Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-11-16
Truth eloauently spoken.

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We invite the attention of our rea.
ders to the following eloquent and gra-
phic description of the Van Buren, par
| ty. as we find given in the address adopt
| ed by the Senatorial District Convention
| of Young men, held at Coxackie- n. \ :.
on the 18th ult., on which occasion up
wards of tirelre hundred delegates TO the
Convention appeared and took part IN
the proceedings. The following is Q
brief extract from the address:
| sit is to principles and measures o.
the gravest moment, fellow citizens, thai
we wish now to call your attention We
are arrayed against party which AFRO
gates itself the title of democracy
though it has for years supported and is
constantly supporting and Iustifylng
measures of deadliest hostility to all that
| is implied by that term. Democracy is
opposed TO the concentration of power.
| The whole tenor of our opponents poll
CIV is TO extend and strengthen the ex-
ecutive arm. Democracy demands a
prudent and economical administration.
They have lavishly and wantonly squan-
dered the public money, spending thirty
millions n year where twelve once suf-
feed. Democracy requires on the part
Of public functionaries strict accounta-
bility and submission TO the power from
which they received their trusts. They,
defeated and condemned again and again
by the people of New York, yet cling
to the Offices which they themselves
have declared belong of RICH. to the
"victors.o Democracy declars that the
will of the majority constitutionally ex-
pressed, shall be supreme. They have
insultingly proclaimed that the pleasure
Of the executive shall be fulfilled, in de-
fiancc of the opposition and 'slamenta-
tions'' of the people. Democracy looks
upon the man it delights to honor, as but
the servant Of the people, and require.
him in his intercourse with them to be
plain, transformations and unpretsnding.
They support sschief," who treats his
fellow citizens as his subjects, and sur
rounding himself with body guard and
assuming the state of Monarch, moves
among the people with all the trappings
and pageantry of royal progress. De-
mocracy is in favor of single presi-
dental term Of ofice-fearing justly the
which might otherwise in
duce that high functionary to use his
power and patronage to subscrve his
own ambition instead of the interests of
tho people. They, with that tenacity
for Office which has ever characterised
them, are ready even to violate the con-
stitution and to unite the purse with the
sword in the hands of the executive, in
order TO effect his reelection
"Such, fellow citizens, have been the
predominant characteristics of the par
ty against whom we now invoke your
aid to rescue our rights and liberties.
and TO redeem the spirit of our free in
situations. Such, whatever may be their
professions, are the features which have
marked their course. In the name of
Democracy, they have set at naught
every patriotic conside ration; in the
name of Democracy, they have swayed
power and patronage for their own pri-
vate and selfish ends. They have dis
regarded law, constitutional restraint
and the public good. They have rushed
rapidly onward the advances of organ
ised corruption. They have disregard
ed and broken every pledge to the peo-
pie. They have declared the president
should be ineligible to office for a second
term, and are straining every nerve for
the reelection of Van Buren,. They
have unblushingly avowed the most de-
testablc principles of action. They
have prostituted public duty TO private
interest and sordid profit. They have
instituted an utter and intolerabIe pro-
scription, discarding from Office the most
honest and capable, and regarding all
things in the hands Of those who disre- |
gard the public welfare in scrambIing
for the spoils of victory. They have
established . system of party tactics
which is the curse of the politics of our
country, and if unchecked, will work the /
ruin of its destinies. In the name of
they have transformed the |
features of our republican institutions.
That which the patriots OF former DAYS,
in the integrity Of their hearts declared /
to be impossible. they have perpctrated
IN the name OF Democracy, and pros
Irated personal independence and free
tom OF opinion at the feet of executive
power In the name of Democracy, We
have seen in tho violation Of the theory
of our government, the executive inter-
ering with the legislative departments
he will of the president by the disposal
# officers controlling the action of Con-
5ress- When rashness and folly, dis
urbing by Wild schemes and mad expo
'iments, the domestic policy OF. the
country, had found their natural result
2 the production of wide spread calami-
y and desolation, in the name of De-
nocrnc y, the people have been told thai
heir distresses was no affair of thefrI
nlers--and amidst the ruins of the
torn which his advisers had not the