Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-11-27
art Of the Wing uarty. So of Nation.

lies The heart Of the Wing party So of Nation
al Bank 1t was Wing measure-as in 1917 ii
was forced upon the country by the Democratic parity
The higs were defeated upon the issue. NJ made
it issue during the late campagn-and we venture 10
say that such will be recon- uended By the
President elect.nor propsd in either House Of Congress
by any hg unless the necessity for it should become
apparent and imperative 10 disarm all opposition
crisis not likely, in orr opinion, 10 happen.
Nnr. except In fe and limited localities was The
Sub Treasury made prominent issue. Experience has
shown the mPssblliiy Of carrying il fully into
ton Our opinion remains unchanged that, neither in
It's good nor lis bad effects has it realized tie hopes or
fears Of friends enemies. We d, believe. with
the present Democratic majority in the Senate. that
repeal can be effected.
The Tariff more generally, though. we admit. no,
universally. was qrest at issue We are indebted
to it for the vote of Pennsylvania That State deceived
and swindled into the support OF Mr. Polk in 1874 By
him and her leading Democratic politicians ,hrouoh
raIds and ialsehoos which, in the concerns of private
ife would subject them Indictment for conspiracv
was at last aroused 10 of her Wrongs She suf
i7S severely under Incorporation of the Tariff Of 40 and
she mas al last risen in her might and forever thrown off
The shackles of Democracy We do not expect that any
material change will be effected in tie existing Tariff
The Senate being largely Democratic Some mod ifcaon
may be carried-as it would have been had Gen Cas-
succeeded The increase Of duty upon oa and Ion 50
warmly urged BY Mr.. Walker may be adopted. and to
ensure 1t passage through both houses other items NAV
receive additional protection
What then, il may be asked were the great issues in
volved in the recent Presidential election? We answer
issues compared with which. Bank Dis ribution Tariff
and Sub Treasury, sink into nsignfcance The power
claimed for the Executive declare war and levy taxes
without the aid of Congress- and the right control the
Legislation of the country by of the Veto These
the great issues which, before the nomination
of the candidates for the Presidency agae the public
mind and which stripped Mr. Polk Of the ma ,rity in the
lower House of some seventy votes with which he began
his Administration, and returned majply Of Wings to
the present House. The American people. were thor
ougbly alarmed. well they might be- the monslrous
powers claimed and exercised by the President aud by
the bold aS>er ion of his being component part Of the
Legislative Department Of the Government We now
and calmly reiierate the opinion we advan
cd before the election that, had these been rat
flied by the American people, in the election Of General
Cass. who adopted them, the whole theory Of our ns
tutions, well their practical working would have
been changed and an elective-the worst knd--o mon
archy been induced under the forms Of a constitution
which inteadd to establish representative federal
Republican form Of Government.
The people, thanks be to Heaven. have risen in ther
strength and scattered to the winds doctrines so fatal to
their liberties. Congress has been restored 10 its eyti-
mate sphere NJ President will hereafter, dare to
usurp legislative functions. The Constitution has been
vndca,ed and rees'abshed and the tendency to despot
ism. which is inherent in ultra Democracy checked in
It's insoen These the principles establish
ed by the recent election. Ifihey Democratic then
indeed is the b,as of The party organs well founded that
though defeated as TO men their doctrines are triumphant,