Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-07-15
RICHMOND DAILY WING.
SATURDAY. MORNING. July rs. is,,.
Hi.rorieai Iuu.trat;ou, for Loeofoeo;,n

Historical illustrations for Loeofocoism
OF every thing like public principles this country
party which appropriately claims the exclusive
RePublcanhe party which established at one time or ano
he alhai tnow denounces except the Alien and Sedop
Laws-is las all the world knows) the universal guardian
and curator IL is sort Of general OF all
things, and really. according the duty Of trustee
To take very great put its the fund
entrusted its Its principles held by such
reverence that seldom handles them. For fear
OF their wearing out, puts them on holidays
when there is work be done, aud only wants
look line in them. That night they pulled Off, carefully
brushed from any contact with worldly matters folded
up and laid in the old corner.cupboard OF
Rights; while next morning. before tho peep OF dawn
the late abroad all his serious business Of
work day world very different and very homely suit
OF material colour and totally unlike those in
which he went meeting the day before.
Who, rs n member of General Washngton's Cabinet
after the passage OF the first National Bank Bill advised
the President who doubt submit his opinions
to those of majority OF the Representatives OF the Peopel
The opposite of Democracy"-the whose anti.bank
opinions are appealed by those who applaud We
toes OF Bank-videcoi, Thomas Jefferson.
What Party in 1876 gave the nation financial instru.
ment which experience and had made them sec we
could not dispense With II the Republican Party in
body. They who opposed it, stigmatized Us Fede-
rasts Mr. Madison, the acknowledged oracle then and
now OF Constitutional and State Rights doctrine sanction.
ed IT, convinced by the enlightenment me that his obec-
lions of 1871 should be abandoned So.of Mr. Clay who
in the severe lessons of the war, which speedily follow
ed his vote Of 1871 decisive for changing his
early opinion. Mr. Calhoun, the great philosopher of
State Rights, took (as he aver) the leading part in the
measure and (he says ihe father Of child whose
bastardy he now wishes establish, in that
Of most other of his political offspring Gen. Jackson
again and again intmated that he could supply the plan of
apeHecy constitutional u. $ Bank. His scheme (see his
inst mesage) was to increase the capital so millions and
make the States stockholders in proportion their federal
representation We need scarcely that he favor
OF Bank as unconstitutional any proposed. We
might easily refer to what tastens Mr. Van Buren, as Bank
man-hs joining in application for one at Albany
but about his opnions,-whch every body knows to ex
press nothing but the supposed expedency of the hour
probability that this that opinion will be his inter-
est-it is hardly worth while to argue.
But the assumption of State debts is another favourite
matter of so-called Democratic denuncation of Late
Have the Wings adopted such measured No Then
they must surely have proposed such Never
Who then has committed this awful crime against the Con-
sttuon oh, only Mr.. Jefferson again. the Apostle aore
sad-who las Mr. Cost Johnson has aeady shewn through
our columns passed law, in 1903 paying Of the Fed
era Treasury thing great than State debts
namely the debts of private citizens British Merchants
debts almost entirely contracted for individual purposes
amounting to about two and half millions of dollars
For the proofs and particulars the reader need only refer to
Mr. JohnsOns second letter of State Assumption published
in the National lntellgencer of last Spring.
These refreshing little extracts from the history of
the immaculate the nfable, the Constitutional party that
always loudest about the Constitution when it is viola
ing the and when wrngs its widowed hands
and weeps most SYSTEMATICALLY that "amened" instru
ment would shed far sinceer if could suddenly be
broughtto life again. In comparison with this party and
its connubia fidelity what always greving over the
Wife Of Bath tender her living Lord and the Widow
OF Ephesus true to her dead one.
We have thoughts Of preparing an illustrated body
OF Historical Extracts for the Young Democracy" like
the above, it will be excellent give them exact ideas of
the heroes of their party, and Of the leading Cons
tutona exploits of Tom Jefferson, Andrew Jackson Tom
Benton, John C. Calhoun Dick Johnson Martin Van Bu
rem James Buchanan and many Weshoud Of course
cite the Embargo and Gunboa systems the purchase of
Louisiana, the Force Bill, the Proclamation the suspen
sion OF ilabeas Corpus months after the battle Of New
Orleans Expunging, the Removal of the Deposites the
Standing Army projected 1889, the Economies of the
Jacksonian Administrations, and few other such exam
Piles fit to breathe into the soul Of Young ocofocom that
devoted that supersous attachment Gospel of our
Political salvation which the fathers and elders Of that
faith have so uniformly displayed.