Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1844-08-08

they should have protected it. have,
from ignorance and indulgence, LEFT
undone what they should have done.
This principle Of rewarding the "rabble
followers Of the camp" has raised up an
army Of mercenaries that hover around
the Government like vuliures over a
carcase and, for what they can do,
not less than for what they have done,
legion IN number, they get access to
the ear of power, and poison it with
false and pcstilential suggestions. 1t is
thus that they virtually administer the
Government by their dctation, corrupt
it by their profiigacy, and weaken il by
their ignorance.
We appeal to the candid. even among
the true friends Of the Administrations
referred to, to say whether these evils
have not been seen and felt for some
years past
We had no such doings in the days
Of Jefferson and Madison and Monroe
aud Adams. The prosperity and the
honor of the country were the great OBJ
ects TO which they looked. They, too,
were party men, but it was party tenn
pered with justice, and party regulated
by patriotism. There was IA moral
power in the virtue and grandeur of
those men that was felt in every mem.
ber Of their administrations and in the
pulse Of the whole country. There was
to be seen, with such expectations only
as indicated the infant struggles Of the
new party which afterwards obtained
the ascendency, a respect for the laws,
IA fidelity in the discharge ofevery trust,
and reverence for all the social rela-
tons Of life, that made US a peculiar
people jealous Of good works. These
great virtues faded away as the new
party grew in strength, and at length
lost their ascendency in the Government
under the influences Of modern democ-
racy, with its ruinous experiments and
its tyrannical intolerance.
Now, then, is The time for US to re-
solve 10 arrest the downward progress
oIthe Government, and restore il, in
all ITS integrity, to its ancient glory
The choice between the evil and the
good is now before us, in the men and
the measures that are striving for pow
er. In Mr.. Polk we see willing and
nhesitating advocate Of the ruinous
measures Of his party, bound by pledges
to carry on and carry out the work Of
his predecessors, which has once bank
ruPted whole country, and has pam
pered spirit of licentious liberty and
INSTRUMENTATION which hns shaken our
institutions to their foundations In Mr.
Clay we have any thing and every
thing but this. Far from belonging to
this modern school Of propagandsts, he
dates back to the fathers ofthe country
from whom he took his first lessons, and
with whom he served in unity and inI
spirit. Through an eventfuI public life
OF more than forty years he has been n
steadlnst champion of his country, and
faithful 10 the teachings Of the schools
OF our Revolutionary fathers. In all
his notion Of Government he is old
fashioned. He has always been anx.
ious that the Ship of State should be
steered by the chart laid down hy the
farmers Of our Con!cderacy and it is
now the great desire Of his life to bring
back our Government from the wayward
wanderings Of false teachers to the
peaceful and better days when Jefferson
tho ,rn,h
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that would not rc;n;ce 70 500 tho Al
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