The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-11-14
Mr. Livingston adm is elected 70 the
Senate from the Third Senate District

Mr.. Lisingston (Adm.) is elected 70 the
Senate from the Third Senate District.
We must confess that We were not prepar-
ed for such an unprecedented change IN fhe
State, although the vote in the city almost
precisely verifes our prediction.
Two weeks before the election, we predict.
ed tina, the Vaccinations Of the Loco-Focos
would prove successful, and that they would
defeat the administration in the city BY 5000
yotes.n But that the State. which has for
years unwaveringly sustained the dominant
national party, and but yesterday elevated Mr..
Van Buren, to the Presidential chair by the
signal majority of $4,000 votes over all other
candidates, could be SO soon and SO radically
reyolutionized, we should never have believed
until we had actually seen the unprecedent-
ed result.
In contemplating this result we are insiinc-
lively led TO inquire into the causes winch
have operated to produce it.
The sole and proximate causes have engag-
ed our minds from the moment of our first
establishment, and were the direct induce
ments to the course we determined on from
the beginning W. foresaw the tendency OF
the ultra doctrines which certain politicians
had attempted to propagate through the coun-
try, and the inevitable consequences to which
they would lead the party. We came here
TO employ what abilities we possess, in endea-
voring to avert, if possible, the very evils
which we are now brought to mourn. The
presidential breath Of Loco. 'ocoism had gone
forth, like the deadly simeon, infusing itself
into the very vitals of the republic to poison, to
convulse, and to destroy. The Vandal spirit
Of the Globe INDUCED its progress, and direct
ed its destructive course to the very citadel OF
our prosperity We sought in vain TO inter
pose shield; in vain we expostulated, inn
plored, prayed, we interposed history, Gus
tom, facts and reasoning we brought up the
testimonies Of the dead, we produced the au-
thority Of the living oracles but all in vain.
The spirit was beckoned on into the very en-
brace Of the gods" The flaming sword was
placed in the hands Of the destroying angel,
and sent forth to devastate and lay waste. 1t
invaded the sanctiiy Of private life, and ravag-
| ed the habitations of virtue. No independence
of opinion, no dignity Of character, was secure
| from its assaults Bent on disorganising so
ciety, and throwing off all the obligations and
restraints which it imposed, il cast on all things
false and lurid glare, and COMPOUNDED all
| forms and ceremonies, persons and things. 1t
pretended to sense Of burning wrong-a
wrong imagined to be inflicted by the aristocra-
cy of wealth, and the partiality oflegislalioll-
but it was the sensibility Of ignorance, founded
upon the prejndices and jealousies excited by
the breath Of designing demagogues. Its la
Dor of love was,
First, the destruction of the credit system;
| Its second, the humiliation of all charter
ed rights;
| Its third, the dissolution Of all legal obliga-
tons
Its fourth, the levelIing Of all character and
social distinctions .~
Its fifth, the equal distribution of wealth;
And lastly, its reward, the spoils Of office.
Impatient of restraint, it sought the estab-
| lishment of new constitution, and the abro-
CATION of all legislative enactments Under
the name of democracy it laid hold of the al
tars of ST. Tammany, and set up Shibboleth
at which every free thought was to be immo-
lated The man Of property had no confidence
in his security-no institution felt any assn
rance Of permanency The disasters which
had overtaken the country like cloud, were
aggravated and prolonged. The merchant
was Knocked in the midst of his calamities, and
told that no honest man ought to regret his
distresses. A war of determination was de-
clared against all banks, upon which the credit
system, the most beautiful and benefcent result
of free institutions was based debtors and
creditors were arrayed against each other |;
the poor against the rich, and the protection
which the Legislature extended to the calami-
ties Of the times was denounced as combi-
nation to defraud; the banks were charged
with baseness, perfidy and treachery for ex-
tending relief to the people until they sunk in
the general vortex Of the drowning credit;
disregard of legal and moral obligation was
fostered by men high in Office, as the true po-
icy Of patriotism; and others from whom bet
ter things were hoped, were making the soon
fusion worse COMPOUNDED" by headlong pur-
suit of extreme notions and indefinite phan-
toms totally incompatible with wholesome
state of the country.
In the midst of all these crying evils the
leading presses on the side of the administra-
ton, with some few memorable exceptions,