The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-19
From the Old School Republican.
THE ELECTION.

The agony is over! Suspense is at an end! Re-
publicanism is again triumphant, and on the 4th
March, l845, JAMES KNOX PoLs, an honest man, a
faithful public servani,a true Democrat, and patro
tic statesman is the President elect Of the United
STATES.
w ell may the people rejoice in result so full of
promise-a deliyerance SO signal from the mschieis
and dangers which have threatened the country -
This popular conflict will mark period in the
annals of our GOvernment-an epoch from which
The prpgress prosperity, and glory of the Republic
will take new date, and liberty lay hold on new
securities for continuing freedom
TO Whggery, Coontry, Roorbackery, Tor whatever
proper term may truly describe the opposing combi-
nation Of FEDERALISM Monopoly, Mammon- Worship
to il this memorable popular achievement is Wa
teroo defeat, a discontinue from which there is TO
be no recovery in its present form of organization -
True, the selfish the heariess spirit OF Aristocracy
will not diet dies-and therefore it is that
" eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" Ii will
live on, though In chains, and other shapes and
other circumstances reveal its hateful aims towards
The happy millions it would make its victims. 1t Is
the deathless foe OF humanity and pusues its obj
with undyiUg perseverance. Our ancestors conquer
ed it, in the era eveI-gorous of '76-tortured but
not killed, vexed but not anbihilated, our fathers
put their heel upon its neck IN that of lS00-anC
again, after an interval of half century, it has been
allotted 10 their sons to crush the spoiler 1t is
doDe-happily done-and civil liberty and equality
are rescued from the eager grasp of exclusiveness
and despo,ism. Rejoice, then, ye toiling millions,
who live by the sweat of your brows! Rejoice
freely that GOOD, yea and true MAN, stands at he
helm--who measures not the brotherhood of men by
dollars and cents, but finds the great bond If fraternity
in erery honest hsart. Rejoice that the man oil
your own free choice, JAMES X. POLK the man of
the steady hand and upright mind, shall guide The
ship Of State-thst your Government in its policy,
and aims and action shall continue TO shed it bles
sings alike the poor and the rich the high and the
low, and that no grinding oppression shall come nigh
your doors, nor any system operate, under his con
troll, to ertlize the rich mans field by the sweat OF
the poor mans brow"
One may readily estimate, to some extent the
evils he country has escaped in its refusal to conde
in Whggery, and in rejecting the counsels OF Roor-
bakery, if he refers to the extraordinary means en-
ployed to achieve victory the Democratic
Masses in the contest just term mated Ii has been
always obvious that the tendency of the system advo-
Gated by the Federal party was TO produce corrup-
ton. Money, the love of which is announced by
Divine Wisdom itself to be the root of all evil, is the
principal agent of power according to It's plan-and
none could mistake the nature objects, and ends OF
its influence welded by artiul aud selfish men. But
what mind had coDceyed-wbo had dreamed, until
the frighfu exhibition presented TO his eyes in
all its hideous neament that any set OF at this
day could enforce such practices and employ such
expedlents have marked the struggle out OF which
we have emerged so glodouslyi :" If these things be
done in the green tree what will be done in the dry
III suCh tnOOts oi tHoTt nave DeeH pT8cuseo nor ny
Whiggcy-and that with extended effect too, in lis
unofficial FORM what might not have been expected
from Coone,y and Roo,baekry, clothed with the dig
nifty, the authority the patronage and power Of this
great Government Have we not TO be glad,
yea, "wh exceedingly joy" that we have bound Wing
gerry and all its auxilisres in letters which for in
terva al least, II cannot rend
II is, indeed, ecious trumph-this victory over
Whggery, Abolitionsm, Nativesm, and their mum
berless accompces of varied hurs, and shapes, and
names, and characters And how just retrIbuion
for the sins Of coalitions so unholy
Just, as a condemnation OF the daring frauds which
men have not before imagined, and the attempts 10
poi the very fountain Of Republican safety, 10y in
vading the right Of ee and pure sufrage-just II is,
signal reproof Of the most stupeDdous deception
ever known among men, in the reckless endeavors to
fasten upon a trusting people National Bank and its
kindred sources of oppression, IN lS4l, which had
been loudly repudiated in lSi0-and just it is, an
intelligent expression Of popular sentiment towards
the frates and vices, the ambition and dupicity Of
the most accomplished demsgogue of modern times.
Truly, it is righteous retrbution, not soon TO be
forgotten by those whose arrogant hopes have been
blasted in hour, by the omnpotent ballot of free
and enlightened people.