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continental guard with a keen and piercing eye that never sleeps Our hero may now exclaim as did the fly on the carriage wheel! Aha 1 What a devil of a dust 'ive kicked up? Let him be ware however, that he be not suffof'ated or huried in the dust, himself has raised This self-willed Cherokee Chief this nominal vagrant President who has (as in Tennessee) forfeited the confidence reposed in him by the people by his disrespect to the constitution and laws of the land, - his abandonment of the Presidential chair - crouding the abstruce science of Government with all its paraphernalia into a cracked knowledge box which he carries about ,upon his own shoulders, making his own dictum (by proclamation the paramount law of the laud;- his roving from pillar to post like a Gipsey without a settled habitation,- bringing the government into disrespect and disgrace, by evincing a desire to keep up a dishonorable existence without utility to others or dignity to him- self; because he aims at obtaining the dues of labor without merit or honest industry, and by frauds would draw from the compassion of others what men ought to owe to their own spirit and their own exer• tions. This blood stained murderer of his Countrymrn, - this brig- gand on the liberties of his Country, - this defamer of public and private character, - pursuing his victims with a fiendlike malignity, even the sanctity of the church is polluted under the broad mantle of religious hypocrisy, roncealing the poison encrusted dirk of defama- tion, spirting from his polluted lips in slanderous and villanous rhetoric, the poisons of blight, blast, mildew, ganirrene and death! He that has no :regard for the character of highmindcd honorable men, no charity, no sympathy, no mercy for the sufferings of his Countrymen, who can without compunction, without warrant or law, condemn hundreds to be hung or shot, to answer his own diabolical purposes, - this modern flagellant whipping his own enormous sins over the vicarious back of every petty offender - this modern :Moloch, sacrificing the patriots of his country on the altars of sordid avarice and ambition;- he who disregards the laws of both God and man;- by what law, or what creed does he expect to be tried for his enormous offences? He has abandoned the constitution, has no regard for his oath,- has fairly abandoned his station as the President of the Nation, - has thrown himself without the pale of all law both human and divine The mind owes to him no sort of submission His murderous conspiracies against his countrymen, and the liberties of his Country, renders him lawful prey to any who may think proper to make war upon him But as the Scotch poet Burns remarks in his address to the Deil To rehearse all the sins and iniquities of which he has been guilty, from the day he entered Texas "down to this time, - would cling a Lalland tongue, or Erse - In prose or rhyme" To my readers these may appear as severe reproaches, particularly when directed against one eleded by the people as their Chief magistrate? That is all which entitles him to this passing notice, and on this account alone I stoop to notice him I am aware of the responsibility I haYe taken ancl i;peak in a language not to be misunderstood The parody and paraphrase was but a fancy sketch I now refer to the ref'ord and proofs And from actions which are visible and public, I haYe made fair deductions and arrived at motives which are i;ecrd nnd as it were kept under senl No man re- grets more than I c1o that these things arc so - no man has labored more assidulously th,111 T have - no man hns been more willing - no
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