The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-08-15
TO THE REPUBLICANs OF rHE UNITED
#.@ STATES.

ing this eventual period we nave pceh engaged IN a
severe conflict as interesting and important to the
Republic rs any that has transpifed since It's organ
zaliep The use, and our course, have attached
10 us many interests which viii not permit US TO
tire a. we contemplated
A period has arrived, therefore, when II has be-
come necessary In justice TO oursef and the public
10 indicate our course for the future.
his well remembered that the MADsosIAs was
established in the conviction that the great character
and OF the country well AZ the success OF
the administration, required another organ al the seat
of the National Government. Born In the Republic
can faith and nurtured in Republican doctrines, we
were DESTROYS Of seeing the leading principles OF The
party to which were attached, preserved aud car
ried out, not only Ia theory, but in practice. We
pledged ourself to sustain the principles and doc
irines It the Republican party as delineated by Mr..
present administration upon the principles rhieh GO
rerMed Tie party which elected Mr.. Van Buren,, and
upon The pledges by rhch Mat election secured.
We have, throughout strictly adhered TO those prin
ciples. Had the Executive Of this nation done the
same had he received in the spirit In which II was
offered the advice of his best friends the continu-
ance of this paper would not have been necessary.
nor should we have beheld the distracted counses by
which he is governed, or have seen the disjointed
and defeated party by which he is surrounded.
No Chief Magistrate, since the days of Washing
ton, TO that high station under favor
able auspices than Mr.. Van Buren,. A combination
of circumstances, which seldom transpire, clearly
indicated the way the affections of the people, and
gave him the power to have disarmed opposition by
the very measures which would have estah shed his
popularity. But, ill-omened and evil counses pre-
vailed and the hopes of that political millennium,
which many Republicans cherished as the fulflment
oftheir creed were disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MADIsosIAN and It's friends were en-
deavoring to restore the prosperity OF the country
the Executive and his advisers were urging forward
measures directly calculated to destroy ito keep
the country convulsed and prostrate-measures,
subversive of The principles of Republican govern
ment and tending TO the establishment oil an unmit-
rsn1a thatrtu ira hy
war upon the CREDIT SYSTEM of the country and an
unusual spirit of intolerance, denuncation and
prescription justice could not have required nor
honesty expected any support from consistent kepuoii-
cans In thai spirit OF independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders OF our
institutions we resisted these nefarious attempts
depreciate and DESTROY them, with the best Of our
ability. The same spirit which prompted us to do
this, finds no justification in supporting the men who
made il necessary.
1t is an ncontroverble truth that every prominent
act Of this administration has been an open, une-
ouivocal violation OF every principle and profession
upon which Mr.. Van Buren, was elevated to the
Chief Magistracy by the people.
In his uphoding the specie circular, which made
determinations unauthorized by law, and which
had been twice condemned BY Congress;
In his recommending the Sub Treasury scheme,
contemplating union of the purse and the sword,
and the subversion Of the entire practice OF the go
vernmen and still perssting 10 it, notwithstanding
it has been for times condemned by the Represen-
In his RECOMMENDATION Of Bankrupt law to be
passed by Congress- applicable only to corporations
that this government should possess an absolute
control all the State institutions and be able
crush them all, at pleasure; and taking all urisdic-
tn them from the hands of the State tribunals;
In his breaking faith with the States, BY recon-
mendng repeal Of the distribution law;
In his repeated recommendations Of the issue of
Treasury notes, to supply the place of legal money,
recurring thus TO the exploded and ruinous practice
OF appreciated government paper money for circu.
laing medium; thus exercising a power derived
only from loose construction of the Constitution
and rerudiaed by the best Republican aulhnFiiies;
In his attempt TO establish Treasury Bank with
an irredeemable PaPer-money circulation;
In his effort 10 overthrow the State Bank DepoSite
system, established By President Jacks n, and take
the public moneys into his actual custody and con-
troll
In his attempt to divorce the government from the
interests and sympahes OF the people;
In his attempt to create multitude of new Off
ces and to send swurms of officers TO harrass our
people, and eat out their substance J"
In his attempt to stake away our charters, abolish
our most vau Bile laws and alter, fundamentally, the
powers Of CUR governments"
In his display of sectional partiality;
In his cold indifference to the interests and wants
Of the people during period Of extreme suffering;
Ia his attempt TO throw discredit upon, and even
tualy to crush the State banks, through The revenue
power Of the government, and embarrass the re-
sumption Of specie payments
In permitting the patronage of his Office to come
in conflict with the freedom Of elections
In his open contempt of the will Of the people as
expressed through the ballot box;
In his attempt 10 cram obnoxious measures down
the throats Of dissenting brethren by means unbecom-
ing magnanmous Chief Magistrate;
In his refusal to acquiesce in the decisions OF the
majority; and
Ia the despo,ic attempt Of his partisans in the Y.
s Senate, on the ID july inst. TO seize the public
teasnre, by abolishng all law for its custody and
safe keeping.
He has abandoned the principles by which he came
into power, and consequently, the duty which they
prescribed and he has so obstnately perSevered in
his erroneous course as to preclude all reasonable
hope of his retracing il.
And finally, to this long catalogue of grievances,
we may add, what may be considered minor Of
fence, but certainly very obnoxious one, that con-
rary all preconceived opinions of his character,
Mr.. Van Buren, has rendered himself the most
inaccessible, both TO friends and adversares OF all the
Chief Magistrates that ever filled his station
And from all these considerations, TO what conclu-
sion the nation come but that their Chief Magis
rate is either wanting in integrity, or wanting in
capacity?
of public servant, bound by his sacred pledges, to
regard the national will the supreme law of the
Republic That blind infatuation which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought meet its reward aud sink in indiscriminate
and everlasting overthrow.
The financial policy OF this Administration cannot
b. sustained upon any principle OF necessity, expe
dency, utility practical philosophy or sound econo;
my, pidtH oUJccti TIC PciPS'uiy VI Po"Ci, ahu
its plain effect the destruction OF the banking system
require, Of course, too great sacrifice from The
American people to be, for moment tolerated.
The greadesideratum, sound, uniform, and con-
vcnient currency and system that will equalize, as
nearly practicable, the domestic exchanges is de-
handed by the practical wants of the people, and
sooner or later, in one form another, will be OBJ
tanned by them To accomplish this end, and TO
preserve and regulate" the credit system Of The
country, which this administration has attempted to
impair, will be one of the great objects for which
we leel constrained to continue our labors.
NO Administration of this Government can pros
deserve a th,t lie