The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-09-12

compact between free, sovereign and indie e
pendent States, by which so much power, n
and no more, has been granted 10 a common b
agent OF all the States, as they esteemed to F
be necessary for the promotion ofiheir mutu- I
al happiness. MOTTO them have nothing 10 {
say. fl have received their support at any
time, it has been, not from attachment to me
lor my political principles, but from some sup
Eposed influence which / might bring 10 bear
as a secondary agent, in advancing their pur-
poses. All the obligations which have re-
ceived for such reasons, have been more than
counterbalanced by the untiring opposition
which | have encountered at ihei. hands
since | attained my present station, and the
constant and unmitigated abuse which their
leaders have poured out in a torrent upon
my head: designed, as verify believe, in
the first instance, to drive me from the Gov
eminent; and in the last TO overwhelm me
with obliquy and reproach. But have a
right to address myself 10 those, who, like
myself, co-operated with them in the contest
of 1S4O-whos were, and always had been,
the advocates of the principles of the old
Republican party-whose strenuous efforts
have always been directed to preserving the
compact of the Union, unbroken and invio-
Iste-who have sustained at all times the
principles ofthe Republican party of l70S-9I
who have participated, from time to time,
in all Republican triumphs-whose fathers
were victorious over the elder Adams in the
election of Mr.. Jefferson, as they themselves
were over the younger in the election ofGen.
: Jackson. To this portion of the Wing party
: OF 1910, | feel that | have a full right to ad-.
: dress myself; and | low seriously put it TO
4 them to say whether any expectation ofgood
/, 10 the country which they had formedi in the
: election of Gen. Harrison and myself TO the
Presidency and Vice Presidency has been
disappointed? May of US had been thrown
: into opposition TO Gen. Jackson during his
!, last term, having voted for him upon his first
g and second election, because of certain doc
: trines put forth in his Proclamation, and be-
d cause of certain measures which followed
s that celebrated State paper. Our opposi-
e ton proceeded from no spirit of faction, but
I; from what we esteemed it to be, a sacred re-
gard to the high and essential principles oil
l. the Republican party--and regarding his
N successor as in a great degree identified
with what we esteemed as errors in General
at Jackson's administration, our opposition was
10 continued to him. The the state condition o.
ly the country also seemed TO require change
10 in the general Administration. Have yor
il been disappointed in the reform which you
promised yourselves by going into that con
test? You demand a rigid economy TO bt
le observed in the public expenditures. Have
n you in this been disappointed? You requir
n ed accountability on the part of all public
nv agents. Has il not been fulfilled? Lettht
TT, fact that a defaulter has become almost I'm
h. known for the last three years answer tn
on Question. You asked that a course of poll
ID, CIV should be adopted which should purif
on and reform the currency. Was the curren
% Get TIE rate of the Exchanges between al
e. parts ofthe country answe the inquiry. Ha
ct the day ever been, when the currency wa
on sounder or the rates of Exchange lower?-
You sought once more to put the mechanic
of al arts in active operation, and 10 reliep
commerce from the blight which had faile
es upon it. The. first mas revived, and the las
on has unfnrled its sails, which now whiten a
OF most every sea. The paralysis which ha
'p- fallen on public credit, to an extent so grea
as that the poor sum of S., 100000 of Govern
ment stock was offered to European and A
d. merican capitalists without our being able 1
n find for it a purchaser, has passed away, an
Is, a well supplied Exchequer gives evidenc
eff not only of the expansion of trade, but of tn
of stable basis on which rests the public credit
ir- The very stock for which no bidIers coul
at one time be found, now readily command
ne in the market an advance efffleen ortwent
by dollars in the hundred. In the mean time
lily submit ii to you to say, whether the prime
pies of the Republican party have not bee
he closely observed in all that has been DONE
Did those principles require that we shout
of recommence a new cycle of twenty years
in the predecessor of which a Bank of the I'M
L. ed States had fulfilled in 1886? Beginnin
by increasing the arrangements of bushes
'es for years, attended in its mid career wit
by comparative prosperity, then resorting to e.
ri forts by all its large means TO force a rechal
ed ter, and ending its existence amid the curse
on and.denunciations ofthe many it had ruined
I'D Most of you had, like myself, through a
Sn time, pronounced the Bank to be uncons.
IL tutional. Had your opinions on this subiec
ed undergone a change in 1910, and did yo
or contemplate that General Harrison and M
self-who during the whole contest avowe
1t our opinions to be unchanged in that re:
nd pect, in numerous addresses to the public
On would be deserving of denunciation if eithe
in of US should refuse 10 perjure ourselves b
ID, sanctioning a Bank charter, which, believiu
all it to be unconstitutional, our solemn oath {
flu Office required US to uote against or ceto?-
en- Tell me, moreover, brother Republicans c
cir 1910, had you then brought yourselves t
snt the conclusion that, even admitting a poss