The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-10
70 THE REPUBLIcANs OF THE UNITED
STATES,

ing this eventfu period we have been engaged in
severe conflict as interesting and important TO the
Republic as any that has ranspired since Its organ-
eaton. The cause and our course, have attached
To- ms many interests which will not permit US TO
tire as we contemplated
period has arrived, therefore, when il has be-
come necessary in justice TO ourself and the public,
10 indicate our course for the future.
II is well remembered that the MADIsoNIAN was
established in the conviction that the great character
and interests OF the country as we'll as 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,
DESTROYS of seeing the leading principles of The
party to which attached, preserved and car
red out, not only in theory, but in practice. We
pledged oursef to sustain the principles and doc
irnes Of the Republican party, delineated BY Mr.
MADISON and came here in good faith TO support the
present administration upon NE principles tohich so.
upon the pledges by schieh that election acas secured
We have, throughout, strictly adhered TO those prin
cples. Had the Executive of this nation done the
same had he received in the spirit in which il was
offered, the advice Of his best friends the continu-
ance of this paper would not have been necessary,
should we have beheld the distracted counsels by
which he is governed, or have seen the disjonted
and defeated party by which he Is surrounded.
No Chief Magistrate, since the days of Washing
ton ever came to that high station under more favor
able auspices than Mr.. Van Buren,. A combination
of circumstances, which seldom transpire, clearly
indicated the way TO the affections Of the people, and
gave him the power TO have disarmed opposition by
the very measures which would have established 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 MADIsoNIAN and its 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 10 the establishment OF an unmi
tigated despotism. Accompanied as they were by
war upon the CREDIT SYSTEM of the country, and an
unusual spirit Of intolerance, denunciation and
prescription, justice could not have required nor
honesty expected any support from consistent Republic
cans In that spirit OF independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders of our
institutions, resisted these nefarous 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 1t necessary. r.
II is an incontrovertibe truth that every prominent
act Of this administration has been an open, une-
auvocal violation of every principle and profession
upon which Mr.. Van Buren, was elevated to che
Chief Magstracy by the people:
In his unfolding 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 60
vernment, and still persisting in il, notwithstanding
it has been tour times condemned by the Represen-
taves Of the people;
In his recommendation of Bankrupt law to be
passed by Congress- applicable only to corporations,
so that this government should possess an absolute
control over all the State institutions and be able to
crush them ALL at pleasure and taking all jurisdc-
ton over them from the hands the State tribunals
In his breaking faith with the States, by recon-
mending 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 runous practice
Of deprecated government paper money, for circu.
lating medium; thus exercising a power derived
only from loose construction of the Constitution
and repudiated by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt to establish Treasury Bank with
an irredeemable paPer-money circulation;
In his effort TO overthrow the State Bank Depose
system established BY President Jackson, and take
the public moneys into his actual custody and con-
troll; =.
In his attempt to divorce the government from the
interests and sympathies OF the people; t"....
In his attempt to create a +" multitude of new Off
ces, and to send swarms of officers to harrass our
people and cal out their SUBSTANCE"
In his attempt to take away our charters, abolish
most valuable laws, and alter, fundamentally, the
powers of our governments"
In his display of sectional Partially;
In his cold indifference to the interests and wants
of the people during period of extreme suffering;
In his attempt to throw discredit upon, and even
tuay, 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 his open contempt Of the will of the people as
expressed through the ballot box
In his attempt TO cram obnoxious measures down
the Threats of dissenting brethren BY means unoecom
ing magnanimous Chief Magistrate;
In his refusal to acquesce in The decisions OF inc
majority and
In the despotic attempt of his partisans in the U.
s Senate on the I'd July, inst to seize the public
treasure, by abolishing 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 obstinately persevered in
his erroneous course as to preclude all reasonable
hope Of his retracng it.
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-
trary to all preconceived opinions of his character,
Mr.. VAN Buren, has rendered himself the most
inaccessible both TO friends and adversaries OF all the
Chief Magistrates that ever filled his station.
And from all these considerations, to what conclu-
sion can the nation come, but that their Chief Magis-
trate is either wanting in integrity, or wanting in
capacity?
We need not say that we expected different things
of public servant, bound by his sacred pledges, to
regard the national will as the supreme law of the
Republic. That blind infatuaton which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought to meet its reward and sink in indiscriminae
and everlasting overthrow.
The financial policy OF this Administration cannot
be sustained upon any principle Of necessity, expe-
dency utility, practical philosophy or sound econo-
N.Y. It's PLAIN oDject, the peTpetully ol power, anu
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 greatdesideratum, sound uniform, and con-
venient currency, and system that will equaze as
nearly as practicable, the domestic exchanges is de-
manded by the practical wants of the people, and,
sooner later, in one form or another, will be OBJ
tanned by them. To accomplish this end, and to
"prcScrve and regulate" the credit system of the
country, which this administration has attempted 10
impair, will be one of the great objects for which
we feel constrained to continue our labors
No Administration of this Government can pros
per none deserve 10 succeed that is not CoNsERy.-