Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-08-24

ancestry Intended he should be, to Wit, .
servant of the sovereign people, wou'd
be, virtually, their Dictator instead Oh
using The power entrusted TO him for the
welfare Of the people. he would exert all
the patronage of his Office TO promote ms
own selfish views. And are there any
SO blind to the lessons of experience as
not to perceive the dangerous tendency
|of such doctrines, Are there any 20 ig-
Inorant of the corruptions OF the human
heart as not to be able 10 foresee the time
liz such principle is practised upon
when some bold and ambitious 1niei
Magistrate may use his immense patron
age to perpetuate in his own person. IN
| stead of the persons of his s.honored
FOOLS. the supreme power of our Govern
lmentl If there be any whose hearts
bea, not with patriotic Indignation al the
Iopen sanction of such principle, they
merit not the sacred birth-rlght oil A.
merican citizens
Other OF the principles oil this van
Buren, party, are that General W ash'ns-
lton and his brave and gifted compatrlots
! of 1871, who chartered the tirst United
Estates Bank under the Federal Consiitu-
lion, were ignorant OF the true primer
pies upon which our Government should
be administered; that the patriots and
q; res of 1916, among whom were Grun-
ldv Forsv;;,a. Dallas, Gallatin, Calhoun
CLAY, Crawford and Madison, were gu'i'y
of laundering ignorance when they e7-
Itablished the last United States Bank to
restore a ruined currency and revive
1.-THE industry and enterprise Of the nation,
which purposes every one knows 1t ell
fec;ed; that the republican Congress OF
1882, with such men as Smith and Nc
Duffie at their head, with the experience
of nearly half century, know not the
ltrue policy of the Government when
l,bey granted re-charter of the United
| States Bank, which Gen. Jackson, tor the
most unsubstantial reasons vetoed; In
/ fine, that General Jackson's plan OF a
State Bank system, or ''eXperlment," by
which the State Banks were to furnish
US with a better currency than we had
before and answer all the purposes oil
fiscal agent Of the Government, has sig
nally failed, thereby proving that of the
true financial policy of the nation, the
..ilIustrious predecessor" of Mr.. Van
| Buren, was ignorant; and that the sub
Treasury is the only wise and democra-
tic plan which has yet been suggested
| for the improvement of the currency,
and the successful management OF the
moneyed affairs of the country. plan
| by which every State Bank in the Union
and of course the people, whose inter
ests are identified with them, will be al
the mercy of the President! A plan by
which the purse ofthe nation will be added
to the command of the Army and Navy
and the patronage of office now possessed
/ by the Executive!i And aoho Is 1t that has
had the audacity thus TO treat with scorn
and contempt the lessons and examples
of the fathers of the republic, and say
to the intelligent people of this fair re-
public that the sub-Treasury with its
bolts and bars, with its Swartwouts and
Prices, is the true Dem 1cratic plan
Martin Van Buren,, a man elevated to his
present station, not myany merit of his
own, but by the corrup,ing influences o
Executive patronage.
When an organized and powerful par
~ are found in our country openly ant
zealously advocating principles tending
: to the overthrow of our republican in
stitutions, and the establishment on iheii
ruins of an odious despotism, it behoove:
every Wing, every true lover of hi:
country to be wide awake. 1t behoove:
every foe to such despotic principles Il
be on their guard against the snares tina
may be set TO catch the unwary. They
should spurn from their ranks any ad
vocate of such principles who may pro
fess friendship TO them, to gain their con
fidence in order that he may the NOR,
successfully betray them.
, | shall act the part of scout, as my
name indicates, in the great battle nov
waging. And, if at any time, my saga
city snail detect a political magua en-
deavorng to lead unwarv patriots from
the path of duty and safety. will bring
the 'sia Tongue Carabine" of truth I.
bear upon him.
In my next No. will say somethin.
of the principles of the other, or Whie
party.
HAWK-EYE.