The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-02-07
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.


overthrow, IL not demolition, must be sdmille
on all sides. We find radical difference e.
isling between lis members TO The principle
on which the Baltimore Convention shall D
organized; we End il at variance as 10 IL
course of action on many other vital questions
aud We fad il, moreover. angesed aud Imbii'ei
ed by personal grefs, and well founded com
plsint. of III usage. These things are sufficl
emily manifest; but, in addition to them,
shou d be remembered that in 1910. when
brought all its power into rsquisiiion, and mao IL
lis hands the immense patronage Of me E1ecu
tive, and in operation its yaunted oup- rea
sury, vet il sustained most signal DEFEAT
Without the acquisition of any new strength
il ha. deemed it sound policy 10 make uncom
promising war on the old Jackson men OF 1928
who voted for General Harrison, and slammed
\ in their faces the doors of Tammany Hall
Now lis power is threatened with overthrow
Intent on personal objects. i, is in danger OF
losing sight Of principle and to ioretell lis
doom. under these circumstances, requires no
spirit of prophecy. How different from this
Mescene in 1912! The President had given.
olv.ost at the point Of the assassin's knife, four
consecutive Vcioes The Federal portion Of
the Whig party had joined Issue with him upon
those Vetoes, and the People rallied In masses
10 sustain the President. A Wing majority Of
fortv osid in The House OF Representatives
was annihlated, and majority OF sirfy
odd for the Democracy elected. The only
questions asked during this canvass were-"Are
YOU a Democrat Against the United States
Bank and are you opposed to the distribution
o the sales of the public lands, whilst the Trea-
sury is empty ard new taxes are necessary for
the support of Governmenl?n And the answer
in the affirmative secured the election. Every
thing was working for the re-estabshment OF
the Republican party, under an administration
ut the head of which stood an old Jackson man,
who had never, in any one instance, during the
course of long and not uneventlul political
life, departed from the principles ola sound and
orthodox Republican creed. What has turned
back this tide Of success aud brought the Demo
cratic party to its present condition-the very
brink Of the deepest abyss of destruction 2
What but the sel6shness of the leaders, who
care nothing for the country, or the party, pro-
vided they cannot sit in the Presidential, Chair
Their petty schemes of ambition are threatening
to consgn the country into the hands of federal
ism. Their train band, follow at their heels
and rai,e shouts for their respective comman-
ders, warning against the man who brought
them into power, lest Republican People
should rally upon him and destroy their infa-
NOUS intrigues. Take The State Of Virginia for
example. When was it before, since the great
1ood, that Virginia, the native State of the Pre-
sideni, failed to rally around the ouispread ban
.ner Of principle aud justice When General
Jackson was At the height Of his power, and
when there were not twenty an,iJackson men
in the Legislature Of the State, John Tyler,
then a Senator Of the United States, within
three days Of his reelection, dared TO assail the
doctrines OF the Proclamation aud Force Bill
Virginia nobly sustained the banner Of principle
which he then uniurled, and re-endorsed her
old Republican cieed by his triumphan,
reelection. General Jackson himself en-
dorsed the course then pursued by Mr.. Tyler;
for he has since disclaimed the doctrines of
"Nrd Livingston" inserted in those State pa
pers. Blu, the very men who then upheld those
doctrines, are those now found in the high
places OF public trust in that time -honored CON-
monweath and are continually crying out that
the man who opposed the Proclamation aud
Force Bill is not a Democrat, but that they are
the only patent "par erceiience" Republicans.
Again, look At the combination which has ex-
isled for the last eighteen months, throughout
The Union, between the Federal and the mscall-
ed Democratic press against the Admnistra-
iioo, and the too well grounded apprehension
that this same combination still operates in
striking down The friends Of the President
nominated TO Office.
We ask reflection upon what we have said.
The prostration Of The Democratic parry 10
l64l--i,s triumph under the Tefo standard 10
l6%2 The base iogratitude Of ls43, and al present
towards its PREsERvER. We again repeat our
solemn WARNING! We tell the Republicans oJ
erery clique, and erery psrsuasion, that here
il an eternal truth gorerning their desfinies
II 10 TO be found in the declaration THAT Nc
CAUSE FOUNDED IN INJUSTICE CAN PROSPER. Thi,
is the fat Of Omnipotence. Would the Demo
cratic party marshall ITS hosts and stand in tn,
presence of the world claiming victory TREr
LET IT DO JusrIcs. Let 4 rally be made in sup
port Of the Administration. The daily declsra
ton of the Jdcobiie is, that the Presiden, ha
NO strength. Has he no strength in New Jer
sew 7-none in Louisiana 2---none in Ohio D
none ia Pennsylvania, where, in single city
,,oo,. than three tboue and VOTERS have siuni6e,
their preference for hint Has he no strength
among the State rights Wings and White mel
Of ls4O7 None in Virginia, notwiihstsndin.
the election OF Wise and GiImer in district
,sh,ah Ia $40 nave over NJ h.Inina Whiu mn