The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-04
TRUE DEMOCRACY.

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WaleAs Speech n fan"ang Hal
That the party organizations ofthepresent day
have direct tendency TO enslave the People,
there can be no doubt. Ulraism, in any form, is
intended solely 10 elevate Demagogues. A
County Demagogue will collect half dozen OF
his fellows in petty dctaion and in some bar
room have himself adopted as the candidate Of
the party for a seat in the Legislature. half
dozen counties will pack convention, compos
ed of similar material, and nominate candidate
for sea, in Congress. A few leading log -rol-
lers in the State Legislature, will in like manner
decide who shall represent the State in the u
nited States Senate. And knot of members
Of Congress will decide who shall be put in no
mination for the Presidency Thus, out of Sc
venteen millions of freemen in our country per-
haps the selection Of rulers, State and Federal,
is con6ded 10, or rather arrogated by, some four
| or five thousand prof.ssed politicians
| Is this in accordance with the spirit of Democ-
racy ? Is it consistent with the nature of
our Republican Institutions Is il justice TO
tire 'bone and sinew" of The country2 But
the worst feature in this incipient oligarchy is
the humiliating fact that the farmers. and me
chanics, and laborers, forming four-ffihs of the
voters in the country, are bambooZled and
tlsecln By the "soft-handed" demagogues 10 &C
compl sh their purposes The ultra party lead
ers could not move a step, If the "bone and
sinew" were to repudiate them.
And the 'bone and snew" must rise in their
might--vindcate their honor, and assert their
rishts-or they are destined to become the siares
of a self-constitued arstocracy!
The selfish and ambitious ultra leaders, it is
true, fdfter their constituents They 60 among
the masses and call them the "dear People,"
from whom all power emanates, and then beg
the power to cut their hroats d!
A wise Providence has rebuked one party,
by taking away the instrument designed by the
ultra leaders 10 effect their selfish and wicked
purposes. Another instrument was substituted,
in accordance with the provision made by the
Republican trainers of the Constitution, which
the leaders could not WELD and use TO consum-
mate their direful purposes The work must
be completed by the People, if indeed they in
tend 10 show themselves capable of self-govern-
ment
If the tide of political profigacy flowing from
high places, and sweeping like pesrilence over
the bes, interests of the People, is not rolled
back on the heads of its authors-if the usurping
tyrants in The halls of legislation, who e1pend
their time and The public money in devisng
ways and means to elevate some favorte 10
the Presidency, are not rebuked by the People
then the day is not far distant when our rulers
will become Coonnas and Orsinis, and our citi-
zens as the degraded Romans of the fourteenth
| century
! A tyranny worse than that of George III. pre-
ceding the Revolution, will, ere long, be esta-
blished in our country, if the People do not at
once wage a war Of determination against the
ultra partisan leaders. Would to God the Peo-
pie could see their Vaccinations as we see
them! They would then need no essays 10
prepare them for the work Of revolution and re-
formation They would not hesitate moment
The breath that made, would instantly unmake
these tyrants.
| We will expose their ,yrannical operations
And it can be done in few words. A caucus of
to make President The only use they have
for the People is TO procure Gin obedience TO the
letter Of the Constitution) formal ratification
Of their decision in conc ave Well, The adj
rdRtdges and inducements Of the several can
didates-not their claims and qualifcations-are
canvassed. They agree upon some one--the
fiat goes forth that none but their selection shall
be the man. The presses in their different
States and districts Tin obedience to the orders
of the lyrants) make simultaneous demonstra-
ton in favor of the candidate thrust upon the
People. The county politicians take up the
cry, and have the impudence TO tell the People
that the prescribed candidate is the favorie of
the People (Which they were not aware of be-
fore,) and callupon all men to rally under the
banner Of the nations favorite
Thus, two or three years prior TO the election,
a few members of Congress, in midnight caucus
assembled, determine who shall be elected Pre-
sident! We ask The People if they will longer
submit to this pernicious and insulting dicta,ion2
The time is at hand for them to decide for
themselves.
And they wiH decide for themselves. The
farmers and mechanics have it in their power TO
strip every unworthy public servant in the coun-
try of his naughty official pumes. They have
too long submitted TO insult and injury Even
an aspirant for the Presidency, while addressing
his Charles in Indiana, recently had the hardi-
hood to insult the masses of the People, through
their representative, the President OF the United
States. He said, with all bis arstocratic dig
nifty, that a certain Senator never had conde-
| scended To nnier the house Of The DrnsiA nj I