Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-10-13

1t, or we mistake greatly the intell:genc,
ot this great and free people.
Reader, peruse the following, quoted
from his Dayton speech, reported by hi
own friends:
"lt has been charged against me fel
low citizens, that | am a Federalst
While | acknowledge that the origina
Federal party of this country was actua
ted in its course by no improper motives
deny that | ever belonged to that class
OF politicians. Tremendous Cheering. !
How could belong to that party? | was
educated in the school of anti.Federalism
and though too young to take an active
part in the politics of the country, when
at the erection of the Constitution, the
nation was divided into two great parties.
my honored father had inducted me into
the principles Of constitutional Democ-
racy, and my teachers were the Henrys
and Alasons of that period. He, who de-
clared that the seeds of monarchy were
sown in the soil of the Constitution, was
a leader of my school of politics. He,
who said that :" if this government be not
monarchy, it has an awful squirting to-
wards a monarchy" was my mentor.
(immense applause. Some time elapsed
before order could be restored at hearing
these emphatic declarations of the Gen
eral) If l know my own feeIings-if
Know my Own iudgcment-I believe now
as did then, with the patriarchs of the
Jeiiersonan school, that the seeds of
monarchy were indeed sown in the fertile
soil of our Federal Constitution, and that
though, for nearly fifty years, they lay
dormant, they at last sprouted and shot
forth into strong and thriving plants,
bearing blossoms and producing ripe fruit.
This Government Is NOR a practical mon
Grchy! Cloud and long cheering, ndi-
eating that the people felt the full force
of his deciaraiion.) Power is power, it
matters not by what name it is called.
The head ofthe Government exercising
monarchical power may be named King,
Emperor, President, or Imaum, (gveat
laughier,) still he is a monarch. But
this is not all. The President of these
United States exercises a power superior
to that vested in the hands of nearly all
the European kings. 1t is power far
greater than that ever dreamed of by t he
old Federal party. 1t is an ultra-Feder-
al power; it is despotism!"
Did such stuff ever before fall from the
lips of an American statesman! Did
such slander upon the trainers of our
glorious Constitution ever before fall
from any one but a black hearted Nova
Scotia tory, and euloglst of England's
king. And how does this silly old man
propose 10 bring back this Government
from being a "practical monarchy?n
This man ofno pledges says how. Hear
nim-the italics are in the reported
speech:
" But l pledge myself before heauen
md earth, if elected President of these
United States, to lay doDn at the end ofI
he term faithfully that high trust at the
feet Of the people,! (Here the multitude
vas so excited as to defy description.
60 farther. here declare, before this
'ast assembly ofthe Miami Tribe (great
aughter) that if am elected, no human
'eing shall ever know upon whom Lwoud
Prefer to see the peoples mantle fall; but
shall surrender this glorious badge of
heir authority into their own hands, to
'estow it as they please"
Such solemn mockery is burlesque
Ipon civil Government and common sense
'atriots and heroes OF the United States,
vas Washington monarchist, were JEFF
erson, Madison, Monroe and Jackson, en-
mics of human liberty, and destroyers of
he Constitution of your country, because
hey suffered the people to pass Judge.
nent on the acts of their first terms, and
1ere reelected? In the eyes Of old
lack cockade Federalist, and his " MI
mi Tribe" white, (and black) savages.
would seem so. But as his favoriIes,
he two Adamses, were rejected by the
eopIe, but who anxiousIy desired to be
lonarchs too, this old simpleton, now. in
he face of "Heaven and Earth" mo
lasphemy, of course makes this prac
ice ofall former Presidents moDsrcbial
rinciplc, when we all know that mon.
rchs neper serce but one term! Thouob
hat may be long or short, like General
Iarrison, they never dare submit their
CTS to thejudgement of the people. AS
, the solemn pledge to the =" Miami
'ribe," that he will never open his mouth
5 to his successor, it is conrem, tible
very one knows that it was ayowed at
Harrisburg, and we heard General Mont.
omery avow the same 'hing in a speech
n Raverdy Johnson's step, in Baltimore,
bile Clay was in hearing, that General
Iarrison was only nominated to make
ay for Henry Clay, by breaking down {
ne Democratic party. Mr.. McNultv Of S
Iount Vernon, was standing by mo at ,
le time, and will vouch TO the same thino.
} all this pledglng is siIIv ridicnloTs ,