The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-01-17

"as no' your fresident done for hs country, VIVA
requirement OF duty has he disregarded; What lef
undone which could add TO the public welfare, viii
you contrast the condition of your country hen he
LOOK the heim OF Administration, with that in which
you Nod II now' Remember your ruined currency
your crippled trade-your PROSTATE commerce-your
merchants pahkrupt-your manufactures idle-your
Government itself corrupted in the channels az its
action--ls op ration mbecile--its credit sunk-its
name humated--the public faith therefore intact.
become a by-word and reproach, and the public
lreosury aIree booty, seized and pundered at plea
sure 10 go no further SIXTY four of the
land ONCE receivers being defauers to he Depart
ment OF the Treasury. How changed the scene =
Are your ears now panied by cries Of distress
Are your mechanics and aboring men now begging
the privilege to toll and terrified by menaces of dest
tuition and starving wives and chIdren9 See you not
animation, activity, and success impaired to all the
helds OF enterprise, and industry in all its FORMS ad-
equately rewarded! You have, too. a Government
conducted with wisdom and purity, and success in
an us az partmen no public faith impaired, pub
llc engagements violated no public money plumber
ed no othcial deiauters, robbng the people and de-
| grading the Government they serve we behold.
IN short, through the instrumentalty of an honest
ana enectVe administration, an entire country con-
tented, prosperous, and happy; its well adjusted 90
vernmental machinery performing all it's functions
with regularity and order, fulfilling the highest ex
pectatons connected with its existence, in the uni
versai good 1t fuses at home, and the universal re-
spect which it commands abroad When were the
foreign relations of this country placed upon more
advantageous footing? and by whom lave thew been
managed with more ability, and brought to more sat-
Oisfactory results? ur national intercourse. diplo
matte and other, with the potentates and powers of
me OLD world, and with the States of the American
Contlnentw equally attest, in all its ARTS the zeal
the energy, and The talents which have distinguished
the Adminstratl Of President Tyler
feIoW-cuZens, 'ei We now completed the end
proposed Our opinions OF the engrossng subject have
mus lnadequatey been presented, and our arguments
he fin ~ L
gu sion 1t embraces remains with the great RenubI
can brotherhood. Sooner or later they will do am
pie justice to all parties, to all interests to their coup
try and themselves. We have said that we prefer
John Tyler as the Chief Magistrate of the Repub
lic now soon to be elected among all the dstin-
guished men Of worth and reputation, whose names
nave been associated with that high place. We have
endeaVored to explain why this preference is found
ed, not alone on his merits his honesty, his capab
~ and his tahulness (hough, this were, indeed
enough.) we have found other and strong reason
for IN the extraordinary circumstances connected
with his present position before the country-(to
some of which we have referred yin the persecu-
tons ne has suffered from bad and ailhless men ac-
cidentally clothed with the power Of mschief-and
in the stern, existing necessity of protecting the lib
ery we ENJOY aud the institutions designed for their
security, from the sutversion with which they are
threatened by seeming auxares but real though in
sidious adyersaries. For John Tyler-for ourselves
as his irends-we have nothing to fear-nothing to
ask, but JUSTICE and RIGHT This will be rendered
Time, with Its truthful revelations and its righteous
judgments will vindcate the man and the statesman
In that day of retrbution those who have stood by
MN IN SIX troubles and forsak him not in the sew
enth VIII share with him In the need of Justice which
the decisions Of unperyered truth and purer light
shall award him. Nay, fellow citizen,, even now
land you in candor, viii bear US witness that we af
firm truly )-even now, is that Just man enshrned in
the popu heart If the popular action shall be in
| wet oT tha ind
the anomaly will be referable 10 those Herculean en-
glne- OF despotsm to which have before alluded
and which, generated in party fanaticism and mould
ed and cherished by cunning and selfish and ignoble
amoiuon have acquired supremacy as potent a.
law ITSELF yea which practically supercedes the fun
damental law and demands of popular opinion sub
mission 10 It's own lnlunctions. Can freemen long
endure bondage UGH this And why is such
form of slavery to be held more tolerabe than that
which IS regulated by responsible will? Our fathers
repelled the enemies of freedom, coming in the shape
OF cruel men with bayones in their hands; il will be-
long to their TO break the letters put on them by
foe to freedom, more subtle, cruel and more
fatal to liberty.
We add but a word. Speaking for the Republican
freemen of this great STATE, frankly announce our
earnest desire to cooperate with our Republican CO.
temporaries throughout the country in the selection
and sustentaion of a Republican candidate for the
Presidency, with whom we could enter the campaign
of IA with an assurance of success-for looking |
upon the ascendency of federal principles in the prac
teal government as always disastrous, the triumph of
the party embracing those principles, consider at
this juncture TO be replete with danger. But while
we declare our readiness TO abide the result of free,
frank, equal and fair deiberation and conference
with the friends and advocates Of every Republican
aspirant to the Chief Magisracy, we repudiate the |
tyrannous edicts OF any pseudo republican caucus,
which in the gulse of Democracy, demands obedience
to its will the condition of title to its counenance
and favor; and, with the mask Of Republican liberty
on Is : ne DpmOcratic
principle and seeks by It's fixed and fraudulent
contrivances, TO secure IFS fixed and fraudulent
ends. We oil eaity TO all such combinations.
The above address, being read, received the hearty
appreciation Of the Convention, and was adopted by
reclamation.
On motion, the Convention then adjourned TO meet
again at the City Hall at O'Clock, p. NJ
Cry Hall, 9 O'Clock, p NJ
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment, Mr.. !
Leonard, First Vice President in the Chair
d. Smith, Esq Of Montgomery, then responded to
the loud and repeated calls to address the Convention
and never, since the organization of the State Co
vernment has been delivered a more thrilling or elo-
auent address within her borders. Rich in thought
abundant in resources, ana unsurpassed in manner
and ntOnation Of voice Mr. Smith, for more than
two hours, enchaned the attention Of that vast au
dence so much So that q whisper or a football might |
NAVE been heard in the most distant part of the Hall
and though interrupted with the thunder cheers which
broke his enthusiastic periods he continued through
the whole mastery effort without the slightest en-
barrassment. So clearly did he point out the sulc-
dal spirit and policy that characterize the hard money
faction and fully did he develope the proscrptiye
measures of the exclusive whgs hat many who were
present Of both political parties w,re made to quail
before his -corchng animadyerson land the only |
thing be regretted Is, that every voter in Ohio did
not listen TO this great exposition Of principle.
When Mr.. Smith had concluded his remarks, G..
H. Penheld Esq. Chairman of the committee on that
subject reported the following resolutions
Resoired, That the ability with which the affairs
of the present administration of the General Govern
ment has been conducted, all its various depart
ments DO h foreign and domestic, has commended
itself to the appreciation of every American citizen,
who properly appreciates the value OF our Repubi-
can institutions, and who desires their TRANSMISSION
unimpaired to the latest posterity.
Resolved That in the negotiation Of the Treaty Of
Washington, by which the long standing question Of