The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-11-06
ADDRESS OF THE WHIG YOUNG MEN tt
The ELECTORS OF NEW YORK

ADDRESS OF THE WING YOUNG MEN TO
THE ELECTORS OF NEW YORK.
| Fellow CITIZENS:
| You now called upon to respond to the nomi-
nation of Senator, Members OF Assembly, and Re-
| gisier.
| Our Conventions have presented for our SURFACES
tickets entitled 10 our warmes support. The Wings
in general meeting have enthusiastically responded
TO the nominaions-and now, in accordance 10 our
| custom, the young men of the party have assembled
TO repledge themselves, in separate meeting, to the
| support Ct the nominees.
| Seldom have the nominating conventions so we'll
performed their duty. Seldom have our tickets,
apart from cause, carried so much weight in the
responsibility and talents of our candidates
4 For Senator, We have presented to us PHILIP
| HONE-a man strong in the confidence OF the CON-
munity, identified with the interests OF our city, with
her better and adverse fortune and one whom
young men cannot cease 10 honor, until all memory
| OF good deeds perish.
In our Assembly ticket We find a list Of men to
whom interests in The House may be safely con-
hded-men of good sense, of prudence, OF sagaciiy
whose object will be 10 preserve and regulate, not
| 10 DESTROY"
II we have not included any disciple of Jack Cade
in the number it is because believe in the bless
ings of Common Schools, and the advantages OF ex-
tending education 10 all. II we have named therein
no follower of Fanny Wright, il is because we re-
verence that Great Being who controls the affairs of
men, and cannot be persuaded that immortality and
nfdelity in high places can restore His favor TO our
poor distracted country II we have passed over in
silence all the graduates OF The agrarian and radical
school, ii may be that are blind TO the merits Of
that system which would establish order BY force Of
riots and seek for public tranquility in the sacking
| Of warehouses
For Register, we have nominated JAMES GU
! LICK. He needs no eulogium. His properly and
his health have been sacrificed for the public good
and il is right that this office of honor and profit
should be his reward As his voice was wont TO
swell distinct and clear above the noise and confu-
/ sion that accompany conhagraon, restoring order
and directing succor SO lei his name be now pealed
out as a walch-word, a, which we will rally 10 our
signals man the arms, and extinguish for ever the
ardent otfice-holding patriots and flaming office
| seeking loco tocos of Tammany Hail.
We at length brought to feel, iellow-citizens,
that attention 10 politics Is part OF our duty, and
that the ballot box alone offers any redress for our
SutferingS.
| Abstract reasoning and refined speculation may
tend 10 prove that our present rulers are the wisest
and their measures the most sagacious with which
we have ever been bes but We know in our hearts,
aud feel in every nerve, tina, they have led US from
prosperity and happiness TO ruin and despair. Judge
1.-The tree by its fruits and Van BnreniSrn would no
! longer be allowed 10 eumber the ground.
/ From The moment the presen, dynasty attained the
ascendency, TO the present time, all has been move
nenl, agitation, trouble, confusion, tumult, and
| bankruptcy.
And what else could follow from the ascendancy
of the men'now in power, from the triumph Of loco
| TOGO principles?
II is not casual vicissiture in affairs from which
We suffer but the natural effect OF all-snfiicient
cause. The spirit of the party over which Van Blu
rem presides, and which delights in the names Of
Benton, Kendall, Wright and Marcy, is The spirit of
agitation Of innovation, OF desiructiona spirit not
OF expansion, but Of experiment; not Of practical
wisdom, bur OF untried expedients Whatever has
opposed It's unhallowed march, whatever has resisted
its destructive aggrandizement has been denounced,
attacked destroyed II ability marked their acts we
mg ht admire while we depiored, but il is too evil
| dent that our rulers are ignorant and unskifu in
| government. They found our internal exchanges
1 healthy and well regulated--lhey have made them
what they are. They found currency the best in
| the word-they have made il the worst. They found
an extensive and active foreign commcrce-they
have weakened and crippled it, They succeeded 10
1 a government with an overlooking revenue-they
| have made il bankrupt. And yet these men and
their agents have the b,ldneSS ask you for your
support They dare 10 appeal 10 community which
they have ruined and brought down to distress and
| poverty, for their appreciation.
Shall il be yielded TO them In the name Of JUS
tice answer No
Cre3ii, the .lis-5oud 81 a commercial communi
~ the architect Of fortune been the peculiar Oh
lect of their attacks. Perish credit perish COM
merce," was the watch-word. /" Away with the