The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-01-28

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CITY of New York to repeat nothing of all this, and
of his undauntcd and brilliant support OF the war,
from its beginning to its end, l shall refer only
10 what has happened in my own time, and under
NV oyneyes. His firm and devoted support of Mr..
Crawford in the contest of 1924 when that eminent
citizen PROSTATE with disease and nhumanly as
sailed. seemed to be doomed to inevitable defeat
was that non-commntall His early cspousal of
Cen Jacksons cause, after the election in the
House of Representatives, in FEBRUARY 1925, and his
steaJfast opposition to Mr.. Adams's administration
was that non-cOmmtal
His prominent stand against the Panama mis-
sion when that mission believed to be rreslsi-
bly, popular aud was pressed upon the Senate to
crush the opposition members; was that also willy
piece of non -comnittal polcyl His declaration a
gainst the Bank of the United States in the year
1916 was that the conduct of man waiting to see
the issue before he could take his side The re-
oyal of the dcpostes, and The panic scenes OF last
winter in which many gave way, and so many
others folded their until the struggle was over,
while Mr.. Van BureD, both by his own conduct, and
that of his friends, gave an undaunted support TO
that mastery stroke of the Presidents is this also
to be called non-commtal line of conduct, and the
evidence of a temper that the issue before 1t
decides The fact is this ridiculous and NONSENSE
cal charge, is so unfounded and absurd, so easily
refuted and not only refucd, but turned to the hon
or and advantage of Mr. Van Buren,, that his friends
might have run the risk of being suspected of hav-
ing invented it, and put it into circulation, just to
give some others of his friends brilliant oppOrtu-
nifty of cmblazoning his merits it not that the
blind enmty of his competitors has put the accusa-
ton upon record and enabled his friends to cxcul
pate themselves, and to prove home the original
charge against his undisputed opponents.
For one thing Mr.. Van Buren, has reason to be
thaiHfu to his enemies it is for having begun the
war upon him so soon There is time enough for
Int tI.nIr .lIGnnI
ry cloud which the jealousy of rivals, the vengeance
of the Bank and the ignorance of dupes has hung
over his name.
Union, harmony, self-denial, concession-every
thing for the cause, nothing for menshould be the
waich-word, aud motto of the democratic party.
! Disconnected with the clccon-a voter and not
a canddatc-hayng object in view but to pre-
serve the union of the democratic party and to pre-
vent the administration of the public affairs from
apsng into hands that would undo every thing
hands that would destroy every limit to the consti
tuition, by latitudinary construction, (which would
replungc the country into debt and taxes, by the
reckless, wilful, systematic, ungovernable, head
long support of every wasteful and extravagant ex-
penditurc-that would deliver the country into the
hands of institution which has proved the scourge
of the pcoplc-nnd which would instantly revive the
dominion of paper money, by arrestng the progrers
of the gold and silver currency: having no object
in view but to prevent these caamities, l may be
permitted to say word, without incurring the inn
putation of speaking from interested motives, on the
vital point of union in the democratic party.
The obligation upon good men to unite when bad
men combine is clear in politics it is in NOR
ais Fidelity to this obligation has, heretofore,
ed the republic, and was never more indispensable
to its safety that at the present moment. The ef
forts made under the elder Adams, above thirty
years ago, TO subvert the principles of govern
ment, produced union of the productive and bur
then bearing classes, in every quarter of the repub-
lie. Planters, farmers laborcrs, mechanics, with u
slight infusion from the commercial and profession
al interests, whether this side or that of the Po-
tomac, whether east west of the Allegheny noun
tans, stood together upon the principle of common
right, and the of common danger, and effect
cd the first great union of the democratic part,
which achieved the civil revolution of 1900, arrcs
ted the downward course of the government an,
turned back the national administration to its re
publican principles and economical habits
, The sagacous mind of Mr.. Jefferson well dis
cerned in the homogeneous elements of which thi
/, united party composed, the appropriate mate
rials for republican government and to the per
: manent conjunction of these elements he constant
looked for the only insurmountablc barrier to til
: approaches of ogarchy and aristocracy. Actuate
C by zeal which has been excecd for the sue
c cess and perpetuy of the democratic cause, he la
bored assiduously in his high Office and subsequen
retirement, in his conversations and letters, to &C
!. ment sustain and perpetuate party, on the unio
and indvisibility of which he solely relied for t
l. preservation of our repubGc.-It was the politics
a power resulting from this auspicious union TO sa
nothing of several other occasions,) which carrie
s. us safely and trumphanily through the late war
SO enabling the government to Withstand, on one han
lie the paralyzing machinaons of disacctcd ariso,
racy, and to repel the other, the hostile aacl
he of great nation.
or The first relaxation of the ties which bound t.
all geher the democracy of the north and souh, en-
,st and west followed by the restoration to pow
of OF federal men, and the re-appearance in the n
SIS ministraon of federal doctrines and federal mea
he ures The younger Mr.. Adams crept into pow
through the first breach that made in the der
to ocratic ranks and Immediately proclaimed the fu
nst damental principles which lie at the bottom of