Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-11-21
TRUTH ELOQUENTLY SPOKEN.

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I following eloquent and graphic description
/. the Van Barren party, as we find given in thC
address adopted by the Senatorial District Con
yenlion of Young Men, held at CoXackic, n. \.
on the 18th ut,, on which occasion upwards OF
tTelre huHdrcd delegates 10 the Convention APP
poared and took part in the proceedings. The
following is a brief extract from the address;
at is to principles and measures Of The gra-
vest moment, fellow citizens, that we wish now
ocalI your attention. We arc arrayCd against
a party which arrogates to itself the title OF
democracy > though it has for years supported
and is constantly supporting and justIlying
measures ofdeadIiest hostility to all that is
implied by that term Democracy is opposed
to the concentration Of power. The whole
tenor of our opponents policy is to extend and
strengthen the executive arm. Democracy
demands prudent and economical administra.
ton. They have layishly and wantonIy squan-
dered the public money, spending thirty mil
lions year where twelve once sulficed. Dem
ocracy requires on the part of public function
aries, strict accountability and submission 10
the power from which they receive 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 right 10 the ''vctors." Democracy
declares that the will of the majority constitu-
tionalIy expressed, shall be supreme. They
have lasultngIy proclaimed that the pleasure
of the executive shall be fulfilled, in defiance of
the opposition and Lamentations" of the peo-
pie. Democracy looks upon the man it de-
lights to honor, rs but the servant of the pco-
pie, and requires hun in his intercourse with
them to be plain, uno5tentalous and unpreten-
ding. They support ''chel," who treats his
fellow citizens as his subjects, and surrounding
himself with body guard and assuming the
state OF Monarch. moves among he people
with all the trappings aud pageantry Of a royal
progress. Democracy is in favor Of a single
presidential term Of ofiice-fearing Justly the
temptations which might otherwise induce that
high iunctionary to use his power and patron
age TO subserve his own ambition instead of
the interests Of the people. They, with that
tenacity for Office which has ever character
Ised them, are ready even to violate the constltu
ton and tounto the purse with the sword in
the hands of the executive, in order to effect
his reelection.
"Such, fellow citizens, have been the pre-
dominant characteristics of the party against
whom we now invoke your aid to rescue our
rights and liberties, and TO redeem the spirit Of
our free institutions. Such, whatever may be
their profession, are the features which have
marked their course. In the name Of Dem
ocracy, they have set at nought;every patriot
&c consideration; in the name of Democracy ;,
they have swayed power and patronage for
their own private and selfish ends. They have
dsrcgarded law, constitutional restraint and
the public good. They have rushed rapidly
onward the advances OF organised corruption
they have dIsrcgarded and broken cvervI
pledge to the people They have declared the
president should be ineligible to Office for al
second term, and arc straiung every nerve for
the reelection of Van Buren,. They have IN
bIushlng y avowed the most detestable princ.
pies Of action. They have prostituted public
duty 10 private interest and sordd profit. Il
They have instituted an utter and intolerableI
prescription, discarding from Office the most
honest and capable, and regarding all things in
the hands OF those who disregard the pubicI
welfare in scrambling for the spoils Of victory. |
They have established system o. party tac,icsI
which is the curse Of the politics ofour country,
md if unchecked, will work the ruin orls des.
ines. In the name Of Democracy, they have !
transformed the features of our republican in.
'titulions. That which the patriots Of ,ormerI
lays in the integrity Of their hearts declared loI
De impossible, they have porpctratcd in the
lame of Democracy, and Frustrated persona
Independence and freedom Of opinion at the
Get OF executive power In the name Of Dem
'cracy, we have seen in the violation Of theI
heory of our government, the executive intet-
ering with the legislative department:--,heI
vii of the president by the disposal OF officers
on trolling the action Of Congress. When
ashness and folly, disturbing by wild schemes
nd mad experiments, the domestic policy of
he country, had found their natural result in
he production of wide spread calamity and