The Washington union., 1858-02-23

Maryland Clayton, of D~ixwxre Ewing OF Ohio !.
freelinghuys<n, d New Jersey Watkins I,,ieh of yir
gins Mangum, Of North Carolina Poindexter of Mis-
sissPla Af~xsnder Porter Ut Louisiana Wm q PRES
ton Of South Carolina scuthon IL New Jsp~v Tyl,T
OF Virginia In the House of Representatives besides
the en President, Mr. Adams and the eminent iurist Of
pennsylvania Mr. Horace Hnney, there were a long cat
a"gue OF able speakers Mesxrs Arcl,., al virginia
Bell. of Tennessee Burgess Of Rhode y.i.na gpfu.
ch"aie, 81 Massachusetts ccrwiu Of Ohio Warren X
Davis a south Carolina john Davis of Mz4sae us-tts
Edward Everett oa Massachusetts, Miil&rd Fillmore OF
New York Robert r. Ietcher of Kentuckv: BENJAMIN
hafoin OF kcntucky McDufie, of South Carolina Pey
ten a ienfses<~ Vance. Of Ohio: Wilde, Of Georgia
"iS OF Virginia lin ali. above thirty speakers many
whom spoke many times besides many others Of good
ability, bur without extensive national regulations
The business 1T the combination dyided-ts-
tess and panic the cietand the parts distributed and
sf@r~ely cast To produce the effect The bank WAS TO
make the distress thing easy for il 10 do um its
moaeted power The POLITICIANS to make the panic
by the alarms which they created for the safety Of the
i~s OF the constitution, the public liberty and the pub
lie money" ..Ibe end uro
posed 10 themselves by the oomiined parties wa the
bank, rechrter and the restoration Of the depostcs
for the politicians. ascent power upon the overthrow
OF jackson The overthrow Of Jackson y
The residue of the story is familiar household
word TO the American people. General jackson tri-
umphed over the bank and the politicians the
artificial panic and the real pressure. lie rescued
the American people from the thraldom Of monster
nioneyed corporation under whose iron rod the masses
groaned, and before whose presence the very gov
eminent trcinbIed The people rallied to Jackson.
The politicians and the monster fell and great was
the fall thereof.
Such is the lesson Of history upon a single grea,
measure of democratic policy. Err uno disoe op,aes
And is not the preservation Of this Union as import
amt an object the release Of the people from
pecuniary thraldom Are not the democratic masses
of our country sure TO rally to the support Of
James Buchanan against the foes of the constitution
and assassns Of the republic, though he bedeserted
by legons Of tmid, cavilling I" friends :" as they
did TO Jackson in his struggle with the bank with
the avowed enemies of democracy and with its false
stampeding friends
Depend upon it, the odds against Buchanan in up
holding the banner of The constitution Unior
the democracy - formidable as they be, are not
appalling the array which con
fronted the man Of responsibility in 1888 The
money power is not so gTea,the moral power is not
now, compared with what ii was then is the conf
dence Of parricdcs contrasted with that of honora
bic men, acuated by deep convictions, and enjoy
ing great popular influence and widespread respec-
liability.
The car Of democracy was not impeded by the OBJ
by the desertion Of false democrats 1t rolled
triumphant over the bodies and crushed out the po-
htical lfe's breath both of foe and false friend