Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-05-07
EIGHTEEN REASONS
lphy Martin Fan Buren, ought not TO be n
elected President of tie u. States.

Why Martin Fan Buren, ought not TO be re-
elected President Of tie U. States.
/. Because no Chief Magistrate of this u
mon should remain in Office more than one
term.
.. Every prominent act of his administra-
ton has not only hampered the interests and
prosperity of the country, but has been an o.
pen, unequivocal violation of every principle
and profession upon which Gen. Jackson
came into power in 1929.
B. The tendency of federal action under
the administration of Mr.. Van Buren, is to
absorb the powers Of the State governments
and to erect at Washington despotic system
of centraksm and consolidation.
4. He is the instrument of party, and
not the President of the Union.
5. He is inaccessible to the people-indif-
ferent to their wants and interests-contcmns
their Will, by refusing to acquiesce in deci-
sions of the majority-is selfish in his views.
and sectional and partial in his action-enter-
tains an estimate of human nature so low
that it is degrading for an upright citizen to
accept an office at his hands-acting upon the
principle that the people are corrupt, and that
every man has his price, bringing the pat
ronage OF his office in conflict with the free
dom of their misunderstanding complete
power over the people for himself, and dis
CidilhiIiS any uuty III tneT DeHdlf as lncufn-
bent on him in their return.
6. He wants the whole moneyed power of
the United States vested in him and under
his control.
7. lie will not agree that the patronage
and power Of the federal executive, now ex-
ercised by him, shall be either lessened or
regulated by law.
3. He wishes the States to surrender their
right to the moneys arising from the sales of
the public lands.
8. He has subverted the course of legisla-
ton, by making laws originate with him and
partIzan Senate: whereas they should orr
ginate in the House of Representatives.
10. He recommends national bankrupt
law, applicable only to corporations, so that
he should possess an absolute control over
all the State institutions, and be able to
crush them all at pleasure.
III. He wants an Executive Bank, and
power to resort to the exploded and ruinous
practice OF deprecated Government paper
money.
II. The tendency of his recommendations
is to destroy the credit system of the country,
to hamper Its commerce, to lesson its trade,
and to Gepreciate its labor.
13. He has been in Office three years. re-
| celved SIS, 900 of the public money, and has
accomplished little else than running the ship
OF State off the republican track.
Id. He rests the merit of his administra-
ton upon one expedient, which he has failed
to carry, and permits one paltry question
which involves a miserable warfare AGAINST
the State Banks to engage his whole mind
| and occupy his time, proving him to be con-
tracted in his views, and incapable of the
comprehensive and magnanimous policy of a
statesman.
Is. He has never originated or carried
through any Legislative body, any law or
measure worthy of an eminent statesman.
16. He has done nothing at any time wor-
thy of the gratitude of the people, nor to en-
title him to ask them to overlook the pledges
Of his predecessor, and give him the Office of
President for two successive terms.
II. He appoints 'rogues and ROY alists''
to Office, vino steal and sguander the public
money.
Is. Because the inference from all his con-
duct is, that ne is wanting either in integrity
or capacity.
There are other potent reasons. Indeed
| they are as plenty as the leaves that strew
| the vale of Vallambrosa. But enough for
! the present.--Mndlisonian