The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-06-02

common vigilance ON the part Of the People as
an antidote TO this dangerous eyil, ana Una. '"a
the great mass of our ciIiz ms have a real he"'t
fen interest in the Government. Many, rs
true, are drawn away from the principles OIL I,'i
Democracy, but they for The most part ue-
ceiyed by the syren voice which the goa ma"i-
mon has always at his command, To say hoih'ns
Of the protean multiplicity OF ferns whleh nc
can assume.
He has for some years resoIted TO the latter
arti6ce. well knowing that under his old name
or form his power was al an end. In The con-
TEST of 1910 the great Republican family De-
came unsettled the then President, MI van
Buren,. had exhibited want of sympathy WIN
the People who were suffering much rom
many adverse circumstances, among which
| they unjustly believed unwise legislation ana
arbitrary action Of the Government To De one
principal cause. On his being applied 10 ioi
| relief he turned a deaf ear 10 them, and io'u
them I" the People always expect too inuch
| from the Government This sayored largely
of the old Federal doctrine, and vast number
| of those who had elevated HIM 10 the hlsh
station he occupied, felt that he had departed
from the true faith, and when the time came
round, they thought and said, thai he expected
too much from them if he looked to them IN
eyes, saw this state OF things, and Sc
leced two time-honored and faithful Re
nublicans Of the Jefftrsonian school as
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pre-
sidency cmissares were sen, al over the
land preaching ultra Democratic doctrine, and
the honest hearts of the People having faith IN
the characters and princ les of the candidates
left Mr. Van Buren,, to vote for men longer
known as well-tfi members of the true pnn-
ciples Of the Producing classes, and they were
elected, as we all know, by majority of nine
teen States over seven. Never were People
more rejoced than was This People the Alb
of March, 1871. Alas for human DO. es and
expectations A few short weeks called the
President to his last home, and the high duties
of his Office devoved upon the Vice President.
All this time The money god had been industri-
ously neutrality-suspicious. had commenced IN its
mos hated form, when the Vice President assum-
ed the Executive Office in accordance with the
provisions of the Constitution. Auxious to CON
soldate the political power, an extra session Of
Congress had been called, and it was, on their
assembling that or the first time, came forth the
Gergon head f! When il was discovered that
the whole had b en- deception and that the
leaders of the non-producing classes had taken
possession OF The high seats of power. The
next step was TO intmidate or seduce President
Tyler Gom those principles 10 which his life
bad been devoted and The possession ofwhich was
known 10 the whole People no had so trum-
phantly elected him But, unlike the worship
pers of the golden Calf President Tylers prn
ciples were part and parcel Of his very soul,
aud every attempt TO intimidale him TO Sc
duce him from them failed. 1t requires but a
slight examination of the conduct of the majo-
ritz Of tho loe' Copurass 10 ho rnprinoad that
from the beginning TO the end, they had but one
+ object in view, which was TO restore once more
the aristocratic or moneyed power TO political
sway.
How and why they failed to do so is well
known 10 the people; and The false robes in
which the leaders of the Wing party had clothed
themselves, are so completely stripped from
them, and they stand so naked and bare in their
deformity, that cordial union Of the Democra
cy upon some one of the distinguished candi-
dates who shall succeed in a Convention in
May, 1874, the delegates chosen by districts,
and the selection made by per capita vote will
produce most triumphant result; for as have
before said, the whole country understands how
parties are TO divide. The moncyed aristocracy.
and the non-producing classes, with such por-
tons of the people as they can deceive by their
plausible theories on one side, and the hardy
sons of industry aud toll on the other, and ne
yer \! not even in the no party times of Mr..
Monroe, was the triumph of the Democracy
greater than II will be in 1914, always as above,
provided that cordial union shall take place.
with determination TO give The People fair
chance for the expression Of their honest detes-
talion of the haud that was attempted to be
practiced upon them by the leaders of the sue
cessfu party of 1910.
write with some warmth upon this subject,
knowing intimately so many Of those who " ere
thus deceived, and who are burning with the
most anxious desire TO record their votes against
the real traitors who made them 50 many pro-
misses Of sautary reform, only to betray them
into the hands Of the money-God. All this
class, and they are very numerous, feel the most
lively gratitude to President Tyler, and can
hardly conceive how any true Democrat can
! milhhpld from he. = =. rr---
untrIng exertions to. show their contempt and
utter detesation of his enemies by his re-elec
ton, and also reward him for his faithrulness 70
The true principles upon which alone this blessed
land OF freedom has been saved from the vilo,
OF hose whose worship ever has been. and ever
will be, at the shrine Of mammon. Yoprs a.
Homo