Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-08-09

cOnduct, decay and dissolution have ap-
palled the word-haVe doomed to penu-
" so many families and impaired so much
impurily 10 thsisocial and political morals
Of the county.
Nature never abandons men absolutely u
their avn indiscTetions, for even in the
GROSS confusion of public affairs, She often
interposes hsr silent authority to check
the dominant power in a state wheneV.
er il threatens to affiict degree OF mise
~ she never intended mankind should
endure-out Of the bosom Of the whig
party therefore, the veto sprung to strike
the forth h.coming monster, whilst yet in
i,s feotus condition. The presiding mag.
istrSte had received the sceptro from the
hands oftha party, but not upon the
condition of perjury and dshonOr. lie
felt that he owed some allegiance TO the
constitution Of his country, and as it was
the constitutional veto which alone inter-
cepted the bank and the debt, the ma.
iority desired, they resolved to attack the
constitution itself, and theRres dent, who
had dared TO support it--thus far upon
that point, be still stands firm. How long
the constitution shall stand, remains for
the people and the states TO determine.
Il is enough that the nation now knows,
full we'll, the designs Of the Federal
leaders. their principles-their measures
the measurs Of their ambition and prof.
legacy as thus displayed in an extra sess
ion Of three months and fourteen days
duration and which closed its me.
morable labOrs on the 18th of September
lS4l.
Congress commenced its present sess.
lon on the 9Th Of Dec. ls4l, and up to
the date Of this letter, has continued,
without intermission, for seven months
and seventeen days. 1t will adjourn some
time or orher, but not | presume, until
the master majority shall have more ef.
fectuaIly, if that be possible, exhausted
their own passions and the patience Of
the people, as we'll as the resources and
credit Of the Government when they as
sembled. That silent but thorough revo.
luton, which is now perfected, in the
public mind, had then greatly advanced,
as was visible in the popular elections
Upon almost every battlefield where in
40, they triumphed, they had, or have
since been routed by people indignant
al having been so shame(uily betrayed.
Full one half Of their numbers, both in
the Senate and in the House, now Gnd
themselves misrepresentation principles
and their measures sternly condemned by
the States aud districts that sent them
here. In federalism, however, this has
produced no change. From the begin.
ming to the present, it has continued the
policy Of tho extra session; and yet con
tinues &c pursue that policy, with all tho
preternatural energy Of dispAir; as though
resolved during the brief futurity OfitS
power, 10 stamp upon tho country, as
deeply as possible, the dark impress OfiIs
balefuI genius. With these views the
party have proceeded. They have all,
Ihorized an additional loan of five mill
ions Of dollars. They have added five
millions more 10 tho treasury notes pres
vOusly issued. But these, with those Of
the extra session, are still not enough
and therefore, another tariff has passed
the House and will as certainly pass the
Senate, imposing thirteen millions more
Of taxes upon the country. Thus will
every article from abroad-all things that
minister to tho wants of men-tea, cof
is most needlul to the poor.
est citizen, each one and all, now
yiold its tribute, to fill yet fuller, tho
already distended nav of insatiato pow,
or,
And yet, after all this-loans, taxes g.
treasury notcs-how stands the treasury
tselff Still empty! How stands the
1ublic,credit tho credit Of this great gov
ernm ent-the credit that never once was
Iullied when democracy presded-how
stands il now2 Down, and still hopeless.
J sinking down lower, by far, than that
II any respectable farmer in Ohio-trea.
Jury notes, ifnot at interests, deprecated, I
Vilh no prospect of rising-the govern d
nent drafts daily protested and dishonor. /
'd-its bonds hawked about in the mar. i
et and returned without q bidder, aud $
he government every where, and in all 6
Orma, treated as an insolvent. n
Appropriations, nevertheless, 90 on as lC
rofusely as ever, quite as much SO, as il
Rough the treasury were full, aud absu. VI
ltely exhauslesS For, from the amount a.
ready passed, and that pending with the IS
'rIainty Of passage, it is manifest that 10
lis will at the end of the session, bear til
, full aud just proportion TO all the til
her limbs Of their monstrous sys. po
m. Gil
Claims, somo the mos: base, and 9th. pr
. the most bascless, are now presented CO
iainst the government, ana treated with the
serious respect due only to the Just the
imandS Of the honest citizen. The hol. jcc
'rs 0fsuch claims seem to have dis. gre
vered mutual sympathy between the pee
aloFity OF this congress and them. TO
Ives. They repair 10 the capitol with tho
70 instinct that directs the vul,ure to the thai
Tcass. aIro