The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-09-25

preston upon the country, and to excite
so much interest insthe future action and
relations Of the Wing party, that the
| Wing Representatives in both Houses of
Congress have thought it their duty, be-
fore separating, to address their consttu-
ents with brief exposition of the cir
cumstances in which they conceive them
selves to be placed by the events which
have recently TRANSFERRED.
This session af Congress was called as
| almost the first measure of that llustrious
| and lamented citizen whose election to
the Presidency was no less significant of
the general sentiment OF condemnation of
the acts of the preceding Administration,
than it was expressive ola wish for an i'm
mediate and radical change in the public
policy. The improvidence of those who
had just been expelled from power had
rendered in inevitable; and the country
hailed the meeting of a new Congress as
the sure pledge of relief from all those G.
wills which the disastrous ncompelency of
the men at the head of affairs had brought
upon it.
The People desired the early adoption
of the policy which had been promised
them by the Wing party. That policy
has been brought to the consideration of
the country throughout contest of
nearly twelve years duration; maintained
with unexampled devotion; and its prin-
ciples were illustrated by the precepts
and practice of the most eminent and pa
rlotlc of our citizens in every form by
which they were able TO address them
selves to the intelligence of the People,
No one Inexperienced these principles;
they were identified with the labors OF
that great party whose unparalleled sue
cess was both the token and the reward
of the general confidence of the nation.-
They promised reform
lst In the restraint ofExecutive power
and patronage,
I'd. In the wholesome regulation of the
currency and the advancement of the in
terests of industry; and
Sd. In the establishment of an econo-
mlcal administration of the finances.
They proposed to accomplish the first
of these objects by limiting the service OF
the President to single term; by forbid
ding all officers OF the Government from
interfering i'll elections; and by a volunta-
ry self-denial, on the part of the Chiel
Magistrate, in that excessive use of the
Veto power which had recently become
so offensive to the country as an instru-
mcnt Of party supremacy
They hoped to achieve their next OBJ
lect by the establishment of National
Bank; by an adju stment Of the system OF
duties upon moderate and permanent
scale, adapted as nearly as practicable to
the. interest, and conlormable with the
views ofevery portion of the Union; by
the establishment of a uniform system OF
bankruptcy; and by the distribution of the
proceeds of the public lands amongst the
States-a measure recommended not only
by considerations of justice to the States
themselves, but also by a sad experience
of the embarrassment produced in the
currency resulting from the administra-
ton OF fund of such variable amount as
an item in the ordinary revenues of the
Government. The establishment of an
economical administration of the finances
they expected to attain by cutting down
all useless offices; by enforcing"a strict
accountability Of the public agents; and,
more conspiciously, by making exact and
adequate provision for the ascertainmen,
and eventual liquidation of that public
debt. which the past Administration had
created by permitting their expenditures to
overrun their receipts, and which they
had concealed from public observation by
the easy device of repeated issues of Go
vernmrnt notes.
These were the prominent points to
which the policy ofthe Wing party had
been directed, and which constituted the
great issues before the country in the re-
cent Presidential election. We are aware
that our adversaries in that contest now
deny these issues, founding their denial
chiefly upon the fact that no formal man
lesto was put forth to declare the terms
upon which we insisted. We choose
rather to appeal to widely diffused knowl-
edge Of our principles which had been i'm
pressed upon every mans mind in that
long struggle of years gone by; with
which one party had been Unidentified,
and Of which its very name was an expo
nent.
| 1t need not be said that, in represent
tation spread over a territory of such ex-
tent as that comprehended by our Union,
and exhibiting interests so diversified,
what might be called the characteristic
principles of the Wing party, throughout
this wide sphere, should be subject to &C.
casional notifications, dependent upon
local influences; and that it was incum-
bent, therefore; upon the party to move
together in spirit Of mutual concession
and accommodation of sectional differences
of opinion. It need not be told that. in