Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-12-26
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WEDNESDAY MORNING., DEC. 2e. 1897.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 90, 1927.
amendments to the Consultation of the, u States.
The opinion that amendment is required 10
the Constitution of the o. States in the article touch
ing the ,ode of electiug the President is we believe
universal The evils OF the present mode, keeppr
the people il does in perpetual eiectioneering fer.
men aud producing never ending struggle for as.
cendancy among the great and ambitious men of thu,
Union, papabe self evident and threaten to bring
the Union TO abrupt and violent terminatou-
Unhappy must it be for any Republic, when its most
influential citizens instead of cooperating hand heart
10 The advancement of the public veal are engaged
IN perpetual efforts to elevate themselves to the high
est station, or to suppant rival in popular affection
When such state of things exists, principle no long er
guides the public councils, and are embraced
or rejected from their supposed tendency to increase
or lessen the success of personal views 1t cannot To
denied that such state nf things has existed in the
" States since a3r. Monroes adminisra tor,- uher,
the stock OF Revolutionary candidates being exhausted
the door TO the Presidency thrown open 10 hest
OF aspirans nearly equal in fame, talents in seryI.
ces and popularity No one of them possessed prss-
tensions that commanded universal acquescepce IN his
claims, and the people le to make their se.ec
ton as local attachments and antiparhes or as hrcv
prompted them II followed Of course that each can
ddate struggled TO reach the pinnacle which his am
oiIon urged him to attempt, and to effect this his
own claims we're TO be eked by tho destruction Of
The claims of all that stood in his way. Hence ting
bitterness OF the last Presidential contest and TIM
general agitation of the people by the conflicting pre-
tensions OF men all perhaps competent and all entet
10 their confidence Hence the various plots formed
against the reputation of the different Candidates and
inc incessant elimination and recrmination attach
and Defence which distinguished that period of our hts
Tory. contest thus waged terminate as IT might wus
sure 10 sir up the worst passions and end in bad fee
ling Accordingly. no sooner had il resulted in thn
choice OF Mr. Adams, than it revived with ncrea
ed bitterness and aspery The disappointed however
opposite 10 principles and widely differing in Interior
views, united against him; agreeing for the present
10 resentment at the common defeat and in the cum-
mon wish TO bring the Presidency, the object Of SD
much ambition and intrigue, nearly within their
grasp TO put out Mr.. Adams at the end of four
years was desirable fer three reasonsrs, to revenge
Their disappointment IN the preceding couest-2nd,v
that each leader expected from it, TO reach the Pres5
dency With more expedition bimsef-apd lastir. an
there was now an identity of interests between him
ano W.T.. Adams, that the same effort might anniiate
Henry Clay who from his renown, and official station.
seemed placed IN Juxfa position to The Presidency
bese undoubtedly, were the motives for The srar,s,
and anomalous political alliances which INSTANTLY s,n
ceeded-aliances without parallel, except in t,,e
oret and Ill taed coalition Of Fox and Lord n ORTIZ
mat vas The time when extremes of all sorts met and
"neD revenge and ambition, blended the most dissi-
niar and repugnant elements INTO one apparently hp-
n:oGeDeous and harmonious mass, . Forgetting his
ultra aiItudina ianisu,, the Unitarian Randolph rave
mr"CaIhoun the fratornai bug, and surrendering bis
long cherished and not unfounded hate the msepsni-
nous Benton joined noses with Gen. Jackson Ultra
democrats and ultra federasts met on the neutral
ground OF hatred TO Clay and Adams. Men who wish.
ed the Constitution construed Abraham Baldwin
wished IT, and they who we're opposed to any other
limit or construction thsn expedency-in short every
PecuaTy Of political opinion, every extremity of rer
sonai difference was reconcied by the pressing necea
SHY OF combining TO effect, what the present eelinpa
and future hopes of all rendered Desirable, th. .x
PuIsion OF Mr. Adams at the expiratioe of his frst
term.
Is it not obvious that The evils ofbe presesl MODE
OF election are visible in these thngss Is il NOT true
that the country has deeply felt The effects Of the early
and determined combination formed to eject Mr. A.
DAMS Is not to this TO be traced opposition 10
the Panama mission the attacks on The administrations
relative to the colonial rade-that whole opposition in
short, which has met the administration at every turn
and denied il to have done any thing that was nd.
yaDtageous and right?
He is blind partizan who does not see, that much
and the greater part of the opposition to The admins
ratop has been wholly independent of causes afford
ed by it for opPosoD; and it requires no evidence az
this stage OF IFS existence 10 prove that let tie course
of The administration have been what it might il was
yet to De assaied and turned if possible This n
calamity to The country; for it is as certainly inurons