The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-08-25

submit TO such SYSTEM No.-An attempt 10 force
IL upon them would produce revolution and Its ex-
ecutors would be resisted at the point of the bayonet
Another objection might with propriety be urged
against this nopian project But time will not per-
mil. dismiss the Sub Treasury by saying, thai Il
Is pregnant with evil and misery TO the country and
that in the hands Of corrupt Chief Magistrate, II
might and would be welded TO the overthrow Of our
liberties.
Among the many extraordinary occurrences Of
this extradnary era, produced by the Sub Treasury
scheme the most striking is the coalition OF southern
notification with Northern loco-focoism The Pre-
sident has placed himself in the humiating position
Of relying upon his new Southern allies for aid to
carry his iavofite measured His old and well tried
friends have been pushed aside to make room Tor
men who, but few short months since, were brand
ed by him through the Globe, as traitors 70 theif
country. The leader Of this Swiss corps" up to
the time of the coalition, was the subject Of unceas-
epIlhei Of abuse and Recommendation to Be found IN The
kennel vocabulary of the Globe was lavished upon
him. He was styled John Cafaline Calhoun, and
in set terms put down as man destitute alike Of
patriotism and Of truth And this man has been
selected as one Of the Executives leaders In the Sc
nate of the United States for the advocacy Of this
bill Desperate must be the measure which requires
the aid OF such desperate means But lew days
since the Republicans Of the North were taught TO
believe that Mr.. Calhoun was man whose contact
was pollution, and whose embrace was political
death. Now he Is pressed with idolizng fondncss
TO the bosom Of the administration and soon kepub-
icans will be of him as neiovey
in principle, and Of political conduct without re-
proach During the administration Of Gen. jack
son, of which MIR. Van Buren, was principal part,
he caused the Senate hall to resound with bis burn
ing and anathemaizing eloquence against Executive
usurpation and misrulc. He charged the President
with lrampling on the constitution and thelaws and
worthy 70 have reigned in the wora days Of the
Roman Republic. The Caesars and Caligulas were
models Of virtue and patriotism in comparison with
the venerable and war-won President And now,
I'm shamei ssy NJ ssao0sasos ME vs.srun hsso
takes to his confidence the defamer Of the man to
whom he is indebted for his present elevation -
What must be the sensations Of the recluse of the
Hermitage when he views the present, and reflects
on the past Could he not have been spared the
torture which this most unnatural alliance must in
fct on his memory and sensibities1 He, against
whom were directed the shafts Of his famous proca-
nation, and which with fatal aim pierced their OBJ
and able defender of the Sub Treasury in its most
ultra FORM If any thing would cause me TO pause
and doubt the propriety Of adopting the Sub Trea-
sury Il would be the support receives at the hands
OF the representative Of the unit, star and
striped Slate. When we see men Of totally opposite
principles-the very antpodes in political geogra-
phythe negative and positive poles of the political
who are bound ogehssr Dy no com com
waged with each other war OF determination. sud
denly come together and form joint stock compa-
ny to effect a common object, cannot but believe
that they have at heart their own personal aggran-
dizement, and not the prosperity of the county,
When the wooden horse which brought ruin upon
Troy was about to be taken within its walls il was
said, "Timeo Danaos dona ierentes,"- fear the
gift-bearing Greeks. But on reflection this al
lance is not SO much matter Of establishment,
when we examine the homogeneous properties Of
Modification and Loco Focoism, their principles
and tendencies surprise will be in some measure
diminished Both aim at the same end; one strives
10 set aside the laws of Congress- the other the laws
of the Sates-laws which secure TO its citizens the
enjoyment of their rights and property; one aims at
the destruction of the Union, the other al the BUSH
ness and prosperity Of the country; one threatens
the employment of force to build up separate So
vereignty, the other employs il in mobbing flour
stores and committing other excuses. multiplying
general at the head of loco foco troops, Is in most
excellent taste and keeping.
The reasons assigned by the nulifers for their
support Of the Sub-Treasury, are such as would ma
turally recommend them to the affections oftheir
aborers in the loco foco vineyard. Their principal
language is (and have heard II often used in the
Senate and the House, that the Sub Treasury will
destroy the Capitalization of business, money and
exchanges at the North, which has been the result
OF our banking system. That system being broken
down, as they contend, and truly contend would be,
by the operation of the measure the South would De
successful competitors with the North in commerce,
navigation, and business generally New York
would be removed 10 Charleston, and the North
would be made equal, If not tributary TO the South
Mr. Calhoun is a man Of conceded shrewdness and
capacity. To use his own favorie expression, he
knows we'll the position he occupies" In his let
ter of the ID November last to his Edgefeld friends
he promptly avows his object for giving in his adhe
sion TO the administration In speaking; OF his de-
sertion from the whig camp to the quarters Of the
administration, he says, IT soon became apparent
after the meeting Of Congress, Cat the special ses
sion that the joint resistance of ourselves (the null
li6ers and our late allies, (whgs) in conjunction
with the course of events in reference to the cur
rency, had brought down the lofty pretensions Of
the Executive department The union between the
~, and the money had not only ceased,
pu, tney were forced 10 take ground agans; the
WARAGANsT The BAN yss 1 Her % r mh have
the motive of his acon.-He Joined The President
to assist him in waging scor against TIE banks-and
would he have thus done had he not received from
the Executive proof and assurances that such war
should be prosecuted to the full satisfaction Of the
joint forces and to the final overthrow ofthe banks3
Most certainly not. Before Mr.. Calhoun enlisted,
he received bounty in promises Of destruction to
the banks. Who then can be so credulous to be-
lieve that the President is friendly to the banking
and credit system of the countryl None but the
stupid or the obstinate can believe it,
The county convention having resolved that
Thomas III. Benton was entitled to its warmest APP
probation, with much gravity proceeded 10 enter its
justly applicable to them In this il shows very
commendable spirit II spurns the loco focos, and
considers them party unworthy of its association!
incarnation, the great " Am" the Alpha and One
ga of loco focoism2 His hard money and constitu-
tiona currency notions, seem TO have expelled every
Republican sentiment from his brain, and every Re-
publican feeling from his heart. He has become
monomaniac the subject Of currency, and while
this hallucination continues he should be trans
ferred from his present station 10 that Of chief as
sayer of the Mint His guackery and humbuggery
have become the proverbs and jesls of the day
While living, he will receive the execrations ofthe
thous ands who have been ruined by policy Of which
he is the advocate, If not the originator; when dead,
he will receive an apotheosis at the hands of his
agrarian brethren Of the universal loco foco family.
doubt not that the gentlemen of this convention
are honest in believing that they really not loco