Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1837-07-21
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

principle of |" like master like man" many OF his
subordinates became corrupt also, ana ABUSES
without NUMBER crept, or rather boldly walkeu,
into the administration of the government. Inc
truii Of the coalition between Adams and Clay
was not relished by the peoples they called Gen.
Jackson from the Hermitage, and commissioned
him to bring the Ship of State back to the repuo-
lican track. He went into office sustained by the
votes, and cheered by the confidence OF the de-
mocracy of tie nation, and opposed by the federal
party, which fell with the first Adams and rose
with the second. He laid down in his Inaugural
Address the principles which were to govern his
course and he brought those principles into I'M
mediate action The Pruning Knife of"Reform"
was applied to the excresences which had fastened
themselves TO the body poitic--abuses were re-
formed SPECTATORS were dismissed and sinecures
demolished Then went forth from the camp of
the enemy the doorous cry that the country was
RuINED"-that prescription had placed itself
within the inner veil of the temple-and that con-
sttutiona liberty had crumbed beneath the touch
of despot. The clamor was almost deaienng
men who had never been on the side OF Their
country in any of the struggles she had passed
throueh--who declared il " unbecontng a moral
and religious people to rejoice for her <io;4aies
s---yame forth with patriotic fdrvor, 10 protect
THAI rolA,try against chosen instrument for
ciples which found no favor in the eyes Of his
predecessor. The exclamation of the Portland
| federal Gazette, We stand melancholy me-
mento in the history of fallen Republics" was but
a fair specimen of the tone of the whole federal
press--and the American abroad, ignorant OF the
little claim TO confidence which that press could
boast, would hardly have been justified in beev-
ing that his native land was enjoying the bles-
sings Of free government. But the people were
not mOved--or if they were, it was to increased
confidence in the President, whose hands were
strengthened by the strong manifestations of re-
spect and attachment which reached him from
every quarter.
The cry which was started upon that occasion
has known no recession and if it is to be credited
the country has been irretrevaby ruined at least
once year ever since. When the President We
toed the Bank bill, the political vals of the oppo.
sitlon were touched. That acl, they said was
death blow to its author Gen Jackson was daily
defeated on paper, from that time to the period of
his second election when the people, with an una
nimity beyond precedent, recorded their approba-
ton of his acts and reelected him TO the station
whose powers he had welded, if his opponents
were to be believed, to the destrucing of their
dearest rights. This result by no means dis
heartened the croakers, upon whose abors it was
err set of men. They passed il off as an act COM
mi,ted under the influence of fatal deluson---as
the work of nation of intelligent freemen de-
ceived by the glare and tnsel of military fame,
and Rugged TO their bosom one who was using
the strength with which they nerved his arm to
destroy the liberties of their country.
The next lime !hssSountry wa Thoroughly rt-
:ned, was whs,x ST. =, r y6GA+ eguid
cheney of THIS step Mere could be no douR-I
Then it was that the U. States Bank put forth its
strength, and created panic which was to rvet
the belief of the people that their President had
brought them all to the brink of ruin; that grave
senators talked about " REVOLUTION" and the fed |
eral emissaries were busy in every State melting
the people TO violence, and talking calmly with |
them upon the feasibility Of marching g a HIM
d,ea thousand men to Washington to dethrone
the ty1ant g." Some sighed in apparent despair,
and enqured if there " was no Bruins to deliver
the world of such tyrant," and the whole fed .
eral camp from Captain General to Corporal, and |
from Corporal TO bay joined in the chorus of
"RUINED COUNTRY" This excitement, too, died |
away without impairing the confidence of the
people in the honesty of the President, or the
wisdom of his measures
Next came the specie circular, by which the
country was again "RUINED" past redemption
i ne - HodrulHS' Oh Two mllIOnS OF specie at the |
west, not only, according to the croakers, pre-
vented the New York banks from dscounting, but
also prevented the New York merchants from
sending sereniy-tre MILLIONS Of dollars in specie
10 Europe, when they had nothing to give for it,
if it had been to be purchased, except their own
notes, wild lands at dollar the square foot, or
The unsold balance of imported goods. This was
the last feather which was to 'break the camel's
back" and 10 secure the condemnation of the
President by the people! Did it effect that
snd The people were so well pleased with be-
ing "ruined," that they elected successor to the
Did chief who was pledged to follow in his own
footsteps, and who has thus far nobly redeemed
ais pledge.
When Mr. Van Buren, took the chair the feder-
lliss told US he could not sustain the responsible
~ he had assumed for a single month they
unused themselves with glowing predictions
~hich mey were sure would take place in the
democratic party within month of his Inaugural
ion the party was to have been split in pieces, {
nd duly conquered long ere this. These pre- {
Lotions failed; the hopes Of the federalists van I
shed "inlo thin ar''--but in the mean time horns
rev out upon the specie circuur, and it was
oading the bleeding constitution" to death; it '
i'd not put il in the power Of spectators to pay c
hundred dollars with one dollar and did not in s
iruct bankrupt merchant how to send half a il
lillion Of dollars 10 Europe, when he hadn't r
lousandth part of it in the world. This was too I
I'D, and more than flesh and blood could bear n
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