The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-11-28

under the frosts OF the many winters which
have found them heretofore battling in the
front ranks Of the Jefersonian Republican
party, now Withdrawing their support from
the men whom they had elected to represent
that party, because the measures which they
were called on TO advocate and sustain, were
such as neither their reason approves or
their conscience sanctions"
We had seen many Of these pairiarchs Of
the party, for the legitimate exercise of their
understandings, impaled as the victims Of
vindictive party presses, whose course has
been marked with scarcely less intolerance
than the Spanish Inquisition-reviled by
every vulgar and prescriptive epithet-loaded
with opprobrium, outcast, and shunned--and
by none was the war urged with more zeal
and malignancy than the organ justified by
the countenance of the Executive, although
alternating by its course the foremost among
those who, by their suffrages and exertions,
assisted to elevate him to his present exalted
station.
We had seen agrarian, loco foco, and radi-
cal doctrines. inculcated, cherished and en-
couraged, by some holding high stations,
which we believed to be disorganizing and
revolutionary in their character; which in the
end, il not restrained, must lead to overthrow
ing our public institutions, uprooting the foun-
dations on which good order in society is es-
tablished and maintained; and finally, leading
to anarchy and confusion throughout.
The signs Of the times, indicated to our sa-
tisfaction most clearly and distinctly, that the
measure which had been both unfavorably re-
ceived by the Representatives Of the people,
and condemned by the people themselves, as
far as opportunity had presented for them to
pass judgment upon it, was to be recommend
ed anew; and, with renewed zeal and energy
attempted to be fastened upon the country in
spite of the repugnance which has been mani
tested against it. In this anticipation it seems
we did not err. An article contained in the
official, bearing more thana demi-official stamp,
Of last Monday week, announces, that the
administration have resolved to continue to
persist calmly but firmly" in the measure.
twas under these circumstances, that we
put forth the paper which the Enquirer demo-
inmates the /" Conservative Creed" andwhich
we intended should be so understood. We
endeavored to embrace it in that paper, and to
establish it in the true Republican doctrines,
that had their origin with, and were practised
by Jefferson and Madison; whose doctrines
and principles are no less reverenced, we are
sure, by the editor of the Enquirer, than by
ourselves If we have failed in what we
aimed at, we viii adopt any suggestion which
that experienced editor may point out to ac-
complish the object we attempted.
We. saw an urgent and indispensable ne
cessity existing for the adoption Of this step.
We saw that there must be banner hung
out under which those who had already been
driven from the administration ranks by its
obnoxious measures, and the anathemas Of its
Press, could rally. We saw, by the signs Of
the times, that renewed recommendation of
those measures will inevitably drive from the
support of the administration thousands that
still adhere to it and this was an additional
imperative call for the step we have taken.
We now answer one Of the interrogatories Of
the Enquirer, and announce distinctly, that
the Conservative Republicans will pursue but
the one Obvious course-they will "persist
calmly but firmly" in the line Of party organi-
cation already marked out. They repudiate
now and forever, the spirit Of political intole-
rance, which has been permitted already to
take too deep a root in our Republic, and
which is derogatory both to its principles and
its permanency.
What else can the Conservative Republic
cans do7 Can they go back and unite with
those from whom they have been driven r
Can they return to the intolerance of that
" holy alliance" of Calhoun-Nullyfers
and loco. foco-destructioes which has os-
tracised them under the surveillance Of the
Executive Can they return to permit OBJ
noxious measures, against which every thought
rebels, to be "calmly but firmly crammed
down their dissenting throats !! We answer,
No, never Can the Conservatives unite
with the ultra Wings and become the advo-
Gates of doctrines and principles which they
have opposed and battled against from the
period Of their earliest manhood. No. That
is equally impossible. What else is left for
the Conservatives to do but to maintain firmly
and independently their stand. We confident
~ predict that the Conservatives will never
recede the thousandth part Of an inch from
the stand which they have assumed in favor
of establishing, the most liberal and tolerant