The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-04-17

ofthe Government Did they not weieh with sleep
less vigilance the operation OF the powers which ne
cesSity compelled them TO impart How Is y then
that our confidence in men has become so strong,
and our vigilance relaxed thai day afler day The
executive is amaSsing new and increased pwers
and we cry ais ireH aye, and il a faithful and
sleepless sentinel sees the approach OF an enemy
and sounds the alarm, we laugh him TO scorni anc
cry out treason treasonl! Give 10 our executive
With its present strong powers, the additional pow
ers or the Subtreasury bill, IA commission o. oahK
rupcy upon the Stale banks, and The power as fe,
CURED by the Secretary ofthe TreaSurylo issue ahd
circulate Treasury notes at discretion, and we pre-
dict that so effective will be the play Of hese engines
of power and corruption, IN few years, that palri-
osm will be overwhelmed, interest bought up, state
rights destroyed and liberty overihrowni virtue and
patriotism will be too weak to resist the powerful
assaults of such engines Of power and corruption
We do not ascribs such designs TO those who fayor
this scheme we do mol doubt that they are honest
and patriotic, yet believe such to be The tendency,
and such will be the inevitable result oil The adoption
of such system. Ii will only need Caesar or a
Buonaparte TO b, placed in the executive chair to
produce such melancholy catastrophe
II Is not safe 10 egisate upon confidence IN those
who are 10 execute the laws--no caution should be
omitted on account of confidence in present Chief
magistrate in him we might be secure, bat in four
eight years al tarthest the Scepfe will depart from
his hands Wecannot foretell who may be the sue
cessor. We cannot know who popular delusion or
popular excitement may elevate 10 the supreme ex-
eculive chair; as has been done, so may be done
an--in the name Of he people, and for The beseht
ofhe people he may take liberty into his own Gus
tody now proposed 10 do with the public funds
and administer II according TO sound eteenitre dts-
cretion he being erelSirey 4e Judge II is not Tor
us TO look to who is the incumbent Of the executive
chair 10 determine, whether we will support or OPP
pose measure proposed for consideration but we
must be guided BY our opinion of its intrinsic merits
or demeris its influence upon our free institutions
and prosperity ofthe country, to determine whether
we viii support or oppose IT, This can BE- our only
guide and one from which we shall not deyiate
hairs breadth, however much of nyecve or denun-
citation we may incur. In the present trying and
critical state Of things, and amidst the charges oil
treason and infdely TO party which have been SO
lavlshly bestowed upon some, we take consolation
in knowing that treason 10 pargis not always treason
TO country We remember that AriStodes was ban
ished from Athens, when his only crimes were love
Of justice and patriotic devotion to country, her IL
berries, her laws and DEMONSTRATIONS,
In conclusion we invite our readers seriously 10
compare the above opinion OF General Jackson, with
the principles Of the subtreasury bill and reconcile
them i(he ean and If he cannot which he thinks the
safest the most patriotic, and the most republican,
If as they once did, they approve this sentiment,
will they not give ardent and enthusiastic support
10 those public servants, who, throwing of party
trammels and Drawing the most bitter and Infatuated
denunciations are struggling TO carry il out into sue
ceSsful practice; that which was patriotism and sound
democracy in 1884 and cannot be treason in 1888,
and we canEot doubt what will be the award to pa
triotsm and fidelity. "."