The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-08-29
THE MADIsONIAN.
THOMAS ALLEN,
spIroR AND PRorRIEToR.
TO THE REPUBLIcAns OF THE UNITED
STATES.

THE NJ W As.N $1,000
STATES a nss
wear has elapsed since we first issued our Pros
pectus for the publication Of the MACEDONIAN Dur
ing this eventful period We have been engaged In
severe conflict, as interesting and important TO the
Republic any that has TRANSFERRED since ITS organi
cation The cause, and our course, have attached
10 us many interests which will not permit us TO re-
tire as we contemplated.
A period has arrived, therefore, when II has be-
come necessary, In justice TO ourself and the public,
10 indicate our course for the future.
Ills well remembered that the MApIsoNiaN was
established In the conviction thai the great character
and interests OF the country as well as the success OIL
the administration required another at the seat
of the National Government. Born 10 the Repubii-
can faith, and nurtured In Republican doctrines, we
DESTROYS Of seeing the leading principles Of the
party 10 which were attached, preserved and car
ried out, moi only in theory, but In practice. We
pledged ourself to sustain the principles and doc
lrines II the Republican party, as delineated by MI
MADISON and came here in good faith to support the
present administrations upon Ms principles rAich go.
uerasd TIE party scAieA elected Mr.. Van Buren, and
apon Ms pledges ~ pAieA tAat election ,eas 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 II
offered the advice Of his best friends the continu
ance of this paper would not have been necessary,
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
tom ever came 10 that hgh station under more 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 dsarmed opposition BY
lie very measures which would have established his
popularity But, illomened and evil counsels pre-
vailed and the hopes OF that political miennium.
which MANY Republicans cherished as the fulilrnent
oftheir creed we're disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MADnosAs and iis friends were en-
deayoring to restore the prosperity of the country
~ and urging IOrWaI0
measures directly calculated to destroy Ito keep
the country convulsed and prostrate-measuIes,
subyersive Of The principles OF Republican govern
ment and tending to the establishment o. an un IN
war upon the CREDIT SYSTEM OF The country, and an
unusual spirit Of intolerance, denunciaton and
prescription, Justice could not have required nor
honesty expected anysuppor from consistent Repuoll
freedom which characterized the founders Of our
institutions we 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 no Justification in supporting the men who
made il necessary.
Il is al incontrovertibe truth, that every prominent
act Of this administration has been an open, une-
ouivoca 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
vernment and still persisting In il, Notwithstanding
it has been four times condemned by the Represen-
tatives Of the people;
In his recommendation Of a Bankrupt law 10 be
passed by Congress, applicable only to corporations
so that this government should possess an absolute
control all the State institutions, and be able to
crush them all at pleasure; and taking all jurisdc
ton over them from the hands 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 deprecated government paper money, for circu-
lating medium; thus exercising power derived
only from loose construction Of the Constitution,
and repudialed by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt to establish Treasury Bank with
ain irredeemable paper-money circulaton
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 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 take away our charters, abolish
most valuable laws, and alter, fundamentally, the
powers of cur 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
ually to crush the State banks through the revenue
power Of the government and embarrass the re-
sumption Of specie paymentsi
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 10 cram obnoxious measures down
the throas Of dissenting brethren by means unbecom-
ing magnanimous Chief Magistrate;
Ia 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 I'd July, inst TO seize the public
treasure, by abolishng all law for its custody and
safe keeping.
into power, and consequently, the duty which they
prescribed; and he has obstinaely persevered in
his erroneous course as to preclude all reasonable
hope of his retracing il.
And finally to this long catalogue of grievances,
may add, what may be considered minor Of
fence, but certainly very obnoxious one, that con-
trary 10 all preconceved opinions Of his character,
Mr.. Van Buren, has rendered himself the most
,naeesSsb both friends and adyersaries q al me
Chief Magistrates that ever filled his station
And from all these considerations, 10 what conclu-
sion can the nation come but that their Chief Magis-
trate 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 infatuaon which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought to its reward and sink in indiscriminae
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. lis plain object the perpetnity 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, sound, uniform, and con-
venent currency, and system that will equalize as
nearly as practicable, the domestic exchanges, Is de-
manded by the practical wants of the people, and,
later, in one form another, will be OBJ