grave of patriots, but on the plains
ward, and proved more signally than it was ever
demonstrated before, that freeman de tending
their soil, their firesides and then famiies, a-
gainst despotism, are invincible The deepest
aetractors of Jackson admit that no other man
in America could haye cffected this great result,
and the pious helieve that a superintending God
raised him up for our special preservation.
Compared with Jacksons services, what are
those, great as they are, of the other candidates
for the presidency 2 In warm quarters, blessed
with every corafort, with powerful minds, store
with ancient arid modern knowledge, and warm
¢d by patriotism, they have deeply studied and
developed thi irterests of their country De-
fightful occupation, it carries with it more thay
its own reward. But Juok at one moment of
Jackson’s life. The opposing, the unequal ar
mies were in motion ; the prize for which they
contended in view ; it was our beauty and our
booty, At one point they met, and, relinquish:
tng the idle warfare of powder and ball, ciossec
their bayonets in direful contest. All depended
on (he single soul of Jackson ; if be could have
thought of famself for a moment, It would bav
been that this moment was his last. Fe thought
only of his country and victory, You saw him
in that scene. You saw him who, the slanderers
say, cannot contiol his passicns, in those great
circumstances, where events occurred not to ex-
cite pzssion only, but despaiing rage ; you saw
him as cool, as nnmoved, as calculating, as if he
had been directing the pieces on a chess board.
That single moment of his life exhitiled more
sell devoted patriotism, and conquered greater
advantages to ourselves and pos erily, than a!
the lives of all the other candida es. 1t Louisians
bad been conquered, heaven only knows whal
part of our happy union would have been severed
with it. Ifthe war tad terminated with the dis-
grace of the capital, our people would have dis
owned their country; but the victory of New
‘Orleans is a letter of credit to Americans, which
> bravery and virtue will honor mn every quarter
ic globe.
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They sdy he is not only passionate but ambi
, tious. You saw him in the midst of a greate
- triumph than ever fell to the lot of any other
But io the midst of all his glory, when
f ambition would have spurred him to the capi.
the powers that be, but sacrificed himself to taly and vain-glory demanded a crown, you saw
truth, to virtue, to republicanism.
In 1805, when treason, gathered in the west
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(the mighty conqueror, the humble Jackson, fal!
, before the altar of our church, 2nd in praye:
d Louisiana was its destined victim, Ja cxson and thavksgiving acknowledged that Almighty
was among the first to warn our executive of the God, in whose hands he was but the humble in-
danger, & animate us to exertion. He denounc
ed the traitors, prepared bis brave volunteers to ambition.
march at a moment's warning, and placed a
their bead a corps of revolutionary invincibles
In the commencement of the late war, his ga
obtrusive merits were unknown to the govern
ment 3 but his towe genius and restiess pa
triotisim did not remain inactive. As a volun
y het
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f the savage and our defenceless frontiers.
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dttles of Tallushatches. Talladega, Emuck
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heir peace and security by sleepless to sym;
That was not
They say he is a tyrant, and tram
t ples on the constitution and laws of our country
You saw him the victim of those laws, on tha!
- day when be could have looked the very tem-
- pie of justice into atoms. But he restrained
- the popular rage with his eye, and reverenced
- even the abuse of justice. Would to heaven
-strument to save his country.
yew bimself between the war.whoop we had more such ryrants !
They accuse him of inhumanity, and affect
yt
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other than the cause of mothers and infants ex- fiends!
posed to the tomahawk.
Danger and death are
if he paused to thick, must have reflected that bet
of Bienvenue equal virtue achieved virtue’s ré-
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{ted staiions aifect this ; he is incapable of affec-
tation, and the dullest eye discovers the thought.
less sincerity oi every Jook, every word, every
section of his life. Hence no man commands so
strongly the affections of all around him. He
is the best husband, the kindest relation and
icighbar, the father of the orphan and the
friend of the helpless, :
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ne is ove of you. Industrious mechapics
crplising, high-minded merchants | ie eae
ges industry and eoierpiize, Hardy se
sou are Lis favorites. All these will unite tof
jackson. And who fears his election
the biave, pot the honest; he joves bonestyy
makes no distinction ameng men, but
virtue § not the faithtul public servant; he is thes
The friends of General Jackson have studicd{most faithiul ; not the christian ; he is a true
every act of his life. In the great and tryingjone. No! Itis the encmies of his go
situations in which he has been placed, they (the faihiess public servant, those who p
know of no act which they do not deliberately|the vitals of 1he people.
approve #nd believe approved by his conscience a
and bis God ; for their (time is cumne.
He may have erred ; but even his enemies! And now, Louisianians! we appeal to §
agree tha: his errors were the excess of love You are as generous and grateful as you
for his conntry and zeal in her cause. “They proved voniselves biave. Jackson is endear
shonld be merged in vis splendid merits. If he 10 you by stronger ties of gratitude (han ev
had been pur enemy, they would have been for- bound a people to an individual, Tie very bread
given and forgotten ; but he is onr best friend, you eat would have Leen caten by fo cigners, or
aid bas shed more lustre os the American|thrown to you as slaves, if he bad not led you lo
name and rendered greater services to the re-{viciory; the fair of Louisiana, who by their vi
public thap any man, except General Washing. {tues and elegance cherm all who bebold the:
ton, ever tendered before. With the errors of{would have involved Virginia’s fate 3 our Ja
the father of bis country, let Ais too, if they ex-|would have been prestrated, our temples of
ist, be buried in oblivion, gion polluted, & the enemy would have revel
The experience of General Jacgrson in public {ln all our wealth and luxury of bay pine 8s, J
irfe lar exceecs that of any of his competitors ; S01 is bound to you not by the slender tie o
his judument is unrivalled, because it has pro- nefits received, but by the gordidn knot of ses
ved uniformly right, and always successful.[cestendercd. Hence in the national council
His talems rise with the occasion, & are ade. Ye find hint not the ardent advocate of opp
quate to any convulsion in this world. Wheth- Sive impositions, upon our agriculiure to ct
er President or not, while his inestimable life is and support western manufactuces, but his vo :
prolonged, the whole union will look ta him iS 12's€d lorcet around this great metropo
alone when the republic is endangered, ithe theatre of his services and bis glory, impre
We have a stronger bond fiom him for the able fonifications, to open a mili aly way lot
fidelity of his acministration, than frem apy sea shore, through which the valley of the
other candidate, sissippt will pour its va or aud patriotism on 2
Great and virtuous as the others are, they can- future invader. Ob, Louistanians | do not be
not flatter themselves that their names will be ungrateful. It is true, our dear old friend is
remembered a century hence ; but the fame of ragged from his peaceful hermitage to all the
Jackson will increase forever ; the errors of hu- bonors of the nation, and would wilingly forego
manity will Le forgotten ; time will inscribe on €very other voice: but if your hearts did not ge
the page of history, and on the colossal monu- With him, that parricidal ingratitude would sta a’
ments of his grandeur, nothing but his virtues. the great heart that would have poured out its
Religion, philosophy, and patriotism, will con. most bicod for your salvation.
spire to magnify his deeds, his name, and his| RESOLUTIONS
charac.er, asan example to the aspiring and]
Let these, an
alone, shake and quake like Belsuazzar
of
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thize with Arbuthnot and Ambrister,
jilsome marches, by the dreadful the miscreants who lived by instigating savages Louisiana have rzised a voice of thunder, that committee to ascertain their
a and negroes to scalp weeping women and be-iwill be heaid in the inmost recesses of corrup. the pretersions of the
In these campaigns, his seeching children, blacker with guilt and rruei-j1ion. : ,
agonizing difliculties would have broken an or- ty than if they had been dragged from the Lot-{ Washington « undivulged crimes, unwhipped of] On motion, resoived, that the tha
dinary heart, and the sufferings of his brave vo. tomless pit. Curse on the affectation, for polit-{justice,” which no rod would so effectoully Mecting be returned tothe President,
lunteers could not have been supported in any ical purposes, of sympathy with such incarnate|scourge as the old hickory.
virtuous youth of all future ages.
It is impossible that the man, who in inferior
stations has treasured wp this immortality on
earth, when placed on the pinnacle of human
greatness, with more power to bicss his country
and mankind than any other human being would
sacrifice his unearthly fame, and invoke the curs-
¢s rather than the adoration of all time to come.
And when time shall exaggerate his greatness,
his services, and his virtues, if history shall re-
cord that’ be was a candidate for the highest
boner of his country, but wus superceded by a
wan unknown to fame, posterity would blush to
read it, and weep at the ingratitude of their an
cestors,
The caucus of cur legislature, who declared a
predilection for the election of Mr Clay, excus
ed themselves on the ground that the success of
General Jackson was impossible, and that grat.
tude would throw away the vote of the state
The we kness of this excuse for their ingrati-
tude is proved by the fact, that the prospect of
JACKS N s success js at least fairer than that of
hewr favorite. But the election of our hero is
dot merely possible ; it is almost certain, He ie
-imphatically the candidate of the people ; and
experience has proved their ompipotence when
thicy feel an ardent interest in any political sub-
ect,
Washington was their candidate they called
him from the shades of Mount Vernon, and una-
nimously gave him the seins of government.
Aud now they bave found Jackson, like the ap
cient Cincinna‘us,at his plough, and bave called
bim forth as their candidate. Since the days of
Washington, an usui pation has grown up in oui
government, which, if not crushed by the power
and virtue of the people, will soon destroy the
republic. A caucus of the members of Congress
present their candidate, and call on the nation
to elect him. Heretofore they have presented
those great and unsullied patriots whom all
hearts approved, and the spirit of the nation has
not been roused against the usurpation. So it
was in the early days of Rnme. I'be capital se-
fected pure and virtuous rulers ; but the degen-
ci of the system was natural; and soon the
empire was soid by the Pretorean Guards at
public auction. Didius, a lawyer, bought it. Tt
is true we have no Pretorean Guards ; but we
have cohorts of officeholders and officebunters,
who would sell the nation for a plac
will pot be wanting a Didius to bid. And al
though the contrast is vow only implied, yet as
corruption grows old, it will be reduced to wri-
ting and valued In dollars and cen's, Against
isuch abuses the virtuous people {rom Maine to
oe
avy
There
They know that there are already at
The people have
N as their candidate, and be
ially
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presented JAC
And from the representations of some as to'must and wili succeed. The venerable patriots
fronted on such plains as Chippewa and Niaga- his the private character of our candidate, onelof the revolution, whether sinking to the
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ra. because victory is crowned with laurel ; but would expect to meet a ferocious tiger, terrible in splendor or obscurity, will vote for Lim
grave
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seli-sacrificing patriotism alone can animate the to all around him. Bat on becoming acquain- ring the late war, haifa million of freemen dwelt
hero to rush on greater danger in savage war-ted with Jackson, we are first struck with the in camps, and epposed their breasts to the bayo
fare,
In 1314 the encmy invaded the heart of our cence of all bis actions. Many men in eleva- try, They will vole for him. Plain farmers!
‘humility, the simplicity, and child-like inno-
‘nels of the enemy as the ramparts of their coun-
Resolved, That, as the period is at hand k
making choice of a chief magistrate of the Un
ted States, we, the citizens of New Orleans,
testify our gratitude to General ANDRE!
JACKSON, for his unparalieled services |
dered to Louisiana, and to the pation, by unitin
in his elevation to the presidential chair.
Resolved, T'hat it is the deliberaie convict
ofthis meeting, that the great public services:
General JACKSON, both as a soldier and
statesman ; bis undeviating adherence to tepub:
lican principles, through all the vicissitudes of
his life ; his transcendant talents ; his undeniabl
patriotism, and his unsullied virtues, entitle bite
to the first office in the gift of the Ameri
people.
Resolved, That we are chi fly irdebted tot
wmsunmentality of General JACKSON for jot
rescue from foreign domination, and consequent
'y forthe privilege of exercising, in Louisianas
be rights of American citizens, we will adopt
I lawful and honorable means in our power to
premote his election to the supreme executive
fice of the United States, and to that end w
respectfully soficit the co operation of our bret
fren throughout the state. 5.
Resolved, That the tried integrity, faithful
public conduct, and consummate abil ‘es © §
JOHN CC. CALHOUN, eminently qualify him
for the office of Vice President of the United
States, and for which office we will give him
our undivided sapport, 3
Resolved, That as it is the wish of this meeta
ing that General ANDRE W JACKSON should
or the office.
recetve the suffrages of this sate {
fhe United States, & that JOH
of President o
C CALHOUN shoud be chosen Vice Presial
these respects
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dent ; and zs our choice in
only be made through the « rgan of the Je
ture of the state, we will not, therefore, k
‘ngly support any candidate for the Legislature,
who would, if elected, act in opposition to th
will of a majority of the pec ple.
Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions,
ithe other proceedings of this meeting, be p
lished in all the newspapers within the city
New Orleans and state of Louisiana. 4
Lesorved, That a committee composed of
T. Preston, A. Davezac, S, H. Harper, J. B
Wiltz, sen. D. Laronde, I, Lacoste, D. C. Ke ,
and J. B. Labatt, be appointed for the purpose
of giving the necessary publicity to thege pro.
[ceedings and for the purpose of correspond
(with such other commitices as shall or may :
appointed on the same subject matter,
t On motion, it was resolved, that the lett
reccived from the different candidates for
state legislature, 1n answer to those sent by
opinions relatiy
diffrent candidates
the presidency, be published.
nks of th
Vice Pre
sident and Secretary. Pr
N. GIROD, Esq. President. #
GEN. PLAUCHE, Vice 2r
A. HENNEN, Secretary. |
COMMITTEE. ,
I. T. PRESTON, D LAFONDE,
A. DAVEZAC, L LACOSTE,
NS. H.HARPER, D.C. KERR, 3
J. B. WILTZ, Sen. I B.LABATUT:
New Orleans, June 5, 1824. $7
esident,