Excerpt from Political Extracts: From a Leading Adams Paper, the Massachusetts Journal The journal took the lead IN resisting the election or A gentleman To the united states' senate, who was supported ON the ground OF old party services; and who has since avowed himself friendly To the election OF general jackson To the presidency. An allusion to the firm and spirited conduct of the journal on this occasion, is peculiarly gratifying, as this resistance proved successful. The journal afterwards supported a liberal and frank Union of the friends of the Administration in the Spring Elections of last year: and this union partly succeeded in this metropolis, and was still more successful in many of the country towns. The consequence was, that Massachusetts was enabled to hon our the man Whom her citizens delight to honour and by so doing not only secured credit to herself, but important assist ance to the Administration in the National Councils. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.