Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-07-17

s'What guarantee have as to the side on which,
the great political questions of the day he win be fount
None The truth Is, avaiia6ity is the groundwork upn
which his nomination has been effected Do we recognize
or find this word in creed No. despise and r.
ject it Therefore, cannot and support Gene
Taylor as our candidate for tie Presidency! Devotioa 10 or
principles demand that we should not +
ITO find such men as Clay, Scott and Webster saci-
feed in this manner indgniy cannot tamely aid
quietly submit TO- They hare abored long and faithfully
| 10 be thus Abandoned.
"Wth either of these standard bearer we Will
fight ardeny and There is questioning it) success
fully but Nth AVAILABILITY for candidate our zeal is
palsied and our enthusiasm quenehed."
Is there any thing in the recent Protest more il
dignant, more peremptory, or more positive, thn
the expressions in the foregoing Declaration froma
thousand or two of the ardent and impulsive Why's
of the City of New York? Similar demonstrations
were made at other points, in different States, and
especially in Ohio and Massachusetts. And whit
was the result of all these partial but imposing il
dications of discomfort? Why just this that It
the election which was held exactly four months
thereafter, not single Wing Electoral Vote pcs
achole United States
So much for the consequence of discomfort AMI
protests against nominations by those whose desirs
or calculations happen to have been disappointed BY
them, in a case which is within the memory of every
living man.
We now come to the purpose for which we have
to-day taken pen in hand which is to show to our
readers that no elevation of virtue, no loftness Of
intellect no length or fidelity of public service can
concliate the confidence, or the esteem of all
men in Government SO free as this, in which each
individual is himself in some respects asovereign,
and, particularly and above all has an irdefeasible
property in his own opinions and in the preferences
and prejudices which are the fruits of their unre-
strained enjoyment
Even General WAsHINGToN whose name is now
revered, not only by all Americans but BY all the
civilized and even the savage world beyond that of
any mortal man that ever lived, was thwared and
opposed during his civil career, (by formidable
ray of talent too, with intensity that embittered
his life. Of the political opposition to Mr.. JET
FERsoN and the elder ADAMS, before and after each
of them to the discharge of the duties of Pre-
sident of the United States, we have not time now
to speak, being in haste to come down 10 the time of
the canvass for the Presidency at the expiration of
Mr.. JEFFERsoNs second term of service after which,
as our readers know, he retired to private life.
Up to this period, politicians, and Of course the
People, were divided by clearly defined line, into
two parties, the old Federal party, and the more
modern party which called itself Republican. The
chiefs of those parties being as well known as the
principles on which they had divided, no public
consultation by each party had ever been found
necessary as it is now, for the selection of their
respective candidates for the Presidency Mr.
ADAMS beat Mr.. JEFFERSON at the election of
1796, and Mr.. JEFFERSON beat him at the election
of l800-in each case by close votes. At the cleo
ton of 1904, Mr.. JEFFERSON was reelected for a
second term by nearly unanimous vote over
CHARLES CoTEswoRTH PINcKNEY, distinguished
South Carolinian.
A little more than year before the expiration
of Mr. JEFFERsoN's second term the Republican
party hoing still high m tho asoAnIeut, and seve-
raj persons being presented by their friends and adj
mirers as competitors for the succession it became
necessary to select one from among them. No other
mode offered itself at practicable and
venient, at that time, as consultation Of such of
the Members of Congress- then in session, as claim
ed to belong to the Republican party. Such con-
ference was accordingly held (since termed a Caa-
cus) on the 23d day of January, 1908, at which s.
r. BRADLEY Of Vermont presided, and RICHARD
M. JOHNSON of Kentucky acted as Secretary
when JAMES MADISON was nominated for Presi-
dent-he receiving eighty-three votes, GEORGE
CLINTON three, and JAMES MONROE three. [Some
absent members, afterwards acceding, added to the
number.
This nomination of Mr. MADISON, who was at
the time, and had been for seven years preceding
the Secretary of State under President JEFFERSON,
realized the just expectation of the Republican
party, and was received throughout the country
with general appreciation, though not without a
Protest, more numerously signed (by Members of
the House Of Representatives alone) than the re-
cent Protest Of the disseners to the nomination of
the Baltimore Convention, and much more vehe
mently denunciatory Of the nominee than the latter
Among the signatures to it, as the reader will per-
oeive, were some Of the great names of that day,
and among them that of JOHN RANDOLPH, who,
though the last sgner, was believed to be its author
The paper is quite too long to allow us to insert
here at large, and we copy therefore only the
close of it. which sums up the grounds Of their OPP
position to Mr. MADISON in terms of opprobrium
which it can hardly be believed at this distance from
the time, that any man of respectable standing
coud have apnlied tn an unrioht 90 natr;o4;c and