Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-03-15


ever great measure Of policy which has
been agitated 10 the public councils.
10 the beginning OF its career, it propo-
sed the Single Term, National Gov
eminent Bank, q Protective Tariff, the
Distribution Of the Surplus Revenue,
the surrender OF the Public Lands. the
Limitation Of Executive Patronage 10
its progress il renounced every one ol
these measures. II has come, at last,
10 present the union Of The most extra
ordinary political elements any country
ever witnessed. They who were the
authors Of tho Force Bill and the Pro-
clamaton are now ready to take for the
President the Chief of Notification he
whom il was the object OF the Force
Bill and the Proclamation 10 reward
with halter; whom many Of them were
even anxious 10 visit with that dislInc-
lion. They who we're willing TO sever
the Union rather than submit TO Pro"
leclive Tariff, are now ready to abide
the decree of Convention which shall
endeavor to place the Chief Magistracy
in the hands Of him who voted for the
Tariff Of 1928. They who supported
General Jackson's recommendation in
favor of a National Bank founded on the
Revenue Of the Government, claim the
honors Of supreme dominion upon their
constitutional anripathy 10 a Bank in any
form. They who denounced the Sub
Treasury as "disorganiziug and revou,
tionary," now commend it as second
Declaration OF Independence.
1t were useless 10 60 through the ca
talogue, No imaginable freak OF PoIlti
cal ambidexterity that may be alleged,
would more than excite emile from a
party which had not such intrepldity Of
dissimualion as to talk Of it's consis'en,
cy. They who could consent to be dri
ven into the fold and there unressllng
" 10 awsit the 10, which should conSlgn
them TO the portion Of Mr. Calhoun or
Mr. Van Buren,, just as the legerdemain
Of caucus Of politicians should dispose
Of them, are surely proof against all
rail!ery on their political virtues.
! The party was personal merely
', Spriuging out Of the renown ofa Great
Chief and living by his will and on hi
y breath, it will come 10 its dissolution
. . even before he who founded it shall pay
- The debt OF nature. As long as his in
= fluence was rife it possessed the vigo
- - which lbelougsd to his character. "A
\ that influence, waued in retirement, an
" with advancing years that finds sublecI
- moro congenal than the mere game o
- worldly ambition, the party gradual.
!" J. becomes shorn OF its strength; hasten
n -, 10 that inevitable doom to which discor
:. ~ and rival hate have, in all ages, con
~ signed parties aud communities Iha
-. have "no other principle Of coheso
" than the hope Of plunder." Not all tn
glory that encirclsd Charmagne an
his Paladns could save the dominion
w. w. his envious and quarrelsome successor
y. 'o The most notable disaster Of Fen1ena
- where, say the historians, psrlshe
,"O ~ the whole force which had so often tuI
~ 90 ed back the tide Of the Saxon war-o
~ ~" Cured in the second reign after the en-
"" peror. Ii was the fatal result ot an on
'.;U ,GU broilmsnt between three brothers grar
v" sons Of the Western Cesar, Draw Ilr
-. for the empire. The vast domain
I'D Charlemague sunk into petty pro
TSo ince. The story is not without It's me
of al, FontenOy is Ol hand.
re- The gravest charge which We ha
now to make against this strange Den
ocracy is the subtle support they ha
J. given TO the present administration -
administration they have lured 10
rs: ruin. They have extracted from it
the patronage ii is abe 10 besIow.
nun the price of this compliance, they ga
it prompt encouragement in the VOL
sing act ofits malice against the Wings;
nich fected to applaud ii for it's Ireachsry a
, by 10 praise it for its vices. They ha
through such means, succeeded in incc
IE porating that administration in th
sAA party; have made themselves respor
Bile for it's misde emeanors. They m
'"eI % answer this responsibility TO the col
anu n try. They would now. "caSt it, like
III worthless weed, away" hoping in t
''u0 w tardy reputation to escape the csns'
uP OF their illicit intercourse. They m
iPOm P assume to deny it farther particiPat
~e' , in their favors, now that it has moth
PoS' more to grant. But it is TOO late. Tt
eoV will not be allowed TO shake of the C
n'n. n nection merely because it ceases to
""O profitable. They have taken Mr.. Ty
;yI "(or BETTER" they must also hold
c'eo' "for worse" and abide the cenSur'
lP'e' the nation, not only for the miscI
'Tse, they have helped him 10 do, but for
a"u ing made an impure alliance Tor
! ' o" sake Of gain; Tor the hypocrisy and
"Iti " erlnism they have marked their VIII