The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-04-20

IL
A legislative caucus at Albany. composed Oh
portion OF the Democratic measbers, met on
Tuesday, and decided on the fourth Monday Of
November next as the time for The meeting OF
the National Conyen,ion to nominate cand'
date for The Pres iJsncy. The caucus makes
,mid, or rather an equiyocal preliminary nomi-
nation Of Mr.. Van Buren,.
This proceeding throws flood OF light On
the hitherto incompeehensible conduct OF MIR.
Benton, ia the Senate, in voting against the Trea-
", aud against the Democratic nominations Of the
President, in every instance in opposition TO the
majority Of the Republican Senators. II like
wise explains the unan,icipaied proceedings OF
the late Virginia Convention, as well as the flu
ious assaults of the Globe on Mr.. Calhoun
through the Spectator, and the transfer to its
columns of all the Wing abuse of the President
Cor appointing moderate Democrats to Office.
And SO this caucus movement was arranged
more than three months ago. Surely Mr.. Van
Buren, had nothing to do in it-and we trust hc
will Immediately express his Interpretation Of
liz. He NUT see, we should think, that if the
designs Of these caucus gentlemen are prose
cuted TO any extent, il must inevitably have the
effect Of blasting his prospects forever. Hemu
have seen how completely his ofiicous friends
al Washington were defeated in their attacks on
The TT aty and he must knor, as every one
conversant with public opinion knows, that
four-6fths Of the Democracy are opposed, un-
compromisingly opposed,lo the assembling oith
| National Convention at an caller day than
May, 1874. Hence u failure 10 have the Con-
venlion held in November next, (and it will fail
as sure as November comes,) will naturally lead
TO defeat in Convention, when it ASSEMBLIES in
May. Thus he may have three battles TO fight
-one for the Convention in November next,
one fer the nominal ion, and one fJr the el,c-
ton. Ii he succeeds, we shall set him down as
a magician in earnest
[Will Mr.. Benton Gift is true that he is to
remain in Washington while Mr.. Blair goes
WesD particularly oblige us by reading the sub
joined account of a Democratic meeting in
Missouri, taken from the Missouri. REPORTER,
of which S. Penn, Esq, is the ediior7 VIII
Mr.. b. comment on il? We should like to
hear him exceedingly. The gentlemen voted
Tor Mr. Van Buren, in 1910, and are still his
friends but that will not prevent them from
doing Justice to John Tyler."l
| From the Missouri Reporter.
DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING IN CLINTON
/ COUNTY, MISSOURI.
Pursuant to previous public notice, meet
ing of the Jefiersonan Democracy of Clinton coun-
ty was organized in the Court House in Plattsburgh
on Saturday, the 25,h day of March, by appointing
| ~ T,dr R;.,-
gerstaf and Stephens, and d.. Noah F. Essig and
Lit .ton S. Roberts, Esqs Vice Presidents and
John Thatcher and James h. Cofiman. Secretaries
/ The meeting being thus organized, Col, Winslow
Turner, las who had united in the call rose and
explained its object in forcble, appropriate and
eloquent address, of nearly an hour, and concluded
by moving the appointment OF committee of thir-
teen, to report Preamb and resolutions in conso-
The motion being carried, Col. Winslow Turner,
Henry Wilmington, ESQ.,, Arthur Parvin, Leonard
Stingey, DIR. Henry Essg, Moses II. Smonds Esq /,
DIR. Cyrus Hubbard, John HarselI, George Funk
houser Esq., Elijah Jackson, Greenbury Pogue, Ben
iamn s. McCord and Isaac d. Baldwin, Esq, were
appointed to compose said committee, aud retired
cordngly.
During the absence Of the committee, John Lough-
borough, Esq, addressed the assembly in an appro-
pirate and able manner, princi ally in favor of the
recent treuty with England and in support of the
district sy.tan sc Congregational viections-atter
which
Col. Turner, from the Committee appointed for
that purpose, reported the following preamble and
resolutions which read, considered and adopt
ed with great unanmity viz:
Whereas, the extreme aud opposing uliraisms, pre-
scrbed and adhered 10 by the rival leaders of both
the recent political parties, seem alike mprsccabe
Of adoption and whereas, proper appreciation of
the foregoing and other causes has wrought con-
:. summation Of events, and a tendency Of sentiment
and inlon, that looks for amelioraon, quietudc and
safety, in a wise and temperate adherence to the
landmarks which been beque athed to us by the
I liberal and enlightened founders of the Republican
church and whereas IL is the duty, no less than the
right Of the people, TO watch with vigilance and even
with Jealousy, the formation progress and tendency
: of all combinations which NAV threaten an abridg-
ment Of their political powers, whether directly or
remotely and WI ereas, the importance OF the pre-
sent crisis is but too well a,esed, in having brought
together assemblage Of citizens far exceeding
those who have composed any previous political
meeting IN this coupty-be 1t therefore
Resoired, That ell power is inherent in the PEOPLE
that they are their own best Judges Of measure,
and of men and that all attempts to forest,l their
opinions, whether by sinister appeals to the preju-
dIces Of the past, unfair maneuverng in refer
to the future deserve their severcst apprehension
in their primary assemblies, and at the polls
Resoired, That the odd School Democracy If
Thomas Jefferson was good enough for our fathers,
2 and Is deemed safest for ourselves and our children
that we seek, therefore, neither 10 enlarge upon
subtract from its enets either for the deic alton
Of sinister priests the exclusion of rival brethren
and that we escbew that spirit of jealousy inole-
and injustice, which would peril the safety of
the church. at the shrine of personal doatry nor ul
s terror ambition.
Rssoired, That accord ng to this standard " a man
is Democrat or Federalist, not by adhering blind
to the political fortunes of any prominent states
I man, but by embracing and acting upon Democratic
Federal doctrines to the nature origin and de-
sign Of our government'-that the free exercise of
: the right Of PRIVATE JUDGMENT becomes a sacred
duty when the bunders Of leaders attempted to
be enforced by nothing persuasive than their
arrogance, and that those who essay to impair that
right will always learn, later. that they
have mistaken the nature of Marty nrrani1 ainn The