The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-09-14

I" mthc Tue stiehton OF our readers 70 the iuio~-
ing eloquent and graphic description Of the Van buren,
party, ~ We hnd given in the address adopted by he
Senatorial District Convention of Young Men, held at
Coxsaekie. N. n, on the l4th ult on which occasion
upwards Of isess HUNDRED delegates the Convention
appeared and took part in the proceedings The fol-
lowing is . brief extract from the address
Ill 10 70 principles and measures Of the grsvest mo-
meni, fellow ritizens. that wish 20 call your
attention. We are ansyed against party which AFRO.
gates itself the title Of democracy" though has
Tor years supported and Is constantly supporting and
iusifying OF desdest hostility TO all that 10
implied by that term. Democracy is opposed TO the
concentration Of power The whole tenor Of oppo
nents policy 10 extend and strengthen the Executive
Democracy demands prudent and economical
administration, They have lavsby and wsniony squan
dered The public money, spending thirty millions
year where twelve once suficed Democracy requires
the part Of public functionsres strict accountability
and submission 10 the power from which they receive
their trusts They defeated and condemned again and
again by tho people Of New York. yet cling TO the Of
fees which they themselves have declared belong of
right to the .yicrors" Democracy declares that the
will Of the majority consutonally expressed, shall be
supreme. They have insultingIy proclaimed that the
pleasure of the Executive shall be fulfilled in defiance
Of the opposition and " lamentations" Of the people,
Democracy looks upon the delights 10 honor ss
but the servant Of the people, and requires him in his
intercourse with them to be plain unos,entstious and
unpreiending They support Chief who treats
his fellow citizens as his subjects, and surrounding him
self with body guard and assuming the state Of
Monarch moves among the people with ell the trap
pings and psgesntry ola Royal progress. Democracy
IS in favor Of single Presidential term of ofce-fesr-
ing justly the temptations which might otherwise induce
that high unctonsry to his power and patronage
subservc his own snbon instead Of the interests Of the
people. They, with that tenacity for Office which has
ever characterized them, 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 re-
election.
"Such, fellow citizens, have been the predominant
characteristics OF the party against whom now in
woke your aid 10 rescue rights and liberties and TO
redeem the spirit Of free institutions Such what.
ever their professions, the features which have
marked their course. In the name OF Denocrscy they
have set at nought every patriotic consideration. In
the name Of Democracy, they have swayed power and
patronage for their private and selfish ends They
have dsrsgarded law, constitutional restrain, and the
pubic good. They have rushed rapidly onward the
advances Of organized corruption. They have dsre-
gsrded and broken every pledge to the people They
have declared the President should be ineligible to Of
hcc for second term, and sirainng every nerve
for the re election Of Van Buren,. They have unblush
ingly avowed the most detesabe principles OF action
They have prosttnted public duty to private interest
and sordid profit They have instituted an utter and
inolerable prescription, dscardng from Office the most
honest and capable, and regarding all things in the
hands Of those who disregard the public welfare in
serambng for the spoils Of victory. They have esta
bished system Of party tactics which is the curse OF
the politics Of country, and unchecked will work
the rum OF IFS destinies In the Of Democracy,
they have transformed the features Of our republican
institutions. That which the patriots If former DAYS
In the integrity Of their hearts declared to be mposs
BILE, they have perpetraed in the Of Democracy
and Frustrated personal Independence and freedom of
opinion at the feet Of Executive power In the name
OF democracy have the violation Of the the
Dry OF our government the Executive interfering with
the Legislative departmentthe will OF the President
by the disposal of offices controlling the action OF Con-
gress. When rashness and folly, disturbing bv wild
schemes and mad experiments the domestic policy or
the country had found their natural result in the pro-
ducton Of wide spread calamity and desolaon in the
name Of Democracy, the people have been told that
their distress affair OF their rulersand amidst
the ruins of the storm which his advisers had not the
ssgac,y to orssee, the power aIay and in def
ance Of the repeated expressions Of the popular WILL
we have seen, nay, still behold the Of the Execu
i've extended to force upon the country the odious
scheme Of the Independent Treasury most pow
erfol engine Of despotism and fruitful Of further
suffering and evil.
So glaring and palpabe became these contradictions
CALLING and nsupporablc the enormities perpetraied
under these prelences that endurance became longer
possible. The people Of New York awoke from their
apathy. They determined TO remain longer the pa
ent and submissive drudges of the mnions Of Office,
and rising in their might they threw off the domination
Of party which had for years bIooded like incubus,
On the prosperity Of the sate and had made its politics
reproach throughout the land"