The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-09-05
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 8, lSss.
II RATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
NOMINATIONS.
For President Of The United .States,
HENRY CLAY.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

The approaching contest for the Presidency i,
the most important which has yet taken place in
t"is country, involving, as we have great reason to
oeheve, the very existence of our republican nsti-
tutIons GcE. Jackson maintains doctrines in re-
iatIon to the powers and duties of the executive.
which, it acted upon, make him, to all intents and
purposes as absolute despot rs the Grand Seruior;
and. if the principle is followed out it will dissolve
the Union, and substitute anarchy for the beautiful
order which has heretofore existed in our govern
ment During the short period that he has been in
power, he has put his veto upon more laws than all
the other Presidents since the adoption of the con.
stltutlon-lIws too, some of them which had pass-
cd both branches of the National Legislature BY
strong NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of which, also, were pre-
ciseiy identical, in principle, with others which he
has signed. Thus, in the exercise of that power.
which was granted, to be used only in extraordina-
ry cases, and which the KING of England has not
dared to exercise at all, for more than century,
he has exhibited RIGHTEOUSNESS of bower. and
reckIessuess of principle, worthy of the most fin
lshed despot of any age or nation. He has, also,
by the force of executive influence and the app-
cation of executive patronage, caused othe, laws to
be passed, which would have been rejected by great
majorties, had they been left to the unbiased and
uninauenced Judgment of Congress But more
than all this. when laws have been duly enacted,
he has suspended their execution and where trea-
ties hive been made, and decided, by the highest
JudlciJI authority efthe country, to be constitution
al and binding, he has refused to do his duty as the
Executive of the Union, by carrying them into eff
feet.
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opposition to the doctrine of notification, and
alaful at its prevalence. This is one of the numer.
Gus iahsurdties in which the supporters of Jackson-
ism are necessarily invoked. The doctrine of null.
sifcton, bad it is falls short of those advanced
by Gen. Jackson in his Bank-veto message. and
acted upon by him in various other instances. If
ne as single officer of the government is not
bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court, nor
by any of the laws of the land unless they conform
to his ideas of consiitulionality, how much less
ought whole State to be so bound It is the
%Ight OF absurdIty, to affirm that individual ex-
ecuiive officer may nudity the acts of Congress,
ard yet that State may not do the same. IT, then
officers OF the government and States may oppose
aud nullfy the laws and treaties with IMMUNITY. it
puts an end to the government; and the direct
Tendency of such doctrines, is. to overthrow the
constitution, and to an absolute despotsm on
IFS rims
! 1T becomes the duty, then, of all who would ar.
rest the government in its downward career and
restore it to its primitive purity, to unite in the
great cause of liberty and their country forgetting
every minor consideration, till the great work of
/ thc regeneration of tie government in the hands
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nos administered, shall have been consummated.
There is, at The present time, beyond the shadow
OF doubt, majority Of the people opposed to the
reelection Of Gen. Jackson, if they can DO brought
tn act in concert. Whether this can be done, eff
tectually, remains to be seen. We hope it may be.
EXTRA TELEGRAPH. The Editor of the Wash
ington Telegraph has given notice tina, he intends
to issue an extra paper till after the Presidential
Election to consist of Is numbers The price is
50 tor every ten copies of Is numbers each It
will therefore cost subscribers but 81 cents each
when ten associate themselves to procure it, The
editor has adopted this course from conviction
chat TIE reelection Of Gen. Jackson can, and will.
be defeated, if proper exertions be made by those
who are convinced, as he IS, that every considera-
ton which bnds American citizen to his ceun-
try which should stimulate every lover of liberty
to maintain free institutions, as established by
our ancestors, requires it." He says " he will en-
deavor to demonstrate that Andrew Jackson ought
not to be reelected President of the United States
and adds, that he has violated almost every prin
cipic upon which his election was advocated, and
every pledge made by himself and by his friends on
his behalf" The notice concludes thus:
The activity of the disciplined corps of office
holders must be met by equal activity on the part
! Of the people. Their cry is Jackson, Van Buren,.
| aod the "spolls Of victory" Let ours be THE
| CONSTITUTION AND LIBERTY" Let every man
| do MS duty, and all will be safe We have enter
ed the lists stimulated by our obligations to the
| pubc-tho thrilling emotion which impels the
lover of public LIBERTY to hazard all in her de
fence, and an animating confidence that the des-
potism and corruptions which would transfer us as
slaves to the service of a desperate pretender, will
be defeated Again we say, let every freeman do
bis duty.
PRESCRIPTION. The office holders, and those
who fatten on the public treasury, have made them
selves very busy in inducing all whom they could
! influence, to discontinue their subscriptions to the