The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-09-15

OF vagabonds, TO enlist in the service OF me rre
sident. This operation is to be repeated every
| year al the rate of twenty-five Thousand yea
| Annually will twenty-five thousand OF these va
oabonds be discharged from service, only Us SUI
stituies TO enter il again for twenty -nVe uiou
sand honest men, who viii be draughted 70 neep
up the number 20 two hundred thousahu' 10y
simple and very ..efhcient Hu'y ,,ou,aoa
Of military tactics, BY drilling hrellng s9osu-
tnte, deserves the praise Of originality AZ eas''
| Wa tnoyv thai man may legislate by his repre-
sar,atve contract by agent, bring suit by attor-
nov and 6ght by substitute, but TO learn by sub
s,iute is an improvement reserved ior inns inseh-
five age, off il work well il may gradually De
| extended 10 the whole United States ana mem
| hers of Congress may learn TO debate without
violating the rules of decorum; certain editors
and demagogues that we wot OF may learn 70
tell the truth, sub -treasurers may learn to keep
| their hands out of our pockets; and the fresi-
| dent may iedy1, respect for the Constitution. -
| And what great benefit, il may be asked, will
the President and his party derive from these re-
cruits7 The first and most striking beneht Is
that upon every principle which influences hu-
man action, if not immediately, after a few years
of discipline under the orders Of the President
by officers of the regular army, every man OF the
corps will be true 10 the flag of the party. Only
imagine that at this time there were eighteen
thousand of these recruits, ''thoroughly drilled,
in the State of New York, who would control
the election in the Empire State2 Suppose
10000 in Pennsylvania who would be master
of the keystone2 and who will control OHIO,
and the west and the south, and Mary land, ana
the ancient Dominion herself when their quotas
of two hundred thousand men (for by the next
Presidential election that will be the number) are
marched to the polls with drums beating, and
colors fiying2 As a political engine, joined to
the patronage of the Government and the com
mand of the public purse, il will render any par
", which may be in possession OF power, IRE
sistible, even at the polls, where, alone, the Peo-
pie have power.
But there is another use to which It IS to be
put According TO an express provision OF the
plan the President is to be invested with power,
not when called on by the civil authority, but
whenever he deems it necessary, TO call out these
trained bands to execute the laws, and suppress
nsunection At his command, therefore, they
are to point their bayonets at the bosoms OF the
citizens When the People shall find that they
are overpowered al the polls by the corrupt agents
of the Executive, backed by his mercenaries, and
dare TO assemble to devise means to assert their
rights, and relieve themselves from grievances
brought upon them by the misrule and rapacity
of the Government and its mlnions, It rests with
the President TO pronounce them sINsURGENTs;"
to be dispersed by his soldiers.
BY the nineteenth section Of the proposed plan
il is declared 6 that whenever the laws OF the
United States shall be opposed, or the execution
thereof obstructed in any State by combinations
too powerful TO be suppressed by the ordinary
course of judicial proceeding, or by the powers
vested in the marshal, il shall be lawful for the
President Of the United States to call forth the
militia of such State, or Of any other State or
States, as may be necessary to suppress such
combinations, and cause the laws to be duly ex.
ecuted and the use of the militia SO to be called
forth, may be continued, if necessary, until the
expiration Of thirty days after the commence
ment of the then next session of Congress, Pro-
pided, That whenever it may be necessary, in
the JUDGMENT of The President, to use the mil
itary force thus called forth, he shall, forthwith,
by proclamation, command such insurgents to
disperse, and retire peaceaby to their respective
abodes within limited time; And propided
also, That the militia, which the President is
thus authorized to call forth, be Of the active,
or of the active and sedentary forces, when such
force or forces of the State, or OF the neighbor-
ing States shall be, in his opinion sufficient; and,
when not, then such portions Of the mass as nc
shall deem necessary"
Your Democratic President, backed by two
hundred thousand Democratic soldiers, pronoun-
ces his Democratic People ''insurgents" when
ever, in his Judgment" they deserve that
name, and commands them to go about their
business, and not disturb his Government or
murmur at his laws
Such power, supported only by the scatter
ed regiments of the present army and the citl-
zen soldiers of the militia, is harmless; but back
ed by two hundred thousand mercenaries, it will
render the President master of the country.