The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-12-11
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EsiosC .Citizens. H
In addressing you at this interesting epoch Of our
political affairs we deem it proper TO declare to you,
in the very onset that profess TO be disciples Of
the Jefersonian school in the fullest and most en-
phatic sense and, that all our acts are based upon
the firm conviction that the course we have adopted
viii best secure the success of the principles which
were incucated by that great apostle OF Democracy
and which were so gloriously practised by the Illus
trious Jackson To the accomplishment Of this end
all our efforts will be directed, and 10 order to give
force to these efforts we in the name Of those princ
pies which all Democrats hold dear, invite your most
earnest cooperation.
The time is at hand, when the Democratic party
should frankly canvass the relative pretensions and
merits of the various candidates whose names have
been presented to the Democracy, for consideration
at the Convention which is to be held 10 May next
Our opponents who-f they present an example wor-
thy of imitation in any thing, is in untirng indus
try, and consumuate party organization and discipline
have already got the name of their favorite familiar
! to every child in the land while the Democratic
party distracted by the bright galaxy of excellence
which belongs to it, undecided who shall be
the of their choice. To delay longer is to leo
pardize our being party, and to place in immi-
nent hazard the principles for which we, as party
contend. Each of the gentlemen who are now con-
sidered in the field, have warm personal friends and
if discussion is delayed until the moment for selec-
ton arrives, differences may arise, which will be
hard to concate; Whereas by timely discussion tho
mind of the whole party may be prepared 10 abide
the issue of the Convention, and TO harmonic n en-
ergetc action for the regular nominee.
These considerations have conduced to the
formation of the body which now addresses you, and
without attempting to arnish the fair fame or to de-
tract from the great excellence of any one Of the
gentlemen whose names have been presented 10 the
party; and yielding to each the tribute due to well
tried worth We yet think that wisdom and graft
tude, both point to the present distinguished incum-
bent of The Presidential Char, as the man in whom
our most sanguine hopes are to be realized and to
whom most devoted thanks are due: Called to the
responsibilities Of the high station he now occupies
under the most embarrassing circumstances and sub
jeced 10 the most harassng trials that could posi-
bly, beset public funconary, he met them all with
calmness and decision which plainly exhibited
mind fit 10 encounter any emergency. He has thus
far, safely steered the ship Of State through the
most troubled sea that eyer.sgitated our political
ocean.
His whole life has been an illustration OF the most
genuine devotion to the principles Of the great
fathers of Democracy. Born in the birthplace of
patriots, heroes and sages of a race whose history
is identical with the history of American freedom,
aud educated in the school of Democracy under the
immediate eye Of its great masters; find that as
he reached his majority he called to take
part in the legislative councils of his native State
Here in the very beginning Of bis career he urged
with ali the powers of a vigorous mind an adherence
to the principles which had elevated Nj. Madison
to the Pres dency. Here, too, in the very incpiency
Of his public life he recognised, and insisted on, the
right of instruction principle eminently charac.
terislic of a Republican Government. And when,
twenty-five years afterwards, he was called upon to
perform an act which he could not censcien-
tously do, he exhibited his devotion to that prnci-
pie, even though that devotion deprived him Of the
dignites Of the Senatorial chair
Continued in the Legislature Of Virginia until ma.
tury Of years rendered him fit to enter Congress, he
was chosen as a representative in that body soon
as he was eligible TO seat in it. No sooner was he
there, than, though with apparently unequal grasp,
he grappled with its mightiest minis in defence of
that cherished maxim Of Democracy, "a rigid con.
structon Of the Constitution" and at the very mkt
session of Congress he arrayed himself against tbs'
" INTERNAL MAcHNE"-a Bank Of the United
and all that has been said against that insti,
in after years. but recaptuation and an ampli-
cation of his stupendous argument at that time Al
though comparatively boy, he exhibited the wisdom
of sage, and, almost the spirit Of prophecy. Tru-
y has Mr.. Benton said of him, "There lives not a
man on earth so long and so deeply committed against
National Bank as Mr.. Tyler" For no man has so
long and so consistently exposed It's niquties From
that time until the moment in which he resigned his
seat in the Senate Of the United States in 1886, he
was identified with, and prominently concerned in,
every great Democratic measure which agitated the
country or commanded the attention Of Congress
bringing always to the contest energy Of purpose
and force Of eloquence which was almost rresisti-
BILE.
] In the campaign which ended in the elevation OF
General Harrison to the Presidency Mr. Tyler next
appeared as prominent actor; and throughout the
whole extent Of that campaign, his conduct was in
perfect accordance with his former life for in every
stage OF the he declared on all proper occa-
sons, indeed whenever he was called on so to do
that the opinions he had ever entertained on all the
great questions Of Government he still entertained
And that those opinions the result Of settled
conviction that the perpetulty OF the institutions Of
Republican Government, and the happiness Of ouI