MR.. BUCKNER's ADDRESS
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Mk BUCkNERS ADDRESS.


70 HIS CONSTITUENTS, IN RELATION TO GENERAL


JAcKsoN's LETTER TO Col. WM. OwnAs.


TO the Voters Of tile Eighth Congressional District


The election Of member to Congress from this
District having closed, can address Won, without
incurring the censure of acting from Interested mo-
tives in relation TO it, The political excitement
which has prevailed in this district and throughout
the State, dictates the propriety of permitting the
ebutions of passiun to subsie as soon as possible,
and mt to give additional fuel to the flame Such
was my ardent desire and should have contentetl
myself, by returning to you my most grateful ac.
acknowledgements for the recent testimony you have
furnished Of your undated confidence, in at leas
my disposition to serve you faithfully, in the ar,lu
GUS and honorable station to which you have calle,
me, at three successive elections, had it not bee,
sor most extraordinary attempt, made BY Genera
Andrew Jackson, not only to inure my prospect o
election, but to assai the purity of my motives i,
the course which pursued during the canvass
You all know what that course has been and tn
unprinc'psed attacks which some of nv enem e
have made upon me. With them. no fabricatio
against the Administration (for whose acts the
seem disposed to hold me responsibe) was to
baretacets no misrepresentation of nv noltic.
opinions, was too ridiculous to he essaye,,. by an
who seemed determined on success. utterly rsyar,
less ct the means employed to ensure It, II ~.
In vain that an appeal was made to their candou
TO take the public speeches made by me. hn,b i
Congress and before you, with nv vo,es. ,s II
surest test Of those opinions. Marked as the vi
Tin OF their political persecution, the rancour