Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-07-23

consummation YOU have made the falsehood as
bread as the continent. Wherever you have
sent the broad seal of appointment, an agent has
gone TO declare the Justification OF the pledge
by which you hold your offices, and have no
regrets for The political infamy which follows
your conduct and will dog you to oblivion, but
Won have inflicted fatal injury to the conf
dence of the people, and hereafter no pledge
which can be given will be received or relied up
on A soldiers honor has failed in the redemp-
ton of his word, and you, SIT, have destroyed
the last pulse of confidence which thobbed in
the hearts of the Teople. And your arologiss
can only say. that the nepotism which induced
YOU to provide for your own household compell-
ed an aequescence in the wishes OF others. In
the solitude" of your reflections, if this is the
key to your conduct,) it will be gratifying to
think that you have conquered general and de-
feated party forever BY the indulgence of so
low vice.
One wear since the nomination of YOUR condi-
date was made has passed-eight months since
his election have gone blythe inaugural address
has been delivered-four months OF his adminis-
tration have elapsed and no programme Of prin-
ciples has been given to the public. Politicians
as well as nature, abhor racaan,, and your
party are sick of the inanity which Expresses
their minds and the nullity which heads their
councils. But is this concealnent OF policy the
result of accident, incapacity, or design There
! is but one accident which can produce such re-
suit that the discrepancies which prevail in the
partitioned and divided constitutional office Of
President is not harmonized and cannot be re-
conciled to the enuncation Of any settled princi-
pies of policy, and chaos rules within the eight
fractional pericraniums of the fragmentary ex-
ecutive brain. Or is it incapacitya You, sir,
have been such worshiper OF Henry Clay, (al-
though revolving now in the perigee Of an in
ferior orbit and withal have been so true a
party-rnan, you should not reuct to digest creed
to meet the urgency OF your friends, from the
celebrated Raleigh speech, that frank and manly
avowal of one, who never would have made the
pledges which brought you into power, or hay
inc made them would have honofaby re-
deemed them. And now, while there is po-
liical history of this country, must the, pageant
and puppet Power that shirks the sense of shame
and duty by division OF responsibility. stand the
comparison and bide the contrast which devotes
10 an infamy urnitiaated and irredeenable-or is
it design Is this studious concealment foolish
forecasting to profit by the chapter Of accidents,
and to take advantage Of delays? OF is that
game of political cunning and lmposure to be
/ continued, which before the election, made your
creed like wonder cloud of Hamlet's of which
each political Polonius swore, as the cireumstan-
ces directed, was now "a camel land now Back
ed like wease-and now very like a whale !
while he, no stood on the margin of three
States, could see that it was neither, but only
political vapor shaped and driven by the breath
Of Ewing, johnson and Rives, and at one place
black and all black, at another very white, and
in the other, considerably sreaked. A child
scarcely attains the age of one year, without
showing marks OF its special character and due
| allowance being made for the extreme youth and
noviciate of your abecedarian in politics, yet
of
and some concessions in the conflicting views
of the eight fragments Of the Executive Power
you might have furnished some nklings of poll
cy other than that of a universal prescription
But the body of the people must wait your leis-
ure or preparation, yet there have been watchers
looking unto the skies for signs and wonders,
but all that they can say, has been and is
Sometimes we see cloud that's dragonsh;
A vapor, sometime, like bear or lion,
towerd citadel, pendant rock,
A forked mountain, Or blue promontory;
That which is now horse, even with a thought,
The rack dslimns and makes it iudistinct
AS water is in water.
My good k,sare, Eros, now thy captain is,
Euen such toly:;'
Sir. there is no chapter of accidents that can
avail you. There is but one ground OH which
you can stand it is that which you occupied
| when YOU We're known as a Federalist before
your party had assumed the name eft Wing
That is the position you must still occupy; a.
bandon it and you are traitor to Wing prlncl-
pies assume any other and YOU lose their conf
dence, while your systematic Justification OF ev-
cry pledge forbids your acquiring the tav orable
opinion OF the people. Then we stand to each
other where we have stood for the last twenty
years, when first addressed you in opposition
to your Public Land Report and contributed to
INV tho pO1,uar cu3f N6Jlr n hi,
net shall stand where you always stood a land
mark of the past, a barrier TO progress, a noun
ted rampant to arrest the advances of the popu-
lar mind, an armed fortress where Privilege;
Power and Wealth, banded in all forms Of poit-
/ ical organizations, make war upon and repress
the Freedom of Labor and crush down the dig
nifty of man claiming his equality before the
spirit OF Christianity and the laws of Nature
Stand upon your principles.of class legislation,
of exclusive privileges, Of incorporated wealth
and social monopoly and strengthen your posi-
sion Of popular rights; it is your last resource,
/ but it will avail you not. The grandeur OF the
Democratic spirit will rise UP to mock you and
to scatter the works of your hands In despite
of Federalism, the Democratic party has planted
an empire in this great valley of the West,--lt
triumphantly asserted the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi; it purchased Florida it acquired Loui-
siana 1t vindlcated our rights on the ocean a.
gainst the most powerful naval force IN the
world and against the fell despite OF the Wing
party, (the prolongation of Federalsm,) it has
overthrown corrupt and powerful monied cor,
poration has preserved the Constitution, BY pre-
venting the assumption of State debts it has
saved the national treasury from bankruptcy by
discaiming the power to build a system OF In
ternal I,aprovora eat. and refusing to distribute
the proceeds of the Public Lands; it has regula.
ted the currency by the law forsspecie payments
and system Of responsible Repositories it .ha:
regulated commerce by relaxing the restraints
and imposition on trade it has encouraged agri-
culture by giving it foreign marts; it has foster
ed and protected manufacturers, beyond the ca
pacity Of any tax Gil fhe consumer, in giving to
enterprise the largest and most varied home
market which any nation in the world furnishes
to its people; it has promoted the mechanic arts
i'll supplying with their productions the demands
and necessities of agriculture, commerce and
manufactures it has annexed Texas it has