The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-07-13

HmS, past, p esent and hture-They low
union, and win never declare their indo
~pendence-of man.
The pledgesbreaking OfPresidents Jack
son, van Buren,, Tyler, Polk s. ray
lOr compared.
The violation oftheso pledges by the demo.
; cratic party andPresldent Jackson, is admitted
lamenled, and most severely rePrehended in
speech delivered in the Senate on the 43ll
FEBRUARY, 1885, by that great and good demo,
Graf, the lamented j. G. Calhoun. And again
in another speech delivered by him in the
Senate, on the 18th February, 1885, he said, :
would tell the coming administration to be.
ware. Ifthere be ANY one who expected the
Presidential nominee (Mr. Van BUREN, could
successfully play the game he has, he would be
wofdlly disappointed. With all my objections
to the President, | would not deny him many
high qualities. He had courage and irmness;
was bold, warlike, audacious, though not true
to his word or faithful to his pledges.' See
Gales e Senton's Register OF Debates, part I,
pages 4i8=420, 1t il certain that during his
eight years. Administrations, instead Of { re-
trenching' the expenses of the government,
they were largely increased. We now take
up his nominee.
President Van Buren,, 'the sterling democrat
1.-The Northern man with Southern principles,'
on coming into power found but few wings il
office, except such silent ~neGtrals as were,
from their experience, superior abilities and
skill, almost indispensabIy necessary to con.
duct the business OF their respective %ofccts.
Therefore he strobe on at a moderate pace. in
the 'footsteps of his lllustrious predecessor
carrying out the sam policy so closely, in the
little hatthere remained to be done, that his
administration may properly be re~gardedRs.only
an appendix to it. 1t is, however, at
Senate document No.. 292, 81 sess III
Congress, shows that { Mr.. Van Buren, fGdtoved
from the 18th Of March, 1887, to the 27thaFeb.,
1889, three hundred and sixty deputy post
masters' And we have but little doubt thai
he a%lso,i there were that many wings left,
whose services were not Indispensable, dis.
missed an equal number in the other branches
OF the service. Thus wholly disregarding the
solemn pledge made by him, as one of the
select committee, who reported, as we have
above shown, through Colonel Benton as their
chairman, thereby snbjecting himself to the
scathing apprehension which Mr., Calhoun had
in advance dealt out TO him and he demo-
cratic party.
President John Tyler was elected through
the lamented Gen. Harrison, by the wings, and
thereby implicitly pledged to the support oil
wing measures. In support of this principle
we here adduce late democratic autho.ity, viz
an extract OF a speech delivered by Mr.. Buch.
ahah, President Polk's Secretary Of State, al
his residence in F street, on the Goth October,
1913, when he said, sLet no democrat Law the
hatterlng JUNCTION to his soul that Gen. TayIor,s
administration would not be a proscriptive
wing administration *** A wing himself.
elected by wings, and surrounded by a whig
c%aOlne'' he would be compelled, by the neces-
OF his position, to carry into effect whio
measures and ~hig principles. Indeed he
0oud be Jai@less TO has party ghe aoere 10 pursue
my other rO@rse.' How did Mr.. Tyler carry
nut these pledges? Elected by wings, sur.
by Gen Harrison's wing cabinet. and
with a full knowledge of wing principles and
wing measures, he disregarded them! He
'etoed The re-charter of the United States
Bank; a measure that had entered largely into
he canvass; he carried on the proscriptive
system, and generally sustained the measures
md carried out the policy of the party who
lad opposed his election.
We now proceed to examine the PLEDGES Of
Hr. Polk and the democratic party. At the
5aIIimOre Convention of the 9th May, 1874,
ne democratic party pledged themselves as
'Re'olUed, That our title to the whole of the
errltory OF Oregon is clear and unquestionable
no portion ought to bo coded to England.
'r any other foreign power; and that the re-
occupation of Oregon and the Remuneration of
rexas at the earliest practicable Period, arJ
yreot American measures, which this %conyea-
lou recommends to the cordial support Of the
democracy Of the Union.'
Soon after this we find Mr.. PolR's pledges
n MS letter, dated at Columbia, Tenn, on the
18TH OF June, 1914, addressed to ], X. Kano
1sq',ln which he himself endorsed the above
resolutions, and in regard to the
Tariff, saying, SIN my Judgment it is the dutv
me government to extend, as far as it NAV
practicable to do SO, by its revenue laws.
lna all other means within its power, far and
u't protection to all the great interests Of tho
whole Union, embracing agriculture, manufac. q
.ureS' the mechanical arts, commerc and l
See the letter in Niles Register. !
'o'u%e Sc, page 295. This language on the
arm he most adroitly made to conform. in