The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-11-10
THE MADIsoNIAN.
THOMAS ALLEN,
EpIroR AND PROPRIETOR.


sTATEs.
wear has elapsed since we first issued our Pros
pectus for The publication Of the MADsoMAs. Da.-
Inc this eveniful period We have been engaged IN
severe conflict as interesting and important 70 the
Republic, any thatha transpired since rs orgsni,
zation The cause, and our course, have attached
10 us many interests which win not permit US to re-
tire as we contemplated.
A period has arrived, therefore, when Il has be-
come necessary In justice TO ourself and the public,
10 indicate our course for the future.
It's well remembered that The MADssosAs was
established In the conviction thar the great character
and interests Of the country as well as The success Of
the administration required al the seat
of the National Government Born IN the Republic
faith and nurtured in Republican doctrines, we
DESTROYS of seeing the leading principles OF the
party to which were attached, preserved and car
ried out, not only in theory, but In practice. We
pledged oursef TO sustain the principles and doe
trnes Of the Republican party, as deIineated by Mr.
M,DlsoN and came here in good faith TO support the
present administration upon the principles whteh 60
peraed the party cAieh elected Mr.. Vaa Buren,, and
1poa Ms pledges By phich that election icas 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,
should we have beheld the distracted counses by
which he is governed, or have seen the disioinied
and defeated party by which he Is surrounded.
No Chief Magistrate, since the days Of Washing
ton ever came 10 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 ha people and
gave him the power to have disarmed opposliion BY
the very measures which would have established his
popularity. But, ill0mensd and evil counscls pre-
vailed, aud the hopes of that political millennium,
which many Republicans cherished as the fultilment
of their creed were disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MADIsoNIAN and It's 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 prostrate-measures
subversve Of the principles of Republican govern
ment, and tending to the establishment of an unmit-
tigated despotism. Accompanied as they were by a
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 Repub
cans. In that spirit OF independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders Of our
institutions we resisted these nefarous attempts TO
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 it necessary.
It is an incon,rovertible truth that every prominent
act Of this administration has been an open, une-
quvocal violation of every principle and profession
upon which Mr. Van Buren, was elevated to the
Chief Magistracy by the people.
In his upholding 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 it, notwithstanding
it has been four times condemned by the Represen-
tatives 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 all the State institutions and be able TO
crush them all, at peasure and taking all jursdic
ton over them from the hands of the State tribunals
In his breaking faith with the States, by recon-
dinu a pf he on
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 monev, for crcu-
lang medium; thus exercising power derived
only from loose construction of the Constitution,
and rerudiated by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt to establish Treasury Bank with
an irredeemable paper money circulation K.
In his effort to overthrow tie State Bank Opposite
system, established by President Jackson, and take
the public moneys into his actual custody and
troll .s.
In his attempt to divorce the government. from the
interests and sympathies OF the people;
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 take away our charters, abolish
our 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 discredn upon and even
ually 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 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 hroats of dissenting brethren by unbecom-
ing magnanimous Chief Magistrate .-...
In his refusal to acquesce in the decisions OF the
majority; and
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S. Senate on the ID July, inst TO seize the public
treasure, by abolishng 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 10 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-
rary to all preconceved 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 thing
of public servant bound by his sacred pledges, to
regard the national will as the supreme law of the
Republic. That blind infatuation which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought to meet its reward and sink in indiscrmnate
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 lis 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 greatdesideratum, sound, uniform, and con-
venent currency. and system that will equalize as
nearly practicable, the domestic exchanges, Is de-
manded by the practical wants of the people, and,
sooner or later in one form another, will be OBJ
tanned by them. To accomplish this end, and to
nrcN We and Ii. Of he