The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-01-25


oerate spirit so slrikingly exhibited in his let
ers which have been recently given to
he public, sustained by his well-known
influence with his friends, and his own high
and unquesfioned character for frankness
and decision, is a guarantee which no por-
ton of the nation will lightly regard.
I With respect to the Bank if the country |
shall be reduced toa choice between the obi |
Gus and grinding Sub-Treasury Scheme, and
a National Institution of Finance, properly
guarded against abuse by the jealous reslric-
tions Its charter, as well as by a viglant
public supervision and control, do not be-
lieve that of such an alternative, would find
any cause ofquarrel against those who, free
from constitutional difficulties on the sub
ject, should go for the latter, in preference
to the former. And as TO the Distribution
of the proceeds of the Public Lands, that
stands necessarily and evidently adjourned
as practical question, Till the sober iudg-
ment of the people, under the pressure reve-
nues of he nation, compared with IFS expen-
ditures and engagements, shall be in very
different situation from that IN which they
now are, or are likely TO be for years 10 come.
My own individual opinions on those sub
jects, have been SO often and fully stated,
that need not repeat them here. What |
mean to say, at present, is, that these are IS
sues either hypothetical and speculative. or
neGtralized by equal and opposing consider
atoms on the other side, and should not d.
vert the mind, for a moment, fiom those
higher, and more urgent and vital questions,
which are the true tests of sound and cor
rect decision in the pending Presidential
Election. Those tests have already adver-
ted to. They are such as are inseperably
connected with the purity, character and
preservation of the Government itself, and
in my humble judgement, are overwhelming
ly conclusive against the pretensions of Mr.
Van Buren,.
As little shall we permit ourselves, trust
TO be enlightened from our propriety" by the
old and hollow expedient ola senseless anC
arbitrary use of party names. Those who
are prone 10 ring the changes Of the nomen
clature Of Federalist and Republican woult
f do well to remember that they have men
J reading and enquiring men, to deal with, am
not children. Try MIR. Van Buren, and Mr.
= Clay by any test derived from the authenti;
] history of political partiesin this country, 0
3 by the standard of those great principle
t which exist in the essenticl elements of on
5 popular institutions, and Mr.. Clay stands be
r fore the world the far better Republican 0
: the two.
g In that great array and struggle of the tw
: parties ofthe country, (among the most me
] morable in our history,) which arose out {
the controversy and war with England
i 1912, where was Mr.. Clay and where wa
e Mr. Van Buren,? Mr. Clay CALAMITY leat
s ing the Republican host Of the House of Re-
d personalities, and sustaining the admins
a sration of Mr.. Madison. with all the enc
e gies of his patriotism and eloquence-M
) Van Buren, uniting with the Federalist to d
/ pose that illusirious man from power, an
/, to supplant his administration Try the
n again by that standard which Mr.. Van B
e rem himself, in a most elaborate speech d.
r. lvered in the Senate of U. S. in 1928, d
r clared to be the true and legitimate distin
< ton between the Federal and Republica
o. parties,-the one seeking to extend, the OF
,e er to restrain, Executive power. The pu
10 lie have not forgotten the various schem,
Il so sedulously devised or countenanced
e. Mr. Van Buren,, during the whole period
N bis administration, and fully exposed at th
a; time, to augment Executive patronage, dis
ID cretion and power; and nothing surely, h;
e. more eminently distinguished the career
n Mr. Clay than his constant and perseve rir
4 efforts to restain, and to provide new dixie
u and securities against the enlargement
e abusive exercise ofthe powers of that depal
Ie ment of the Government. Judging ther
b. then, by Mr.. Van Buren's own definition
Of political parties, as correctly laid down
e him in 1928, but totally lost sight of in
of subsequent practice, let the sober and in
e., partial judgement of the country decie
e which is the Federalist and which the r
$ publican.*
e 1t is impossible for any rejecting man
it contemplate the actual and prospective CO.
of ditlon ofthe country without seeing in it a
le ready the gem ofnew difficulties and tro
O. bles, which may, in their approaching deve
lg opemen!, agitate our glorious Union TO i
Or centre. The Oregon and Texas question
g in our foreign relation-at home, defciel
of revenue, with ali its ordinary sources pres
ID ed up to their farihest productive limit, an
some of them their is reason to apprehend b.
p yond, the Tariff controversy re-opened, wit
h all the conflicting interests and passion whic
'e never fail TO be awakened by it; and adde
E. to these the re-kindled fires of the Abolitic
is excitement-each and all of them are que
IS lions which carry in their bosom the fearful
Ly elements of civil discord and intestine strif
n The worst and most dangerous aspects the
O. present is that all of them bring into immedia
t and opposing array, if not an angry and ho
O. tile collision, the sectional interests an
a feelings OF the different geographical divi
= ions of the confedracy. Whose, at such
10 moment, is the master-spirt that may hav
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