The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-09-19
TO THE REPUBLIcANs OF THE UNITED
STATES.

pecus for the publication Of the MADlsoNiAN Dur
ing this eventful period we nave oeen ehgagea IN a
Republic as any that has transpired since its organ-
zation 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 ourself and the public
TO indicate our course for the future.
III well remembered that the MADIsoNiAN was
established in the conviction that the great character
and interests Of the country as well the success OF
the administration required another az the seat
of the National Government. Born in The Repubi-
can faith and nurtured in Republican doctrines we
DESTROYS of seeing the leading principles OF me
party to which we attached, preserved and car
ried out, not only in theory but in practice. we
pledged oursef TO sustain the principles and doc
irnes Of the Republican party as deiineated by Mr.
MADISON and here in good faith to support the
present administration upon the principles chich go
perned The party ieAieh elected Mr.. Yan Buren,, and
upon the pledges By which that election acas secured
We have throughout strictly adhered to those prn-
ciples. Had the Executive of this nation done the
same had he received in the spirit in which ii 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 counsels by
which he is governed, or have seen the disjonted
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
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 counsels pre-
vailed, and the hopes of that political millennium,
which many Republicans cherished as the fulflment
oftheir creed were disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MAprsoNIAN 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 ito keep
the country convulsed and prostrate-measures
subversive of the principles OF Republican govern
AL Jsrr tNf haa liSh nf n
tgaled despotism. Accompanied as they were by a
war upon the CREDIT SYSTEM Of the country, and an
unusual spirit of intolerance, denunciatlon and
prescription, justice could not have required nor
honesty expected any support from consistent Repubi
cans. In that spirit OF independence and love of
freedom which characterized the founders of our
institutions, resisted these nefarious 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 il necessary. .
1t is an incontroverible truth that every prominent
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
vernmen and still perssting 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
50 that this government should possess an absolute
control 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 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
lating medium; thus exercising power derived
only from loose construction of the Constitution,
and rcpudiated 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 Deposie
system, established by President Jackson and take
thepublic 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 )"
In his attempt to "ake 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 discredit upon, and even
tualy 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 to cram obnoxious measures down
thethroas of dissenting brethren by means hnbecom
ing a 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.
Senate on the ID July, inst. to seize the public
trcasure, by abolishing all law for its custody and
safe keeping.
H. IL L.
into power, and consequently, the duty which they
preScribed and he has obstinately 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 minor Of
fence but certainly very obnoxious one that con-
rary to all preconceived opinions of his character,
Mr., Van Buren, has rendered himself the most
inaccessible both 10 friends and adversaries 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 Chief Magis
trae 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 infatuation which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought to meet its reward and sink in indscriminae
and everlasting overthrow.
The financial policy OF this Administration cannot
be sustained upon any principle OF necessity expe-
ulehcV VI souhu eSoho.
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 a moment tolerated.
The greatdesideratum, a sound uniform, and con-
venent currency and system that will equalze as
nearly as practicable, the domestic exchanges, is de-
handed by the practical wants Of the people, and,
sooner later in form or another will be OBJ
taned by them. To accomplish this end, and to
preserve and regulate" the credit system of the
country which this administration has attempted to
impair, will be one Of the great objects for which
We feel constrained TO continue our labors