The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-26
9TH WARD TIPPECANoE CLUB.


ings, the following preamble and resolutions
were read and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, an association styling itself the ode
mocratic Association of the Fourth Ward,o Of
which Samuel Brady is chairman, and Marcus
| Wolfe, recording secretary, have thought proper,
at a meeting held on the 18th inst, the proceed
ings of which we find published in one of their
official organs of Saturday,to state sEthat those
| political braggarts Fourth Ward Tippecanoe
| Club dare not meet an opponent honest poll
| ticians should do, to discuss principles of Gov
eminent; and like their Harrisburg National
| Convention dare not avow to this community
why the present administration should be broken
| down, or advance any measures on which to
build up another.o And whereas, this Club, for
reasons apparent to every friend of order and the
preservation of the public peace, did refuse to
meet Sour fourth ward7 democrats when invited,
viewing their invitation in the light of sheer inn
pudence, former experience having fully satisfied
/ us that the sEdisiHterested and unbought demo-
crazy" not disposed to listen to any other than
such speakers who advocate the claims of the
federal executive and his ofice-holders. And
whereas the Tippecanoe Club No. a, never backs
out from free, open and honest avowal of its
! opinions, and holds itself in readiness at any mo-
ment to promulgate them in the face of an intel
ligent and candid community, where they may be
received with that attention which they invaria-
! bly, award to their opponents-Therefere be it
Resolved, That the Fourth Ward Tippecanoe
Club offer to the dispassionate consideration of
the voters of the Fourth Ward, the following
reasons ''why the present administration should
be broken down." and another placed in its stead,
that will administer the government not for the
benefit alone of party, but for the happiness of
the whole people.
1. We oppose Martin Van Buren,, because he
came into power not upon his own merits, but
upon the popularity of his 'spredecessorn and for
his pledging himself to the American people, in
his inaugural address, to "follow in his foot
steps,
2. We oppose Martin Van Buren,, because we
can find nothing in his history that entities him
to the exalted seat once filled by a Washington.
1t is in vain that we search the records of the
nation for proofs of his superior ability, and we
solemnly declare that there is not on record a
single achievement, of any description, emitting
him to the least consideration as a public man.
8. We oppose Martin Van Buren,, because,
| when Secretary of State, he truckled to the inn
perious demands of naughty and heightened
British Ministry, and, to regain the British West
India trade, represented us to the cabinet of St
James, in his Instructions to MIR. McLane, as a
divided people; and that the party with whom
| he acted, had turned out of power Messrs. Adj
ans and Clay, for insisting on a system of re-
ciprocity thus yielding the principles of justice
as sacrifice to party ambition!
A. We oppose Martin V an Buren, for his hy-
pocrisy and double-dealing his utter desti-
tuition of national ieeling-for his opposition to
our late war with Great Britain, at a time rife
with peril and disaster; for we find him, in,turn,
opposed to Mr. Madison, and then in favor of
him, taking both sides on the war question:
again, we find him in favor of the tariff, and then
opposed pit; in faver of the United States bank,
and then opposed to it /; in favor of the State
| banks, and then opposed to them; at one time
searching for the ''ost rights of the States, and
at another time, by means of his influence, strik-
| ing one of the most ancient, and of revolutioDa-
ry memory, from her representation in the ma
| tional councils.
| 5. We oppose Martin Van Buren, for attempt
| ing, in the name of democracy" to change the
entire form of our Republican institutions for
his unceasing efforts, by means of his sub-Trea-
| sury scheme, to seize upon the public treasure,
notwithstanding the representatives of the people
| have thrice foiled him in his unholy designs;-
for his pertinacious resistance to the public WILL
by his again forcing, for the fourth time, that
hideous measure, upon ConSress-which he be-
lieves he is enabled to accomplish, in con-
sequence of that infamous measure which struck
from the Councils of the Nation, the legal rep
resentatives OF a sovereign State!
g. We oppose Martin Van Buren,, because we
believe him to be willing, in violation of the just
rights of all the States, to surrender the public
lands to the States in which they lie-which
lands were purchased by the common blood and
treasure of the srltole people-and more especi-
ally do we oppose him, for the reason, that the
proceeds arising from their Sales is solicited for
the noble purposes of education, and internal
! Improvement.
T. We oppose Martin Van Buren, for his profit
gate expenditures and unparalleled waste of the
public treasurc-for his suffering two or three
hundred half starved Seminole Indians to scorn
the Himbecile" efforts of an administration, to
subdue them, backed it has been by an
limited power, and by the enormous expenditure
of more than troenty millions ofdouars'
8. We oppose Martin Van Buren, for his Mo-
narchial predilections-for his making inquiries
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disburse the public treasure, and for his recon-
mendins to Congress the sub-treasury scheme
now used by twenty 1.-TWO Of them--we oppose him
for thus distrusting the genius of our own Peo-
pie, whose Republican sagacity we deem sufi-
cient to enable them to dispense with the princi-
pies and practices of European despotsms.
i 8. We oppose Martin Van Buren, because in
his last annual message he ssstrongly recommend
ed" to the consideration of Congress plan for
Standing Army of two hundred thousand men, to
be differed by the executive-a plan which, if
carried into operation, would not only be in vio-
lation of the constitution, but would most efec-
tually serve ''to harrass people and eat out
their substance"
/ 10. We oppose Martin Van Buren, for playing
the aristocrat, while arrogating the simple vir-
tues of the democrat-for providing massive SER
vices of golden plate, candlesticks, &C. at an
enormous expense to the public-importing gor-
geous furniture from abroad for the Presidential
mansion-all, in our opinion, being useless and
unnecessary; totally atvariance with Republican
simplicity; not necessary to his comfort or con-
venience; never desired by any other President;
and an aping of royalty disreputable in the head
i of democratic peoplel
HWe oppose Martin Van Buren, for a still
stonger reason than any we have yet enumer-.
ated-we allude to his vote in the New York
Convention, prescribing for their poverty, esthose
heroes who had fought at Quebec and Stony
Point, under the banners of Montgomery and
Wayne"-and When reminded ofthis by a faith
ful Wing, he replied" 1t was the duty of the
Convention to guard against the admission Of
those impressions which sympathy in individual
cases, may excite"-and still more earnestly do
we oppose him, for his infamous vote in the said
i Convention. for nxinnr Tho r;acht aG frasxn q