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Since the adoption of the present constitution
of the United States, the administration OF the led
cra government has not attracted SO intensely the
attention and serious consideration of the people,
as at this time and no president, since that con-
stitution went into operation, has had so arduous
and difficult task to perform, as that which VIII
devolve upon General Jackson in the admnlstra-
ton Of the executive department Of the govern
ment General Washington. John Adams, Tho
mas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Mon
roe were men Of the Revolution, for and in whom
the people, more properly the political parties
to which they respectively belonged, had the
greatest yeneration and the most unbounded con-
fence. The services those men had rendered to
the country, and the popularity they enjoyed, ST.


enced the ambitious pretensions OF those who had
not participated in the revolutionary struggle, or
who were born since these United States were ac-
knowledged free and independent by all the ma
ons Of the world. As long as revolutionary wor-
thcs appeared on the political stage, able 10 stand
at the helm TO guide the vessel oi State, the people
did not seek among the second generation for a
choice Of magistrates. But now that they are al


most all gone, to the second generation must the
people look for able men to direct, with wisdom
and energy, the destnes Of THIS vast empire. MIR.
John Quincy Adams was the first OF the second
generation elected to the presidency. AS he had
not been tried as his predecessors had been, by the
circumstances and struggles OF the Revolution, he
assumed the presidential functions without creating
confidence among the people, ard without the
manifestation of expectations BY that people, that
the important duties lntrusted to him by the con.
stituton. would be faithfully discharged General
Jackson will be elected under more favorable aus
pices. Though not conspicuous actor IN the
revolutionary drama, yet he may be considered
as one who fought and blcd at that eventiul and
critical time and not as belonging to the class of the
second generation. 10 This consideration, and to
the services he has rendered during and since the


ate war with England, must be ascribed the popu-
larity he now enjoys, and the expectations the
people justly entertain, of wise, economical, and,
at the same time. energetic administration of the
executive department Of the federal government


But after General Jackson's term of office will
have expired, the people will have to choose his
successor from the second generation. And is
there man now living who, by his popularity, his
talents his private and public virtues, can pretend
to superiority over all his fellow citizens, and
will be able to throw into the shade the numerous
competitors that will spring up for the suffrage Of
the people?