Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-02-24

sennrnbly connected with the purity
Iehnractor aud preservation OF tho Gov
Icrnmcnt itself and In my humble ludg'
ment, are Overwhelmingly conclusive a.
Igainst the PROHIBITIONS OF Mr.. Van llurcn,
As liDc shall we permit ourselves, !
truat to be Enlightened from our proprlc'
Itvn by the old and hollow expcdiont OF U
sensecss and arbitrary use party names
Those who arc so prone TO ring me cha"'
yes on the nomenclature oil Federells'
Gland Republican would do well to remem-
Der that they have men, reading aud en-
Iquiring men, to deal with, aud not emit
,Idron. Try Mr., Van Buren, and Mr., Clay
by any test derived from the authentic
HISTORY of political parties in this coun-
lfrv or by the standard OF those great
nrincjnles which exist in the essential ell
ements of our popular institutions, and
Mr.. Clay stands before the world the !ar
better Republican OF the two.
In that great array and struggle oil
the Two parties Of the country, (among
the mos, memorable in our hIStory,)
which arose out of the controversy and
war with England in 1912, where was mr.
CLAW and where was Mr.. Van Buren!-
Mr.. Clay calamity leading the Republl-
can hosts in the House of Representa-
lives. and sustaining the administration
of MIR. Madison, with all the energies oil
his patriotism and eloquence-Mr. van
4 Buren uniting with Federalists to depose
that illustrious man from power, and to
supplant his administration! lry them
Ianain by that standard which Mr. van
lBnren himself, in most elaborate speech
delivered in the Senate of U. 5. in 1928,
declared to be the true and legitimate dis
tnction between the Federal and Repub.
lGean parties. tho one seeking to. erteBf,
the other to restrain Er cutire power
The public have not forgotten the varl-
Gus schemes so sedulously devised or
!, countenanced by Mr., Van Buren, during
the whole period of his administration
, and fully exposed at the time, to aug
ment Executive patronage, discretion
and power; and nothing surely, has more
eminenty distinguished the career ROT Mr.
aICloy than his constant and perseSerln!
!, efforts TO restrain, and to provide neY
iiIsos anI securities against the enlarge
ment of abusive exercise OF The powers o
that department Of the Government
: Judging them, then, by Mr.. Van Buren'
own delinlion Of political parties, as cor
rectly laid down by him in 1928, but to
tally lost sight OF in his subsequen. prac-
Itice, let the sober and impartial Judg
men. of the country decide which is the
Federalist and which the Republican,
SIN the speech alluded to, ! made or
,Ithe l2th Feb, 1928, on the fJwers o.
!, the Vice President as presiding officer o.
f 1.-The Senate,) Mr.. Van Buren, comments
on the "attempt" Of Mr.. Adams in M
Inaugural address "to trace the origin Q
!, the TWO great political parties, ""which" hi
f adds, shave divided the country from tho
5 adoption of the Constitution 10 the pre-
, sent day." and after rejecting Mr. Ad
: ans theory, he gives his own in the FOL
/, flowing words: "They" (the two great pc
. ltica parties OF Federalist and Republl
can) .sarose from other and very differ
, ent causes They are, in truth, mainly
to be ascribcd 10 the struggle between
! two opposing principles that have beer
| in active operation in this country IRON
d the closing scenes Of the Revolutionary
r war 10 the present day-the one seeking
/ 10 absorb, as far as practicable, all pow
i or from its legitimate sources and con
dense it into single head; the other, al
! antagonist principle, labouring assdu
, ously to resist the encroachments ane
Y limit the extent oe Executive authori
i ty."
' Ii is impossible for any rejecting MAJ
S to contemplate the actual and prospective
n condition Of the country without seeing Il
h it already the germ of new dlthcultle
# and troubles, which may, IN their az
n preaching development, agitate our gle
t. rious Union to its centre,--at home, de
q fcient revenue, with all its ordinary sour
If ces pressed up 10 their farthest producc
,tItiye limit, and some Of them, there
! reason to apprehend beyond, the Tarlf
II controversy re-opened, with all the con
3 fiicting interests and passion which new
n ler failed to be awakened by it; and adde'
uIto these, the rekinded fires Of the Aboil
,tItion excitement--each and all OF men
,r are questions which carry in their %
O. SONS the fearful elements OF clvll discoi.
20 and intestine strife, The worst ana mos
e dangerous aspects they present Is lna' ', a.
atlol them bring into immediate am oppJl
ri sing array, ifnot into angry anu .p eaal,
tho sectional interests anu leo''
,slii4cs Of the different geog pncal - =
rtlinns of Inc conlederacy. Whose, O. sucn
Ma moment. Is the master spirit tllaE may ::
bavs nowor 10 still tho rising tempest,
Z Z lbefore Il sweeps with destructive lury y
il. Ioverthe face Of our yel haPpy oi''os' =