The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-09-19
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sEPTEMBER19,1s3'
VAN BUREN'S MESSAGE


Has been received by the Loco Focos with en-
thusasm. They have held meetings in several of
the cities and passed resolutions approaching the
doctrines of the message, and audatory of its au-
thor. All this answers only reasonable expectation
Mr. Van Buren, has fully and clearly announced his
determination TO "follow in the footsteps ofThomas
Ii. Benton, and to establish, if possible, hIs level
ling principles the future basis of his administra
tioncontrary to the opinions and ccunsels OF Tall
madge and Rives, and many other able and wise
of his party, heretofore among Its most Jealous
supporters. To secure power, on previous occa-
sons, Mr. Van Buren, has f1attored the Pope and
his devotees in this country foreigners of all ma
ons and the slave holders of the South, but he has
now, to cap tho climax of his career in intrigue, a
vowed as his own, the cLimerical and dangerous
principles of class in society technically termed
loco foco, embracing the very dregs of humanity
He labors with the ingenuity of an experienced
sophst to screen from public view the true of
the troubles experienced by the people in their bus
mess; anddwells upon the effects, the causes of
them, scarcely limiting that the arbitrary and un-
constitutional acts of himself and predecessor in
the removal ofthe public deposites were the first
and leading causes of tho sad effects he so wildly
portrays. He doubtless justfies himself in taking
the view he does the ground that witness is
not bound to implicate himself, as he assuredly
would, by designating the true cause of these disas
trous results. Mr. Van Buren, attributes the de-
rangement of the monetary system, in part, to over
issues of bank paper. But who are guilty of flood
ing the country with irredeemable bank paper?~-
General Jackson and the President. Before they
usurpt the helm Of State there was not bill in the
whole land worth less to the holder than the silver
or gold. Mr. Van Buren, is the father of the New
York Safety Fund Banking System, which was the
first to explode. And the results of the measures
pursued by the administration were, the increase of
banks and over issues OF bank paper. Such results,
the Wing Statesmen of the country told the admin
stration, would follow the adoption of their schemes
in reference to the currency. And had they pos
sessed the gift prophesy, and beheld with their
own eyes, while speaking and wiring, they could
not have foretold them with more certainty or de-
lienated them with more accuracy than they did
pending the discussions of these grave questions.
But their warnings and admonitions passed unheed-
ed, and the crude, wild and foolish notions of the
Western humbugger adopted out of which
has flowed desolatng food, scarcely less ruinous
than that which covered the mountains in ancient
days.
gence of the American people by attempting to
make them believe that similar disasters have been
realized in Great Britain by the business communi-
ty as have scourged this nation This every well
informed man knows to be false, as we'll as the Pres
ident. Scarcely has mention been made by foreign
journals Of the failure of any European houses, ex-
cept such were intimately connected in trade
with the mercantile interest ofthis country. Those
houses in England and France to whom American
merchants were largely indebted, and who have
been compelled by the force of the evnts of the
times to withhold payment to their foreign cred-
tors, have been, many of them obliged to stop pay
ment and to assign their assets. And while all the
Banks in this country have suspended specie pay
ments, those in England have continued to perform
their legitimate offices. Mr. Van Buren, intended
by this species of deception and official misrepre-
sentation, to humbug the less informed portion of
his countrymen, and essuysto cause them to believe
tiat other than the cause ofwhich he is the author
had produced the appalling results over which he
mpudently teigns to lament We have too much
confidence in the sagucity, intelligence and moral
stability OF the American people, to believe thew
will be cajoled or driven into sanction of the loco
foco doctrines of the message. Already in the late
elections, have they soorned TO endorse such polit
ical nostrums And, unless the signs of the times
are deceptive they will ere long raise still louder
and still more emphatic n voice of remembrance
fRIGH TFUL Loss OF LIEE.-lt is stated that no
less than thousand persons have perisbed bv
The late dreadful hurricanes in the West Indies