Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-07-30
WAYNESBOROUGH TIPPECANOE
CLUB

CLUB.
Ata meeting of the Wings of Waynesbo-
rough and the neighborhood, held in the A
cademy on the 18th day of July, 1910, called
for the purpose of organizing a Tippecanoe
Club, Charles Patrick, Esq. was called to
the chair, and John Wayt, Esq. appointed
Secretary.
On motion Resolved, That Dr. Richard II.
Henry, D. S. Young, Nath'l. Massie, Mai.
Arch'd. Stuart and Peter Hanger be appoint
ed a committee to report a preamble and res
olutions expressive of the object of the meet
ing. The committee having met and agreed
upon report, submitted the following, which
was adopted, viz:
Whereas, we believe the present embarrass-
ed condition of our country is unexampled
IN its history, at time Of profound peace
and that this condition is the result of unwise
measures heedlessly began and urged forward
by the past and present administrations
We moreover believe that to be relieved,
change of rulers is necessary, and this can
only be accomplished by perseverance, vigil
lance and union on the part of the opposition.
AT such time too, the country expects every
man to do his duty, and the call is loud to
every Wing to push onward the noble cause
in which he is engaged. For our preference
In the present Presidential canvass we sub
init the lolloWlng reasons:
We object to Mr.. Van Buren,, because he
approved of and assisted to carry out the mea-
sures of Gen. Jackson against the banking
institutions of the country, whereby the cur
rency became deranged, property deprecated
and public credit impaired; because of the
Sub Treasury scheme, at first repudiated by
his party, then adopted by them; rejected by
'he people, and now pressed upon them, by
which he obtains possession Of theapurse of
the nation, and having, by the constitution,
the sword, there will be no bounds to his
power.
We object to him because Of the instabii-
ty of his political course. He has been Re-
publican and Federalist, Clintonan and anti
Clintonian; he was for and against the war,
and opposed the reelection of James Madi-
son; ne has been for and against the tariff
voted for 1t in 1924, without, and in 1929, by
instructions, as he says, and yet his sheep
speech tells how much he was personally in
terested, and was never known to entertain
any feelings Of opposition to it, until the South
became greatly excited on the subiect,and vet
approved of Gen. Jackson's Proclamation
and the Force Bill.
We object to him, because he has been for
and against Internal Improvements by the
General Government; he voted to erect toll
gates on the Cumberland road, and has APP
proved of appropriations to that object.
We object to him, because he has been for
and against Bank and the Bank of the u.
s.; he petitoned for branch of the Bank
of the U. S., and was never known to have
any constitutional objections to Bank I'M
til General Jackson's war upon the Bank of
the U. ). We object to him, because being
a latltudlnarian in principle, we hear or know
nothing to the contrary, until wishing to con-
cllIate the South, he remarked in speech be-
fore the Senate, that it was time to look after
the lost rights of the States.
We object to him, because when not under
a peculiar restraint, his feelings and conduct
towards particular institution of the South,
has been utterly hostile; he voted in the N.
OK Convention to give free negroes the
right of suffrage-he assisted in instructinp
Rufus King to oppose the admission of Mis-.
souri, into the Union as a slave state--he yo |
ted to restrict slavery in the territory of Flor
ida. In his N. Carolina letter, he saws in
subsistence, that he conld not bring his mind
to believe that Congress did not possess the
power to abolish slavery in the District of
Columbia, and last and worst, he approved of
admitting negro testimony against white
men, and officers too, in the naval service of
the U. s., as in the case of Lieut.. Hooe-l
therefore was it necessary to pledge himself
to veto any bill on the subject.
we OBJECT to him and his prominent sup
Porters, because they wish to introduce me-
taillc currency alone, which is totally insult
ed 10 the character and wants of this coun-
try-because they wish to reduce the value
of property and labour to the specie standard
because they have kept defaulters in Office.
knowing them to be defaulters, thereby sub,
jectiDg the Treasury to plumber, and because
they have been extravagant in the expendi-
ture of the public moneys; the expenditures
IF this Administration being treble that of
J. q. Adams, and double that of J. Madison
Turing the war. We object to them, because
iiaugfe their professions Of democracy and
State rights, they wilfully refused to admit
'-6ths Of the legally returned members Of a
sovereign State to their seats in Congress,