Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-09-21
Am Excellent Letter.

We take great pleasure in laying before our
readers the following letter from JOHN COOPER
ESQ.,. who was an active and influential suPpor-
Ter of Polk and Dallas in 1914. The letter, it will
3be perceived, is in reply TO an invitation to ad-
dress the meeting which was held on the ID inst
at the Chinese Museum, Philadelphia.
DonuiHe, August 90, lS4S.
Geatle,nen IL have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter OF the Goth inst, invlt-
ing me 10 address you on the Cd OF SePtember
next, at the Chinese Museum. To say that
compliment emanating from a source at once so
intelligent and respectable. is merited by any
claims possess to consideration so distinguished,
would be an excess of vanity of which II is not
in nv nature to be guilty. But of This be as.
sured, that if motives for exerton IN cause, on
The success of which SO much Of The happiness
and prosperity OF the population and the UEon,
and of our State in particular, depends. your let
ter is calculated to stimulate services, which how
ever deficient they may be in talent and power,
are not, neither shall they be lacking in zeal and
devotion. | have ever been Democratic repuh-
llcan, and, so lar as my knowledge extended, de.
voted 70 our republican institutions. when carried
ou; in theory and practice according to thei true
intent and raeaalng, as prescribed and construed
superhcmaa wisdom and patriotism. But when
clearly discern that the weakness and wickedness
of the present Incumbent of the presidential chair
has seized perhaps the only arstocraiic feature in
our admirable constitution. to wit the qualified
negative of the executive" so as 10 prevent the
passage of any bill which does not square with
that abortion OF Ignorance and slarlsh submission
TO the one man power, called the Baltimore plat
iorm-when see II mere than minated that no
law ought to take effect unless il can obtain a
roe of wo-thirds of both houses of CongIess-
when see tha. executive patronage and influence
has been intellectually multiplied by James X.
PolkS seizing upon, by gross persersion oil the
powers delegated to the Executive by the Consti-
tulon, the only means in his power to nurse and
foster his own meretricious aggrandizement, to
wt:-the propulsion of measures which had d.
rect tendency to plunge US into war. first with
Great Britain, and inevitably with Mexico; to
give TO him, although otherwise Insignificant and
Imbecile, a command of the purse and the sword,
ahd not only participation in the law making
power, b1t, moreover, such a controlling lnfiu-
in ordinary legislation as 10 reduce to sha-
cow both houses OF Congress, by his SIC colo. SIC
jaebO, his sfet pro Tdtione ootuRtas. feel myself
OOund by the calls of common honesty, in SO far
as lies in my power, to remedy an evil brought on
the country in ls44, by giving our support to one
who has proved himselft to be so totally unworthy
and unfit 10 hold any Office Of honor or trust
among the citizens of free republic lndepend-
ent of the honor and dignity which the office of
President of the United States conferred on them,
our earlier presidents were, and would have ranked
among the great and good the world over, in any
age, in any country, under all and every circum-
Etances but nature decreed James X. Polk to be
mar, ow- minded, of contracted views, malignant,
,ealn,s and enyious. and of capacity more suited
10 The IAN of bar-room, or ward meeting
lan ia rule the destinies oftwenty millions offree-
men, write in n. arhaps what may be considered
lanDuaoe ind;c.,yo q, excitement, but deeply feel
what saw. Mr.. Polk a, 'tained his present sltua-
ton by base and unpardo, lable .treachery. by a
trick, prevaricaiion, fater ing ln oouoie sense,
with those who most honorabi,V Dene'eo l'iat u
elected he would have taken the sa ne s.aau whieh
General TAYLOR has assumed in his -aiiisoh ie'-
ter" TO let the people be fairly rep. e eo'eu ~
Congress and to permit them TO carry orl A''e pm
cipie OF seif-goyernment. by non nlnlercouf, T''n
legislation on matters of domestic policy, Hess
IN cases OF encroachment by the Legislature y"
the constitutional powers and rights Of the execl
tive; Tor IN all other cases of unconstitutional
laws of papably corrupt enactments, the courts |
and balot-boxes furnished ample and abundant
remedies. cahnot, IN the compass of a letter
Ike this go into detail or an examination OF the
twenty instances Of fagraBt usurpatou of the pre-
sent executive. by placing himself in situation |
as the invader, spollator and sublugator of To-
reign country. and that country sister republic,
who had copied their institutions from pattern /
which we are in fair way to spoil. state of
things never contemplated by those who framed
our republican form of government. and, ,there-l
lore, they never provided single clause in our
constitution suited 70 circumstances, the occur. |