The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-01

intsrestedness and zeal IN the support OF WIG 80
principles Of our party which had been ms sois
nsndslion Tor who does not know that in point OF "a
lsnts and Of that self-reliance aud energy "neh
sttute the great man and the statesman M ~ ~
Buren, is very far behind several who have poe" =,
ed and many who have never yet oeen uo7 tn.
for the Office Of Chief Ma istraie oil tne 80, -,
ungenerous if not un just, decision Oh ,o -. pie,J
The United States in re iectiDg HIM as hns~, i.'
potentiary TO Great Britain IN 1882 "'u.
the nomination with General Jaeh' u, " w 49, ~
election as candidate for wee ries'een'. 1918, y. 'n'
protestation of Virginia against IN, ~
The friendship of the old hero ana tne ions .no''
- ~ dsn,ocratie party then made HIM wee fresi'
dsn, But the same influence aud The same Efforts
had been well nigh defeated on the hrst triai oil the
s,me candidate for President, when toe wing oppose
49, ,gas scarcely concentrated against him. The
''aioriiy of single county in the keystone State
ave him his first election in the second and last
election. he fell behind almost by hundreds OF thou
sands In some parts OF the country ne was aoan
aoned by hundreds and thousands OF the best demo-
Gratis aud even Of the strong, If not the strong
est democratic counties Of his own state gave ma
;orities for the candidate of the opposition
I claim TO be among those friends TO the democra-
lie ascendency who labored most assduously to no
inmate and elect Martin Van Buren, at the three for
mer trials and | saw with modification and disgust,
that while the little State in which lived marched
no at all three trials, and gave for him the usual de-
nocratic majority the democrats of his own State,
those who knew him, halted in their confidence and
turned not Only majority against him, but left him
at the same election thousands behind the other can
ddates Of his party
Mr. President and gentlemen, why is it that some
of the longest tried democrats of the country have
been read out OF the party and branded renegades
and traitors 10y some OF the leading politicians and
newspapers, who are determined to force Martin
Van Buren, upon the democracy third time for the
office of President' Why, sir, have you and and
all of us been held up to thepubc scorn and dersion
for expressing the opinion that the welfare OF the
democracy required the support OF some other man
An intolerance cruel and despotic as that of the
old lederaists at the time of the sedton law of John
Adams, has BEEN and is to be, exercised towards
every democrat who has doubted the utility OF run.
ming the defeated candidate for the third time. Nay,
the Wings, the legitimate descendants OF Hartford
Convention federalism, join in the hue and cry, and
represent all opposition OF democrats to Martin v an
Buren, as contemplate and rdiculous--they evince
strong desire that he, and he alone, -hould be the
democratic candidate for President. Well may they
be anxious this subject for IT is as true as That the
sun ranges in the heavens, that IT Henry Clay ever
shall be President, he will owe that election to the
circumstance that Martin Van Buren, has been fore
ed upon US the candidate of the democratic party
To what degr lded condition is the country reduced
when we see the politicians of the antagonist parties
forcing on the people as chief ma istrae two men,
neither Of wuom could succeed against any other re-
spectacle candidate Of either party
Hitherto the democratic party have ciilto nhuoh'
al conventions for the purpose of concentrating the
public voice, in the selection and choice OF he
strongest and best men for the offices President
and Vice Pfe-dent Tie management ioI the Van
Buren, Convention to be holden at Baltimore IN May
next has been turned TO cheat the people out OF =
fair expression Of the popular voice in the election
of a cand date. Throughout the country, not one IN
twenty of the deuocfhts OF The nation has been con-
suited TO the manner OF the mode OF choosing de
legates or constituting the convention. The trap
has been sprung upon the people generally, without
1ne Eve m aPpu
ranged, in nine out of ten, by the declared
friends of Mr. Van Buren,; and even IN the little
show of consultation and voting, in some places, 1t
has been deemed good and Conclusive objection To
that mans right TO voice in the primary meet gs
for choosing delegates, that be would not previously
declare for i'm, and subscribe to new democratic tests
which had been set up by his frlt nds
Mr. President for the last fifteen years the silug-
gle of the democratic party has been fearful and ire.
mendous The previous fifteen year, including the
of 1912 and the events preceding il, could hardly
equal the last Struggle. Ihave taken part in both
struggles and have for the last thirty five years al
ways found myself obnoxious to the old edei alsts
of Mr. Jehefson's time, under all the names and
phases that party has assumed. Within the last
few weeks mater TO me of Little personal cors6-
quence has transpired, which shows that, notwith-
standing democrats who have proclaimed new tests
have voted me out of the party-and | was among
the first to be branded renegade and traitor by the
Washington Globe--that stand in the same hostile
position TO the old whg federal arstocracy Of the
country in which have ever stood
| have entertained but opinion Of the United
States Bank at all times. From 1911, the year that
the first charter expired, up 10 the present moment
had considered II institution fraught with danger
TO the country. Its most prudent exercise Of the ia
cllties given 10 1t from the Of the funds OF the
Government and Its power TO expand the currency
from its connection with the public funds, could not
fail to minister to the spirit Of illegitmate and un
healthy sPecuatons to the rise and fall OF prices
and 10 reyulsions in business. But when set Of r.
responsible men were armed with the power over
the finances gwen TO the Bank, it became in their
hands despotism, where the exercise OF power
might be more fatal TO the freedom of the country
than the arbitrary will Of any crowned head on
earth. With these PROPOSES lions against a control
ling money power in this Government, when the re-
charter Of the Bank forced upon Congress in the
session of 1912, for the purpose Of making that
question the issue as between Andrew Jackson and
Henry Clay, at the pending Presidential election ]
found the opponents Of the Bank minority in both
Houses Of Congress. With a nominal Democratic
ascendcncy in each had to stru gle on the Bank
question, not against MIR Clay and the federasts
alone, but against men Of our own party name. The
Of all parties, the politicians Of the Pennsylvania
Legislature passed resolutions nearly luminous IN
favor Of rechsrerng the Bank Of the United States
yet in the election Of the succeeding year, the free
men Of Pennsylvania sustained the veto upon that
b INK charter, by giving General Jackson majority
Of many thousands
ITO be concluded in our merit.