The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-09-25
AN Address
TO THE YOUNG MEN 0F OHIO.

OsohO AOuuB iuott " ONsS SSeS'NsS'S% -
Mt Vernon, ash, leave respectfully yet.
earnestly 10, call your attention to-. the
presentstate. Of sffaifss Weafe in the
mldsto o. political contest of unexam-
pISd violence 10 the history oftbe sepub.
l,c. at peace with ell the world, blessed
with d harvest as abundant 80 ever glad
dened the heart ofihe labOrious bus
BandnbaD. dveTshadowed and protected
By The ffeesl constitution upon earth, the
nation 10 yet agitatsd, deeply agitated,
from one extremity OF the country, to tho
other. In view ofthis scene Of exiraoE.
dinary commolicn, il becomes ns aaoi
izens Oethe United States, as desceu-
dan.s Of those who perilled their all To-
found a, a,government on the principle Of
equal rights as young men, who already
participete in the exercise Of political
power, and upon whom that power must
ere long chiefly devolve,to seriously iu-
quire what 10 the cause Of this unparal-
lsIled stFife. Our opponents boldly
charge lt.upon the administration of The
General Government.
To their vivid imagina,ions Martin
Vau Ruren would seem TO be the piolif-
ic cause Of all the evils that befal this
widely extended republic. HE name
is their siereo,yped reply whenever the
source Of misfortune is sought. But,
fellow citizens,is il true that to the de m
ocfatic administration of your choice
Aafe 10 be attributed the difficulties under
which we laborf If so, the acts tha,
have produced those difficulties could
surely be pointed out. And ye. what
tongue Of the thousands daily engaged
in denounciDg the administration, has
veniuTed to do sol In what PARTICULAR
has the administration violated the
rights ofa single citizen What law
has been passed, by the democratic par.
~ to take from any man tho proceeds
Of mis- toll, or stint the rewards Of his
industry : No, fellow citizens, the
cause Of these difficulties, the source Of
this strife, instead Of being traced to
any measure Of The State or the Gener-
al Administra,ion,sre TO be found in the
fact, that the federal party are once
more struggling for power with the en-
ergy and desperation Of the last and on
ly hope. Uorebuked by the repeated
dscis,ons of the popular will for more
than farty years, they still saiasan,agHas
and conyulse the nation, with their un-
bounded aspirations for political domin-
ion. The same men who denounced
Jefferson asa tyrsn', now stigmatize
Van Buren as an enemy Of tho Ameri-
can people. In this, they are true to
their ancient vocation. What measure
Of Jefferson did they ever approve ?
What act Of President Jackson did they
ever fail to condemnl To secure their
hostility TO any system or law,it has on
iy been necessary that i receive the
sanction ofa democratic administr alton.
We are not, therefore to be surprised al
the bitter feelings manifested towards
our patriotic chief magistrate, or at the
indiscrimlna,e condemnation Of all his
acts. no matter how necessary for the
public service or palpably beneficial al
largo. And now fellow citizens, we
propose to review, az fully as the brief
limits Of this address will permit. the
plan Of operations adopted, and acme
of,he various means employed BY the
leaders Of the federal party,to wrest you'
government from its democratic basis,
and rear the structure Of federalism in
its stead. We say the plan adopted by
che federal leaders, for it is not our in.
Ien,ion, much less our desire, to con-
denim with iDdiscriminate csnsure, ail
who serve TO 6l up the ranks Of the par
~ 10 opposition. While we speak with
.he boldness Of truth in the moutbs Of
EeemeD, it shall be our effort 10 do JUS
Ilce 10 all.
Onlhs 4,h day Of JMsrch, 1887, Mar
Gin Van Buren was ihaugaTated as Pres
ident Of The U States. In the succeed
.idg month of May, during The recess Of
Congress, and beforsihe new adminie~
uation had performed any act that could
prejudicially affect them, the banks Of
the Union, with scarcely sing lie excep
iion suspended specie payments. A par
Iial resumption took place in the follow
ing year to be followed in 1889, by a.
mother, though less general suspension.
Rut no twI,hstandiDg this unfortunate
arrangement Of our monetary affairs,the
commodt es and labor Of The country
codtinued 10 commaud the highest pri-
COS paid since the close Of 'ha war -
The products Of the soil and the Produc-
mons Of the mechanic found ready and
. certain market, while the services Of
rhs lAborer were in constant demand
EFO reduce these prices and destroy
Ib'S market, to prnduce hard times and
charge iheir existence upon the admin
jalrsIiOn Of the General Government.
Was the '6rSt effort Of the lederal poll
ticiHns.@EO But how was this to be
Aone1 How could ao miUhfv q YasMlt ha,