Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-08-16
THE "DEMOCRATICo ADDRESS,

States issued at the close of the late session of Con-
gfess, by that portion Of its members who assume
interpretation OF acknowledgements, who
wear the livery of Heaven, to serve the Devil in-
lhey KNOW the facility nth viii Oh men are cheated
by hames-and they do not intend TO lose the,
epols' II the selt-appropration of DO pular term.
although 1t has long ceased to be significant of de-
finite principles, can secure them free access to-
the offices within the gift Of the Executive and To-
the vaults Of the Treasury, and thus enable them
to monopoIze the perquisies ofpatriotiSm,
All that this Address says about the doctrines of 90
the limitations ofhc constitution, State sovereignty
ct cetcra, may be regarded as so much yerbi,pc
They are the stereotyped phrases of all men, of all
parties,-havng the gum elastic capacity ofbeng so
stretched as to all crceds,- filled like the men
which Peter let down from heaven, with alb
manner of beasts and birds. We know of no man. at
this day, who does not give in his adhesion to the
principles of '9S-not one who is not a champion of
State Righls-hc authors of the Proclamation and
the Bloody Bill not less than the inven OF tho
Notification heresy. Hence, every man may with
safety profess to belong to the State Rights school
of '93,-just Cen Jackson swore to support
the Consti'ution,-not according TO the obvious
meaning of language, but "as he underslan it,"
So interpreted, all that portion of the Democratic
Address bearing upon this theme, is so much un-
meaning slang-od coptdndum chaff TO catch young
birds who have not yet learned that politicians
times mean one thing when they say another.
The Democratic Address may be divided, as the
preachers say, into three grand dvisions-l, U. S.
Bank; 9, the Sub-Treasury aud 3, Abolition. A.
word upon each.
L. In reference to the L. S. Bank, the fist thing
which suggests itself is that its unconStitutonaht4
does not form article of the Democratic creed
E" There are many Of u.s. (say the Address,) "who
have always believed Bank OF the L. States to be
uncons,ltutlonal'-Thc inference is that MANY more
OF them believe no such thing What then, is
Democrat! Clearly, one who believes in the infal
bility OF the Executive in the general, and who is for
Martin Van Buren, as President now, and for such
person as his successor, who may be selected in duo
time, either by himself la mote Jackson, or in such
other mode may be ordered by "the party
Provided he come upto tins Standard he may
be Nullifcr on Proclamation man,-in ia.
vor of L. S. Bank or opposed to it,-ior against
the Sub Trcasury,-a latitudinarian or a Unitarian,
he is still a Democrat!
The principal reason which many of them give
for believing the Bank to be unconstitutional is that
to Congress the general power to grant charters of in
corporation. And yet not one OF these many hes
ated to vote for a bill to authorize an emission of
Treasury Notes, although the power to make such
issues also expressly denied by the same Fede-
raj Convention Ifthey could stretch their
sciences and THEN oa,hs question. why not
The other? Plainly because, the Executive ordered
one, and forbade the othcr-and, before
marked, the only thing necessary to constitute a
Democrat, is, that he shall vote Tor the "reguary
nominated" candidate as President. and afterwards
obey whatever orders may proceed from the White
House They would have been ALL without excep-
ton, Bank men, had Gcu. Jackson adhered to his
OPINION that a National Bank was constitutional and
useful He thought proper, however afterwards to
look at this institution through coored magniiyng
glasses. and his party following his example, mount,
ed upon then spectaces of the like patent
stiuction, and 10 " Monster" stood confessed, to
crush which the energies OF the great Democratic
party were camorously invoked, and Of course zeal
ousy excrted. They have, however, before this
time, discovered to their that if they slew the
PhiIistines, their own heads did escape the
sequences Of their blind iury-lt has taught them
that the strength OF giant may be so directed TO
destroy the life of its posscssor, by the blow
which brushes his enemies.
2 The Sub-Trcasury question is most lamely ar
gued in thus Democratic Address. For example.
what shall say of such reasoning as the follow
ing:
What would be SAID in England if some sensitive
patriot. to prevent "Unlon Of the purse and the
sword" should propose to keep the money of the
United Kingdom in the treasury OF Belgium hano-
yer, or Holland! Those nations scarcely more
independent OF the BRUSH Government and nation
than our banks Of The Government and people
occasions, hostile than portion OF tho
banks
The assertions of this paragraph false as
the arguments based upon them fallacious.-
DO the Banks, in any respect, resemble a foreign
government Is it true that, Belgium, Hanover.
&c. scarcely more Independent OF the Brit
ish government than Banks of the A
mcrcan people Such declaration is so shame
lessly absurd that we astonished at the fol
ly equalled only by the mpudcnce, which could
embody it in public address Why, what are the
Banks Institutions which the breath Of the people
has made, and which the breath of the same people
can destroy-which would be Destroyed if they
bore any resemblance to the caricature which
these Democratic limners have held uP Tor
public adherence and reprobation. We cannot
wonder that these men manufacture Monster
ola National Bank, when they declare that the State