The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-21
From the Old School Republican,
ADMINISTRATION MEETING.

At hume Gus and respectable meeting Of the cti-
zens of Franklin County held in the City of Column
bus Saturday the 18th inst, on notion,
MIsKEL SAUNDERS, Esq, of Norwich Township,
was called to the Chair and Ms Robert Cutler of Co
umbus, appointed Secretary.
Onmotion of Dr. r. Thompson, committee OF
three appointed to draft an Address to the Peo-
pie of Franklin County.
Whereupon, the Chair appointed Messrs. 1honp-
son, of Columbus, Topping, of Sharon Township and
Beers, of Clinton Township, said committee
lin the absence of the committee, M. J. Gilbert,
Esq, offered the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That it is the right and duty OF every
American citizen, to advocate right and rebuke
wrong come from what source ii may.
That, in pursuance of the above principle we
sustain the present Administration, because we be-
lieve,
First. That under a republican government, ma
orty ought to rule.
Secondly. That majority of the people of the
United States opposed to the measures of the u-
ira Wings on hand, and to the destructive mea-
sures of the ocofocos the other, and in favor OF
the existing Administration and its conservative mea-
sures.
Thirdly. That the fiscal scheme proposed by the
present Administration, if carried out in the spirit in
which it conceived and submitted TO Congress,
will so far as can consttutionally be effected
dy the existing embarrassments of the country, and
etiectually prevent recurrence of these difficulties
in time to come Therefore,
Resolved That we cordially invite all good citizens
with whom the interests of party not paramount
to that of country, to enroll themselves under the
conservative Republican banner, which we have
heretofore unfured, with the motto, +" Our country
first, last, and always"
The committee, having returned, reported the fol.
lowing
ADDRESS
TO THE FRIENDS OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Again, fellow citizens we address you again we
make our solemn appeal-again we invoke the patr-
otto fire that burns in every beating bosom-eyery
feeling which anmates the freeman-that inspires a
true love of country to MARK WELL the actual cond-
ton of things around us The times are filled with
i'll boding omens. 1t is difficult task TO ioretell
our unhappy fate unless aroused to activity and ex-
erton.
Can fold our arms in security, while desolation
and ruin threaten us upon every side Where are
we and on what great principle do we rest our hopes
In what contending, and what the pros
pect before us? Our struggle, friends and fellow
countrymen, will prove frucss conflict, an idle
waste of words and exerlion without an immediate,
thorough, enectual organization. Ihe real friends
of the country Irrespective OF party names or creeds,
should rally togetlr It's time To act and that reso
uely and efficiently Look abroad and see the wide
spread havoc which party tactics, and party egisla-
ton, have spread the land. On the one hand
behold the Radical Locqfoco leading on his troops
to unconditional prosraton OF all the great sources
Of public and private wealth and trade; and on the
other, Ultra Wings bound and etiered to the car of
that rotten, exploded dishonorod and fallen HOBBY,
the Bank Of the United States-warrlng with tho
desperation of madmen the mastery Here Is the
issue Nowords need be employed to enforce 1t upon
the minds Of the people. lris A1REApY THERE: All
understand it, Each of these contendlng parties arc
up ertremcS One cries, down With all the Banks
down with every thing but hand honey-while me
other is found weeping over the ruins OF the old
speedy resurrection In the midst of this fight, the
er of the soil the honest follower Of the plough is
crying out in the deep anguish Of the tabled story Of
the boys and the frogs, ohie II may be sporfto you
il is death 10 US" ~
And shall these things longer contnnef When we
look the PROSTATE hopes Of the plough hed-when
We the scanty pittance Of honest industry, the
prop and support of the day laborer, wasting upon
| his hands-when behold the deep gloom that set
ties upon his brow and the yet more sorrowng agony
of his domestic iresde-who will moi feel and know
that the wild spirit of party-that the reckessness Of
political leaders, IN their infinite scramble for party