Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-07-25
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Is it no, time that the Wings should be active in thc
preparation Tor the coming contest? Ii indeSd, they had
nothing more to do than 10 elect chief magistrate that
would not seem to require any great effort for there
would seem TO be ground for rational doubt Hem
~ Clay he lives, will be elected. But il they would
uy perform their whole duty to themselves and their
country they have much do than to elect pres
den They will exert every utterly TO destroy
that malin influence which has long afflicted their
country reducing from prosperity and happiness
less poverty and misery, hundreds OF thousands
il has deeply injured whole community with the
ccp,ion OF the office holder the shaver and the broker
and which has to this fghtiu OF pecunary ini.
ry added the still greater evil of moral dcbasemen,.
Such has been the baleful influence cxerted by that
miserable compounds embracing every evil and
i've principle from the extreme of ultra TO
that OF Dorre democracy. Is this an exaggerated pic
ture oil modern democracy DO rot facts show that is
not! Has II not countcnauccd and supported graspny
and tyranncal executive in all its attempts usrp pow
err Witness the fact and manner of putting down the
United States bank witness the declaration of Gen
Jackson that he would the laws he understood
them, carried in opposition the judsm of the
Supreme Court, the constitutional expoander of the law
witness his protest, in which nc claims derive powcr
beyond and above the constitution. In all this and more
than this was he not checrcd aud sustained by party
claiming notwithstanding TO be JeDrSonia Democrats?
Witness the exclusion OF the New Jersey delegation
with the view OF forcing upon the nation the thrice be-
lore rejected treasury system witness the illegal
admission OF members at the late session witness the
illegal and manner of admitting the state
OF Michigan into the UniOn-all showing that when
the party had object to GAIN the constitution and laws
and their solemn oahs 10 support them presented no u
fcicnt barrier TO the accomplishment OF their v;sbcs
witness the millions plundered from the public treasure
by Office holders. And il Dorrsm and rcpudia,ion MAJ
be attributed 10 the whole party, still il NAV be fair
y charged that these dangerous and dctcstabe principles
found in it their orgnaors and only supporters and Thai
even TO Fanny Wrghtism it afforded its synpathzers
Immense have been the other evils that have been
brought upon the country by this dircful influence per
haps the greatest has been its effect upon its moral char
actcr. So dcadcning have been these often repeated vi
Citations OF the constitution and laws-of honor order
honesty and truth, upon the moral sense of the comn
ny that acts which anterior TO the reign of Jackson
ism, would have caused general blaze Of indignation
throughout the land produce only slight and mo-
mcntary sensation, and soon forgotten Should not
every patriot every christian, parent give TO this
alarming state of public morals his serious and SOL
cmn consideration? a corrupt people can neither be
happy nor long free. Then not every WING called upon
by every consideration which cndear life or country
10 put forth his most strenuous efforts destroy an nG
that has long and deeply injured and degraded
the nation. To do this the Wings have now the pow
and by excrtng it will deserve and have the bIcs
sings of their country Yea, those who will oppose
the good work. will, when delivered from the thradom
o.party, be thankful for the dcvcrancc of the country
from many and great evils, and the restoration TO Il
Of that policy under which alone it has prospcrcd The
great body of them are honest and patrotic-having
common interest with their Wing brethren and alike
desire their countrys good but blinded by the glare of
military fame carried away by party spirit and deuded
by party name, democracy, claiming to be Jefcrso
nan democracy, but really unlike il as midnight TO
n-day have unwittingy concurrcd in cause so de-
strucve OF the prosperity and happiness of our common
country.