The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-06

STOPPING THE SUPPLIES.

The reprohcnsible cousse which the Wing MAJOR
ity In Congress have pursued with such oosunacy
since the assemblage Of that body last December up
to the present hour will bring forth appropriate fruits
in due 1t is rapidly awakening pubic atten-
ton and once fairly aroused, a betrayed and out
ragged constituency will visit them with signal ven
geance. The grand object of all their efforts, to
which every interest however important, was subor-
dinae has been the intimidation the betrayal or the
expulsion of the Executive and this effected, upon
the ruins of institutions, in the consequent pros
tration of one of its main pillars we were to be Wis
tied with all the horrors of legislative usurpaton.
Thus u. s. Bank, ''such as Gen. Jackson vetoed N
1882" high protective Tariff; an assumption Of
the 500 900 900 Of State debts; perpetuation OF
the Distribution law; and ruthless prescription,
would be but the beginning OF an end, which would
find the nation hopelessy in debt; the channels OF
government corrupted to their source, prohigate
extravaganza in our expenditures, with that most
odious of all nobilities firmly established IN our
midst-a moneyed aristocracy, controlling tbs Gov
eminent. In word, it would place us In the dread
full position which England occupies at this moment;
for, to measures of the very same nature of those
above which the Wing party would fasten upon the
country at all hazards to be attributed the In
equality of wealth and power, the misery and STAR
vation with the impending ruin which threatens the
existence of that nation
To escape the horrors which followed in the foot
steps of factious and omnipotent Legislature, Eng
land once sought refuge in the supreme dictatorship
of Cromwell and France, at later period, in the
despotism of Napoleon. And the history neither Of
the Commonwealth Parliament or of the French
Chamber, furnishes nothing Of their early encroach-
ments that not faithfully reflected in the fiery zeal
and wicked reckessness Of their compeers of our
present Congress.
We have been led to these reflections in marking
the deep determination evinced by the Wing majority
in Congress- further developed day by day, to effect
the darling object of their hearts, in destroying the
Executive-''to head him or die.' Once out of the
way, the road to the accomplishment OF all their
wishes lies before them. But he remains fixed like
the ocean dashed rock-though they chafe him, they
cannot move him.
Repulsed and baff1ed, they are pregnant with all
that mischief readily appreciated by desperate
men; and, with settled purpose to rule ruin, they
aim to effect by subuety and craft what it would be
dangerous to attempt by force. 10 dlscredlt and
dshonor the President, they frame laws obnoxious
and unsound, furnishing in themselves the proof
that they were intended for the veto; and purposey
negecting vital interests, upon which his favorable
opinions were well KNOWN they rail at the undue ex-
erclse of executive power. They are watching with
eagle eyes for the first step which may be tortured
into Singh crime or msdemeanor," whereupon to
impeach him-and one of the fanatics has already
signifed his intention to move to that effect on
grounds already TRANSFERRED. While to finish the pic
ture by assumed concern for the interests of the
country, and feigned fit of economy, they pro-
crastinating the adjustment OF governmental labil-
tiles, these proceedings having for their object
through indirect means, the more daring measure,
it openly advanced, Of stopping the national sup
plies
With majority so decided as that they maintain
in Congress, it is in vain for them to shift the
sponsibility from their own shoulders They, and
they only, are answerable, not only for the policy
of the. day, but for the consequences which may
grow out of it.
All the distress which the country has experienced
has mainly grown out of the violent monster, party.
1t has rendered legislation ''weak and vascilla
tng'' to proverb and made our policy as change
able as the Winds Parties have been nicely bal
anced, that for the last twelve years, power
changed hands, the first business of the dominant
faction of the hour was to undo all that had pre-
vously been DONE Party feeling has grown stronger
with years, and it RACES to the destruction of
all that is left us to boast of in prosper
~ country. Its fatal effects exist in the ruin we
see around us.