The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-01-25

the Representatives Of the people and the States, in
Congress- not to suffer their arms 10 be "palsied by the
will Of their constituents" and despoically affirmed X
gans the will of the people, and his previous professions
and an mpious perversion, Of the sacred book that
those who fell with the first Adams shoold rise with
the second he was at the expiration of his term Justly
consigned, with almost silent contempt to an humber
station where if he will do no good he has least but
little power for evil |
The election, and subsequent more glorious re-eec
ton OF the hero and patriot Andrew Jackson, were
repettions of the Jefferson triumph of democracy The
election of Martin Van Buren, was a ratification |
by the people OF the great principles of democracy
devoted and enforced under the strong and stormy ad
ministralion Of his glorious predecessor And the de-
feat of MIR. Van Buren and the democratic party in |
1910, by means the most nefarous has tended still
more closely to entwine round the heart of the people,
their devotion to their free principles of democracy,
their love for constitutional freedom their hatred of fed
eral oppression and deceit and their veneraon and
attachment towards the man who failed them not in |
that darkest hour of perilous adversely.
For thiry-sx of the forty years from 1901, when |
the rst real party contest occurred TO the year lS4O
has hedemocratic party had control of the government
approved and sustainedby discerning people In iact
The iederapary never have succeeded before the people,
upon their principles Whenever their principles have
been openly avowed and their true position and policy
clearly defined, they have been signaly rejected and
repudiated by the people.
The elder John Adams succeeded to the Presidency
beneath the mantle of Washington before party lines
were drawn, or the antagonistca principle of federal
ism and democracy were fully developed; but he was
rejected and federal principles condemned when he
came before the people for their appreciation of his
administration. T#enty-four years afterwards John
Quincy Adams was defeated before the people, even
when he claimed affinity to democracy, and abjured
federalism and four years afterwards was signaly re-
buked by the people, for the deception he had at
tempted to practice upon them, and federal principles
were again condemned. The wings of 1910, taking
warning from the past not only denied their federal
creed but abandoning their federal leaders, they attach
ed themselves to men, who, upon all cardinal principles
and measures had always been opp0ssed TO them and
to federalism, under every name When called upon to
declare their principles and the policy they designed to
pursue in The administration Of the government if the
people should place them in power they pointed to the
speeches. and votes of Gen. Harrison and John Tyler
as containing the principles by which they would be
governed and as embodying and Indicating the policy
they proposed to adopt Both of these men were well
known to have been always opposed to National bank
on Constitutional and other grounds-opposed to high
protective tariff, on grounds Of common Justice and
constitutionality They insisted, srenuousy, upon
rigid adherence to the compromise Act of 1928, and
in the language of Gen.. Harrison, in his GAINESVILLE
letter. dated November I'd, 1885, were for supporting
the Compromise and would hever agree to its being
ltered repealed" and they favored distribution Of
proceeds ofhe sales of the public lands only in case
the land fund was not needed in the national reasury
under the operation Of Compromise Tariff; with these
men, and under circumstances which were dsgraeeto
the country, reproach upon Repubcansm, mocke-
ry, derison, and fraud upon the sacred right OF pop
ular suffrage, they succeeded in deceiving the people
and gaining possession of power they at once threw off
the frauduenty assumed mantle Of democracy that had
covered like charity the multitude of their federal sins
and presented themselves to the asonished gaze of in
urec insued and betrayed people, in their true char
acters, as rank Hamilonian Federalists
THEY HAD TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT A BANK was NOT
| IN ISSUE
AT the first the extra session OF their Congress assem-
bled in May, 1Sil three Bank bills were introduced
one submitted to them BY their Executive rejected
by the Senatorial Dictator Henry Clay although il
was perhaps, the least obnoxious of the three chiefly
because did emanate from the Executive and not from
himself Two other bills for the charter of mammoth
Bank Of the United Sates ofthe worst description
successfully passedby Congress under the direction Of
the same Dictator and successfully failed to become
laws, for the want ofapprobation and signature Of the
Executive.
The opposers before the election of high protective
tariff they afterwards enacted tariff little if any, less
oneros than the bill of denominations the tariff of 1928
The stern asserters of the involaby of the Comprom
Use act Of 1928 They violated it in the Distribution
act, and utterly abrogaed it by their tariff law. They
were the advocates of distribution of the proceeds
sales ofpubc lands, only when those proceeds were
not necessary in the administration of the treasury
der tariff confomed tothe provisions of the Comprof
Use act The national treasury became bankrupt un-
their administration OF it; public debt created tc
keep the government in operation, the Compromise
violated and abolished, ahigh protective tariff enacted
the same whiS Party in Congress passed uncondior
al and absolute distribution BILL alike regardless of the
condition Of the treasury, the fate of the Compromise
act ofthc tariff and of their pledges TO the people, They
were opposed national debt and promised to reduce
the debt which heyfaseiy charged as having been crea
ted during the preceding administration. They have in
creased it from less thai five millions of transient debt
the form of treasury notes not yet matuTed orredeem
able, to permanent debt Of thirty millions ercEnsiue
treasury notes.
The high toned and peculiar advocates and represen-
tatives of morality honesty and good faith, they enacted
corrupt and coTupting bankrupt law for the benefit o.
bankers bank stock and land Spectators, swindline
bankrupts and bankrupt politicians, to the great injury
and grevous wrong of sound merchants and honest la
borers of every calling and to the ncacuable depraviy
of public and private morality and virtue. A law under
which there has probably been more legal and mora
perjury in one year. than there has been under all the
nsovent laws ofall the States since the foundation Of
the governmental law which strikes at the very root
society-confdence between man and man.
They made other promises and pledges before the ell
ection such as to "proscribe proscrpton-to 'dimin
ish Executive Electromagnetic "dsconnect the govern
ment from partizan presses" &C. &C.. all of which pro
mises they have redeemed in like manner and spirit
those already advertedto From these facts and many
others not here referred to- is evident that the presen
whig party true to their federal origin and instincts art
the same now as their predecessors in the days of Ham
d ilton Adams and the Alien and Sediton laws.
From the conduct the wings in the last Congress
and from the course Of their parizan presses it canno
be doubted the whg party determined if possible, t
accomplish the assumption Of the debts of the States b.
q the General Government.