Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-10-09

States-a measure recommended not only
by considerations of Justice to the States
themselves, but also by sad experience
of the embarrassment produced in the cur
rency resulting from the administration of
a fund of such variable amount as an item
in the ordinary revenues of the Govern
ment. The establishment of an economi-
cal administration of the finances they
expected to attain by cutting down all
useless offices; by enforcing a strict &C
countabilty of the public agents; and.
more conspicuously. by making exact and
adequate provision for the ascertainment
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
Government notes.
These were the prominent points to
which the policy of the 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.
ifesto was put forth to declare the terms
upon which we insisted. We chose rather
to appeal to the widely -dtfused knowledge
Of our principle which had been i'm
pressed upon every mans mind in that long
struggle of years gone by; with which
one party had been identified, and of
which its very name was an exponent.
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ton spread over territory Of such extent
as that comprehended By our Union, and
exhibiting interests so diversified. what
might be called the characteristic prnci-
pies of the Wing party, throughout this
wide sphere, should be subject to occasional
notifications, dependent upon local influ-
cnces; and that it was incumbent, there
fore, upon the party to move together IN
a spirit of mutual concession and accommo-
dation of sectional differences of opinion.
1t need not be told that, in the system of
nicting views might naturally exist be-
tween the Representatives of distant por-
tons of our Republic, and that only by
the yielding Of minor interests to the estab
lshment of the general good, entire har
m ny was to be obtained in the action o.
Congress. This was natural, and to be ex
pected. But we felt a proud consciousness:
that in the patriotism of the party all such
difficulties would vanish. and that the de-
mands of an enlarged welfare would be
met and fulfilled, through the virtue of that
spirit of compromise and forbearance, that
liberal and comprehensive sentiment of
self-denial and concession, which rests at
the heart of our confederacy, and which
constitutes the living principle of our
union. Before the appointed day arrived
for the meeting of Congress, and at the
expiration of but one short month from
the date of his inauguration, our beloved
President was snatched from us by the
grasp of DEATH too soon for the happi-
ness of his country, but not too soon to
awaken in our bosoms a deep and awfu
sense of the irreparable loss which we
have sustained in the deprivation Of Il great
and good man--not too soon to convince
US how long and how bitterly our country
is doomed to deplore this heavy misfor.
tune. In this our calamity, we hoped to
find consolation in the character and prin-
cipes of him whom the Constitution had
designated to fill the office of the departed
chief 1t is true, that towards that indi-
vidual, even at the moment of his selection
for the Vice Presidency, no very earnest
public attention had been directed: and it
is equally true that but passing regard
was bestowed upon the current of his
previous life and opinions. We only
knew him as one protesting to be men,
Der of the Wing party, and as seeking to
identify himself with those great leaders
of that party whose opinions and princi-
piles were deeply engraved in the most
conspicuous acts of our political history
and were read and understood by every
citizen in the land. In this connection
where he had sought to be prominent, we
dscerned what we conceived, and wha
doubtless he meant, to be pledge of faith
full adherence to the cardinal doctrines fol
which we struggled, and with which the
hopes of the country were indissolubly
bound up. We hoped to find consolation
also in the fact that his accession TO tht
Presidency brought him into communion
and intimate political fellowship with thu
chosen vanguard of the Wing party-th,
first selection made by General HARRIso,
of Cabinet, distinguished for its para
mount ability, integrity, and fidelity to tn
glorious cause in which we had conquered
a Cabinet emnenty crowned with tn
public confidence, in whom all men trustc
as in the very embodiment of the primo
: pies Of the party to which they belonged
who were inseparably associated with i,
glory, and in whose generous and honor;
BILE relation to the President we had tn
security of wise and prosperous counsel