Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-06-04

Federal Constitution involves more mportan
interests 10 the American people, than the No
vember election. The Administration Party
|altho' suffering under the signal defeat they
have sustained in Virginia, and some Other
States, still cling together, in some sections oil
the country, with the ienacity that drowning
man cings TO the sinking fragments of shat.
tered wreck. There are however, evident signs
OF change taking place in the Van Buren,
ranks since the Harrisburg Convention This
IS manifest from the fact, that large portion
OF The rejecting part of the Loco-Focos, have
become sulen and disheartened. The number
OF their organs, has, also greatly diminished
ana those which continues TO sing Van Buren,
anthems, sing not so loud and longas they for.
merly did. They have, also, retracted many
OF The slanderous charges they promulgated a
galnst Gen. Harrison; all OF which plainly in.
dIcales the true state of The parry, and the rapid
decomposition which is going on in their body
But what is producing this wonderful revol-
utlon in public sentiment? Is il because the
people Of these United States, like those OF
France, are so versatile, that they would change
their men and measures, not so much for the
love OF liberty, as for the sake of novelty? No.
1t is Tor The sake of maintaining that very Iib.
eriy priced so highly by our ancestors, which,
more than three score years ago was denied
them by cruel mother; the liberty of speech,
the liberty OF sell government and the liberty
of conscience. All these inherent privileges
has been withheld by pseudo Democratic res
Ident, supported by a vcnal Senate and time
serving House of Representatives. This is
TACT as susceptible OF demonstration as any
problem IN Euclid Let facts be adduced. Has
my measure ollmportance been introduced BY
he dominant party in Congress- since the in
'IaiIalon OF the present Chief Magistrate, with.
nj his appreciation having first been sought and |
obtained! And in his has he not assumed TO him.
ell the sole privilege of limiting Tor the whole
american People? Has he not interposed his ye
D, when measures have been passed bv Con.
ress, OF great national utility, and in which
lerc we're no constitutional scrupes involved!
nd in this, has he not fairly set at def.
nee the will Of the people expressed through
leir immediate representatives! Has he notI
lrIed men from office merely for expressing p
sentiment in opposition 10 his?-and in this. v
rs ne not wantonly trampled upon the con. II
fences OF his fellow citizens? Can any hon. 4
man hold an office under the President ofthe ii
nlted States at this time, without danger Of "
S loosing both his Office and his salary, if he c,
re not support every within of his master9tr
1T the history Of Martin Van Buren's admin.
-ration be read, and the answer will be in the 81
'gatlve. All these incontrovertable facts stare a
in the face, and they constitute The reason Il
by change of men and measures is imperi Il
elN for NJ to |, e. L..
OF the Republic. Neither Caesar, Cromwell tt
" BounaParte, nor any other usurper of whom p
2 read in history, could ever have assumed the Il
'perial purple, without first gaining the af- e
,llons of the people, lulling them into false
curlty, and then claiming necessity as plea
fastening upon them the chains Of tyranny
d despotIsm. 1t is a truism, that the people
their own guardians in a republican Gov &C
lmeni, but SO soon as they yield up to one Ell
IN the privilege of thinking for them, as at g
present time, there is danger that, ,hot k
IN will think for himself--and in so thinking in
II place himselI'in the easiest thinking posi- d,
n. With the sword in one hand, the purse sc
the other, and whole nation bowling down to
servlIe submission to his will, is there not Y;
niger, people Of America, that that man "wil n
low in the footsteps Of ty rants Of other days. g
are warranted in the assertion that he will, II
I'm the acts presented 70 us in the history of ia
IN. TO act and think for ones self is the We it
quniessence Of liberty; but do the People of CT
United States nj this time, exercise this N
lVllegeE Every man who is conversant with p
history OF the times, aud who has watched Ig
downward proclivlly of our free inslitu- Ii
ms, VIII be compelled TO answer in the mega. a
G. Congress can pass no law contrary to II
VIII OF the President; but he can, through Il
unlimited power he possesses over The ii
nds Ct his udherents in Congress and else. o
lere, have any measure he chooses, acted up. n
, suitable 10 his notions We see this now. c.
which he exercises exhibiting its disastrous v
anll-republcan effects every day. Did not ii
mocrat'c Tennessee instruct her Senators in Z
ngress, NOT only 10 vote for all the present n
ding measures OF the President, but TO sus ie
n him in every measure, which he, in his u
'ereign will and pleasure, might think pro- CT
r hereafter 10 Introduce! See instructions ia
Tennessee Legislature of last Session. Is
here Illuminating spectacle for Republi- "
rs TO lock.upon, ola Republican State brought la
Sn IN humble submission at the feet and tn
roy OF one man? And that man, and that u;
tie protesting to be Democratic! But should al
present state of things continue to exist we IN
VI soon see other States following the exam re
OF tennessee; and then the People will be IN
cd The trouble of holding elections, and we 81
II have one Democratic Dcspot to rule US as
chooses. T.,
'u', as said in the outset, the great mass of
People appear to be coming FESTIVE under co