The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-04-20


would have been regularly held in August.
THE ADDRESS OF THOMAS RITCHIE TO
THE ELECTORS OF VIRGINIA.
This purports TO be the address Of the Cen
trail Committee appointed by the Democratic
Republican Loco Foco) members of the Gene
raj Assembly to the people Of Virginia." and is
signed THOMAS RITcHIE, Chairman, dated Rich
mond, April is, ls4l
First as to the svRRlTiEs of this Address
"They Ohe Presidents Cabinet) know that
the President came into office with FIVE millions
of Treasury notes at his disposal, along NTH
the amount actually in The Treasury, and the
revenues Which rere continually accruing."D
This is SPECIMEN of the reasons against spe-
cial session Of Congress. If the people Of this
country, and we trust Of Virginia, were not
aware Of the want Of conscienfiousness in such
statements, il might indeed be a subject of con-
Germ. The money actually in the Treasury %
"The revenues continually accruing!" Does
not every child in the land know that there is
not penny in the Treasury, and that there has
not been for long time7 Is it not equally well
known that the revenues have been for many
months anticipated? Why this issue of Trea-
sury notes, if there were money in the Treasury,
and if revenues were so abounding2 We are
given to understand, and the proof was before
Congress, that this FIVE million of Treasury
notes was greatly insufficient. Payments were
suspended during the whole of last year, and it
may now be said, that the nation has suspended.
tits not the banks alone, but the Republic
And yet the conscience Of Mr.. Richie, the
conscience of his faction, the conscience Of all
the leaders Of the Opposition, will allow them to
say, there is plenty Of money! They have
bankrupted the nation, and they say the nation is
rich
Next, the AGONY Of this Address. "We have
some difficulties to encounter, we have a new
spirit TO exert" They that drove the car OF tri-
umph so prosperously over the PROSTATE necks
of the American people for twelve years, being
arrested, and having got into the mire at last,
might well feel that they shave some difficulties
to encounter" Those difficulties, we trust, will
be found to be Of stern character. The year
1910 will be memorable in the political annals Of
this country. 1t was then that the peoples eyes
were opened; it was then that they rose in their
might to throw off the yoke Of tyrants; and it
was then that a second great and bloodless revo-
luton marched over the land, and stayed not in
its progress till the people felt and said, we are
Free
Revolutions, it is said, never travel backward.
II would have been equally easy, after American
Independence was acknowledged, TO bring back
the American people under the British yoke, as
now to bring them back under the equally hated
woke Of Loco-focoism. The neck Of the nation
is not less sore under the latter, than it was
der the former. They /" have indeed some diff
fculties to encounter !" they have indeed :" a new
spirit to exert" II must be nep, il must be
other than what they have manifested heretofore.
Their doctrines have been tested they have
ruined half the nation, and plunged the whole Of
it in distress they have put the country back at
least half century. II is fortunate for the peo-
pie that they it, know it, and are resolved to
be free, now that they have broken the yoke.
The Old Dominion has come again TO the top
Of the wheel by an act Of Providence, and one Of
her honored sons the fifth out of ten. is President
oil the United States The Globe, and others,
say he was an ultra Democrat. II will at least
be hardto prove him Federalist If they are
content with his history, we are All know his
principles. He has announced them.
Virginia, we doubt not, will stand by him.
He is one of her sons. He has been faith
full to her interests, while he was her repre-
sentative and organ. Now he is the organ
and Chief Magistrate of the nation. We
are happy in the belief, that Virginia will show
in this emergency, that she is proud of John
Tyler, not only as her property, but the nations,
in his character in his principles, in his talents,
and in his high qualifications to serve the Union
and all its members with impartial sway.
Could we spread ourself out over the peaceful
plains and sublime hills of Virginia before next
Thursday, we would publish orr address. We
would say TO her chivalrous sons, remember that
John Tyler is President of the United States.
We would say defend yourselves against the
Richie faction Rout them in the field. Stand
by the Republican principles Of your most dis
,inguished patriots, such as Washington, Jefler-
son, Madison and Monroe. Their bones he IN
your soil, and their names are part OF your his
tory. They are a part, and no small part OF the
country's history. You and we are oil proud Of