The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-12-13
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF THE UNITED
STATES.

STATES.
year has elapsed since we first issued our Pros
pectus for the publication Of the MADsoShs. Dur
ing this eyentfui period we have been engaged IN
severe conflict. as interesting and important TO the
Republic as any that has ranspired since It's organi-
cation. The cause, and our course, nave attached
10 many interests which VIII mol permit US 70 re-
tire as we contemplated.
A period has arrived, therefore, when II has be-
come necessary in justice TO oursef and the public
TO indicate our course for the future.
lis we'll remembered that the MADIsoNi.N was
established in the conviction that the great character
and interests of the country well as the success OF
The administration required another organ at the seat
of the National Government. Born In the Republic
can faith, and nurtured in Republican doctrines,
were DESTROYS Of seeing the leading principles Of the
party 10 which were attached, preserved and car
ried out not only in theory, but in practice. We
pledged ourself 10 sustain the principles and doc
irines of the Republican party delineated by Mr.
MADISON and came here in good faith TO support the
present administration SpoH tie principles mhteh go
peraed The party ichich elected Mr.. pan Bnren, and
upon the pledges by rhtch that election srds secured
We have, throughout strictly adhered TO those prn-
cipies. 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 coninu
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 disointed
and defeated party by which he is surrounded
No Chief Magistrate, since the days of Washing.
ton, came to that high station under favor
able auspices than Mr.. Van Buren,. combination
OF circumstances, which seldom transpire, clearly
indicated the way to the affections of the people, and
he verv measures which would haSe eUlaSshed hs
popularity But, ill-omened and evil counsels pre-
vailed, and the hopes Of that political millennium
which many Republicans cherished as the fulhlment
oftheir creed were disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MADSoNAN 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
al. lead and strata
subversive Of the principles of Republican govern
ment and tending 10 the establishment of an uninit-
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 Republi
cans In that spirit Of independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders OF our
institutions resisted these nefarous attempts 10
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 .,..
II is an incontrovertible truth that every prominent
act of this administration has been an open, une-
quivoca 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 subveIsion Of the entire practice OF the go
vernment, and still persistng in It, Notwithstanding
ii has been four times condemned BY the Represen-
tatives Of the people;
In his Recommendation of Bankrupt law 10 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
crush them all, at pleasure and taking all urisdic-
ton 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
a..
recurring thus to the exploded and ruinous practice
of deprecated g0rernment paper money for circu-
lang medium; thus exercising a power derived
only from loose construction Of the Constitution,
and repudated 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 Deposite
system, established by Presiden, Jackson, and take
the public moneys into his actual custody and
troll;
In his attempt to divorce the government from the
interests and sympathies Of the peoples
In his attempt to create multitude of new Off
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
valuable laws, and alter Fundamentally, the
powers Of our governments; .na
In his display of sectional Partially; H.
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 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 unbecom-
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 10 seize The public
freuy
safe keeping.
He has abandoned the principles by which he came
into power and consequently, the duty which they
prescribed and he has so obstinaely persevered in
his erroneous course TO preclude all reasonable
hope of his retracing 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 conciu-
sion can the nation come, but that their Chief Mags-
trate is either wanting in integrity, or wanting in
capacity?
We need not say that we expected different thing
Of public servant, bound by his sacred pledges to
regard the national will as the supreme law OF the,
Republic. That blind infatualion which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought to 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-
my It's plain object, the perpetuity of power; and
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 greatdesideraum, sound, uniform, and con-
venien currency, and system that will equalize as
nearly practicable, the domestic exchanges, is de-
manded by the practical wants of the people, and,
or later, in form another, will be OBJ
tanned by them To accomplish this end, and 10