The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-09-11
THE SENTINEL
Cadiz, September II, 1874.
THE LETTER OF A PATRON


From the Nashville Union
MIR. Van BUren's Response to the Let
Ter of the Tennessee State Committee
inviting him TO the Mass Meeting OF
the 10th UIt.
The following patriotic letter from one of oul
most distinguished countrymen is so full of eo.
quence and power, that nothing that we can say
will add to its highly interesting character:
LINDENwALD, July %, 1914.
GENrLEMEN-l have to thank you for your
kind invitation TO attend Mass Meeting Of the
Democracy of Tennessee, to be held at Nash
vile, on the 18th of August.
1t will not, | regret 10 inform you, be in my
power, TO be personally, but you may rest ASST
red that my best wishes will attend your noble
efforts to re-cstablish the ascendency of Demo-
cratic principles in the councils of the nation.
This is not said from spirit of courtesy only,
but conveys the earnest and undsguised senti-
ment of my heart, which has its foundation in
conviction, that the success of the men and the
principles you support is necessary TO the welfare
of the country. My opinion of the character
of our candidates, including Tenncssce's uhas-
suming and highly mertorious son, has already
been given 10 the public, and need not be re-
peated. 1t is equally unnecessary 10 say that
there is not among the numerous friends OF
those gentlemen one who chorishes more dis
interested desire for their individual welfare
than do There are, besides, public interests
involved in the coming contest, which have
claims upon our consideration, far beyond such
as are of a personal character.
1t is scarcely too mach 70 s2y, that the rerma-
nent success or final overthrow of those distinc-
tive principles for the admin slration ofthe Fede
raj Government, wh,ca const tu c hc Democratic
creed, are suspended upon the result of the ap.
preaching election Although justly regarded
as the promised fruits ofour Struggle for national
Independence, it is nevertheless true that those
principles DID not acquire tnlt influence in all
the deputnenls of the Govonmcnt, 10 which
they were so well entitled, un;il afer what was
appropriately called the civil revolution Of 1900:
and from that day TO the present there has been
an uninterrupted struggle f5r their expulsion
from tho foothod they had thus acquired. In
this struggle, SO long continued and with such
varied success they have arrayed against them
that active and undying spirit by which the
conduct of portion of mankind has at all times
and everywhere been guided, and which regards
the power of Government as misIpplied, when
its business as well as IFS burthens are dffused
among the people in equal proportions, and by
an impartial hand. Although the luminous and
earnestly patriotic mind Of Mr.. Jefferson exerted
principal agency in their conception and sue
cessful diffusion, and although the public mind
was strongly agitated by the establishment of
the first bank the United States, and the prn-
cples then avowed by its leading advocate, as
also by some of the leading measures of the ad
mnistration of the elder Adams, yet the real
character and practical tendency Of the conflict
ing principles which have from the beginning
been entertained by the two great parties which
have divided the country since the establishment
OF the Federal Constitution, were never so thor
oughly appreciated by the great body of the
people as during the administration of General
jackson and that which Immediately followed --l
Indifferent about forms, but ever anxious, might
even say impatient, for results, and bringing to
the consideration of every public question a
clear head, an honest heart and truly ndomita-
ole spirit, that extraordinary man carried out the
principles Of lis party with So vigorous hand
and dealt his blows upon opposing hereses with
gueh Yapidity and force, as not only to bring the |
parties themselves to the closest quarters, but
dISu W lGuu all OldSoC0 anu NOhdlhOho VI uiSu
to more earnest consideration of the princi-
pies and designs of the opposing parties, than
had been before bestowed upon them The
struggle thus produced reached its crisis in the
course of the four preceding years Never had
the masses of the Democratic portion OF the peo-
pie been made SO dcc,y dceT!y sensible af the obec-
tionable character of the doctrines which they
had hitherto opposed; and never before we're
those who have at all times preferred govern
ment Of associated wealth, to one founded on
popularity and practically controlled by the will
OF the mass, so thoroughly convinced of the ne
cessity Of immediate and efficient exertions to
save their cherished principles from total over
throw. The conflict Of such interests, and the |
collision of such sentiments in wilderness of |
free minds, gave q character 10 the contest
which, though perhaps to be expected, will, it is
hoped, never be epeated.--Means which will |
without doubt, in the course of time, lose all |
their apologists, were by our adversaries brought
TO bear upon public opinion already TO some
extent unsettled, by many years Of severe polti- |
cal agitation. These were in the sequel power
fully aided BY arrangements in the business re-
lations Of the country, occasioned by unexam-
pied abuses of the credit system, which, though |
they pervaded all commercial nations, and are
now universally known to have been occasoned
by individual mprovidenee and msmanagement,
wore St the time with too much success attribu-