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


10 ms many interests which will not permit to
tire as we contemplated.
A period has arrived therefore, when il has be-
come necessary, in justice TO oursef and the public,
10 Indicate our course for the future
II is well remembered that the MApsoNIsN was
established in the conviction that the great character
and interests of the country as well as the success OF
the administration, required another organ al the seal
of the National Government. Born in the Republic
can faith, and nurtured in Republican doctrines, we
DESTROYS of seeing the leading principles OF the
party TO which attached, preserved and car
ried out no, only in theory, but in practice. We
pledged ourself to sustain the principles and doc
rines Of the Republican party, as delineated by Mr.
MADISON and came here in good faith TO support the
present administration upon the principles rhieh go
reraed The party cAich elected Mr.. Van Buren, and
upon tie pledges By ,chieh that election ras secured
We have, throughout strictly adhered TO those prin-
cipes 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 behed the distracted counses by
which he is governed, or have seen the disloined
and defeated party by which he is surrounded.
No Chief Magistrate, since the days of Washing
ton, TO that high station under 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,
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 TO the establishment of an unmit-
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 anysupport from consistent Republic
cans: In that spirit OF independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders of our
institutions, 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 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-
quvoca 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 go
vernmen, and still persisng 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,
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 jursdic
ton them from the hands of the State tribunals
In his breaking faith with the States, by recon-
mending a 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 power derived
and repudiated by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt to establish Treasury Bank with
an irredeemable paper-money circulaIioni
In his effort to overthrow the State Bank Deposite
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,
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 J"
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
ofthe 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 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 10 cram obnoxious measures down
ing magnanimous Chief Magistrate;
In his refusal to acquesce in the decisions of the
majority and
In the despotic attempt of his partisans in the U.
S. Senate on the ID July, inst to seize the public
treasure, by abolishing all law for its custody and
safe keeping.
He has abandoned the principles by which be came
into power and consequently the duty which they
prescribed; and he has so obSnately persevered in
his erroneous course as TO preclude all reasonable
hope of his retracng it.
And finally to this long catalogue of grievances,
we NAV add what may be considered a minor Of
fence but certainly very obnoxious one, that con-
trary 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 but that their Chief Magis-
trale 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 infatualion which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought meet its reward aud sink in indiscriminae
and everlasting overthrow.
The financial policy OF this Administration cannot
be sustained upon any principle of necessity, expe-
dicncy utility, practical philosophy or sound econo-
my Its plain object, the perpetuity of power, and
It's plain effect the destruction OF the banking system,
require, of course, too great sacrihce from The
American people to be, for moment tolerated.
ne SIeatuesiuefdtuhi, Souhu UNI ~, any eoh-
vcnent currency, and system that will equalze, as
nearly 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 10
preserve and regulate" the credit system of the
country which this administration has attempted 10
impair, will be of the great objects for which
We fee constrained TO continue our labors
No Administration Of this Government, can pros
per, none deserve to succeed that is not CoNSERvA-
TIVE both in theory and practice. Enlightened i'm
provements, and liberal practicable reforms may be
permitted and encouraged in our system but violent