The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-11-14
THE MADISONIAN.
THOMAS ALLEN.
EDITOR AND PRoPRIEroR.
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF THE UNITED
STATES.

STATES.
A year has elapsed since we first issued our Pros
pectus for the publication of the MADsoSAN. Dur
ing this evenful period we have been engaged IN
severe conflict as interesting and important to the
Republic any that has transpired since It's organi
cation The cause and our course, have attached
to us many interests which will not permit US to re-
tire as we contemplated.
A period has arrived therefore when il has be-
come necessary in justice TO oursef and the public,
10 indicate course for the future.
lis well remembered that the MADisosaN 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 at the seat
of the National Government Born in the Repuoll-
can faith and nurtured in Republican doctrines, we
DESTROYS of seeing the leading principles OF The
party to which we 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 deneaied By Mr..
MADISON and came here in good faith to support the
present administration upon The principles wAtch go
verasd the party Which elected Mr. Pan Buren,, and
npoR TIE pledges By achich that election 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 beheld the distracted counseS by
which he Is governed, or have seen the disjointed
and defeated party by which he is surrounded
No Chief Magistrate, since the days Of Washing
ton came TO that high station under more favor
able auspices than Mr. Van Buren, A combination
OF circumstances, which seldom transpre 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 counsels pre-
vailed, and the hopes of that political millennium,
which many Republicans cherished as the fulflment
of!heir creed were disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MADIsoNIAN and It's friends were en-
deavoring restore the prosperity of the country,
the Executive and his advisers urging forward
measures directly calculated to destroy ito keep
the country convused and prostrate-measures,
subversive of the principles of Republican govern
ment, and tending 10 the establishment Of an unm-
tigated despotism. Accompanied as they were by
war upon the CREDIT SYSTEM of the country, and an
unusual spirit of intolerance, denuncialon and
prescription justice could not have required
honesty expected any support from consistent Repub
cans. In that spirit OF Independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders OF our
institutions resisted these nearious 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 1t necessary.
act of this administration has been open, une-
quivocal violation Of every principle and profession
upon which Mr.. Van Buren, was elevated to the
Chief Magistracy by the people. t"a"
Determinations unauthorized by law, and which
had been twice condemned by Congress-
In his recommending the Sub-Treasuay scheme,
contemplating union of the purse and the sword,
and the subversion of the entire practice OF the GO
vernment, and still perssting in 1t, notwithstanding
it has been four times condemned by the Represen-
taves of she 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 over all the State institutions and be able to
crush them all, at pleasure and taking all ]ursdic
ton over them from the hands of the 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 power derived
only from loose construction of the Constitution,
and repudiated by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt to establish Treasury Bank with
an irredeemabe paper money circulation;
In his effort 10 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 sympahieS 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 partiality
In his cold indifference to the interests and wants
of the people during period Of extreme suffering;
In his attempt to throw dscredit upon, and even
tuay to crush the State banks, through the revenue
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 throas of dissenting brethren by means unbecom-
ing magnanmous Chief Magistrate;
In his refusal to acquiesce 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 he came
into power and consequently, the duty which they
prescribed and he has so obstnatey persevered in
his course as 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 adversares, OF all the
Chief Magistrates that ever filled his station.
And from all these considerations to what conclu-
sion the nation come, but that their Chie MaSs-
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 infauation which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought to meet its reward and sink in ndiscriminate
and everlasting overthrow.
The financial policy OF this Administration cannot
be sustained upon any principle of necessity, expe
diencv, utility practical philosophy, or sound econo-
Wy. its plain object, the perpeuy 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 a sound, uniform, and con-
venient currency and system that will 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
mined by them To ACCOMPLISH this end and 10