The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-10-02
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER ,, ls4(
THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
THE EVE OF THE BATTLE.

Before this number of the "Madsoniann can
reach our remotest subscribers, the returns Of
several more of the State elections will have
reached US and these will be followed by the
electoral elections. The hour of action has ar
rived. We are on the eve of the battle. II is
growing late to be seeking recruits, when the
squadron is set in the feld-when the batteries
are manned, and the sound of the measured
tramp comes on the ear. Let every true Ameri-
can-(party names sink into nsignifcance when
imminent peril threatens the whole country y
arm himseli,for the contest, with the recapitula-
ton of the evils which this Administration has
brought on the country Let him contrast the
state of the country in 1928, with its condition
in 1870 Attic former period, nourishing under
a Government administered at cost to the
country for that year of only $l3 296 ,041; every
branch of industry thriving the mechanic fully
employed, the aborer content, the capitalist cir
culatng his funds freely and without distrust, at
reasonable rate of interest, the domestic ex-
changes nearly equalized, so that a ten dollar
Western or Southern note was worth nearly its
ten dollars in the Eastern cities. And now, the
same country whitening under an Administra-
ton by which, through its extravaganza, and
encouragement of defaulters for electioneering
purposes, the cost TO the country has been ire
bied, amounting to little less than FORTY MIL
LIONS; and when all our interests are pining,
the mechanic unemployed, or employed at d.
minished wages, and the laborer scarcely able to
support his wife and children by the sweat of
his brow with the open declaration of the de-
sign of the ruling powers to bring down the
wages of industry TO the standard of the most
absolute governments of Europe-and the cur
iency so deranged that the ten dollar note from the
South and West will scarcely bring its owner
seren dollars when offered in New York and
Philadelphia.
Let the people lay these truths to heart and
keep them in memory when the morning of the
day of election shall summon them TO the polls,
and we shall require no other armor by which to
win the victory. Are we to go on pining and
whitening until we are reduced TO the condition
of hopeless and helpless slavery Or shall we
now, by strong and united effort, replace our
selves in that prosperous position which we oc
cupied before? The question will be answered
at the polls. II will then be decided and for
erer, If we are any longer to retain in our go
vernment those features of Republicanism which
have rendered our institutions the admiration of
the lovers ofhuman freedom throughout the earth,
or whether our experiment in favor Of self
government is TO terminate in sickly abortion
We rely with confidence on the result. The
people have already spoken in their primitive
assemblies, as il becomes free and intelligent
people to speak, and what they have sanctioned
in these over-spreading conventions numerous
Gas leaves in Vallambrosa," they will ratiiy at
the ballot boxes.