Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1842-11-05

worthy OF directing inc eueIBle5 oI tnls
great people.
Place him in the Presidency, and we
will have Chief Magistrate whose pa
ternaI eye will embrace the whole coun-
try in its scope, and each pulsation OF
whose heart will be for the common veal
Armed with that true dignity which is the
offspring of an earnest nature and pure
morality, he will swear his honors proud,
ly, yet mcekly,' and under his auspices
ouI national character will be elevated at
home and abroad The influence of his
own exalted nature will be felt by bis
countrymen, giving them renewed sense
of moral worth and nobler rules for indi-
vidual guidance.
There are many Of our friends with
whom We were won't Of old TO be assocat.
cd, whose presence amongst the ranks OF
the whig party gives us great pain. We
understand precisely their position, and
properly appreciate the purity of their
motives, and the honesty of their inten-
tions. We allude TO those. State Rights
men, who from false notion of consisten
cy, were led 10 oppose men rather thar
mepsures, in the late Presidency, and who
believed themselves as firmly bound &c
oppose Mr.. Van Buren, in 1910 as in
1882 or '36.
The justification assumed by many Of
those who were then in our opinion led a.
stray by their preiudices, was that the
struggle was merely for change of dy
nasty; that they desired honest and fit a.
gents for the administration of the gov.
eminent, and that long possession of pow
er having corrupted its holders, every
thing was TO be hoped from q transfer of
IFS exercise, to hands unstained with Off
cial peculation.
That such were the honest convictions
of many we know, for we saw in the
ranks of the wing party not a few, who
were agreed with us as to the doctrines
we were Advocating, who were the friends
Of the Independent Treasury scheme, the
Opponents of National Bank, Of incl
dental protection to manufactures and OF
the distribution ofthe proceeds of the pub
lie lands, hut who, whether distrusting our
sincerity, or fancying that all other consi-
derations should yield to the paramount
obligation of defeating Mr.. Van Buren,,
separated themselves from us-as we
hope, but for season. The object for
which they banded with the whig party
having been accomplished, the end al
which they aimed effected, with Mr.. Van
Buren's overthrow, the influence Of his
predecessor, to which they ascribed the
nomination of the former to the Presiden-
cy-entireIy overcome, it strikes US that
review Of the circumstances with which
they are surrounded, and of the position
which they occupy, becomes highly i'm
portant to be taken by them. They can
owe no higher duty to the wing party
than to their country and themselves
Success has released them from the obi
cations with which they were fettered,
and the importance of the measures offer
ed to the consideration of the American
people, no longer permits inaction, or
suffers the dereliction of duty. Elevated
to power by their aid, the Federalists, the
main constituent portion Of the whig par
ty of 1910, have made an ungenerous use
Of their temporary triumph, and no longer
requiring the aid of their republican con-
lederatcs, have drawn from its dark re-
cess their moth eaten banner, and boldly
unlurled it to the breeze. No one can
mistake the impression that it Aaringly
displays, "the American system" is insert
bed upon its folds, and the leader who has
so often borne il to defeat, now grasps it
with the assured confidence of easy victo-
ry. By progress that was easy and ma
tural, the friends of whom we speak have
been led from enduring to advocating doc
trines that we're once odious TO them, and
step by step have they advanced, until so
great has been their deviation from the
old Republican track, that they shrink
startled from the dangers that beset their
devious and uncertain way. Compelled
in 1910, for the sake of the "union of the
wings" TO tolerate the display at the mass
meeting at Baltimore and elsewhere, of
"National Bank" and "Protcctive Tariff
transparencies and banners, many of
them now "woo the monster to their en-
brace," and in 1912, the very men, South
ern men, who ten short years before out
Heroded Herod, in their stockings for a
literal construction of the Federal Consti
tuition, now advocate the establishment of
an immense and controlling monied insti-
tuition with powers far more vast than the |
former, whose destruction by Gen. Jack
son they so lauded--and the enactment of
ga wise and judicious tariff" to afford am
pie incidental protection. How much fur
Their in their career, they may run, VIC
cannot conjecture, but in their efforts 10
direct the wing party, and to give it the
impress of their peculiar opinions, we
fear that they will hardly be more tortu.