The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-06-18
From the Detroit Daily Times.
PUBLIC MEETING IN CLEVELAND.

We publish below string of resolutions adopted
at public meeting held recently in Cleveland, COM
posed of all parties sects and creeds friendly to the
present Administration of the General Government,
at which the Mayor of the city presided. The gene
raj feeling of disgust with which the two rival fac
tons which distract the country are regarded, is
leading people to inquire whether the time has not
come to put speedy end to their malicious and de-
structive upon the great interests of the coun-
try Certain it is that, while they maintain the ati
ude towards each other, and towards the Executive,
which they have for months held, no measure good,
bad, Indifferent, bearing upon the leading interests
of the country, can be adopted. Can any thing be
more manifest than that either of them would sooner
the institutions of the country in ruins than
ton any great measure which was brought forward,
either by the antagonist party the Executive9 And
what have to expect but anarchy and ruin from
such state of things ths We have all virtually
taken the oath of allegiance to the Government I'M
der which we live, and to make indiscriminate war
upon one Of its departments-to do our utmost to
cripple and derange its operations and Illustrate all
its designs, without any regard to the bearing they
may have and from higher motive than the graft
fcatlon of party mace-is this acting the part of
good citizen-a friend to his country? The Lord de-
liver us from such patriotism as this
1t is well understood that we have no fellowship
with either party, and equally well understood that
we differ from the Executive in some material points,
At the same time we cannot stand by and see the
great interests of the country sacrificed to crafty the
malicious feelings of the two contending factions,
WltnOut llIllnS up nOc OF remOnSIancc. Inc IOl-
lowing remarks from the Cleveland Gatherer, an in
dependent paper, are to the point:
Let the people at large breathe upon this let
them get from under the wheels Of the great politi
cal Juggernauts of the day that rolling the
land and at last think for themselves in what way
can be secured to them return of the prosperity
which has been forfeited by party legislation. We
have played upon the political organ till we are
starving, and it is time to look around us, and
in what way the perilled interests of the country
can be restored to permanent prosperity. One thing
certain parties thus far have in most cases falsi
fed their promises we have gone into the shock of
political conflict only TO become more exhausted ;
and at this time, with soil as productive as the
widest dreams of avarice could sigh for, and pop
ulation whose industry is untring the sternest
necessity could expect, we are yet borne down to the
hard breast of national poverty and the prospect be-
fore is llmitless taxation, exhausted Treasury,
distracted national councils, and reign of dem
| agogusm in which half dozen of hungry
Catalnes preparing to take part. God help US,
for man will mott"
[The resolutions were published in the Mad
isonian some days since.