Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-04-25

But the affairs of "the party" ar
prudently managed. Stratagem and nc
force, is the means by which il hath ger
orally worked, but, on the present occasion
those means are united: and what man
agemem would not effect by caucus a
Washington, was 10 be accomplished b,
FORCE at Albany.
i Page 8. / do not 4now that tn
people Of any of the states desire til,
passage of an ELECTORAL law, except New
York, in which it was made the question
in the choice of assembiymen, 4 er5 only
excepted voted for it,if this is not accept
ed as evidence of what is asserted
We must reach The conclusion, that The
vast majority grossly misunderstood the
will of their constituents and were Sc,
of biockheads, or acted hypocriticalIy
depending on the senate TO interpose itself
and save them from the indignation Of
their abused and insUlted constituents. -
They are thus placed on the horns of a
dilemma. and they may elect either that
they please. And the result showed that
any might rely on the senate to reject
what they, on their obligations, had said
ought to be passed--for that body, by a
vote of IL 10 Is, followed the example
of the "Spartan band'' in Pennsylvania in
1900, that the vote of New York, on the
presidency, should not be according to the
will of the people. They did this, as l
heard some of them say, "that the great
republican party might be sared"--tbat
is ,ha, they, the "immorta! seventeen"
were the republican patty, and not the
freemen Of the state.
Page ls. The 'holy father" says that
the reading Of the Bible is against the or
der 4" of the famous council Of Trent
and for the citizens of New. York TO ex-
ert The elective franchise, is against the
authority" of the caucus at Washing
ton
Page 10. What, for example, is it 10
The people Of New York, whether Ger.
tam individual is made secretary Of state
or sent out minister to England? Will
that be an equivalent Sor transfer of the
power of the state to the rule of a few
unauthorized and irresponsible persons,
located elsewhere?
Yet the ground taken now--the pres
ent broad attempt to bring public opinion
into contemp. and make the voice of the
people thing to be laughed at, under the
chant OF prescribing the republican par
ty," is so plainly al war with the wide
spred professions of this caucus Of caucus.
es, that every man begins 70 see and feel
it.
Page "a. Look at il :-was there
ever any thing more apt The federal
list, as party, have ceased to exist. The
word is obsolete at Washington.
The old party questions have died
away and those who were called feder-
alists as well agree with republicans on
matters Of policy,a as 10 national affairs,
as those that we're republicans do among
themselves. Still the old spirit of oppo-
silion, kept up by preferences for men
more than by a respect for meaures. re-
mains with few of the 'up-tO-the>hub"
persons of the days of political intoller-
rnce. And where are these now? Where
is The fragment ofthat party which Pres
ident Adams shook off in the latter part
of his administration, because of its ultra
aristocratical principles ? These are with
the republican. caucus party almost to
man! The extremes have met, as per-
sons ac;H do Uho haze a common object.
The common object of every aristoracy,
let il be called BY what name it may, and
without regard to its location. is POW
Err.
Page IS. The local politics Of New
York are beyond my comprehension, past
finding out !: and great deal like the
lrshman's horse. that had only two faults
to wit, "he ras hard to catch.--and good
for nothing uhen caught" This condi-
ton probably grew ont of the general
lust for offices and the enormous power
ofthe "counci of appointment" to confer
them--but that being done away, and ma
ny offices made to depend on the good
will of the people as to who shall possess
them, we may hope for better state Of
things. so soon as the regency" cease to
dictate what IS " republican" or " FEEDER.
all" Then the people may know of what
political party they are' There is no
sporting IN this-it relates to plain mat
tiers of fact: thus it was universally
agreed on to be I" Republican" in October
last, that the people should elect the cleo
tors of President, and the house of assem-
bly,, only four dissenting. considered il
republican" to pass law for the pur-
pose-but the " immortal seventeen" Of
the senate, at the same session, said it
was " republican" that such law should
not pass, so that the republican party
mig hit be preserved" out of the hands of
the federaiists - and, at the late extra
meeting, it was /" republican" in about
forty members of ,he assembly, who vo-
ted for the law few months before, to
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