The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-12-29
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF THE UNITED
STATES.

ssyere copfirt as inferesting and important to the
Republic, any thai has iranspfea since its orgahi
zation. The cause and our course have attached
10 us many interests which viii not permit us TO re-
period has arrived, therefore, when Il has be-
come necessary In justice to ourself and the public,
10 indicate our course for the future.
Ills well remembered that the MADIsoNIAN was
established In the conviction that the great character
and interests OF the country as we'll 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, 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 ourself to sustain the principles and doc
lTines ofthe Republican party as delineated by Mr..
MADISON and came here in good faith TO support the
present administration upon ne principles whieh GO
rsraed tte party soAieh elected Mr. Pan Buren, and
upon The pledges By ohieh 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 it 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 disiointed
and defeated party by which he is surrounded.
No Chief Magistrate, since the days of Washing
ton ever came to that high station under more favor
able auspices than Mr.. Van Buren,. A combination
Of circumstances, which seldom transpire, clearly
nsus him the power 20 have sarmed opposition A By
the very measures which would have established his
popularity But, illomened and evil counsels pre-
vailed, and the hopes of that political millennium
which many Republicans cherished as the fufment
cftheir creed were disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MAprsoNIAS 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 Tito keep
the country convulsed and Observation-Disclosures,
subversiye Of the principles of Republican govern
ment and tending 10 the establishment of an unmt-
tigated despotism. Accompanied as they were by
war upon the CREDIT SYSTEM of the country, and an
unusual spirit of intolerance, denuncation 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
depreciate and destroy them, with the best Of our
ability. The same spirit which prompted to do
his, finds no justification in supporting the men who
made it necessary.
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 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 subveIsion Of the entire practice Of the go
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 over all the State institutions and be able to
crush them ALL at pleasures and taking all jursdic-
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 runous practice
OF deprcciated government paper money, for circu-
lating medium; thus exercising power derived
only from loose construction Of the Constitution
and repudiaed by the best Republican authorities;
= In his attempt to establish Treasury Bank with
irredeemable paper money circulation;
s hs sfs Bank nepos
public moneys into his actual custody anu
! his attempt to divorce the government fromthe
tests and sympathies Of the people;
tlhis attempt TO create a multitude of new Off
sand to send swarms Of officers to harrass our
le and eat out their substance"
his attempt to take away our charters, abolish
most valuable laws, and alter, fundamentally, the
overs of our governments"
In his display Of sectional Partially;
In his cold indifference to the interests and wants
the people during period of extreme suffering;
Y, In his attempt to throw discredit upon, and even
tally to crush the State banks through the revenue
! over of the government, and embarrass the re-
sumption of specie payments;
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 threats of dissenting brethren by means unbecom
ing a magnanimous Chief Magistrate;
In his refusal to acquiesce in the decisions of the
majority; and
In the despotc attempt of his partisans in the U.
s. Senate, on the ID July, inst to seize the public
treasure by aboishing 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 obstinafely 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 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 concu-
sion can the nation come but that their Chief Magis-
trae is either wanting in integrity, or wanting IN
capacity?
We need not say tn at 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 indiscrmnale
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. its 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, a 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,
sooner later, in one form another, will be OBJ
tanned by them. To accomplish this end, and to
"prcscrve and regulate" the credit system of the
country, which this administration has attempted to
impair, will be one of the great objects for which
VIC feel constrained to continue our labors.
No Administration of this Government can pros
per- none deserve to succeed, that is not CoNsFRvA-