The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-08-04
REVOLUTIONARY TENDENCY OF LOCO
FvOO FEDERALIsM

kOCO FEDERALISM. 4
In our last number we called the attention OF
our readers TO some Of the first operations and
effects of Mr. VAN BuREN's boosted
great measure Of deliverance and reform the
Sub-tredsury system. The consequences Of
his general poicyand of that series of pes
tiferous measures which have been adopted and
steadily adhered to as affinities and consan-
quantities Of the leading and destructive plan of
the Administration, are too deeply felt by the
American people TO require illustration at this
day. PROSTATE credt-Ruined Commerce
Reduced Wages-Deprecated Property--the
embarrassment felt in every department. of bu-
siness and in every branch Of trade and indus
try, by men Of all classes, professions, and oc-
equations, give painful yet undeniable testimony
how injurious to the people have been the
schemes of an Administration that has steadily,
industrously, and Systematically aimed excu-
sively at self-aggrandzement and the contnu-
ance in power of the men who have so dis
gracefully abused their trusts.
But the American people have been told by
one who speaks with authorty-since his new
born zeal has placed him and his brother apos-
tates from South Carolina in the front rank of
the " Rogues and Royalists'-at the very head
of the reptiles that crawled in their own slime
up to the lootstoo Of power" (this is the re
fined phrascology Of Messrs. PIcKENs McDuF-
rlE K Co)-we are told by Mr.. PlcKENs that
the Sub-reasury is only the "rIRsT ACT IN THE
DRAMA"
The significant declaration thus uttered by
the mouth piece Of VAN BuRENlsM and Apos-
TAcY in South Carolina, is resounded, with
slight variation of phrase by the recognized
organ of 'all the decency," and ''all the litera-
turen Of the Van Buren, ranks--the Evening
Post-edited by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT-in
an article which declares that s'the characteristic
feature Of Mr. VAN BuRENs present position is
preparation for future series Of public mea-
sures, Of which he has as yet been able to give
us but an initaory sample. The Posi- adds:
mo FINAL MEASURE is YET coNsuMMATEp. The
year 1872 IS pregnant with important events
and consequences, and nothing has been, or can
now be DONE but TO prepare for that crisis. 1t
is then that our glorious constitution will under
go its hardest trial"
What new scenes are 10 open upon US after
the first act of the DRAMA we are not left to
conjecture The Imagination need not stretch
lis wings to discover the " important events and
consequences which we are here told the wear
1912 is to produce. simultaneously with these
vauntings about The measures of the Admins
tration being only in the beginning of their course
in the muscle and not hardened into the bone
we find leading organ of the Administra-
ton disclosing the :" future series of public mea
sures" for which MIR. VAN BuREN's present DO
sltlon is only preparative. The BosroN
QUARTERLY REVIEW is the medium for commu-
ncating to the public the more studied and elabo-
rate expostions Of Van Burenism, Just as the
Globe is the conduit pipe for letting off the
ephemeral illusions of the Cabinet and the few
otliceholde who can write with ease for no
thing and the numberless scribes who hold their
places by the glibness with which they can in
dite defence of the Administration, or
or iasehood against the Opposition.
Mr.. Van Buren,, who is continually apng every
thing English, must have Quarterly Review
as an oracle and advocate, after the fashion of
the London Quarterly, so long the organ and de-
This Boston journal, Boosting of knot of Fee
dera offce-holders for conductors and contribu-
the Collector, Brownson Steward
Of Chelsea Hospital, and others-puts forth the
following as parts of the drama of which the
is only the first act.
wages
H. The overthrow OF the Church in all its forms and
sccts.
III. The abolition of the laws relating TO the descent
of property
These abomnable purposes are not advanced
hastily; but cooy and deliberately, and are de-
Tended in a studied and elaborate article, from
which we present the subjoned extracts as
specimens:
Wages is cunning device of the devil for the
benefit of tender consclcnces, who would retain all
HE advantages of the slave system without the ex-
pcnse trouble and odium of being slave holders
But having traced the inequality we complain of
% Us origin, we proceed 10 ask again what is the
ncdy The remedy first to be sought in the de-
structon Of the Priest ="
" The Priest is universally tvrant universally the
,nslavcr of hs brethren and therefpre-it Is Christi
unity condemns him" -
" II may be supposed that we, protestants, have no
PRIESTS but for ourselves, know no fundamental
Inference between a Catholic Priest and Protestant
Clergyman, we know no difference of any magni-
udc in relation TO the principles on which they are
BASED between Protestant Church and Catholic
Church
There must be no class Of men set apart and au-
horned, either by law or fashion to speak to us in
he name of God to be interpreters Of the word of