Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-02-19


quer" recently rendered by the President
and his Cabinet, we see safe and practical
BILE agent of deliverance from the evils
which beset us in the forms of deprecated
currency, depressed prices and the long
trains of ills connected with them; and our
countrymen hailed this plan of a Board of
Exchequer as the harbinger of coming pros
perity and repose.
But already is the conviction forced on
us that our hopes are to be for the present
disappointed. The public good must not
be permitted to interfere with the aggran-
dizement of certain individuals. Ambi-
tious and aspiring politicians, regardless Of
the tolls and groans of the people, do not
find the attainment of their aims and pro-
ects consulted in this great measure of re-
lief and safety. They will, therefore, none
of it! And the extraordinary spectacle is
now presented to the country, wherein one
set of politicians, opposing themselves to
this beneficent project of the administra-
ton, urge, with the vehcmence of true
faith, the rejected Bank of the United
States; and another set, equally intent upon
her p~u personal elevation, and therefore,
equally 9"ar.e ,n tie proposition of the
b.--," .r.. .r. -."--n4 be option. in pre-
r.r@... 81. u.. a. j and repealed sub
...r. F. IS g., .',u. 20 make patriot
bus. .u. gJ'" man fear and remble!-
/ .. '.-sp"raii n If men, divided for fit-
= on ;'ars by great political gulph, which
none could pass-a evaporation directed
t. single and purely selfish end. to wit: the
breaking down of an upright admniStra-
ton and ruin Of few hundred individuals,
beloved and trusted by the people--if such
cooperation shall be successful in the ac-
complishment of its gnobe objects, bu, lit
tie foundation of hope for continuing libe:.
ty will remain, and the grave Of American
freedom may have been dug by impious
and paricidal hands.
In view Of these considerations We are
persuaded the time has come when it be-
hooves the peoplc--the Republican phalanx
of the land--those survivors of the patriots
Of '9S, and their descendants--to awake to
the exigcncy Of the crisis To look in the
face the dangers which surround them and
arrest the tendencies which are hurrying US
to ruin and our institutions to destruction,
before it is too late.
| 1t is demanded of the people, that turn
ing away from the self interested politi-
clans. they take heed to their own protcc-
ton by the exertion Of their own power;
that they come up to the ready support of
their President, and that they sustain their
honest and patriotic servants in devising
and perfectng such laws as shall promote
their present welfare, and secure their flu
ture interest and happiness.
Rcsolccd, Therefore as the sense of this
meeting, that the time has fully arrived,
when cool heads and sound hearts should
make common cause in a vigorous resou-
ton, to restrain the mad impulse Of blind
infatuation--to correct existing abuses--to
study the common good--and to put forth a
Jealous and united effort, to mend the times.
and relieve the country from existing dis
tress and embarrassment.
! Resolved, That the wildnCss and blind
ness Of party--that political machinery
which sinks the honest freeman into 4 let
tered slave--that fatal snare into whose
merciless meshes the unSuspecting members
of the community, Of whatever belief or
creed, are too easily lcd--and from whose
iron Jaws they are seldom allowed to make
their escape, without dcnuncialion and
abuse--has become one of the greatest and
most CGNlllU CNiIS Vi TIE liulGS.
RcSolred, That we recognize in the up
right conduct Of the Executive Of the Uni
ted States, an anxious desire and ardent
wish to carry out the true doctrines and
principles of the Constitution, and to fash
ion his administration of the Government
upon the good old democratic platform of
that great artifcer of the real Republican
party of his country, the illustrious and be-
loved Thomas Jeferson-whose name will
never be forgotten while a single pillar in
the temple of American Freedom shall be
left to honor his memory.
Resolved. That, while we repose the en-
tire confidence of true American freemen
in the general good intentions and the ar
dent desires of the mass of the members of
Congress to promote the great interests of
their common constituents, we feel bound
to give vent to free expression of our re-
grets. that here are individuals, in each
branch of the National Legislature, who
see; oniy iae eradication If their personal
+piftf,,'u--~' ..l' t',r Gcnci i .ncir Cypress
ed ~" s'a = 'oln.ry Is Dut a secondary
By.
r ,,had. TIA, il is our firm conviction,
thai the Exchequer bill with few modi-
ficati,n and amendmcnts) ought to become
law--at the same time that it is an i'm
provement on the condemned Sub-Trcasu-
~, and would answer all the purposes Of 4
United States Bank, without partaking of
the dangerous tendencies of either. Under
these considerations we, with feelings of
deep regret are compelled TO condemn the
course of its OppOserS