Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-11-02

differences with the French nation. So energetic,
80 conciiifatory. so consummate, was the pohcy Oh
the government in this matter, that the opposition
press. with one of two melancholy exceptions,
Joined in the general need of appreciation The
limits of this address viii not permit US farther to
advert TO the policy and measures qf the late ad-
mieis.Ta,ion of president jackson. The palmy
sa;e of prosperity prevailing over the whole land,
is the best commentary the subject. 10 the pru-
dent and safe counsels, and to the inTincibie ana
ipdomitabis spirit of president Jackson, VIC owe
much Of all this prosperity. To say even thus
much of him, will be characterized by Our oppon-
ents as iiolairy. But they are veto explain the
policy, or the profit Of worsniping the sun. 4
Intimately identified with this administration,
IN all its prominent measures, was MARTIN Van
BCsEx, the present vice president. Called from
the gubena,o1ial chair of N. York, to the depart
ueni of state, by President Jackson, he became
consequently his official adviser. Having been
therefore elected governor of the most populous
state in the union, he occupied no small space IN
the public eye From humble life, without the AID
Of wealth or family influence, he has passed thro'
greater nuInbe, of the highest official stations OF
he nation thon any other individual since the re-
rolution In all of these he has sustained himself
with modest, characteristic propriety, with that
republican simplicity which disdains to use the
high Offices Of the country for the purpose OF per-
se..s. see.isk exhibition. Dependant on his own
personal merits and exeions, for future success and
promotion, he had studied deeply the principles OF
human nature, and laid up that stock Of good sense
and good temper, which is the indispensable quail
fcation of an American statesman; and which,
though Of the simplest elements, must appear
species of magic such individuals as are devoid
Of either. Irnbued in the most democratical prln-
ciples, Mr.. Van Buren, has ever been favorite
with the people, most notable instance OF which,
was his sudden and triumphant election 10 the vice
presidency. Courteous and urbane in all his de-
portmeht, he has been driven into no act of inds-
cretion during The last three years Of party warfare
warfare waged essentially against him, as the
bosom-Giend and confident adviser of the presi-
dent. Thus identified with the prominent meas
ures of the late administration, the democracy of
the nation, in convention at Baltimore, and the
democracy of Virginia, in more recent meeting
at Richmond, have presented Mr.. Van Buren, to
your consideration as the most suitable individual
TO succeed the present chief magistrate.
1t has been the fortune or the study of MIR. Van
Buren, to preserve alive that sympathy for popular
rights and that proper regard for public sentiment,
which is apt to forsake those III high official STA
ton. Mr.. Van Buren's pusations are with the
people. Hispolitical regimen and economy, have
prevented him from all participation or connection
with any body or bodies Of men invested with Pc
culiar rights and privileges, above the mass of the
community. The pride of peculiar privilege, the
usual ingredient of all monopolics, powerful or
petty, sits ungracefully the features of den,oc
racy. To be above reproach i'll this matter, Mr..
Van Buren's fortune, such as it may be, is identf
ed with the farming interests linked to the soil
of his country We have his own authority for
saying, that he has not, for upwards of twenty
years, had any interest in any incorporated COM
pany in the Union. This natal, or cultivated sem
innate for popular rights, in their perfect equality
gives symmetry to Mr. Van Buren's character, and
throws over it a finish which resembles him more
| TO the former republican incunbcntsQf the pfesi.
dency, than to any of his present competitors.
| Thus, felow-citizens, you have before you the
candidate for the presidency, the only candidat,
of the democracy of the Union. On the contra
ry, the opposition, who denominate themselves the
q Wing party, an English term, assumed within the
last three years, present to you three candidates
,hio exalted station-Mr. Webster in the north
Zen. Harrison in the north west, and Judge White
in the south west. 1t is not to be supposed tina,
they expect TO elect than one TO that Office
Why party, with one distinctive appelation
should have three candidates, seems enigmatical tc
an ordinary mind. The Siamese lusus-natura.
r where one spirit seemed animate two bodies, would
to be less strange, than that three spirits
occupy one. The solution of this political enigma
D will be made, fellow-ctizens, when, by thus. APP
pealing to sectional passions and prejudicca, the
election shall have been diverted from !thc people
and thrown inc the House OF Representatives.
When this shall have been done, the states Of Vir
ginia and New York, with their representation o
sixty-fve members, will be reduced TO the !eyel 0
Arkansas and Michigan, with their two votes.
How moMsrous, how revolving is such scheme
How well is il calculated to rouse our dormant en-
ergles, and sound the tOcsn of alarm through ou
vallies and our mountains! But yesterday, ant
your senator in congress denied your right nstruc
hin, through your agents in the general assembly
You rose! Old Frederick rose, with IL might ant
ars,t,so >.rta Il
the right from the hand ofiapine. Again in effect
your rights invaded. The election of the chic
magistrate of the union belongs to the people ofth
nion tits their constitutional birthiight. The PEG
pie, the sovereign people, mould in this election thu
measures of prospective administration, by elect
ing the man whose principles they know. The fra
mers othe constitution, the venerable fathers of thu
republic, invested the presidency with the vast pow
ers enumerated in tho commencement of this ad
dress, because they knew its incumbent would usu
lyrcfect fully and fairly the public sentiment
the nation. The president, by the genius and spi
rit ofour institutions isthe image of the people, III
is the image Of the states only to prevent anarchy
ANY scheme, therefore, concocted, or any cours
pursued, which will necessarily wrest the election
from the people and throw il into the house of re
presentaives, where the election is by states wer
Virginia be voted down by Delaware, and New
York by Rhode Island, converts, in effect, our de
mocracy into an oligarchy. Success in such schem
now will be the signal and model for all future imi
tation. Aaron Burr declared in his gloomy vatici
nations, that our country would stand thirt
election ofpresdent by the house Representatives
Let his Cassandra-vOice at least be heard. Tn.
price of freedom 10 eternal vigilance. Let no yo
ter in ouf county neglect his duty. Let the demo
4 mocracy of the county move in body. On the frs
Monday in November lei the farmer leave his field
and his flock, the mechanic his shop and his tools
and the scholar his books and let them all nav III.
debt they owe their country and her institutions
With such spirit, THE PEOPLE WILL b
hour OH which the star of Andrew Jackson se,s r,o
riously in the west, will be the hour on which ,ba
. of Martin Van Buren, will rise in the east. -
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