The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-03-03
From the 81 Louis Missouri Argus.
JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 80, IofI

reported to-day TO the il"uoo
sentatives by Mr.. WhiPpie, Dy 'he Sc
lect committee appointed for tha' purpose ,T,
and its adoption recommended. lhe re-
port was agreed to-: .n
Resolued, by the House of Representa-,
tiyes. the Senate concurring therein, nat
he ro,lowine address to Mr.. Van Buren,,
President of the United States, be adop-
ted bv the General Assembly, and the
Governor be requested to forward to the
President copy Of the same.
To MARTIN VAN BUREN,
President of the United States:
S1R:-The General Assembly of the
State Of Missouri, sensibly impressed
with the frmness, integrity, and Patrioi-
ism which have characterized your al.
ministration as President of the United
States. on the approach Of the termlna-
tion of the period for which you were
elected. respectfully tender to you their
regard. esteem, and unimpaired conf
dence.
II was at no ordinary period that the
unboueht suffrages Of free people called
you TO the Presidential chair; and with
moral intrepidity, enlightened sagaeity,
and sleepless vigilance, you have been
faithful to every principle and impulse of
Democracy.
On your elevation 10 the Presidential
chair, our country presented the Palniui
spectacle OF a nation convulsed with the
violence Of Observation-Disclosures, yet
full of the murmurs, threats and malig-
nant passions of approaching anarchy-a
party the constant and consistent enemies
of Democracy party which under the
execrated name of Federalist, had been
crushed into no,hingness by the the slow
vet steady advance Of truth-whlch look
ed on the people as incapable Of self
government-which had fercely opposed
the administration Of Mr.. Jefferson
which had submitted to the brutal insults
of Great Britain, estimating even mer-
chants goods higher than our sailors
rights-which had opposed our just war,
adding parricidal insults TO their already
bleeding country-which had submitted
in silence to the treason Of Hartford
Convention-which had sustained all the
errors, heresies and ursurpations of the
administration of Joh Quincy Adams
and which had opposed, with uncompro-
missing violence, all the measures Of Gen.
Jackson's triumphant administration. sud-
denly usurp the time honored name OF
Whig, and allied to British capitalists and
domestic stockholders, they have boldly
warred against the principles Of Democra.
cy. by the power Of money, the corrup.
tions of the press, and the consPracies of
banking institutions.
Ills with pride that We rejoice in the
frmness with which you met the dangers
and attacks of the party; and it is with
pleasure that we point to your Inaugural
Address and your message to Congress,
convened under proclamation, as e1o-
ouent and unanswerable manifestations of
YOUR attachment to the principles Of De-
mocracy.
To mar the usefulness Of your admins
tration, and to impair the confidence Vt
the people in il, the Federalists have not
scrupled to resort to the most ungencrous
and foul modes of attack. Recent de.
velopemen.s have exhibited TO US series
of widely spread and extensive conspira.
cies against the purity of elections, and,
sustained by British money, in American
banks, your enemies have been borne into
Office, not by virture of the right Of suf-
frage, but by the vilest frauds upon it.
From the facts before us, we are left TO
infer that there has heen secret and we'll
organized system of bribery and corruP-
ton practised against the great mass Of
the community by the leaders of the
Federal party; and tina, the money which
has been used to purchase votes has been
furnished by those British capitalists who
have dictated political charge to the
State, and who have advocated, in their
subsidized American presses, and by their
tools in Congress, the odious policy and
The inglorious slavery of an assumption
LAVA law which, in first degrading us,
renders us the willing serfs Of a foreign
power. .-.g
During your administration the separa-
iion of the Government from banking in
stitutions has been achieved, and the mo-
ney Of the people has been withdrawn
from irresponsible corruplions, and wise
ly placed unden the management of their
own immediate servants. This Indepen-
dent Treasury law is second Declaration
of independence, calculated to restore