The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-06-27
CIRCULAR.
TO THE VOTERS OF POSEY AND
VANDERBURGH.

by some of my friends to be a candidate to
represent the Counties of Posey and Wander
burgh in the State Senate, and the call be-
ing supported by such a numerous and res
pectable list of my fellow citizens, both of
Posey and Yanderburgh, as TO preclude the
propriety of a refusal, | now respectfully
offer myself to you as a candidate for that
station.
A candidate for the frsttime and unknown
personally 10 many of you, it is proper that
YOU should be made somewhat acquainted
with me and with my political principles, that
you my Judge of the propriety of bestowing
your votes, and, in this view, the egotism
usually considered pardonable in a candidate
may be allowed to me.-Descended then
from a Virginia Wing of the Revolution, who
faithfully performed his duty in the service
of his country until the close of the war, |
was educated in the ~strictest sect of Democ-
racy-of Wing Democracy-of such Dem
ocracy as triumphed in that struggle for lib
2EIy anu dCliCbCQ u INDEPENDENCE a. q
nation. An ardent supporter of the princi-
pies of Jefferson and Madison, as was my
father, was early taught TO look to the prin-
ciples then enforced as the true creed of
American Democracy;-and those who know
me need not be told that | am of the same
politics still. i'll in common with thousands
of the old Democratic party, have been I'M
able to see the true Wing Democracy which
marked the Revolutionary era, in the one
man power of Van Buren's administration, il
is no doubt owing to my political education.
Taught TO look to the Government as institu-
ted for the good of the people, can never
subscribe 10 the doctrine that the ''people
demand loo much from government" when
they call upon government for relief from the
effects of its own bad legislation. Taught
to consider it the principal domestic duty OF
the President, to see that the laws are "faith-
fully executed, y as the Constitution requires
and to look to the legislative body emanat-
ing directly from the People as the source
ofL.aw, / can see no true Democracy in. a
President setting himself in opposition TO the
representatives of the people, chosen for the
express purpose Of making their laws, and
declaring to them what laws they shall and
what they shall not make. Considering thai
every citizen is entitled to his opinion, i
instead of the Jeffersonian qualifications fo
Office, which were honesty, capability, anC
a devotion TO the Constitution, | see thu
modern democratic" qualification to be feal
ty to the person ofthe Chief Magistrate, ant
active services in electioneering in his be
half, it is my political education which force
me, in common with many ofthe most talent
ed men of the country, 10 look upon the re
quirement of such services from every ofic
holder as a departure from the old landmark
of Democracy and a sapping of one OF tn
vital principles of the constitution. If OIL
these, and many other important points, tn
tests of true Democracy do not lie with th
party which now arrogates to itself exclusive
ly the name of democratic" my opinion t
that effect only comedies with the opinio
of the universal Wing Party. who to a ma
refuse to recognize the business ofthat nam
when applied TO those who rallied at the las
election under the banner of Van Burer
and whose political allegiance has now, i
opposition to a majority of their own part
and of their own nominating convention, bee
transferred to a man they have found some
where / believe in Tennessee of the name
Polk. But | allude to these matters not I
discuss them, because the station to which
aspire has little to do with general polite!
l allude TO them only because there al
many persons who think no one qualified ft
any office who has not considered MART
Van Buren, to be a pure democrat and Oh
efthe greatest men ofthe world, or who no
refuses to look upon this Polk as the en-
bodiment of democratic principle. All sue
Iwould have 10 know, that on these points
differ with them in opinion-and that in r
gard to the questions which now divide t
country, ny ideas of Democracy require n
TO support those advocated by the Wings.
But The duties of the office for which
ask your votes Except in the choice of