Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-11-19
PROPOSALS FOR
ENLARGiNG AND CONTINUING
EEaEI YEONHANo
rs Il regular Political e. Miscellaneous
Newspaper.

WHEN the undersigned commenced, in
January last, the publication of a weekly po-
litical sheet under the name OF the Woman,
to be continued until the Presidential cleo
ton, he intimated that, if circumstances
should prove suspicious, it would probably
be converted, after that period, into regular
journal. The awakening spirit OF the coun-
try has thus far crowned his enterprise with
a success as brilliant as unexpected. The
people of the country have at length learned
from bitter experience that every citizen must
make tia part of his business to watch over
the administration OF its affairs. The maxim
that perpetual vigilance is the price that must
be paid for liberty, is no longer regarded as
rhetorical flourish of high sounding words =
1t has become, and if it please Heaven, ii
will continue to be, a practical maxim with
the people of this generation. A storm has
arisen which will ere long hurl from their
high places the profligate and ambitious men
who have blinded and deceived the people,
who have abused their generous confidence,
who have brought the institutions ofthe coun
try and the country itself TO the verge of ruin.
The political atmosphere will be purified, in
some degree at least, and tie acclamations of
the people will elevate to the first Office in
their Gift an honest man, true patriot, and q
genuine lover of liberty.
But the election of William ii. Harrison,
though an important and Indispensable step,
is, after all, bit step towards the attainment
of those great objects which every enlight-
ened patriot perceivcs to be essential to the
preservation of our liberty and our institu-
tons. Those objects, some of which can be
attained only by an amendment Of the Con-
stitution, are -
First and chiefly, the reduction of the pow
| er, importance and patronage of the Presiden-
iial Office; and under this head that the Pre-.
sident should be ineligible for a second term
and that the power of removal from Office
without the consent OF the Senate should be-
taken from him
That public opinion, purified and enlight
encd by fair discussion, should frown on the
vile system of buying up political partizan'
( with the Offices in the gift of the government
and OF prescribing one-half of the people TO
| opinions sake, and treating tnem.as enemies
/ OF the country -
That the freedom reflections should be re
stored by the disavowal Of the base and dc
| grading doctrine that the officers of the GOV
eminent are the *iIirelings" and servants o
| the President, and bound, by virtue of thci
Office, to become electionoering partizans, AM
even to contribute part of their salaries f
raise fund for corrupting the people -
The restoration of purity, independence
and their original delibcratlve character t
the legislative bodies, now corrupt and ser
vile to az alarming extent, by making tn
members of the two houses ineligible to an
Office with some few eXceptions,) in the Oil
OF the Executive, and by the abandoemen
once and forever, of the base, degrading an
ant-rePubiican doctrine, that every membe
OF the party in power must vote as the hea
OF the party directs, on pain of denunciatior
obloquy and unmeasured abuse through a
the journals of the party -
The publication of degraded and ven;
press, now the disseminator Of falsehood an
servile doctrines, and the executioner of I'll
victims of presidential wrath -
The reduction of the superincumbei
weight of the Federal government by 8,
we're and scrutinizing reduction Of its expci
ses or disbursements, and Jealous resistant