sweeps so low
that it reaches the humblest officer who happens to have a mean
neighbor to retail any little story which he may pick up.

"I voted for Andrew Jackson because I believed he possessed certain
principles, and not because his name was Andrew Jackson, or the Hero,
or Old Hickory. And when he left those principles which induced me to
support him, I considered myself justified in opposing him. This thing
of man-worship I am a stranger to; I don't like it; it taints every
action of life; it is like a skunk getting into a house--long after he
has cleared out, you smell him in every room and closet, from the
cellar to the garret.

"I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be
a raccoon-dog, and belong to a negro in the forest, than to belong to
any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the
interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will
receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought
to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost
us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man. It cost the
lives and fortunes of thousands of the best patriots that ever lived.
Yes, gentlemen, hundreds of them fell in sight of your own city.

"I this day walked over the great battle-ground of Bunker's Hill, and
thought whether it was possible that it was moistened with the sacred
blood of our heroes in vain, and that we should forget what they fought
for.

"I hope to see our once happy country restored to its former peace and
happiness, and once more redeemed from tyranny and despotism, which, I
fear, we are on the very brink of. We see the whole country in
commotion: and for what? Because, gentlemen, the true friends of
liberty see the laws and Constitution blotted out from the heads and
hearts of the people's leaders: and their requests for relief are
treated with scorn and contempt. They meet the same fate that they did
before King George and his parliament. It has been decided by a
majority of Congress, that Andrew Jackson shall be the Government, and
that his will shall be the law of the land. He takes the
responsibility, and vetoes any bill that does not meet his approbation.
He takes the responsibility, and seizes the treasury, and removes it
from where the laws had placed it; and now, holding purse and sword,
has bid defiance to Congress and to the nation.

"Gentlemen, if it is for opposing those high-h