Democratic banner., 1847-09-20
From the Pennsylvania.
The Glorious ACiaicS cnfemts Gr FEEDER

When a party asks the people to trust
them with the government of a great coun-
try, it ought TO be able TO point to its acts,
aud prove by its past conduct, that i: is
worthy of being conlidcd in hereafter
The Federal presses are shy on this score.
They never revert to what they h0rc done,
but deal only in promises of what they WiN
DO. This is great injustice to themselves;
for the brow of Federalism is wrcatIed with
a large number of H"Shing honoIs. The
members of that party being excessively
modest, we will recount a few Of their
achievements.
In the Convention that framed the
Constitution of the, United States, they all
vocatcd Il system of government resembling
that Of England, several of them declaring
that the c0rrn7iiayn of the British govern
mcnt was the best part of il.
9 They tried to insert in the same Consti-
tuition the power to create a National Bank.
but were voted down by the Democrats.
3 After the adoption of the Constltu-
tion without such power, they construed
away IFS plain words, and established a Ma
tional Bank in violation of it.
4 They carried the funding system, and
thereby corrupted the Congress, many of
whose members, having large certificates
Of public debt bought for nothing, enriched
themselves by their own votes, at the OK
pense of the government and its honest
creditors.
5 They proclaimed that a public debt
was a public blessing, because they wanted
to create such a debt as a source of private
profit.
e They passed the "Alicn Law" to
drive from the country men whose OPPOSE
ton the President desired to get rid of.
Z They passed the "Sedition Law" toI
muzzle the press, and destroy the freedom
of speech.
8 they appointed the midnight judgcs;I
fastening upon the public treasury, in OPP
position to the public will, a horde of life
officers.
9 They established, in 1900, a Bank
rupt Law, which, like that of 1871, was al
fruitful instrument of fraud and injustice.
10 They attempted to elect, in the
House of Representatives, Aaron Burr, an
aPsStatc traitor, instead of Jefferson, a pure
patriot, who Was clearly indicated as the
peoples choice.
IL After Jcfferson's election, as well as
before il, they slandercd him night and day,
without measure, dccency, or reason.
IL They opposed all Jeffcrson's inca
sures, though they were wise, just and nee
essary; and more especially laid themselves
ont to thwart him in his efforts to make
England do us justice.
13 They entered into a conspiracy to-
dismember the Republic, and place the
Eastern States under the protection Of
England.
Ia They got up the Hartford Conven-
tion, and approved of its reasonable pur-
pose.
l5 In the diplomatic controversy be-
tween the United States and England,
which preceded the war, they did their
bcStto disgrace their own country, and to-
encourage England in her course of insult
and wrong, by proclaiming through their
ed into a war;"
Is After the declaration of the war,
4hey gave laid and comfort to the British.
IL Soon after the war, they commenc-
ed the system of changing their party name,
which they bave since followed up so sue.
ceSsfuily, that no rogue ever appeared in
the Quarter Sessions with a greater uum-
Der of aliases.
IS They elected John Q. Adams in the
House of Representatives by trick, cheat
ing the people out of the man they wanted,
and approved all the tomfoolerics of the
Adams administration, Panama Mission,
Lighthouses of the Skies, Internal I'm
provements by the General Government.
and all.
IS They slandered General Jackson, as
before they had slandcred Jefferson, and
though claiming to have call the dccency,"
their repeated cruel and false attacks on
the wife of the patriot hero, brought her to
the grave.
20 They sustained and supported thc
Bank of the United States in all its corrup-
tions, giving it "aid and comfort" every in
attempt it made TO plumber the people and
the government.
81 When the French government rcfus-
ed to pay the indemnity, they pleaded the
cause Of Louis Philippe, and poured tor
rents of abuse on the gray head, Of thciI
own patriot President, for daring TO de-
nand justice from a foreign king.
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