Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-04-01

THE LOCO FOCO ADDRESS.

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dress recently issued by the Loco Foco Convention
held in Richmond-anj which we publish IN
our paper to day; than which have rarel,
seen paper which presented more inviting as.
pect to the dsseclng knife of the operator W.
only regret that neither our limits nor our eisur.
will permit to perform this work, secunde,n oy,..
We shall only be able to advert to few of i,s mo,.
prominent features satisfied that our readers may IN,
fer the character Of the whole from the paris wbch
may thus pass briefly under review.
The Address opens with n sketch Of the history
Of the Federal and Republican parties, A.. was be.
the operations Of the General Government coral nd
ced in 1889 y and it alleges that among the cha,ac.
tefisc and marked points Indifference between tbos.
two parties, growing out of the construction which
zach gave to the federal constitution was the
lion by the Fedorallss, of the power 10 create Ma
tiondl Bank, to establish Protective Tariff and NV
execute system of Internal Improvements. Iftbi,
be true, then many ofthc modern Democrats bod
principles to all ntents and purposes, identical with
those mant ancdby the old Federal party Tn.
President ofhc Contention. from ,eIich his address
cladndicd, ioi example, txntessly rscopnIz,s III.
constitutional power Of the general roye,nmen, Il,
charter Il Bank aud TO appropriate money to wo,ls
IL.
now the President, and their candidate for re-el.c.
ton, voted lorihe Tariff laws Of loe4 aud 1898, tho
latter known in the South as the Bill of 4tbomina
fiohS, which led to tie South Carolina Ordipance or
Modification. We do not intend to deny, thai. =.
mons the Wings, are gentlemen who hold the same
opinions, on these subjects held by Mr.. Van Buren,
and Judge Tucker; bu, our purpose is to show that
the assumption, by either party of entire Orthodoxy
on these great questions OF policy, is false. as the al
tempt to prove that they constitute any test of
principle, according to the standard of '9s i,
utterly deceptive, aud known to be so by those who
resort tot. Why, if this be so, Mr. Jc6erson ua, n
Fcderalist; since he recommended Protective Ia
lih years before dat policy adopted bv the 90.
vernment: and his recommendations received the
Official sanction both of Mr.. Madison and Nh. Mon
roc. If ii be true, Mr.. Madison, the author of the
Report of "S,-thc great textbook itselr,-rds also
fedcTat'St,-for he approved the act incorporating
a National Bank, a measure which was warmly sus.
tanned by nearly the entire vote Of the Republican
party in lsl6. and opposed with equal unanmity by
the Federallsts If be true. John C. Calhoun i, a
Fedcrallst of the rankes dye since he has advocated
each aud all of the three measures Which are referred
to as tests of dscpleship We may 60 further, and
who have at all times opposed these meas ures there
Is scarcely an eminent politician of the present day
who is entitled TO the appellaton-for we know ofLut
few who have not directly or indirectly, d,fea
their garments
Without reference to these questions, however,
and without pausng TO enquire into the prevalence,
among Northern Democrats of constitutional opi-
MONS, which have never any Time prevailed in that
region to any extent among any school Of politicians
we may content ourselves by remarking that most
striking practical commentary was afforded during
the sitting of the Convention upon this portion Of
the Address commentary which shows the utter
worthlessness of all political distractions. . gentle
man who has lately "un-whigged' himself, insisted
upon re-baptizng 1.-The party" by adding the words
" State Rights to its " Democratic Republican,
appellation. This, it was well understood, WAS the
condition OF that gentleman adhesion 10 his new al
lies. The words were inserted and The gentleman
alluded to received the right hand of fellow hip
This gentleman is a Nuiifer, of the stratcst sect,
and fepudates, nonsensioa al creeds which do no,
embody this vital prncIplc-for what, as his party
asks are Rights without Remedies But, on the.
other hand, Judge Nicholas in asserting to tho
"re- christening Of the chid," for the avowsd pur-
pose of winning the Nuying portion of tho
Wing party, to the standard the author ofhe Proc
Iamation and the Force Bill, (ominous coniunctlonD
expressly aIurtd The hcrcsy of NulAfcation as con-
s,itutipg part of his creed oil State Rights ST.
that the term State Rights" means Modification,
according to the new recruits, while il means Proc.
tamdtion and Force Bill, in the opinion of jude.
Nicholas, and the other staunch and trusted, be-
tried friends Of the Administration. Yet they
are all friends of State Rights !" and this all cap
tandum chaifs relied upon to catch men Of sense
Col. Servant regards Modification an essential els-
ment,-the right arm ofState Rights Judge Mich
oas denies that the States possess any such right,
and deems its exercise akin to treason or he coald
not justify the Proclamation and the Force Bill
ct both OF these gentlemen genuine Democrat
&c Republican State Rights men
Judge Nicholas denies the cons.ilutionany Of
Bank and of appropriations by the general govern
vernnen to construct works of Internal Improve
mcnt-and Judge Tucker aflrns the constitution
ality of both-and yet, both Of them are orthodox
State Rights Democratic Republicans !
Tariff as a Federal mcasure-while Martin Van Blu
rem, candidate for the Presidency, voted for every
Tariff law which was before Congress while he was
4 member-yct Mr.. Van Buren, is an unquestiona-
Die State Rights Democratic Republican-so are tho
members of The Convention