The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-03
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF THE UNITED
STATES.

N.
Ing this eventful period we have been engaged in
severe conflict interesting and important 10 IA,
Republic as any that has tranSpred since its organi
cation. The cause and our course, have auache,
10 many interests when VIII not permit us 10 re
tire as we contemplated
period has arrived, therefore when il has be
come necessary, in justice TO ourself and The public
TO indicate our course for the future.
II Is well remembered that the MADrsoNIlN wa.
established in the conviction that the great character
and interests Of the country well the success
The administration required another organ the
of the National Government. Born in the Repub
can faith and nurtured in Republican doctrines we
were DESTROYS of seeing the leading principles Of the
party TO which We were attached preserved and car
ried out, not only in theory, but in practice We
pledged ourself TO sustain the principles and doc
trines Of the Republican party, as deneated by Mr..
MADISON, and came here in good faith TO support the
present administration upon the principles Aieh GO
peraed The party ichich elected Mr.. paa Buren, and
upon The pledges by trhieh that election fras 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 il was
offered, the advice OF his best friends the continu-
ance OF this paper would not have been necessary,
nor should we have behed the distracted counsels by
which he is governed, or have seen the disiointed
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 MIR. Van Buren, A combination
OF circumstances, which seldom transpire, clearly
indicated the way to the affections of the people, and
the very measures which would have established his
popularity But, ill-omened and evil counsels pre-
vailed and the hopes of that political millennium,
which many Republicans cherished as the fulflment
of their creed were disappointed and postponed
Whilst the MADIsoNiAN and its friends were en-
deavoring 10 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 Observation-Disclosures
subversive of the principles of Republican govern
ment, and tending TO the establishment of an unmt
tgated despotism. Accompanied they were by a
war upon the CREDIT SYSTEM of the country, and an
unusual spirit of intolerance, denunciaion and
prescription, justice could not have required nor
honesty expected any support from consistent Republ
cans. In that spirit OF independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders Of our
institutions resisted these nefarous attempts TO
deprecate and destroy Them with the best of our
ability. The same spirit which prompted us to do
this, finds no justification in supporting the who
made II necessary.
II Is an incontrovertble truth that every prominent
act of this administration has been an open, une-
qulVocai violation OF every principle and profession
upon which Mr.. Van Buren, was elevated to the
Chief Magistracy 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 subvesion of the entire practice OF the GO
vernmen and still persistng in it, notwithstanding
it has been four times condemned by the Represen-
tativeS of the people;
In his recommendation of a BANKRUPT law TO be
passed by Congress, applicable only 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 urisdic-
ton over them from the hands ofthe 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 ruinous practice
Of deprecated government paper money for circu-
lating medium; thus exercising a power derived
only from loose construction of the Constitution,
and repudiaed by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt to establish a Treasury Bank with
an irredeemable paper money circulation;
In hia effort to overthrow the State Bank Deposite
system, established by President Jackson and take
the public moneys into HE actual ~---.eay ana con-
troll
interests and sympathieS Of the people;
In his attempt to create multitude OF new ON
ces, and TO send swarms Of officers TO harrass our
people and eat out their substance"
In his attempt to stake away our charters abolish
our most valuable laws and alter, fundamentally the
powers of our governments;
In his display of sectional partiality;
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 Inc re-
sumption of specie payments .
In permitting the patronage OF MS once 10 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 to cram obnoxious measures down
the throats of dissenting brethren by means unpecon
ing magnanmous Chief Magistrate;
In his refnsal to acauiesce in the decisions OF the
majority; and c,.-. /: ,h TT
s Senate, on the ID July, inst to setse Me pn0t'e
treasure by abolishing all law for It's CUSTODY anu
safe keeping 49,,
He has abandoned the principles by which he came
tha I,,txy tthtnh
into power, and consequently, me au.y Wnncn ehty
prescribed and he has SO obstinatey persevered IN
his erroneous course as to preclude all reasonable
hope of his retracing 1t.
And finally to this long catalogue OF grievances,
we NAV add what may be considered MINOR Oh
fence but certainly very obnoxious one that con
trarv to all preconceived opinions OF his character,
Mr., Van Buren, has rendered himself the most
inaccessib both friends and adversarles OF all e
Chief Magistrates that ever filled his station
And from all these considerations, TO what conclu-
sion can the nation come but that their Chief Magls-
trate is either wanting in integrity, or wanting IN
eapacty2 ,,o,..,.
of a public servant bound by his sacred Pledges TO
regard the national will as the supreme law OF the
Republic That blind infatuatlon which has heeaed
not this rule of the American people,, must and
ought to meet its reward and sink IN indlScrihha'e
and everlasting overthrow.
The financial policy OF this Administration cannot
be sustained upon any principle oil necessity, eHpe
dency utility, practical philosophy or SOUND econo
nv. It's pdln ODJeCt, TIC Pc'Pe'"'J "
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, ana con-
.vcnient currency, and system that VIII equalze as
nearly as practicable, the domestic exchanges, is de-
manded by the practical wants Of the people, and,
sooner or later in one form or another, will be OBJ
tanned by them. To accomplish this end, and 70
"prescrve and regulate the crcdt system oil me
country which this administration has attempted to
impair will be one of the great objects for which
we feel constrained to continue our labors.
No Administration of this Government can pros
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