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

In our last number we called the attention of
our readers TO some Of the first operations and
immediate effects of Mr.. VAN BUREN's boosted
great measure of deliverance and reform" the
Sub-treasury system The consequences Of
his general policy-and of that series of pes
titcrous measures which have been adopted and
steadily adhered to as afiinties 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 credit-Ruined Commerce
Reduced Wages-Depreciated 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 undenable testimony
how injurious TO the people have been the
schemes of an Administration that has steadily,
ndustriously, and Systematically aimed exclu-
sively at selfaggrandizement and the continu-
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 authority-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 footstool of power" Ohis is the re-
fined phraseology of Messrs. PIcKENs, McDur-
rIE & Co. I'VE are told by Mr.. PIcKENs that
the Sub-treasury is only the FIRST ACT IN THE
DRAMA
The SipnIfiaanf Iarla rnf time ntfarad hv
the mouth piece of VAN BuRENisM and APos-
TAcY in South Carolina, is resounded, with
slight variation of phrase by the recognized
organ of ''all the decency," and ''a the litera-
ture' of the Van Buren, ranks-the Evening
Post-edted by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT-in
an article which declares that 'the characteristic
feature Of Mr.. VAN BUREN's present position is
preparation for a future series Of public mea-
sures, of which he has as yet been able to give
us but an initiatory sample. The Posi- adds
mo FINAL MEASURE is YET coNsuMMATED. The
year 1912 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
60 its hardest trial"
What new scenes are To open upon us after
.the first act of the DRAMA" we are not left to
conjecture. The Imagination need not stretch
its wings TO discover the important events and
consequences which we are here told the year
1912 is TO produce Simultaneously with these
vauntngs 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 Mr.. VAN BuREN's present po-
sition is only preparative. The BosToN
QUARTERLY REVIEW is the medium for commu-
nicating to the public the more studied and elabo-
rate expositions of Van Burenism, just as the
Globe is the conduit pipe for letting off the
ephemera illusions of the Cabinet and the few
office holders 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 a defence of the Administration, or a
calumny or falsehood 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-
fender of a Tory administration in England
This Boston journal, boasting Of knot Of Fee
deral o1ice-holders for conductors and contrbu-
tors-Bancroft the Collector, Brownson Steward
Of Chelsea Hospital, and others--puts forth the
following as parts Of the drama of which the
Sub-treasury is only the first act.
The Destruction of the systen If free labor and
H. The overthrow of the Church in all its forms and
sects.
III The abolition of the laws relating to the descent
of property.
These abomnable purposes are not advanced
hastily; but coolly and deliberately, and are de-
Tended in studied and elaborate article, from
which we present the subjoined extracts as
specimens:
Wages is a cunning device of the devil for the
benefit of tender conscicnces, who would retain all
the advantages of the slave system without the ex-
pense trouble and odium of being slave holders"
But having traced the inequality we complain of
to its origin proceed TO ask again what is the
NEEDY The remedy is first TO be sought in the de-
structon of the Priest =
" The Priest is universally tyrant universally the
enslaver Of his brethren, and thereoreit is Christi
anity condemns him" ~
/" II may be supposed that we, professionals have no
priests but for ourselves, know no fundamental
difference between Catholic Priest and Protestant
Clergyman, we know no difference Of any magni-
tude in relation TO the principles which they are
based between a Protestant Church and Catholic
Church
There must be class of men set apart and au-
thorized, either by law fashion to speak to in
the of God to be interpreters Of the word Of