, 1840-07-25

on all the important suuJeCtS WHICH
interest you, and on which it would be our
pleasure to communicate with you. We
cannot do Justice to all these subjects, but
must make a selection Of the most important,
and then treat them briefly. Growing out
ofits contempt for popular understanding,
are the numerous efforts which have oeen
made to misIead and deceive the country, IN
relation to the men and measures, rs well as
to the principles of the Democratic party.
The most gross and absurd fabricatlons have
been invented and circulated, with respect
to Mr.. Van Buren, himself, all intended to
deceive and impose upon the uniformed, and
those most distant from the sources OF cor
rect information. Nothing is too gross, too
false, and too stupid, to be invented and cir
culated about him. Federal arrogance be-
lieves that Democratic credulity will be weak
enough, and silly enough, to swallow the
whole. They believed the same IN Mr.. Jei-
~ferson's time, and did their best to bury him
under masses Of calumny and mIsrepresenta-
ton. But the event deceived their hopes
The intelligence and patriotism of the Demo-
cratic party withstood the fierce and furious
assaults of Federalism forty years ago; and
80 we believe it will do again. For our
selves, stationed here where W. have a near
view Of all the Presidents conduct, both pub
lie and private, we solemnly declare our be-
lief in his pure Democratic principles, his
disinterested patriotism, his conscientious ia-
tegrity, and his re-eminent capacity TO adj
minister the Government. We make this
declaration fully and unreservedly to you,
and hope that it will stand for our answe to
all that is invented and circulated against
Mr.. Van Buren,, and that it will be ~satisfac-
tory to Just and candid seekers after truth.
The expenses Of the Government, under the
Democratic administrations, had been for a
long time fruitful topics Of defamation with
the Opposition. The manner in which that
clamor has been silenced, should be a caution
to both parties: TO one, in promulg eating false
accusations; to the other, in lending any
credence to them. Many good citizens, in
several parts of the Union, were, for a long
time, deceived and imposed upon by the bold
accusation of extravagant expenditures, in
c~essantly hurled against the Administration.
All their presses, and all their orators, reite-
rated and aggravated the accusation. At
the last, the day came for the trial OF IFS
truth. A classified statement of the expen-
ditures from the beginning Of Mr.. Adams to
the end of the third year Of Mr.. Van Bu-
ren's Administration was made in the senate.
The ordinary and current expenses were d.
vided from the extraordinary and temporary
ones. The result showed that the ordinary
and current expenses OF the Government, IN
the last year of Mr.. Van Buren's Admins
tration, was but thirteen and a half millions
of dollars! which was one million and a half
less than the most economical calculation al
lowed! and what was overwhelming to the
Opposition, it was averred to their faces, and
they were called upon again and again to de-
nv it, that they had themselves voted for eve
nv expenditure, and could not now name one
to which they had objected at the time of its
passage, or to which they could now object.
These extraordinary expenses were Of a
kind to claim the general appreciation which
they actually received. Increase of the ar
my and navy-extinction of Indian titles
removal of Observation-Disclosures of Indians
after removal-lndian wars-and the great
object of relieving all the Southern and
Western States from a useless population,
and giving them the full benefit of all their
soil for settlement and cultivation: these
have been the principal sources Of unusual
OAPehuilutes duu ootu Pdiiies soteuio lheih'
A report made by the Secretary of War
upon the organization Of the militia has been
seized upon by the Federal party TO excite
alarm and agitation about a great standing
army of 100000 men. This is another in
stance of the contempt of that party for
popular understanding. 1t is an attempt to
make the people afraid of themselves, and
to convince them that they are not to be
safely trusted with arms. The same party
which was in favor ola standing army ofregu-
lars, differed and commanded by the FEEDER
al Government, and supported by eight per
cent. loans, at the time when we were load
ed with debt incurred during the Revolution
airy war-the same party which was in favor
of all this is now ~endeavoring to alarm the
country about an organization Of the militia,
and that in the same manner which has been
proposed at different times for fifty years
past. The plan proposed by Mr.. Poinsett
corresponds, in its leading features, with
others which have been made from the time
OF Gen. Knox and president Washington to
the present day; the main parts OF which
were enacted into law in the year 1892, and
oo,;o IN tba ,,a,r 1oOa Tho -. .1..