The North-Carolina standard., 1843-12-20

when the battle of the day was over, fonly to be
renewed with more fury the next morning,) he
had visited the presidential mansion, and found its
former thronged halls silent and desert the ven
cradle President alone in bis chamber; and never
beheld more impressive or instructive spectacle.
While friends and foes believed all was lost, and
that his administration completely overthrown,
he himself had no such fear. He trusted in God
and his country He relied upon Providence
and the people He confided in the Power above
which protects, and in the intelligence which sus-
tains He never faltered for an instant-never
accepted counselfrom the tmid or treacherous-
never dreamed of capitulating to the bank or its
confederates His confidence was complete, per-
feet, unwavering, that the American people could
and would sustain him and sustain him they
did,. The expunging resolution and the election
of "a successor TO carry oat his policy was the
response of the people to the confidence he had
rreposed in them.
Thus the second great trial was over; and the
people were second time found equal to their
high vocation, and capable Of sustaining the form
of government which their ancestors had founded
The termination of the second term of General
Jackson's administration was still more glorious
than the first, and still higher proof of the ca
paciy of the people to govern themselves. 1t ter
minated ia peace and prosperity; with the respect
of all nations, with universally improved con-
dition, of the country the public debt entirely
paid !; half our imports free from taxes; the cur
rency of the Constitution restored; and indemni-
ties in gold brought home to the merchants from
France, Spain, Portugal Denmark, Naples, for
spo!iations committed on their commerce forty
years before, and in the time of his early prede-
cessor. The hero President retired from his sta
tion, as great in peace as in war; and justifying,
by the events of his administration, the choice of
the people.
Mr.. B., did not speak of President Jackson to
eulogize him; the present occasion did not require
a eulogy upon that great man. His object was to
do justice to the people, who had shown them
selves capable of seltgovernment-who had justi
fed the wisdom of their fathers in founding an
elective government, and trusting the elections to
the whole body of the people. This was his
object; and it was high and holy one, rising
above all personal considerations, and above all
temporary events Great was the merit of jack
son-great the services which he rendered in the
high station of President but, if the people had
not placed him there, and sustained him there, he
could not have render ed these services; he could
not even have saved them las he did save them
by the removal ofthedeposites) from the loss of
the hundred MILLIONS Of dollars which the Bank
of the United States has pundered from the Stock
holders and others, and which would have been
plnndered from the treasury of the United States,
if his courage and wisdom had not taken the de-
postes from the custody Of the corrupt and rotten
idol of Federal worship.
The second trial was over. and the wisdom Of
your fathers, in having established eIectice gov
ernmcnt, again vindicated. But another trial
was at hand. The combined politicians and the
bank still remained in arms, and fattcred them
selves that blind adherence to military cheltain
had been the secret of Jackson's support by the
people. They believed that the people merely
followed the blaze of Military glory, and shouted
for successful general, without any views of
national policy or any capacity to pursue ra-
tional and consistent system of measures. They
believed this, and that they would fail at the cleo
ton or support of Jackson's successor. The cleo
ton of 1886 decided this third trial, and again, to
the honor of the wisdom which had founded, and
the intelligence and virtue which had preserved,
our elective form of government, successor was
elected not for the sake of military glory, but for
the sake of principle A successor was elected
to carry ont the policy of President Jackson-to
preserve what he had established, and to complete
what he had left uninished-and, in this election
the people proved that they did have views of
national policy, and could preserve a consistent
system Of national measures.
The election Of 1910 was the fourth trial to
which the capacity of the people for seIf-govern-
ment was put 10 trial; and here the issue OF the
contest has inspired some with mlsgIVlngs, but
without adequate reason The toolerIcs OF the
Coon campaign were an insult to the people, an
outrage upon the form of government, and re-
FICTION upon our fathers who had established 1t.
Padding canoes on the dry ground-hoisting ci-
Ter barrels on poes-singing baechanalian songs
celebrating midnight orgies-raising cabins IN
he midst of cities-hanging gourds and COON
skins at the doors-narching- coons in procession
with the people; all these mummeries and fool-t
cries, more worthy of balloons and monkeys than
Of rational beings, were so many open declarations
to the people that they were incapable of any IA
onal exercise of the elective franchse-that folly
and nonsense must govern them, and that their
ancestors were fools for giving them the privilege
Of voting. This was the plain import of these
Degrading exhibitions; and that an election should
have been carried by those who used such means,
seemed to give some countenance to their low es-
innate of the popular understanding. But it was
a seeming only. There was no foundation for
The election was carried by far different means
by bribed votes, paid, for with suspended bank
notes-by false votes, given by the people whodid
not exist-by importedvotes, carried from State to
State-by simulated votes, changing their dress and
names twenty times, and voting as often-and
hv changing tickets after the vote in the bal
lot-box. By these and such like means, the elec-
ton was carried and judicial proof has since es-
tabIished the degrading facts. The body of the
Democracy stood firm, unmoved except by feel
ings of contempt, by all these miserable exhibit
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