Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-09-12

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against the world-but never for the purposes
Of an ntolerant party, wish him to be ected
because he has proven himself to be an honest
man, and to possess that high degree Of moral
courage which will prompt him to encounter any
danger TO do his duty honesty and faithfully
and because ! am sure he does not possess that
atroclous hardihood--misnamed courage--which
would prompt him recklessIy to uiolate the con
sttution. II he should be elected, | am con.
WINGED he will appoint to office no man but such
as he shall be assured is honest and capable, and
faithful TO the constitution and laws, and | am
equally sure he will remove none from office but
such as he may find to have been incompetent, or
such as were appointed upon mere purity princi-
ples-and, above all, he will do whatever is law.
full, necessary, and proper to put the country in
state Of defence, and afford effective protection
to the frontier settlements, and prove by his Off.
cial acts, rather than by promises that may be
broken, that he will be the President of the u.
States, and never the President of party.
Was Washington party man when he, in
his country's service, proved hsmel( to be first
IN avar, first IN peace, frs IN the hearts Of his
counrymen ?" or was Jackson party man
when he defended the southern frontier or Was
he party man when he admonished his friend
Monroe, and others, to put down the monster,
party spirit? Mono Washington was the
father Of his country, and Jackson was giant
the Sampson of the Republic. But when he
went to the Federal city in 1929 he suffered
himself TO be shorn Of his strength, and was no
longer the chivalrc patriot he had been. His
strength was gone-save when, in the blindness
of his new tangled party zeal, he occasionally en-
erted his strength TO shake the pillars Of the Re
b;e
mics. What patriot-l ask in the name of WASH
INoroN-what patriot ever thought Of chershing
the evil ntolerant spirit Of party, at any time
but more especially on the eve of war? What
political party in this or in any other country could
alone sustain war against strong foreign pow
er, regardless Of the aid Of an opposing political
party of nearly equal strength!
Shall be told that the war of 1912 to rs was
party measure, and terminated honorably by a
party. This deny. know many, if not most
Of the heroes and veterans of the last war spurned
Indignantly the trammels of party spirit. | had
the pleasure to command many, and with them,
side by side, to meet the enemy without rest for
the better part of twenty three successive days and
nights. They had sworn to bear true faith and
allegiance TO the United States, and to serve them
honestly and faithfully; they fought not in the SER
vice of party, but for their country, their whole
country, and for no man, nor anything but their
country, regardless Of party. II the Seminole avar
is claimed as party measure, need only to re-
mark here, that the officer within whose military
division that war commenced, and whose duty
therefore it was to terminate it, did meet aud beat
the enemy, and did thus terminate that war with.
out any knowledge that it had been got up for
electioncering or party purposes. Lit was after.
wards renewed and carried on upon party prnc
Piles, what does it prove? leave it to the vota,
ries OF the evil spirit of party to answer the cues
ton. have not been permitted for four years
past to have any thing 10 d. with that war; and
hence it may not be deemed proper that should
have any thing TO sag about that vcxaous war.
! For many years previous TO his election 10 the
Presidency, | had frequently conyersgd freely
with my gallant friend Gen. Jackson. He re.
sponded cordially, and acquiesced with me in
every sentiment have here expressed in opposi.
ton to the cca spirit Of p1Hy-in opposition to
cguUehtiOR aud caucus n0RIiaatioRS-aud in o..
position 10 any man holding the Office Of Pre-
s,dent Of the United States longer lhan for one
term. This was before he was shorn Of his
strength. | cordially urged my friends to vote
| Tor him, in the full persuasion that he would do
all tia! he had given me, and his other friends, to
believe he would do. was sure he would take
care 10 keep the three great branches of the Fed.
eraI GOvelnment-the Legislative, Executive
and Juiica!-separate and distinct, by refusin,
to nominate members Of Congress for any Of tie
| hiGl Offices Ct the GOyernmcnt-lhat he ud
| pat the country ia a state OF Gcionce-and, above
all, that he would put down the monster party
spirit. These, however, appeared TO be mere
eIectoneerlng promises. He had not been in
Office six months before he proved, by his con
duct, tina; his fixed purpose was to violate all the
great cardinal principles upon which his friends
had advocated his election. Resolving on being
a candidate for election to a second term, he fell
out with all his friends vino reminded him OF his
solemn pledges; and finding himself unable to
WELD the Bank of the United States for party
purposes, resolved to consider mat institution,
and not the evil spirit Of party, as the monster,
against which his prowess was to be vented in "A
storm of words and acts which no ,ubt tended
10 Sc IRE his reelection, il not another election
| But that institution, created as it was by tue law
Of the land, could not fall by lawless means,
without a shock that all parties were 10 feel, and
which all parties do feel, and must long continue
to feel, when Jackson and his party, friends aad
| foes, are no more.
have often been asked my opinion as to the
talents Of Harrison as statesman reply that
many Of his letters are to be found ia almost
every reading room in the city or country; and
as | am sure he wrote for himself every thing
that appears as his own proiuction-these, with
his public acts, will speak for him and DO him
justice. Harrison, however, compared with Ell.
Their Of the Presidents for the last twenty three
years, may be considered equal to the two first
and superior to the .wo last, in all the essential
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