The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-03-08
THE MEETING LAST NIGHT

JOHN NELSON, Secretary Of State al interim
THE MEETING LAST NIGHT
was enthusiastic in the extreme, and bold and
decisive in its action. The CENTRAL COMMIT
TEE was perfected, and directed without delay
10 prepare an Address to the friends OF the Ad-
ministration throughout the United States. IL
will be submitted al The next meeting, and pub
lished this week. A+l
We have been permitted TO publish the fol-
lowing extract. from the speeches delivered;
hThs Central organization should have been
effected two years ago; but it was prepentedby
men Of dignity, whose only powers had been
conferred on them by the PRESIDENT, whose
cause we are advocating. They professed to
be the friends Of the man who had made them;
and, al the same time, they used the influence
of their offices, which they held by the tenure
of his pleasure, 10 interfere with, and crush the
attempts of his disinterested friends, who were
not in Office, TO form in solid and Elective pha-
anx, the supporters of himself, and the defend
ers of his Administration.
$780, ~ !.
s'Bqt it is not yet too late. Most Of US, if not
all of US, have banded together with the firm re-
solve to effect the triumph of JUSTICE, or to fail
and fall, by the powers Of injustice. In this
movement we will bow TO the authority OF no
man living, but one Let any one else interpose,
and the conflict shall be mortal-poli'cally-
one or the other Of the parties. While we de-
mdnd non interference on the part Of those
Il ,G III nil
ask cooperation from those who do. We shall
soon be enabled TO know switch is which,"
here and elsewhere. When irampled on, we
will find out how to sting.
at has been asked,-what are your objects
What will the National Convention do Our
object is TO do justice TO John Tyler. He saved
the country from all the horrors of National
Bank-horrors not less appalling than the de-
yaslalions of an invading army, marking its
progress with pillage and aames-and The lead
ers of both parlies-Federal and Globe leaders
--assail him for ii JUSTICE must be done, even
if the "heavens fall" John Tyer's Admins
ua,ion is emuentIy, eminenlly successful,
in every ramfcation-and yet he is denounced
by the Bottses and the Bidirs! Justice must
be DONE Such is our object. Be they few or
many, our object and determination is to have
all those who agree with us, organize, organize,
ORGANIZE, in every State, and appoint their
delegates to the Baltimore Oonyention. What
the Convention will do, is not for me 10 say
1t may be safely presumed that the delegates
will, themselves, know what is best TO be done !;
and will do something. They will not NEE, TO
do nothing. They must be men in whom the
Administration party can con6de, and the parry
will doubtless be prepared 10 put in execution
whatever they may decide upon. No; it is not
for us 10 say chat the Convention will dove
may rely upon it The delegates will do their duty.
1t is for US to see that they sent thiber.--
That is what nee must do and il "shoud be
done quickly"
st If we fail now-if the present effort is TO be
made abortive, by the old Machiavelian policy
which has so often foresidlied US, PUNISH
mo FRIENDS AND REwARpiNo ENEMrEs-we NAV
cease 10 hope that FULL JUSTICE will eper be
done the most bonest--the most abused-the
most deserying-successo of Jefferson that is
left to our party ridden country OF the thou
sands--tens Of thousands-who are ready to
rally around him, if we fail nor, not one oil
them, in eight weeks from the present speak
ing, can be found. Then abandoned, they,
too, mill ABANDON! They will disperse: inn
mediately, and take refuge in the Clay or Van
Buren, ranks, which ever they may prefer
And while their dispersion will, beyond
all peradventure, secure the nomination Of Van
Buren, and Clay. i will at the same time cause
the election of the latter, and the final overthrow
OF the Democratic party. Then. as Democrats
honest Democruts--nho do not seek, as IL
hos been charged upon us, TO "diridc the
party" let us GO ON Let US have Jus
TICE" inscribed upon our banners, and by
speaking and writing, morning, noon, and night
convince our party, that it cannot succeed. that
j, ought not to succeed, that success would be
unstable and vslueless, unless full jusfics be