Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-04-29
From the New York National Advocate.

ADDRESS, &c.-We publish this morning
the Address Of the republican members Of the
Legislature, to the citizens of this State. We
have not time 10 say more than 10 bespeak for
il candid perussl
At ameeting Of TIE Republican eIs of Il esi:
ture held at Knckerbacker Hall in the city of Al
bany, on Monday the 2lst day OF April, 1873.
PETER B. PORTER, of the Assembly,
Chairman,
REUBEN SANFORD, of the Senate, Secre-
tary,
Resolved, That q committee OF three mem
hers of the Senate, and also FIVE members OF The
Assembly, he appointed to draft an address TO
the publican citizens of this state, expressive
of,he sense Of this meeting on the presidential
question.
Resolved, That Ambrose L. ksdan, Charles
II. Carroll, aud Peter Hager of the Sena'e, and
James Fink, Robert e. Nicholas, Arunah Met
calf, Luther 3rsaish, and Ezra c. Cross of the
Assembly, constitute said committee.
The committee appointed for that purpose
reported an address, AUD thereupon--
Resolved, unanimously, Thai the same be
adopted, and that it be signed by the chairman
and secretary, aud published.
ADDRESS.
York.
AT the close OF our official labours, and the
approach Of an important election, your repre-
senlatives feel con- strained by sense of duty TO
submit TO you their views upon the present
posture Of political af-irs.
II cannot be questioned by rejecting meu,
tina, the prosperity OF the United States de-
ponds essentially upon the course Of policy 10
be pursued by the government, and we have no
doubt that great and fundamental principles are
10 be permanently settled by the result Of the
next presidential election. II is fact generally
admitted, or at least well unde stood by eve
~ man Of observation, that former party dis
tinctions are in great measure efaced, that
republicans and federalists are found Promis-
cuously -arrayed on the side OF the adminisira-
lion and in the ranks Of the opposition; and
though our attachments TO the republican par
~, founded on belief Of the purify Of its doc
rines, lead us TO REGRET this state OF things, We,
q sacred regard for ruth forces from every can
did mind an admission Of the fact. Blu, while
former political associations are broken up, and
the lines Of party are COMPOUNDED by the force
OF circn mstantes, principles which are irlmuIa a.
BILE, constitutes the pride Of the patriot and the
anchor Of his hope. Is il then conformaole
TO the principles Of the republican party-those
principles which mature6 our happy institu-
lions, ana which have borne, US triumphan,ly
through every national difficulty? Is it 70. the
best interest of the country, TO pull down the
present republican administration of the gener,
al government, IN order TO build up one Of
doubtful and heterogeneous principle upon It's
RUNS? We put these questions no: TO the ambi
tious sspirants after power, bu, 10 the sober
sense of the people! Can solitary reason be
rendered for displaeing Mr.. Adams and eleva a.
ting Gen. Jackson? Is the opposition to the
former founded on principle, or is it the off
spriug of disappointed ambition? Il is the spon
.aneous will Of msgnanimous people, or ma: