lling
denunciations daily uttered against this one MAN, from the moment he
became an object of political competition, down to the concluding
moment of his political existence.

The sacred voice of inspiration has told us that there is a time for
all things. There certainly has been a time for every evil that human
nature admits of to be vaticinated of President Jackson's
administration; equally certain the time has now come for all rational
and well-disposed people to compare the predictions with the facts, and
to ask themselves if these calamitous prognostications have been
verified by events? Have we peace, or war, with foreign nations?
Certainly, we have peace with all the world! peace with all its benign,
and felicitous, and beneficent influences! Are we respected, or
despised abroad? Certainly the American name never was more honored
throughout the four quarters of the globe than in this very moment. Do
we hear of indignity or outrage in any quarter? of merchants robbed in
foreign ports? of vessels searched on the high seas? of American
citizens impressed into foreign service? of the national flag insulted
anywhere? On the contrary, we see former wrongs repaired; no new ones
inflicted. France pays twenty-five millions of francs for spoliations
committed thirty years ago; Naples pays two millions one hundred
thousand ducats for wrongs of the same date; Denmark pays six hundred
and fifty thousand rix-dollars for wrongs done a quarter of a century
ago; Spain engages to pay twelve millions of reals vellon for injuries
of fifteen years' date; and Portugal, the last in the list of former
aggressors, admits her liability and only waits the adjustment of
details to close her account by adequate indemnity. So far from war,
insult, contempt, and spoliation from abroad, this denounced
administration has been the season of peace and goodwill and the
auspicious era of universal reparation. So far from suffering injury
at the hands of foreign powers, our merchants have received indemnities
for all former injuries. It has been the day of accounting, of
settlement, and of retribution. The total list of arrearages,
extending through four successive previous administrations, has been
closed and settled up. The wrongs done to commerce for thirty years
back, and under so many different Presidents, and indemnities withheld
from all, have been repaired and paid over under the beneficent and
glorious administration of Presi