The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-10-16


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TRUTH ELOQUENTLY SPOKEN.
We invite the attention Of our readers to
the following eloquen, and graphic descrip-.
ton of the Van Buren, party, as we find
given in the address adopted by the Senate
rial District Convention Of Young Men,
held at Coxackie, N Y. on the. l4th ut., on
which occasion upwards Of trelre hundred
delegates to the Convention appeared and
took part in the proceedings. The sollow
ing is d brief extract from the address:
sit is to principles and measures of the
grnvcst moment. fellow citizens, that. We
wish now to call your attention. We are
arraycd against party which arrogates to
Use the title of ssdemocracy,n though it has
br years supported and is constantly sup
porting and j,,srifying measures of deadliest
hostility to all that is implied by that term.
Dem ,cracy is opposed to the concentrations
of power The whole tenor of our oppo-
hen,'s policy is to extend and streng hen the
Executive arm. Democracy demands a.
prudent and economical administration.
Fhey have lavisI,ly and wantonly squandered
the public money, spending thirty millions
a year where twelve once sufficed. De-
mocracy requires on the part of public
functonaries, strict accountability and sub
MISSION to the power from which they re-
ceive their trusts. They, defeated and con-
demned again and again by the people Of
New York, yet cling to the offices which
they themselves have declared belong Of
right to the "victors." Democracy declares.
that the viii of the majority cons,itutonally
expressed, shall be supreme. They have
insul,ingly proclaimed that the pleasure Of
the Executive shall be fulfilled, in defiance
Of the opposition and Lamentations of the
people. Democracy looks upon the man it
delights to honor, as but the servant Of the
people, and requires him in his intercourse
with them to be plain, transformations and
unpretenting. They support a "Chief,"
who tfeats his fellow citizens as his ouhjects.
and surrounding himself with body guard
and assuming the state ola Monarch, moves
among the people with all the trappings and
pageantry Of a Royal progress. Democracy
is in favor Of a single presidential term of
office-fearing justly the temptations which
might otherwise induce that high functionary
to use his power and patronage to subserve
his own ambition instead of the interests OF
the people, They, with that tenacity for
Office which has ever characterized them,
are ready even TO violate the Constitution
and to unite the purse with the sword in the
hands OF the Executive, in order to effect
his reelection. .--.t..-~s.~@ =
.Such, fellow citizens, have been the pre-
dominant characteristics Of theparty against
whom we now invoke your aid to rescue our
rights and liberties, and TO redeem the spirit
of our free institutions. Such, whatever
<heir professions, are the features which
have marked their course. In the name oil
Democracy, they have set at nought every
patriotic consideration; in the name Of De-
inocracy, they have swayed power and pa
fonage for their own private and selfish
ends. They have dfsregardcd law, consti-
tutional restraint and the public good. They
have rushed rapidly onward the advances OIL
organized corruption. They have disre-
garded and broken every pledge to the PEG
pie. Thew have declared the President
should be ineligible to Office for a seconc
term, and are straining every nervefor the
reelection Of Van Buren,. They have un
hushipgly avowed the most detestable prin
ciples of aciion. They have prostitutee
public duty To private interest and sordit
profit. They have Instituted an utter ant
intolIerable prescription, oiscarding from
Office the most honest and capable, and re-
garding all thir gs in the hands Of those WHIT
disregard the public welfare in scramblin,
for the spells Of victory. They have estab
Iished system Of party tactics which
is the curse of the politics Of our country
and if unchecken, will work the ruin of il
destinies. In the name Of Democracy, the
have transformed the features Of our repub
.lican institutions. That which the patriots 9
former days, in The integrity Of their heart
declared to be impossible, they have perpe
trated in the name Of Democracy, and pros
trated personal independence and freedor
Of opinion at the feet of Executive power
In the name Of Democracy, we have seen i
the violation Of the theory of our govern
mont, the Executive interfering with III
Legislative deparlment--the will Of he Pr
sident by the disposal Of officers contro)lin
the action of Congress. When rashnea
and folly, disturbing By wild schemes 40
mad experiments, the domestic policy a n
country, had found their natural resnk
the pvoductio1 Wi5eep.ee6 c4l9pity ~
dcsnaasion, il &. name of DenQpc1ncy, 4
people heyq beeq told Int their distEess!
was no affair q lheir ruIerp and eMidak Z
ruins q !lse Storm xh,eh ~ sdyisers bad 9