The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-08-04

OF the haste he was expected to make IN the execution
Ofvengeance, anG the distribution Of spoil BY submit
ting in thaIbOdy the following resolution:
"ReSoIred, That Blair and Rives bo dismissed
printers ofIhe Senate for the twenty Congress-
On the seventh day after this resolution passed.
aud thus were these defenceesI citizens, without a
crime, or even charge against thsm butthat Of their
opinions. deprived of their contract solemnly made with
The SenaIO-their bond annulled and all the expenses
they had incurred 10 execute the work, thrown as a
dead loss upon them. Here was an example the Presi
dent was expected TO follow and from that day to the
day his final a6liblon, whether in his manson in
his walks, in public or in private under all crcumstan.
ces, and at all times, the office seeker still clustered
round him. Ii was not the plea of his infrmties or
that ofhis aTduous dutes nor was it the lifting of his
time whered hand with gesture to retire. that could
remove the dense mass who pursued and importuned
him. In spite ofal these, they followed him up
swarming upon him still thicker every hour, until al
last like hornets, they stung him to DEATH Nor were
the terrors ofa death bed, the solemn condition of
exolrlng man, sufficient to silence their camOrs or
stay for an instant the removals his subordinates were
making in his name. For, upon the authority ofthat
name, though insensibe HIMSELF and sinking to the
grave, the more cruel of his cOunseors continued TO
swing ;he ofexecuton, as If determined that the
last mortal sound which broke upon the ear of The dying
President, should he, not the sound Of prayer, or the
.ia Sob but the distressll ola victim struck
down in his presence And even after his death, and
the translation Of his remains from the Capitol 10 the
west, democrats were spurned from Office upon the
sole allegation. that he, in his life, had intended their
removal
Such was the first result; and what was the next
They had declared the country ruined by democratic
councils They had declared the single object of their
advent to be its immediate redemption. Ye notwith-
standing this, no sooner did they find themselves all
powerful and the people all poweress than did thew
harin far FINN
objects, in their tendency runous to every interest they
had promised to FOSTER save The interest ofthe few
gans the rights of the many, and blasting to all the
hopes they had abored excite the hopes of the
rapacious, for the plunder Of the Government But to
disclose such obeOts dangerous iftheir execution
was delayed. Hwas important, therefore, and well
they knew it, 20 forge and rvet their system of meas
upon the country, whilst the public mind was yet
eyerish and hghty, from the inflammation of the recent
struggle. Strike whilst the iron is ho was the signal
passed to his followers, by him who spoke for The
whole, and by all was obeyed, Let not the people
cool down, but now while the glow and giddness of
triumph are upon them, let us rush to the Capitol, and
there in the midst of the general gee, bind and cnch
our system on the nation.
This it seems, was the policy which prompted the
convention Of Congress, In extraordinary session. on
the 3Ist of May, 194l. ..' g..
On that day The extra session commenced, and then
It was that those measures were proposed. which ex-
press the real motives Of the leaders, and which have
brough! the Government and the country their pres
ent condition. They then vctos over the whole
field ofpower. With the Execuive-wilh majority,
overwhelming, in both branches Of Congress- there was
nothing TO restrain the full sway of their pleasure or
or their principles This they knew and this they felt
and therefore it that their chief in the Senate with
all tie staggering ndelcacy Of unaccustomed to
success openly proclaimed to the democracy of the
body, that we had heen condemned by the judgment Of
the peopehaG been Drought together only for execu-
ton; ind that all uttered was to be heard as moth.
ing, but the complaints of male factors on their way to
the scaffold. Such was the derum of meritess tri>
umph and vulgar revenge, with which the federalists
began their work. and without preparing any thing in
its stead, fell upon the Sub Treasury, and lore It to
the ground Thus did these infatuated men-they who
had most falsely charged the democratic party with hav
ing committed the public treasure TO the sole custody Of
The Execuive-with having united, in his person, both
h6 sword aud the purse thus did they among the ve-
ry first acts ofther power, do themselves the very
same thing unustY ascrbed to Others by the repeal
of the only law which placed the money Of the nation
out of the reach of the President Nor there to this
day any such provision or any such likely be, while
the present Congress remains.
Andwhy is ths2 lf the majority cannot get the fs
cality they DESIRE they not pass act 10 secure
the revenue? do they intend to have it is ex
posed to the hazard of official plllage in order to try
once more, the coercion of the people into national
banks .''
These men cameinto power, as we were told, upon
tuition, the'iaw and all human obligations So piOus
was their reverence for the observance of contracts
that some oftheir number willing that this gov
ernment though penness itself and plunging in debt
should assume the debts ofhe States rather than wit
ness their repudiaio. Nevertheless, these very
men, the chosen and the annoinsd guardians of all
things sacred by one general act, with the name Of
bankruptcy for its caption epudiaed the debts of the
larger debtors throughout the entire nation. BY his
single oath they a6wedthe interested party, IF his
debts were large and his considerable to cancel
his bond and thus to ruin the friend or the nbghbor,
who as creditor or security had confded in bis honor
say ifthe deblswere large because if small and the
debtor poor the expense Of The process makes the law
unavailable and therefore nuly to him. To execute
the act the Federal judiciary passes the constu.
ton, usurps the ghtfu jurisdiction ofthe local courts
defes and spurns the sovereignty ofthe states But
matter for t6a-he greater bankruPts, the magnificent
mionafies of the paper system were brought to bank.
ruptcy not by misfortune in legitimate rade-not by
accident beyond the power ofdscreton, buby the ga.
gerness Of avarce seeking to crafty Itself in the
gamblngs of speculation and then wasting in splendid
profus,on, all that the fortune of the hazard placed
within lis REACH As already ruined and desperate
they had entered the contest of 49, with the pledge Of
the ederasts thather debts should be treated GAM
bling obligations ano sponged by the law and an OATH
And this pledge aone Ofthe many made, has federalism
faithfully fulfilled.
Economy, lot It be remembered had been promised
as policy proper in itself and especially 80, in tie
then necessous state o the treasury And yet by this
very convention Of Congtess, at lime not appointed