Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-03-13
4 HISTORICAL PARALLEL,

The opposition made by Democrats to the ad.
mnistratlon measure of admitting Kansas with
the Lccompton Constitution gives the Washing,
ton Union occasion to quote q passage from the
history of Jackson's administration in part al
follows:
GENERAL JACKsoN's STRUGGLE WITH THE BANK, TIE
OLD wHIG PARTY. AND THE BANK DEMOCRATS
"The removal of the deposits was Gen. Jack
sons own measure, conceived by him, carried oul
by hin, defended by him, and its fate dependent
on him. He had coadjutors in every part Of the
business, but the measure was his own: for this
heroic civil measure, like heroic military re-
solve. had to be the offspring of one great mind
Iselt-acting and selfpoised-secing its way thro
all difficulties and dangers, and discerning ulti-
mate triumph over all obstacles in the determine
tlon to conquer or perish. Councils are good for
safety, not for hcroism-good for escapes from
perls and retreats; but for action, and especially
high and daring action, but one mind is wanted.
And thus it was in this case. The ma
IJorlty OF his cabinet was against him His Secre-
tary OF the Treasury refused to execute his will.
4 few only-a fraction of the cabinet and some
friends-concurrsd heartily in the act: Mr. Ia
ney, Attorney General; Mr. Kendall Postmaster
General; Mr.. Francis P. Blair editor of the
| Globe; and some few others.
I" He communicated his intention to the cabinet
all OF whom had been requested to assist him in
his deliberations. The ma part Of them dissent
ed from his design: Whereupen he assembled them
on the % September, { 1881 and read to them a
paper, in which he absoIved them all from respon-
sibility for the act, and assumed it wholly upon
himself, requesting them to consider the proposed
measure as his own. in the support of which he
required no one of them to make sacrifice OF
opinion or principle It's responsibility assumed
by himself
1.-The order for the removal of the deposits was
issued the I'D September, 1888, and signed by
Roger b. fancy, Esq, the new Secretary Of the
Treasury. appointed in the place of Mr.. VIM. j.
Duane, who, refusing to make the removal upon
the request Of the President, was himself re-
moved.
Mr. Clay, Mr.. Calhoun, and Mr.. Webster were
now all united against General Jackson, with all
their friends and the Bank of the United States
The combination was formidable
The Bank itself was 4 great power, and was able
to carry distress into all the business departments
of the country; the political array against the
President was unprecedented in point OF number
and great in point OF ability.
"The business of the combination was divided
distress and panic the object-and the parts dis
tributed and separately east to produce the effect
The bank was to make the distress thing easy
for it to do from its own moneyed power. The
politicians were to make the panic, by the alarms
which they created for the safety of the laws, of
the constitution the public liberty and the public
money" :: The end proposed to them
selves by the combined parties was, for the bank,
recharter and the restoration of the deposits; for
the politicians. an ascent power upon the over
throw of Jackson 1.-THE overthrow of Jackson!1
The residue of the story, adds the Union, is IA
milliar as household word to the American peo-
pie. General Jackson triumphed over the bank
and the politicians-over the artificial panic and
the real pressure. He rescued the American peo-
pie from the thra}dom OF a monster moneyed cor
poration. under whose iron rod the masses groan-
ed, and before whose presence the very govern
ment trembled. The people rallied to jackson.
The politicians and the monster fell; and great
was the fall thereof
Such is the lesson of history upon single great
measure of Democratic policy. Eu uao disco
onnes. And is not the preservation of this Union
as important an object as was the release of the
people from pecuniary thraldom? Are not the
Democratic masses of our country as sure to rally
to the support of James Buchanan against the
foes of the constitution and assassins of the re-
public, though he be deserted by legions of timid
eavilling 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
uphodng the banner Of '' The Constitution-the
Union-the Democracy formidable as they be,
are not near SO appallingvas the array which con-
fronted the man of responsibility in 1858. The
money power is not so great-the moral power is
not comparabIe-and the confidence of the oppo-
sition now, compared with what it was then, is the
confidence of parricides, contrasted with that of
honorable men. actuated by deep convictions, and
enjoying great popular influence and wide spread
respectability.
The car of Democracy was not impeded by the
obstacles it encountered in 1888, nor did it halt
in its career by the deserton of false Democrats.
It rolled triumphant over the bodies and crushed
out the political life's breath of foe and false
friend