The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-04-12

Instead of taking warning from the
signs around, that Party in Congress
proceeded, deliberately and systemati-
cally, under the lead of Mr.. Clay, to
falsify every promise they had made
and reverse in their acts every profess
sion they had uttered.
They had promised 10 reduce the
public expenditures and pay off the
Public Debt. Instead Of doing SO, they
enlarged the expenditures, increased the
Debt, gare array the land money, laid
additional burthens on the people, and
in few months after their accession to
power, had destroyed the credit of the
government so eflectualy that not
dollar could be borrowed; its obligations
wele dshonored and protested, and
multltudes of public creditors remained
unpaid.
they passed Bankrupt Law so obi
Gus to the people that they were obi
ged to repeal it themselves, not howev-
er, until after miliions of debt had been
wiped outas wiM a sponge.
Although they had repudiated Bank
in the contest, they passed Bill estab-
fishing one, maintaining that it was the
leading Whig measure, and denounced
Mr.. Tyler as a renegade and a traitor,
because he refused to falsify the pro-
fesslons ofhis whole life by affixing his
approval to the Act.
Instead of the revival Of confidence
and the increase ofwages predicted and
promised as the immediate result of
WhIgmeasures, whatever confidence
was left DISAPPEARED, wages fell still low
er, the country was strewed with the
ruin OF broken banks, and never, since
the adoption of the Constitution, was
commerce 50 PROSTATE and labor so ill
requited.
Crimesunprecedented in number and
unequalIed in atroclty, filed every sec
lion of our country with horrors, ex-
hibiting a hardened barbarity in their
details, only to be exceeded in the bo-
SONS of demons from the burning pit.
President Tyler had been the willing
associate and beneficiary Of the profi-
gate band who sought power by the con-
cea!ment OF principle and the pros,ra-
ton OF order and morals in 1910. 1t
was but the order of Providence, that
those who had obtained elevation by
wicked means, should become the in
struments to punish each other. Their
mutual elimination and iecrimination.
unjust and malignant on the part of the
Wings as they were, are to be attfibu-
ted to law of the moral world which
make proAigacy the victim ofits own
instrument.
The fatality which attended General
Harrison has not failed to pursue his
associate upon the Ticket of ls4O-
"IiPpecanoe and Tyler too."
True, he has not shared the fate of
that associate; but the arrows of death
have been thrown thick around him,
and have in quick succession struck
down those who were nearst his heart
and strongest in his confidence.
The Wife of his bosom was snatch
ed from him in the midst of his honors.
He visited the north in company
with his Cabinet; and at Boston the
gifted Legare was suddenly arrested
by disease and hurried beyond "that
bourne whence no traveller returns"
He went to take a pleasure trip in
the Steamer Princeton, when in a mo-
ment, two members ofh Cabinet, the
amiable GiImer and the estimable Up
shur, were launched into eternity.
Thrice within three years, has the
Funeral Procession moved from the
Presidents House, the last lime with
,fve coDfns in its train.
Within three years, a President, a
Presidents Wife, an acting Vice Presi-
dent and half Cabinet, have gone
from time to eternity.
The great Financier, who for years
furnished means to base instruments
from the vaults of mammoth Bank,
and by corruption and conspiracy, aid
ed, in producing the panic of l8s3-'34s
a crime equal in atrocity to robbery and
arson, has lately perished most misera-
bly, by the disease with which Heaven
punished ancient Herod, disease too
for description.
All these events. SO remarkable and
SO startling, indicating Heavens dis
pleasure against the entire Wing proge-
ny O. 1890, appear to have no effect on
the minds of their infatuated leaders.
The Cabin and the Coon, the demor- !.
llizing gatherings and senseless rawlings,
the stereotyped lies and wandering
blackguards of 1910, are again put in
citi.Ar, Et,irh tIo