The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-07-25

the Bank was a secondary question, and by
thousands who r~epudiated the idea that the
monied power either could or would ever be
exerted against the people, was utterly fu-
tile in opposition 10 the Democratic party
How trifiIHg would that power then have
been, if there had been enough of p,ausibil-
lily in the charge, tohave induced the thous-
ands of honest men who supported the
Bank 10 have been IFS opponents! And
again, it was said, that the patronage of the
Presidential office was ample enough 10 Sc
cure the continuance in office of the incumb-
ent, if u~nscrupulously used. That for the
last four years it has been most u%nscrupul-
ously used by Tyler for the purpose of buy
ing himselfa party, will not, | believe, be
denied. Let the fate of the Bank on the
one hand, and on the other, the fact that it
is doubtful whether Tyler can muster re-
spectacle menenough in any one State to
form an electoral ticket in his favor, calm
the fears of all such doubters Of the majesty
of the people.
But there are other and more real dangers
around US; TO two of which, before closing,
would call few moments attention. The
first which / allude, will be found in the
workings OF that party, machinery, by means
of which it frequently happens that leglsla-
ton and public action is controlled by a
very small portion of the mass. While there
is every reason to believe that the %intelli-
gence of the people, iflefi to the free exer-
else of their honest opinions, will generally
conduct them in the path of correct duty, or
should their decisions be occasio nally wrong,
enable them speedily TO reciify their mis-
takes, party machinery seeks TO CONTROL their
+ judgement, and perpetuate their errors. j
would, by no means, be underwood as OBJ
llecting that honest union of similar minds,
which seeks the advancement of the ends
which it deems important, by circulating in
formation among the people, or by endeavor-
| ing TO persuade them of the advantages or
disadvantages ofany course of action which
may be proposed; but do object 10, and
t protest against, that system of caucus ma
5 chinery among Legislators by means ofwhich
it has frequently happened that one-third, or
, even one-fourth of the representations oil
: the people have controlled the legislation OF
e the whole; and which, in IFS operations
among the people, endeavors TO persuade
o them, that because they have acted with
d their party managers once, they must act
S with them always, and that their duty to
: their country requires them TO sacrifice all
: theirindividual prefences and honest feelings
+, OF independence upon the alter OF their par
n ty caucus. Had such doctrine prevailed
n in '9S, we might still have been under the
depination of alien and sedition laws; haG
such prevailed in 1910, we should have hac
the perpefuatIo1 or the sub-treasury; anC
: should such ever prevail, we shall have lef
US but the mockery of freedom.
c The other great danger to which | would
refer, is that against which we have had The
o warning voice of Washington. If the Hart
ford Convention is doomed to universal alb.
florence on the mere suspicion that its OBJ
e iect was the observance of the Union, {
suspicion, the correctness of which was de,
S MED by its members one and all, what meas
ure of detestatlon should not be meeted gu
h TO those in high office, who convey sucl
e wishes in the form of suggestions, or Il
others who openly advocate so grand a Re
Is publican heresy. | am sure that inthis as
sembly Ineed but read the following resolu
tons for them TO receive unanimous condem
nation. The first are part of a series tina
were passed in the recent Convention of pc
IT litical Abolitionists, the American anti-Slav
cry Society, held in the city of New York
aud are as follows:
rel "Resolred, That a political union in AM
lh form between a slaveholding and a fire.
TO community, must necessarily involve the lat
OF ter in the guilt of slavery-therefore
Dr. "ResoEred, That secession from the pre-
sent United States government is the dut
of every abolitionist, since no one can tax
a. office or deposite a vote under its const
of tuition without violating his anti-slaveTy prin
81 ciples and rendering himself an abettor c
f. the Shareholder in his sin.
n, "ResoIred, That fourteen years of wal
I'd fare against the power, have convinced u
le that every act done in support of the Amer
n can union, rivets the chain of the slave
E. that the only Exodus of the slave 10 freedon
ry unless it be one of blood, must be over th
til ruins ofthe present American church, an
IT. grave of the present union"
to "ResolUed, That the Abolitionists of thi
Mt country should make it one of the primary oil
iects of their agitation, to dissolve the Amer
he can union"
nd The other comes from an opposite qua
ny Ter, and is part Of a series adopted by a NEE
IS ing Of citizens of South Carolina held re
or Gently at Beaufort:
be "Resolred, That if the Senate of til
United States-under the drill ofparty lead
. ers-should reject the treaty of annexation
On we appeal to the ci tizens of Texas, an
urge them not TO yield to a just resentment
rv and turn their ewes to other alliances hnt 1