Here  it  seems  to  be — "Millions  to  persecute  an  American;  not
a  cent  to  resist  England  !"  Shame  on  such  a  leader  !  Contempt
for  a  public  opinion  rotten  enough  to  follow  him !

This  speech,  according  to  Mr.  Ritchie's  comments  on
it  in  1824,  was  the  sensation  of  the  day.  Ritchie  was
himself  an  extreme  Democrat,  almost  of  the  Patrick
Henry  school.  He  was  dissatisfied  with  Jefferson's
policy  of  Democratic  theories  and  Federalist  practices.
The  speech  was  Jackson's  first  introduction  to  an  Eastern
audience.  Prominent  men  from  other  States  were  in
Richmond,  attracted  by  the  Burr  trial.  Most  of  them
heard  Jackson  on  this  occasion.  Some  of  them  saw  in
him  then  the  man  who  was  to  overthrow  the  oligarchy.
Ritchie,  in  his  comments,  says :

He  spared  none.  His  style  of  speaking  was  rude  but  strong.
