The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-08-22
Nrm Hork correspondence.
LAUS DEC.

New York, August 81, lS43.
We have held our W ard meetings 10 elect re-
presentalives TO Tammany Hall to choose thir-
teen delegates from this city to the Syracuse
Convention, and by an overwhelming majority
the District system and per capita vote have
succeeded. The People have determined in
their primary assemblies not to submit to any
packed conventions 10 force upon them candl-
dates for the two highest offices within their
presses Of the country to herald the glad tdlngs
throughout the land.
Proclaim it To The free and independent voters
throughout the Union, that the Empire City will
no longer submit to that spirit Of dlctation and
intolerance, which would destroy all freedom Of
sentiment and opinion, and bud them to the will
Of seli-nteresled party leaders.
You will see in the Aurora, of Saturday, a
pretty full and an accurate account OF the pro-
ceedings in most OF the Ward meetings above
referred TO, which will give you good idea Of
what the advocates OF freedom Of opinion have
had TO contend with, and how they have set in
motion, not "soli,ary aud alone" but in vast
numbers, ball which is destined to roll over
this land with an irresistible force.
No man can hereafter hope to reach the Pre-
sidency unless he shall be willing TO submit his
prelensions TO the only true source of all polit-
cal power, the will of the People expressed
through their delegates directly chosen by them
selves-each delegate 10 vote in Convention for
the person who shall be the choice of his consul
tuents under instructions given by them.
Why should it be otherwise in land
boas,ing OF its Democratic institutions? Ii the
principle upon which these are founded be sound
one. that in the viii of the governed rests all
the right TO govern, (aud what freeman doubts
it7) the most direct mode of expressing that
will is, undoubtedly, the only way TO obtain II
pure and uncontaminaied. Is it net strange
that men protesting every confidence in the
popular voice should think, in so important
matter as the selection of candidates for the
Nv o highest offices Of the State, TO cheat the
people into a belief that they are not TO be
trusted with making the selection, but that they
mast appoint attorneys to do il for thcm2 Was
there ever any thing so absurd What a
COHlItulCkOu III ltTHS uOtS SUCH pro-
position involve7 Take the very case be
fore us. The people of the several Congress
sonal districts are not TO be trusted with
the choice Of their own delegates, but they are
to select man who is to go to a convention, to
consist of delegates from each county in the
Stale, and such convention to choose delegates
TO represent the whole State !! What would
be thought Of propositioni 10 choose members
of Congress in this way7 Bot il is useless to
pursue the subject, for the matter is settled nor
and torerer.
The proof, il proof were necessary. that true
Democracy revolts at this idea, the subject be-
log once moJted, (for tits doubling and mistrusl-
ing the People, may be found in the fact, that
some Of the most Democratic wards in the city
are unanimous on this point: the 9th, the 14th
and 18th wards would not listen TO such dica-
ton. These wards contain the mass of our
true-hesrted adopted ciuzens, who have had too
much experience Of an overbearng spirit in the
misgovernment of their own country, to coun-
tenance il in the land Of their adoption.
The very attempt to force 1t upon them by
the avowed friends of Mr.. Van Buren,, has lost
to him forever the vote Of that liberty loving
People, who glory in the Emerald Isle as their
birth place. In the name of that liberty for
which the Green Isle has fought and bled
at every pore-in the names Of their En-
NETS and Fiizgerads, true Democracy ten
dcIs them the right hand Of fellow ship.
They have shown themselves, on this occa-
son, as their brethren in their dear native
land are now proving to an adminng world,
that they are indeed Liberty's true sons; es-
teeming the blessings of free Government As
The binh-right of man an inalienable right be-
slowed upon him by his creator-and God grant
that the effort now making for the eman cipa-
ton Of the hsIlowed soil of old Ireland may
/ speedily be crowned with success; that each Of
her true hearted and loyal sons may rejoice over
the triumph of that real spirit of independence
for which, IN whatever land their lot may be cast,
they are ever ready 10 do battle 10 the death.
Glorious old Ireland how will the heart Of
every uue-soued American leap for JOY when
the shackles shall fall at the feet Of the mighty
| host now arrsyed under the banner Of Re
| peal :! Let no one fear the result--the
guardian angel Of deIiyerance is now on his