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these men TO abandon tleir original name OF
Federalists, and, without any change OF
principles. to assume tie title Of National
Republicans; TO throw off this title as soon as
it ceased to conceal their unpopular views,
and adopt in its stead, the appellatlon OF
Wings; and, when this last designation had
failed to procure the desired success, to modi'
fy and change it, by the multitude OF pre-
fixes and additions with which we see It dali
w connected. Aware that the principles
thew cherish. and the measures they desire
to adopt, are those which the great body OF
the American people have repeatedly con-
demned, and which they can never be
brought 10 approve and support. the leaders
of the Federal party place their hopes OF
success in 4 cautious concealment OF their
present sentiments and Interior views, and Il
skilfuI diversion of the public mind from the
true and important question involved in the
contest, to the consideration of issues, frivo-
Ilous. false and immaterial. Another reason
for this concealmcnt is to be found IN the
fact, that the party now IN opposition are
held together by no one common bond oil
principle. To unite all the various parties
and factions of the country opposed 10 the
Democracy, in one general assault upon the
present administration, is n primary OBJECT
Of the Federal plan. Bank and anti-bank,
tariff and anti-tarif, abolitiOnists and slave
holders, all are alike made welcome 10 the
mock log-cabin of Harrison reform. As 10
measure or system of public policy receives
the common appreciation OF this in%cOngruous
mass, its parts are only kept in unison by a
careful avoidance of a public declaration OF
principles, and by giving private assurances
to each portion of the league, that It's par
ticular views will form the polar star Of the
new administration. The abolItionist is thus
taught 10 behold, in the elevation OF Hlr-
rison, the certain triumph of his f%anatical
zeal; the fears of the STAKEHOLDER are quoted
with the declaration. that "no man north of
Ma;on and Dixon's line has suffered so much
il defence of Southern rights rs the chival-
rous hero Of Tippecanoe;' the advocate OF
a National Bank sees. in the overthrow OF
Martin Van Buren,, the restoration oil his
idol. the ..creat regulator" whilst the enemy
OF that institution IS asked to rely. with gen.
erous confidence, on the constitutional OBJ
~jectiOns of the unchanged and Interchangeable
patriot of North BEND. 1t was in order TO
avail themselves of these numerous and ad,
verse principles in the different sections oil
the Union where each might find its peculiar
, advocates. that the leaders of the Fedora
, party, in convention at Harrisburch, resolved
10 pass bv Webster. the index of their sentl-
q, mcn,S. and Clay, their ancient and venerated
r. chief, 10 confer the nomination for the PreSr
), dencv on IN s~.drdildble candidate" whose
= history and politics, unknown TO the people
, al large, might he made the subjects OF rep
. reservations as various as there were variou:
. interests in The republic 10 court. This can
!, didate they found in the person of William
E Henry Harrison, 4 gentleman OF the mos
, approved and ancient federal stamp, bu
whose obscuriiy of life, toI many years past
=, afforded the amplest hope that his sentiment:
/ could be successfully concealed. Upon hin
:. the choice Of the convention accordingly
= fell, and then that body. true to the desi-r
q of which we have spoken. adjourned withou
"anv general declaration of the views of thu
great opposition party" TO the present Demo
: cratic administration The subsequent con
/ v~enlions of that party have adopted TIN
I precedent as the governing rule of their &c
!. ton, and pertinaciously adhered to a courst
nnexampIed in the history Of the United
n States.
Nor has Gen. Harrison himself, been back
IS ward in carrying out this disreputable design
In answer to questions o fpublic Importance
c respectfully asked by an association of citi
n zens of the State OF New York, he replied
through Il confidential committee, in III
month OF February last, that his 'rolicy is
to s.make no further declaration of his pin
if ciples for the public eye, whilst occupying
n his present position" To the bearers of
e, letter. from the Democratic State Contra
Committee of Kentucky. requesting, in tn
a. most gentlemanly terms, his opinion on tn
p subject of Abolition, he stated, in the SUI
of ceeding month of April, 'ihat nothing coul
er induce him to answer such i~nterTogatorie
c. coming either from friends or foes" An
,e finally, (although. in 1922, in answer to
:" call on the candidates for Congress, in III
r Cincinnati district, of whom he was on,
r. "to publish their political creeds, that til
electors might have a fair opportunity
st choosing those. whose sentiments should be-
rs accord with their own" ne had responde,
ct that he had sever believed that every electC
Mt has n right to make this call upon those wi
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