The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-22

think it matter of no Importance that their honor
and truth should be forfeited
We have parted with all power and put II INTO the
hands Of our representatives. They our agents.
We cannot act, and these agents are slumbering at
their posts. They are discussing who shall DC "o
next President, and inatentive TO their uutios'
and who can gainsay il;
We have difficulties, il is true, but do not wish TO
magnify those difficulties. Long distant may pe .ia'
day when we shall have a contest with hatoh
which speaks our own language. But are we "
stand still at the most exposed point OF the Uhioh-
Are we to stand indifferent when delicate ana I'M
porant question is agitated between this country anu
Great Britain, and whole line of coast is almost
without defence and nothing on the ocean to meet an
enemy, and on the ocean our enemy may DC
Are to be indifferent to the sad state oil our
merchants and mechancsl Are they To be indiheren'
when their representatives slumber, anu ciouu 10
gathering over them so plain that all may see 1t
The idea that we must not act Is most iaiiacious
This government belongs to the people, and wheh our
representatives sleep their posts they IN Isl DC re-
handed by their constituents. And know that IL Tue
men who have assembled in this Hall unite properly
on this question, they can send forth an Impulse as
from the heart of their constituents which VIII DC ieit
in every extremity OF the country.
An influence can go from New fork more power Vi
than from any part OF the United States.
Shall this influence 90 ferhl Shall We tell our re-
representatives. that they must attend to their legitimate
duies2 Shall there be any preference for ment oha
be told that this not the time to agitate nv NO
let US come torWaIu anu w shas "iiS" ''
, restore prosperity to the country.
| We are sw amped in debt. And does any man doubt
that there is but way TO pay it, and not that by
a direc, tax or dutyl AS to that question, no matter
what Calhoun says, it Is settled.
We must pay il by duties on the merchandise im-
ported into this country. If there is other way TO
fulfil the obligations OF the Government TO provide
national defence, and to maintain our national honor
| why not lay on the duties at once2
| All agree that whether there are to be discriminate
ing duties or not there to be duties, and that we
to provide for the payment OF the national uebt
and for the economical wants OF the country, anu iof
the defence of the country.
| These are not propositions which we can doubt,
and we or come not here to laud man or another
or aid him to be President to be aspirant to that
Office but to influence Congress to do their duty And
believe and express it here with all the soemnty
that belongs to the sentiment that if they return home
without doing than they have DONE they VIII de-
! serve the scorn Of the whole nation.
New York must come back to her revolutionary
| remedies and must here elsewhere appoint a
Committee Of Safety.
If they who have sworn to protect US deprive us OF
our defence If they under the most solemn obliga
tons will not discharge every duty which devoves on
them, the people must take care OF themselves, II
their own primary assemblies with committees
| chosen by themselves.
| do not imagine that any event will arise, which
will require it. Far distant be it from US. But \
disasters as would ensue from the people rising en-
masse, not to advance party or depress another
but to save their common country.
General Tamadge then moved the following reso
luton which was adopted
Resolved That these resolutions be published ant
copies sent to each House of Congress, and also t'
each branch of the Legislature of this State as being
equally amenable with Congress to public censure
The meeting then ad journed.