The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-11-21
TO THE REPuBLIcAHs OF THE UNITED
STATES.

STATES.
year has elapsed since we first issued our Pros
peclus for the publication of the MADisoNhN Dur-
Inc his eyentful period we have been engaged In
severe conflict as interesting ana important 20 me
Republic any that has TRANSFERRED since It's oTgani
cation. The cause, and our course, have attached
10 us many interests which VIII not permit us 70 re-
tire as we contemplated
period has arrived, therefore, when il has be-
come necessary in justice ourself and the public,
TO indicate our course for the future.
Is well remembered that the MADfsoNIAN was
established in the conviction that the great character
and interests of the country well as the success OF
the administration required another organ al the seat
OF the National Government. Born in the Hepubli-
faith, and nurtured in Republican doctrines, we
were DESTROYS of seeing the leading principles of the
party to which we were 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, deiineaed by Mr.
Manson and came here In good faith to support the
present administration upon the principles rhich 60
rerned the party icAieh elected Mn. VdR Buren, and
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
offered, the advice of his best friends the continu
ance Of this paper would not have been necessary,
should we have behed 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 ever came 10 that high station under 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 counses pre-
vailed and the hopes of that political millennium,
which many Republicans cherished as the fuhnent
oftheir creed were disappointed and postponed,
Whilst the MADIsoNIAS 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,
subyersive 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, denunciaion 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
institutions, we resisted these nefarious attempts 10
depreciae 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 it necessary .... ..,.= .,.
It is an nconrovertible truth that every prominent
act of this administration has been an open, une
quivocal 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,
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 pleasure and taking all lursdic
ton over them from the hands Of the State tribunals
In his breaking faith with the States, by recon-
mending a 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 crcu-
lating medium; thus exercising power derived
only from loose construction Of the Constitution
and rerudiated by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt to establish a 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-
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 10 harrass our
people, and eat out their substance )"
In his attempt to stake 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
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 throats of dissenting brethren by means unbecom
ing magnanmous Chief Magistrate; ....
In 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 ID July, inst to seize the pubttc
treasure, by abolishng 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 obstinately 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 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 ALT these considerations, to what concu-
sion the nation come, but that their Chief Magis-
trate is either wanting in integrity, or wanting in
capacity?
of public servant bound by his sacred pledges, to
regard the national will as the supreme law OF the
Republic. That blind inatuation which has needed
not this rule of the American people, must and
ought to meet its reward and sink in indiscrmnate
and everlasting overthrow
The financial policy OF this Administrator CANNOT
be sustained upon any principle of necessity, expe-
diency, 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, sound, uniform, and con-
venient currency and system that will equalize, as
nearly practicable the domestic exchanges Is de-
manded by the practical wants Of the people, and,
sooner or later in form or another, will be OBJ
tanned by them. To accomplish this end, and TO