The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-12-21

cy II may not be sufficiently definite 10 say the Re-
publican WIN continue TO Be conducted upon Demo-
cratic principles We will further add thii we plant
ourselves upon the broad platform of Republicansm,
and here We shall do bille in the cause OF human
liberty. Bui In prosecuting our abors, shall not
forget thai as great genius unaided by he lghs Of
experience, often borders upon madness; so the
serion OF natural rights, divorced from The conven-
tonal notifications constituting the social fabric,
tends 10 dissolution OF society into its original ee
mcnts Without their aid, man returns TO The chase,
Tree indeed as the air he breaihes but with no
other protection than his own individual prowess.
conventional morals and revealed religion, must,
therefore, BE- reveTed, and their institutions main
ained II we would not again relapse into stale OF
These principles are acknowledged in our bill of
righls--ihey have been universally acted UPON by
our iustrious statesmen, and have never been gain
sayed, except by visionary enlhusiasts who deal in
abstraciions and their deluded followers who either
lack the time or capacity TO understand the complex
machinery of civil government.
When We look abroad through the great commu-
niiy OF nations and witness their different degrees Of
civiizaiion--the diversity of character climate and
pursuits We see at The impossibiliy Of subject
ing them TO Procus,es' iron bed. The rude native
OF Owybee, and the polished citizen of Paris-the
herdsman immu ed amid Alpine soliiudes, and the
London banker who regulates the commerce OF the
world, require diversity OF laws Tor their protec-
ton, and the full development Of their usefulness 10
their respective states And yet SO intimate is the
connexion between nations, and so mutually DEEPEN
dent are the different trades and occupations, that
the prosperity of one is measurably dependent upon
the success of all the others
These principles are doubly applicable to the
United States, bound as they are in one grsnd con-
lederacy, with power to legislate for the general
welfare. Here new conventional rights have re-
suited from our form Of government based mol upon
the implied but express consent OF the people OF the
respective States. The citizen is entitled protec
tion in his person and property, and in the acqusi-
ton oil wealth, not only in his State but through
out the Union; and this paper will ever be found
indicating the majesty III: Constitution and laws,
and holding up 10 merted apprehension both princi-
pals and accessories, in all oubreakings OF popular
violence In maintaining The principles of equality,
we shall not run into the wild extreme OF levelling
all distinctions between deneSs and industry igno-
rance and wisdom, vice and virtue but shall claim
Tor every citizen respect and consideration in pro-
portion to his merits. While our voice is raised
against all monopohes, and we claim for the Legis-
lalure Of each State the right 10 annu and modify
charters whenever the public good requires we shall
encourage TO the extent OF our ability, every indivi-
dual and corporate enterprise that tends 10 the de-
veopment Of our natural resources, or adds TO the
wealth, the power, The independence Of the State
Believing in the natural dependence OF all classes,
and that the prosperity Of the people IS retarded py
every obstruction of the channels OF communication
between the producer and consumer, We cannot but
regard all legislation that goes to cripple or embtr-
rass any one interest, as equally nimical 10 every
other, In connection with This subject, the national
currency is entitled 10 the most serious considera-
ton Exchanges are the tolls paid by the mechanic,
the farmer and the manufacturer, in transmitting the
proceeds Of their industry back from the consumer,
and that system is undoubtedly the best which, for
a series Of years shall most nearly equalize hem.
All sudden and violent changes OF policy produce
emb irrassment and distress and il would seem to be
the part Of wisdom not TO launch forth into new and
unIried experiments, unless impclled by imperious
necessity. Many OF the most able and ardent sup
porterS of the past and present administration sill
believe that the depoSiIe system adopted BY General
Jackson, preferable to the substitute brought for
ward BY his political opponenls-hat a combination
of circumstances which never again occur, COM
He'd The blnks to suspend specie payments 1t that
the system, with such amendments as experience may
readily apply will answer the purposes Tor which It
was ins,iuted With these we enrol ourselves, and
f.arlesSly await the verdict OF the people. To the
decision OF that august tribunal we shall bow win
delerential submission. In the mem time we shall
attempt check the torrent Of indiscrmnate abuse
poured out upon our Safe insilu ions They have
been annually examined by the Bank Commission
efs, high minded and honorable men, II there had
been gross abuses, they would surely have cone to
light If additional restrictions are required, impose
them, but the condition of our Safe with its immense
capabilities and limited capital requires that they
should be maintained, 10 furnish the means OF de-
veloping It's vast resources In these views 1--WE
speak adviscdly) we are sustained BY majority Of
those old and tried democrats who have been alike
true 10 their principles in prosperity and adversely
majority OF those who resisted the election of
Adarns-a majority OF those who first declared for
Jackson, and we doubl not majority OF the candid
and rejecting citizens OF the Safe
The Republican will advocate malicious but
energetic system of internal improvement under the
direction Of the State Government, and the most
rapid settlement of the public domain, the nature Of
the case will admit. II will especially recommend
the agricultural interests 10 The fostering Of
government, not as friend TO any particular class
but from a settled conviction that the State, so long
as its products fall short of the consumption Of its
inhabitants can never know prosperity.