The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-13


TO rebuke this insult and redress this grievance. by
voting for Candidates who will respect your wishes and
obey your commands, many OF the evils now brought
upon us by our government, will disappear.
In conclusion, beg leave to appeal to you by the
common ties Of common country, common Ins,tu-
TONS and common welfare, to indicate your rights
your pow ers your intelligence and virtue free et-
Of New York The destinies OF the republic are
in your hands, and your individual votes to deter
mine the important question, whether you 10 ENJOY
aud transmit TO your postery the free government you
have received from your ancestors lyou vote for the
Sub-ressury government bank candidates you elect to
the President with The whole power Of the treasures
OF the nation, and to unite in that officer every attr
butte which may define monarch create tyTant If
you vote against and defeat lhem you will Anne
rican liberty from the thradom Of tyranny, and raise
msgoverned and oppressed people TO the summit Of
honor freedom and prosperity On you rest the choice!
May the generous shouts of regenerate feemen pro-
claim the triumph Of the Of human liberty in the
result
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That it is the solemn and deliberate OPT
mon OF the delegates here assembled that, consistently
with due regard TO republican principles and to the
usages OF our orefathes, ought to be supported
for any political station who is in favor Of q The Sub
Treasury" proposed and urged in Congress- and the
measure Of bankrupt law applicable TO corporations
and other bankers
Resolved, Tha, the Sub Treasury" ought to be re-
sisted:
First Because it tends corruption in the admins
traton Of our moneyed afars--nssmuch it unites,
IN the same person. the receiver and the dSburser Of the
public funds.
Second Because all experience hath shown that it
is imprudent to entrust large amounts Of the public
treasures TO lndvIduals-nasmuch as, without disbo
nest intentions, they too apt to minge up with their
private affairs, those that belong to the country.
Third Because though sureties be given, those very
suretes may ask loans WITHOUT intention Of wrong,
OF the moneys under individual deposit
Fourth Because it opens wide door for fraud and
peculaton to the prejudice Of the common good, and
exposes the public treasures to be plundered by
hundred hands where cannot reach them"
Fifth Because it is in violation of the ussges and
practices OF the founders and sages Of government
Sixth and finally: Because it clothes with dangerous
attributes OF power the executive Department. de-
partment essential TO the due administration Of the law,
but Of all the others the be watched and the
most TO be feared The executive has now the COM
mand Of the army and navy. The sub-treasury will
place the public money under his exclusive CONTROL and
will send forth army Of Office holders harrass
our people and eat out their substance. BY trans
ferng the public funds, he elevate depress the
pecunisry means of any section Of the country, and
make overflow a.h prosperity, reduce it to penury
and want The judiciary is bound by legal decisions,
and the legislature is allied with :" the people," that
abuse Of authority need be dreaded from those
ordinate branches
Resolved, That the Presidents recommendation Of
partial bankrupt law war with his open avowed
declaration that it destroyed the sovereignty OF the
States and had been dreamed of by any civilized
country upon earth, and against the spirit Of
constitution"
Resolved, That in the opinion of the delegates here
assembled, citizen who wishes to transmit 10 pos
terity the blessings Of free institutions, ought in
any shape or form, 10 support any man for political
Office who has favored those dangerous and unconstu-
onal principles, until he shall hare abandoned IT,
publicly and as formally, as he has heretofore proposed
suPportedn" 81"
Resolved That in the judgment Of the delegates
here assembled, at no period Of political history
have the people been called upon, their sovereign
capacity to exercise wisdom, prudence, and pa
trotism with them depends national repose and
safety-domestc tranquity-the maintenance Of So
cial order-the security Of person and Of propertythe
fostering care OF agriculture manufactures and com
merce-a becoming rcspec. for religion, which pub
lie and private morals rest All these high and
handing interests require that should abandon the
hercses which have crept into the republican ranks and
that we should return to those landmarks set up by
Washington and Jefferson by Madison and Monroe, by
George Clinton and Daniel ID. Tompkins.
Resolved That we most cordially concur in the SEN
tments conveyed TO Congress- by late distinguished
chief magistrate, General Jackson, in his celebrated
paper read to the cabinet the removal Of the depo
sites, in the following words
" In Kidding the country of an irresponsible power,
(he United States Bank care must be taken not to
unite the same power with the executive branch to give
the President control over the currency and the power
over individuals now possessed by the United States
Bank. even with the material difference that he is re-
sponsble to the people, would be Objectionable and
dangerous as to leave it as it is"
And in his message of December, 1885, tina, in the
regulation which Congress may prescribe respecting the
custody oil the public money desirable that as little
discretion as may be deemed consistent with its safe
Keeping, should be given to Erecutire agents" And
IN his message Of 1886, that against the genius Of
our free institutions to lock up in vaults the treasures
of the nation"
Resolved That in the opinion Of the delegates here
assembled the most Republican can give his suf-
rage IN favor Of candidate of exemplary character
VINO sustained his country in last war with Great
Britain, who is opposed to the Sub Treasury and who
is known to be in favor of the New York and Erie
Railroad, the enlargement Of the Erie Canal the cause
OF internal Improvements the promotion Of educ ton
commerce and agriculture
Resolved, That we concur in the general feeling of
adherence Tor the federal and despotc sentiments ex
pressed IN the messages Of Martin Van Buren,, that
" the people look to government too much" tina, 90
yernment has nothing to do but take care of itself"
these monarchical and an-republican sentiments,
combined with his effort to bring the public treasures
10 be employed IN the language Of President Jackson,
" chen opportunity tempted ambition illustrate his un
fitness " to be the ruler Of free people"
Resolved, That the moral frmness with which the
Hon William G. Rives, the Hon N. p Tallmadpe
and the unchanged democratic republicans in Congress
nave met and opposed the Sub Treasury BILL under all
It's DISCUSSES, entities them TO gratitude and would
have done honor to Rome in the best days Of that
republic
Resolved, That the democratic republican party
throughout the United States, be- and they are hereby
requested to cooperate with US in procur-
ing such modification OF national constitution in
to those OF the several States shall con-
Ter on Congress the selection of the Secretary Of the
Treasury, and such subordinate officers connected with
The federal treasures, as SHALL for all time to come
place the public purse under thecontro of the mme-
date representatives of the people