The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-11-03
THE MADISONIAN.
THOMAS ALLEN,
EDITOR AND oFRIEToR.
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF THE UNITED
STATES.


Republic as any that has transpred since its organt
cation The cause and our course, have attached
to us many interests which will permit US 10 re-
tire as we contemplated.
A period has arrived therefore, when il has be-
come necessary in justice 10 ourself and the public,
to indicate our course for the future.
his well remembered that The MApIsoNAN 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 Republi-
can 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, as delineaed by Mr..
MADISON and came here In good faith to support the
present administration upon ne principles Which GO
rer1.ed The party pAieA elected Mr. PaR Buren,, and
upon ne pledges By WhieA that election secured
We have, throughout strictly adhered 10 those prin
ciples. Had the Executive Of this nation done the
same had he received in the spirit in which 1t 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 disjointed
and defeated party by which he is surrounded.
No Chief Magistrate since the days of Washing
ton, ever to that high station under more favor
able auspices than Mr.. Van Buren,. A combination
of circumstances which seldom transpre clearly
gave him the power 70 have dissrmcd opposition BY
the very measures which would have established his
popularity. But, iomened and evil counsels pre-
vailed and the hopes of that political millennium,
winch many Republicans cherished as the fufment
oftheir creed were disappointed and postponed.
Whilst the MAplsoNIAN and its friends were en-
deavorng TO restore the prosperity of the country,
the Executive and his advisers urging forward
measures directly calculated TO destroy ito keep
the country convulsed and prostrate-measures
subversive of the principles of Republican govern
ment and tending TO the establishment of an unmt-
tigated despotiSm. Accompanied as they were by
unusual spirit OF intolerance, denunciatlon 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 nefarous attempts 10
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 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 10 the
Chief Magistracy by the people.
In his uphoding the specie circular, which made
determinations unauthorized by law, and which
had been twice condemned by Congress;
In his recommending the Sub Treasuay scheme
contemplating union of the purse and the sword
and the subversion of the entire practice OF the 90
vernment, and still persisng in it. Notwithstanding
it has been four times condemned by the Represent
tatves of the people;
In his RECOMMENDATION of Bankrupt law to be
passed by Congress, applicable only 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 lurisdc-
ton them from the hands ofthe 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 appreciated gorernmeh paper money, for circu-
lating medium; thus exercising power derived
only from a loose construction Of the Constitution,
and rerudiaed by the best Republican authorities;
In his attempt TO establish Treasury Bank with
an irredeemabe paper-money circulation;
In his effort to overthrow the State Bank Opposite
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
ccS and to send swarms of officers to harrass our
people and eat out their substance !;
In his attempt to "take away our charters, abolish
our most valuable laws, and alter fundamentally, the
powers of our governments" w..
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
tuay, 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 to come
in conflict with the freedom Of elections; ..
In his open contempt of the will of the people as
In his attempt TO cram obnoxious measures down
the throas of dissenting brethren by means unbecom-
ing magnanimous Chief Magistrate;
In his refusal to acquesce in the decisions OF Inc
ma ory; and
In the despotic attempt of his partsans in the U.
S Senate on the ID July, inst TO seize the public
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 obstinaely persevered in
his erroneous 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 preconceived opinions of his character,
Mr. Van Buren, has rendered himself the most
inacccssbe both TO friends and adversaries of all the
Chief Magistrates that filled his station.
And from all these considerations, TO 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 thing
of public servant bound by his sacred pledges, to
regard the national will as the supreme law of the
Republic. That blind intatuation which has needed
not this rule Of the American people, must and
ought to its reward aud sink in indiScrminate
and everlasting overthrow.
The financial policy OF this Administration cannot
t. sustained upon any principle OF necessity, expe-
Giency utility, practical philosophy, or sound econo-
nv. lis plain object the perpetuiIy of power, and
he nlain effect the destruction OF the banking system
reouire, of course, too great a sacrifice from the
American neople to be, for moment, tolerated.
The greatdeSideratum, sound, uniform and con-
venient currency, and a system ina. will equaize, as
nearly as practicable, the domestic exchanges is de-
manded by the practical wants OF the people, and,
sooner or later in one form another, will be OBJ
tanned by them. To accomplish this end, ana 10
"prc>crve and regulate" the credit system of the
country, which this administration has attempted 10
impair will be one of the great objects for which
we feel constrained to continue our labors.
No Administration Of this Government can proS-