The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-11-13

The Government did NOT do IL The Government Is
NOT 10 ttaaiej Whai has Lls GopurwDscm done p
These aud like assertions are become so common
win the ioc.focos that they may well be eonsde Z,
lodging the responsibility" Why all this backing
out Plainly because the result OF their experiments
Is such as show that their predictions about better
STATE OF things, and better currency, were false
mat their Innovations upon the former practice OF
our government were uncalied for and unwise and
that Ia the account that awaits them before the peo-
pie, they have no good reason by which to Justify
iner conduct and, therefore, they wish TO shin the
blame from themselves, and put upon others. This
Is IN accordance with their general conduct. Gen.
Jackson proclaimed TO the nation that he took the
responsibility, not only Of his own doings, but Of
those who acted under his authority and, although
every body knew Il was but the staggering mani
issto Of a clustering chiefiain, yet Mr. Van Buren,
declared he would walk in the footsteps OF his IL
iuslrious predecessors" and his pariisans have al
ways been ready TO endorse his opinions, and APP
prove OF his conduct and submit TO his requirements
whatever they were SO much so, that when engaged
IN lustifying his conduct although they could nei
ther see lis necessity utility II considered by
them as sufficient answerto opponent TO tell him
IN, Teneral JACKSON says1so," or General Jackson
considered kaockdOios argument, and one 10 which
all ought 10 submit; and IL any did not the
feasonableness of the requirement. Il was said to be
because he had not sense eaough 10 feel its force.
but We feel its force now and understand It's nature
and tendency In Its natural results and consequences
In The prosration of business In the destruction of
sound currency, in the stoppage Of internal improve
mems, and in the hostile feelings which exist be-
tween one section OF the country and another arragn
ing state against state and city against city, and, in
not lew instances, man against man. Some OF the
loco-focos themselves beginning TO see and ieel,
100 and In some instances, 10 confess that the new
tangled notions OF the present and late admnistra-
lions have been but scheme Of splendid quackery,
entirely unworthy OF the confidence of an intelligent
communicative golden scales of L0c0-toco hnnbng-
gerry having been torn from their eyes by the huge
paws OF necessity, and their understandings being
enlightened under the pressure OF hard or rather,
no money currency.
And now, If the government has had nothing TO
do in bringing about the present stale OF things we
would ask what they have been doing1 They have
been carrying on course of experiments for years.
The tendency Of all OF which, we are told was to
bring about the bctSr currency. General Jackson
himself Called il an experiment, and he declared,
upon the word OF President, that il did and would
work we'll and during that inflated prosperity which
covered the country in 1867 the people were told it
was all the glorious result OF the experiment. Great
ing Tor them prosperity and happiness immeasura-
Bile, and working for President Jackson and his cho-
sen admirers crown Of immortal fame that was TO
brighten and glitter through the coming ages Of the
republic, until il should eclipse the fame Of all who
had gone before him, and the names of the panic
makers, Webster, Clay, Ewing, Southland, Clayton,
Adams, and many Others should be lost in It's eful-
gence, and the glowing reign OF Jacksonism should
go down 10 posterily as the second birth Of the
lect, wise in counsel profound in thought, or bril-
liant in imagination TO be consummaed in the COM
plete frution Of golden age, and bounded only by
the limits OF time. But now, we are told ii has no.
thing to do with the currency Of the country and was
never intended TO INSTRUMENTATION