Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-02-27
s.OUGHT TO BREAK


We are glad to see the gallant bearing OF
,nanv OF the Representatives of the People and
C. ,he States. We are glad that they do not
Ill before the POWER of the Executive, but
holdlv stand up and oppose that power when it
:. nniostly exerted either by words or actions.
Now is the time to resist oppression. A year
hence may be too late
rhe reason for these sentiments will be seen
mon reading the following eloquent remarks,
made by MIR. CLAYTON, of Delaware, in the Sc
nate on Tuesday
u7a oil remember that more than twenty gen
.,oren of the first responsibility in that city,
,rhich IS the proudest ornament OF Pennsylva-
MA after bearing to Congress the memorial OF
mo- a,a than ten thousand of its citizens, praying
.hO, the nubhc depostes might be restored to the
n n,~ ofthe United States waited on the Presi-
G Sont for the purpose Of explaining the griev-
Sass of their constituents; and that they have
m6l;sbed 10 the world the result of their inter-
p o;a,u in a detailed report made to the freemen
sF.S,t citv on the 22d inst They state in that
sir that at their interview with the Presi
mdant he admitted that considerable distress
chad followed the action OF the Government, in
arelation to the depostes. He had nerer doubt
q od that Brokers and Stock Spectators, and
GALL, WHO WERE DOING BUSINESS UPON BORROWED
gc,prr.. would suffer severely under the
C affects of the measures; and that all such peo-
unIa OUGHT TO BREAK" Henceforth, sir,
lot all those who, on this floor or elsewhere,
have denied the existence of any pressure on the
country. or who, confeSsing its existence, have
ASSIGNED the wrong cause for it, to protect the
miserable purposes of party, learn, that they
have mistaken their cue; that the object OF their
idolatry himself disclaims their defence, de-
nounces their subterfuge boldly avows that he
foresaw all the consequences ofhis act, and that
the very object of it was, that all who were do
inc business upon borrowed capltaF should be
ruined They ought to break" says he. He
"neyer doubted that they would suffer, and suf-
fer seyerely.n He felt no sympathy for any but
those Who rolling in wealth, are the "cankers
ola calm world and long peace" doing moth
ing; or those who, placed by fortune above the
disasters of the times are doing business on their
0Wa capital.
Sir in my opinion, more aristocratic senti-
ment never disgraced any branch of this Gov
eminent Who are all those who are doing
business on borrowed capital2 The Execu-
tive denunciation includes three-fourths OF all
the laboring men in the nation-the mechanics,
the tenantry, the manufacturers, and all but the
ofice-holders, and that portion of society
which, if there be such thing as an aristocra-
cy ofweath in this country, can be classed most
properly under that designation. As one OF
those, who, like most of my associates here, be-
gan life on borrowed capital, and who are
not now, and never will be, ashamed to acknowl-
edge it, avail myself of this, the earliest posi-
bic opportunity which has offered since read
this report, to express in my place, and in the
face of the whole country, my utter adherence
of the sentiment which the President has so un-
blushingly avowed The Chief Magistrate has
ventured to class the whole mass OF the real
workingmen of the nation with the Stockholm
berS of the times, and to express his satisfaction
at the distresses he has caused them. Who is
that member of this body that shall dare to
stand forth and defend this sentiment? No man
here doubts that it is truly reported. Ii there
be any such as will either defend this sentiment,
or deny that it was uttered, let us hear him. 1t
is time the People understood the true issue they
are about to try. 1t is time sir, that an oppor-
tunlty should be fairly given to the poor and the
middle classes of men. in this nation, to prove
to the world whether they lack gall to make op-
preston bitter! Whether they merit the taunts
OF an oppessor who has dared to tell them they
ought to break! If that issue shall be fairly I'M
derstood, Ihave no fears for the result OF the
NAL which such jurors shall decide.