LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 0000502^06^ W s^o. * „'■'■ 4*9* » » J ftf^srv- ' 'fet? «V o » « „ A * V, V c M o ° .A** «^1 c ' 4^*- % 4 **^0 v-?- rj'b 1 v^ o_ * . * 4 A f *p^ 0° .*J&% °o .,** -• that he will agree to no treaty with Great Britain to be presented to the Senate, that will not comport with the honor and dignity of the nation. 4. Resolved, That this meeting highly approve of the Bank vetoes of Gen. Jackson and John Tyler, that they firmly believe that the people are waiting to do that justice to President Tyler, by electing him in '44, that they did to President Jackson, when they so triumphantly re-elected him for his Bank veto in '32. 5. Resolved, That as the contest for the Presidency in '44 will turn upon the question of Bank or no Bank, it will be absolutely necessary, if the Democratic party wish to be triumphant, to nominate John Tyler as the Veto candidate for President. 6. Resolved, That we have the fullest confidence in the firm- ness, talents and exalted virtues of the President of the United States, in whom we have the most abiding confidence, hnoiving that he will continue most ably to sustain the weight of the Gov- ernment of this proud, complex and powerful Confederacy. 7. Resolved, That we hail, as the harbinger of great good to the nation, the appointment of the Hon. John C. Calhoun — the honest, chivalrous, and highly gifted Carolinian — to the Secreta- ryship of State, and that we feel secure in the safety of our free institutions, while in the hands of statesmen of such purity of pur- pose and power of intellect as John Tyler and John C. Calhoun. Hiram Gumming, Esq. of New York, having been called for addressed the meeting. The meeting then resolved that the proceedings be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and published in the Madisonian and other Democratic papers friendly to the Administration, and that they adjourn, which they did with the greatest good feeling. A. H. FLAGG, Pres't. Hiram Cummixg, D. C. Woodruff. Sectetaries. SPEECH OF HIRAM GUMMING, ESQ. Mr. Chairman : / It is with no ordinary feelings that I rise to address old, re- spected and influential Democrats in such numbers here assem- bled, without previous concert, from almost every section of this great union. And what rends to heighten those emotions, it so happens that the choice candidate for the Presidential Chair at the ensuing campaign, is the pure hearted and true Virginian, who now fills that exalted station. This is right. For him the Democratic party still cherish those feelings which thrilled through their bosoms for his lofty acts of patriotism in fearlessly vetoing the odious Bank Bills which Henry Clay and his Federal partisans surreptitiously attempted to fasten upon our beloved country. — What honest Democrat can oppose him, who recollects the in- tense anxiety with which we all awaited the grand move upon which the future destinies of our republic was suspended, and that by one bold and masterly stroke of policy he annihilated all the rash projects of federalism, raised the democracy from its prostrate condition, and restored confidence and hope in the breast of every true patriot, of the ultimate triumph of the principle, that man is capable of self government. For thse noble deeds, for which lie almost suffered martyrdom, shall he not be amply ic- warded in his own life time, while still fresh in the remembrance of a grateful people? Or shall we wait for the tardv hand of the historian after he shall have been gathered home to bis fathers ! No sir! I hear, no sii, I respond, for the ingratitude of republics is no longer proverbial, it remained for the people of this conti- nent to wipe that foul slain from the character of freemen, and believe me, that every feeling that ever prompted a virtuous peo- ple to do justice to a public benefactor, and to reward the patriot for his services, has become suddenly aroused throughout the length and the breadth of the land where the sovereigns themselves seem determined to take the cause into their own hands, and in their own good way pay the deep debt of gratitude every un- trammelled frecm-iii owes to the uoble author of the vetoes of SL Fo '„ J hi « I 10 " TT democrat «■ ^e nation owes him Ins vote, and which we doubt not will be paid with the same promptuude that he himself arrested the higE handed SSZ of the federal aristocracy, when with a firmness of purpose and a decision of action which would have done honor to\he proudest and *a iT ,C;U1 , R 1 0m , e ' hC Stayed tbeirrash and P»oud course, and said thus far shalt thou come and no farther For this you all remember how the Democracy rejoiced and hanked the presiding genius of our country that such a m had been raised up and placed by an all wise and mysteriouTprovt dence, ,n a position to save our republic, and raise us from our £ZZS22£i f Witb other 1 °, the ** to S*" "IS ardently attached from very early life, I hailed those acts as the been :hn-,b v' ny """"F' My prlnci P !cs ° f democracy having " . d "'f > ' '"Pressed upon my young and tender mind during the wai of 1812, and in the support of which I have ever been honest arden j and fearless without ever asking or receiving Zy politic;.] emolument whatever ; having voted strictly with the par- ty, and adhered to the fortunes of the New York MagieiaD — that was, the talismanjc influence of whose wand has now however lost its power. I never loved the man, for I saw no lof- ty act ot patriotism, no splendor of achievement, in a single in- stance mark his character, and which alone can rivet the affec- tions of the people to their statesmen. Yet I was most ardently attached to the party who defended our homes, our firesides, and our common country from the American Savage and the British barbarian during one of the most trying periods in the history ofour republic. I saw Mr. Van Buret) after opposing the patriot James Madison, the war candidate for the presidency, by a sort of leger- demain I could never understand, without the love or confidence of the rank and file of the democratic party, without any person- al popularity whatever, wind himself into dignified and exalted stations, till he attained with the aid of a chapter of accidents the presidential chair. As a choice of evils I always supported him — with the,demo- ritic party I was bound to vole through life, whenever f* ' e found. I saw him after a brief period displaced in •.„„.i m onnpr and with him the party I so dearly loved in manv. a one trom cneii iwucu u. «^~ .......... and the decree will never be revoked by those who pronounced £ and he who thinks different, little understands the people o. h s country who never loved the man, whose affections he neve had, with wh'om he never mingles and has no fellow feeling ^vho al- ways distrusted him and never believed him honest and open hearted, even after he had wound himself into the favor of the - unsuspecting old Roman. They were always whispering of his cunning, his" intrigue, his magic powers, his alternately opposing and supporting almost every man and measure ; his deadly thrusts at Dewitt Clinton through life, and his crocodile tears over his grave ; his abuse of Gen. Jackson in 1824, and his support of him in 1828. They were tired of him — They had seen him raised by their generosity and their munificence from poverty to be one of the most princely nabobs in the land, and to the presidential chair; and still they saw him the cold, callous hearted "ingrate," whose craven thirst for more, was never to be satiated ; whose only aspiration was self-aggrandizement, and whose ruling passions were profit and powei. Could it have been expected that such a man with a system of machinery however curious and complicated, would always keep in power, and by a strange sort of political legerdemain, shuffle himself at vnll to the top of the pack. No sit — the people rose, broke their party shackles, and in a manner not to be misunderstood, pronounced fheir unqualified rebuke of the man — hundreds of thousands of the democracy voting against him from pure hatred, and it is an insult to them, to even talk of him as a candidate, supposing that they will reverse their decision ; and they receive it as such. — Could Mr. Van Buren himself travel through the country "m- cog," and hear the eveiy day language of tne democracy, he would soon be satisfied that althouj 1) he might remain the sage of lAndenwald, that he could v- er again be President of these Uuifed States, that the people would veto him as often and with as much decision as PRESIDENT TYLER vetoed the bank?. 'Tis passing straDge that he and his partisans are so reckless. — ignorant they cannot be, for appearances are too ominous of his hopeless fortunes. The signs of the times throughout the un- ion, indicate that the peopl ■ are determined, who are rising in all their majesty in favor of the veto candidate, and the deep and settled 'mured against the rejected* defeated, distanced c- 1 ; : ■ ' : - date, cannot be mistaken, and should not be mil un terstood:, even by his Lieutenants. It is an imperious duty they owe to the party to frankly in- form Mr. Van Buren of the niter hopelessness of his ease. — They know it. 1 would blush for my country, to suppose an in- dividual member of the Congress now lure assembled at the < !ap- ttal so ign< rani of passing i stents, and the genius of the Ameri- can people, as to believe that they themselves will reverse their otvn marked unqualified intended condemnation, and now elect the man they so si verelj n buked in I84G, by a majority of one hundred and fifty thousand. Are these men going deliberately to'say by their own acts now that they were then wrong in that over which they (hen so mm h exulted and thus admit that their •ouse.i were bewildered and entranced by hard cider and log cab- ins, and that their great victory was a magnificent humbug ? — > No, not one of them. Pride and pride of opinion has too rank a hold in the heart of every American Freeman thus to act. We could not then convince them, against their will if you please, and believe me, it has not been subdued by such an unexampled triumph. Mv views of human nature, and the composition of man would lead me to a conclusion directly the reverse, and that they would again rush to the contest with redoubled energy, flushed with their former unparalleled success, having broken the charm of the magician and paralyzed his wonder working powers. His very defeat will lose him thousands who can go into the field with any confidence of success under a captain having been so badly beaten and one that was never beloved by the rank and file, and in a contest where superior numbers are indispensable : where a Spartan band will not answer however brave they may be. Supposing by the force of circumstances that we cannot control, the contest is narrowed down between him and Henry Clay, and we take the field for him as by compulsion, how should we feel towards him when we look back to his machine operations by which he had packed his convention and compelled us to choose as between imprisonment for life and capital punishment. When we recollected his ingratitude in being even willing again to haz- ard all the high hopes of a party who had done so much for him and jeopardize the dearest interest of a people who had raised him from poverty to affluence, and when we recollect where he left asf overwhelmed with defeat that had carried dismay to our boldest leaders, wounded, bleeding on the mighty battle field, and he quietly retiring to his Tuilfivies, without even the hope of ever curing our wounds and concentrating our scattered elements of strength when ail was enshrouded in gloom, and there appeared fot us no salvation from all the high handed aristocratic meas- ' ures our federal opponents had been striving to fasten upon us from the formation of our government, and bring to mind that the chivalrous patriot who threw himself into the frightful breach, and with more than mortal eneigy »aised our party from its pros- trate condition, restored confidence and hope in the breast of ev- ery true freeman and by one lofty act did more real service to this nation than any man since Washington, remains unpaid the deep debt of grstitude this people owe him; remains unrewarded for the services no other man could have performed for this nation, snd that wc are aiding the very man who would have brought all these national calamities upon us, to rob the one who averted thein all of the laurels he so richly merits. What honest heart can engage in such a cause under such ciicumstances ? The history of these events is still fresh in the minds of all. — Gen. Harrison was sworn into office, took the Presidential chair, and in one short month died, an event unlookcd for by the lead- ing, spirits in the memorable campaign of 1840. The extra ses- 8 sion had been previously called, Congress assembled and a bank bill was at once forced through both houses, although it was well known that President Tyler had been committed in eternal hos- tility to a national bank from his first entrance into public life, having been nominated to secure anti-bank votes, and it being well understood that he never breathed a federal breath, and that the truest principles of Democracy were inbred in his very na- ture. Will he not veto that bank bill, said a fnend to the Ken- tucky Orator, as you know be was always opposed to a United States Bank ? He would if he dare G d D n him, was the pious reply. All eyes were now turned towards the only man that could save us, with intense anxiety, impatiently awaiting the grand move that would exert such a controlling influence upon our future destinies. All were in trembJing anxiety ; but John Tyler hesitated not, faltered not, but proved himself a true son of the old dominion, well worthy of the noble state which gave him birth ; well deserving to have his name inscribed upon the scroll of immortality with her Washington and her Jefferson. He did dare veto the Bank, Henry Clay to the contrary not- withstanding, and one universal burst of applause went forth from the whole democratic party throughout the union : the thunder of their cannon was heard on every hill and in every val- ley, his name quivered on every lip with deep and heart-felt gra- titude to their deliverer, and the entire democratic press vied with each other lor terms in which to express their admiration of their great public benefactor. Even the old hero at the Hermitage thanked his God that one honest man still remained: that the constitution was safe and once more in the hands of the people. Had an organization now commenced, and had there been action and concert of action in favor of the noble author of the vetoes, he would have distanced all competition, and have been wafted into the presidential chaii upon the br< eze of the most decided and well deserved popularity. But he was surrounded by difficulties such as no other Ame- rican. president ever had to encounter. The federal cabinet of Gen. Harrison all resigned save Daniel Webster, whose princi- ples of all other incii were most, diametrically opposed to those of the president. The' one, a frank, open hearted democrat, nurtured under the shade of Montecello, having long drank deep from the pure fountains of Virginia politics. The other a New Eugland Federalist, nol early rocked in the cradle of libertj of the Hartford Convention school, who re- joiced at the success of our enemies, the defeat of our arms and the disgrace of our policy during the darkest and gloomiesl pe- riod of our country's history. He did not resign, In was not solicited to stay, what was to be done. Would it not have seemed unkind at that time to have dismissed him from the cabinet inasmuch as he had seen no cause for re- signing, and took pait with the President against his calumnia- tors who had resigned, and by his acts justified the president and flatly gave the lie to their assertion. It was not in the heart of John Tyler under such circumstan- ces, to thrust a man of his acknowledged talent out of his cabi- net. It was no sin in the eyes of the nation for Gen. Washing- ton to retain Alexander Hamilton in his cabinet the whole time of his eight years administration, the very father and embodiment of ancient federalism, or for Mr. Jefferson to call federalists to his councils and send Gen. Pinckney and J. Q. Adams to for- eign missions, and that too after the latter had written those scur- rilous, doggrel versesdefamatory of the great father of our party : nor for Gen. Jackson to advise Mr. Munro to select his cabinet equally from both parties, and appoint after he attained the pre- sidency himself, Edward Livingston to his own cabinet, and en- dorse his proclamation, which he afterwards repudiated ; to say nothing of Martin Van Buren procuring the appointment of Ru- fus King to the United States Senate, the .tankest federalist then to be foujid in the Empire State. The very man, who, when minister to London might have saved from the scaffold the la- mented and highly gifted Robert Emmet, but whose democracy- was too pure and elevated to find in his bosom a friend and through him a refuge in this asylnmn of the oppressed. Perhaps some of the Simon pure democrats, high in the con- fidence and foremost itt their support of Mr. Van Buren, had better not make the retention of Mr. Webster in the cabinet a very serious charge against the president till they recollect what part they themselves acted with the Hartford Convention move- ments of the last war. Facts arc stubborn things, and the re- membrance of them often very convenient ; even Martin Van Buren voted with Daniel Webster, and the party who believed it unbecoming a moral and religious people to rejoice at our victo- ries at one of the darkest moments of that war, when the surren- der of Hull and the butchery at Rasin had thrown the whole nation into consternation and mourning. Is it not sufficient up- on this point to say that the Secretaryship of state is now filled by the Hon. John C. Calhoun, the pure and chivalrous Caioli- naian, who has no superior ; the immortal author of the report in Congress in favor of vindicating the honor of the nation by declaring that same war so shamefully opposed by Daniel Web- ster — snd as we have said in our resolutions, "The free institu- tions our fathers bled and suffered to establish and perpetuate, are safe — doubly safe in the hands of men of such elevated mo- rality and power of intellect as John Tyler and John C. Cal- houn." And when has every department of state been more ably and economically administered ? When has a more brilliant cabinet shed lustre upon the American name, and in whom the whole 10 nation had a more abiding confidence ? And when has the chief magistrate himself exhibited more firmness, more ability, more patriotism and more self-devotion to the common country than the pure and elevated statesman now in the presidential chair? With such a patriot at the helm, surrounded by a con- stellation of stars of the very first magnitude, I again say, every lover of his country feels secure in the safety of the precious in- heritance bequeathed us by our revolutionary fathers. Then let us rally around the veto standard not doubting. Let every friend of the administration come up quickly to the rescue, and justice will now be done to the man so vilified and abused by the ultras of both parties ; who has braved their fury, and under the most trying circumstances so ably borne the weight of the government of this proud, complex and powerful confederacy. And what prevents justice being now done, and rendering honor to whom honor is due at the ensuing contest. Nought but that Mr. Van Buien was unfairly defeated in 1840, that unfairn means were used against him, and that he was sung out of favor. Let us look at it. Where is the man who is ready thus tojleliberate- ly slander the institutions under which he lives? Can the ma- jority in tliis free, intelligent country be swayed by wrong mo- tives? We deny it entirely — if the vote of this nation constitu- tionally expressed, is not to be regarded as right, what becomes of the essential feature of our government ; that feature is, that the majority is always right. Who dates to dispute this? Let it be our settled action that we may impeach the act of the ma- jority — that we may say that songs and cider influenced a large portion of a free people, and therefore, that they, we, decided wrong, and that it must be tried over, and where shall we find ourselves? By abandoning principle we shall become the spoil of tyrants an I well worthy of the anarchy we shall bring upon the country. We think that those who take this giound in favor of Mr. Van 15 men, have not well reflected upon what an unkind attack they an- thus making upon their country. He himself, in his letter to Pennsylvania followed the argument and intimated that he was wrongfully defeated. Betterthat he should be ten thousand limes defeated than to admit that ought else but the highest patriotism influences the majority of this nation when through the ballot box it decides mi men and measures. We are ashamed for our country to see such a reason given. Re- nominate a man because he is unfairly beaten, when nineteen states by their deliberate votes pronounce their severe rebuke up- on him. It is as absurd as the idea of the lunatic who claimed to be entirely sane, and that all the rest of the world were insane, and had therefore shut him up. Where is this matter to end ? If it is good reason in favor of one man beaten to-day, it is equal- ly good against him to-morrow. Indeed the whole thing would seem to proceed upon the rediculous theory that there was a 11 floating corrupt mass of voters in this country who in 1840, vo- ted against Mr. Van Buren ; but that in 1844 they may be iu his favor. Then would it not be said with equal force that he un- fairly succeeded. Thus we should be continually playing for this corrupt, mass. It is a gross absurdity, a vile slander upon our country, and if deliberately urged, the individual doing so furnishes evidence of his own corruptibility. No, the majority of this nation is always honest, always right, and ought always to be respected. Mr. Van Buren came into power, not upon his own popularity. Gen. Jackson, honest, energetic and able, established his admin- istration so strong in the confidence of the nation, that his suc- cessor easily floated into his place. But the old Roman was n longer at the helm, and after a brief trial the most decided ma- jority that ever displaced an individual from the presidency, re- buked his successor. I claim to be too true to our institu- tions not to understand this; too much of a democrat to speak trifiingly of the act of the majority, and too well convinced that the people intended what they did again, by my own act, to in- volve my fortunes with the same unsuccessful candidate. He can never again be thrust down the throats of the people of this country. The entire democracy will not vote for him. — Thousands who supported him in 1840, prefer even Henry Clay wilh all his political errors, to Martin Van Buren, and his ma- chine polities ; thinking that the element of reform may be found iu the former, but never in the latter; and show me the individ- ual convert in his favor since his defeat. Go down he must, there is no hope for him. The tremendous overturn in Maryland, the proceedings of the New Jersey convention, the aspect of affairs in Pennsylvania and Virginia, the acceptance of Mr. Calhoun to the Secretaryship of state, are omens of no ordinary magnitude, and the signs of the times throughout the union are poitentious of his falling fortunes. His name every where falls like an icicle upon the heart of the true democrat ; Why bring him forward again when it will be a suicidal act to nominate him'.' And what real friend of his coun- try will regret his being rejected by his own convention when they recollect the circumstances attending its origin ? and if meu of his own choice throw him overboard as they must, or destroy themselves by their own acts, and perish in the general wreck, let him go down, for with him goes down forever that odious sys- tem of party tactics by which he has so long controlled the poli- tics of the country, and so often defeated the will of the rightful sovereigns. Why will he not at once decline and not persist in his reckless determination to again prostrate a party who have done so much for him? Has he no gratitude, no magniuimity ? Is he entirely destitute of all those fine and tendei qualities ^en- 12 erally found in the composition of man ? Or has a sordid Jove of profit and powei frozen up every warm aud liberal feeling of his nature ? If not, why, when he must be convinced, for it cannot be otherwise, not come out and decline a nomination, and thus do one disinterested act in his life, and for which, if for no other, he will be gratefully remembered by the present and succeeding generations, and thus magnanimously surrender the entire field to the man who so completely resuscitated the democratic party, and raised it from the prostrate condition to which Mr. Van Bu- ren had reduced it in the brief period of his four years adminis- tration. Is this language too plain when we recollect that we too must fall with this man ? should he be the exclusive democratic candi- date, and be entombed in the same Van Buren grave with himself, that by running him all the (air prospects of this great people for the next half century, and perhaps in all time to come are to be jeopardized, and for what ? to heap honors and wealth upon the in.gra.Le this same people warmed into life and raised from obscu- rity'to the most exalted station on earth. For should he again drag us down, and Henry Clay succeed and die as Harrison did, should we have another pure and fearless John Tyler to save us, to breast the torrent of federal fury, and with giant nerve to seize and strangle the foul born monster. No! for there are few such fearless spirits calendered io the history of this republic, and how can this free people ever pay the immense debt of gratitude they owe the patriot who threw himself into the frightful breach and saved the republic from the curse and blight of half a century which the odious bank would have entailed upon us. Does jus- tice sleep ? do is he not still hold the scale that ever metes out to the patriot a sure reward for his services to a free people 1 Where slumbers thai spirit which so triumphantly vindicated the brave defender of New Orleans? It slumbers not— 1 know by the feelings which promp I you here to assemble, which now ani- mates your bosoms, that the friends you left at their respective homes in ev r. I our union, are at this very moment giv- ing vent to tho ■ of gratitude to their great public bene- factor, no lor to be stifled by the rudeness of Clay dema- gogues, nor pent up by the complicated machinery of Van Bu- rec l igerdeinain. Tin pei pie will do the work. The sovereigns will speak for themselves, and in a voice not to be misunderstood. Mr. Van Buren can no more smother their feelings now than in 1S24, when he was abusing in the most wanton and unmeasured terms the exalted patriot who terminated the late war in a blaze of glo- ry. At no period io the history of our republic has the tone of public sentiment been more firm and decided in its determination to vindicate a persecuted patriot than at present, for the motto th.it justice must i ( w be done to John Tyler, i6 ringing with one 13 accordant voice from one extremity of this land to the other, and from what I know of the people of this country, of their virtues and their patriotism, it would be no strange event in my mind to see him triumphantly elected at the ensuing contest, over both Henry Clay and Martin V;in Buren. The same feeling which swelled in their bosoms and impelled them to action in favor of Gen Jackson, is bursting forth in favor of President Tyler. The chivalrous south are coming to the rescue, and loudly demand- ing justice, which is responded to by the middle states in thun- der tones. The mighty west is all in motion, and the elements of strength are fast concentrating at the great north, where the same sentiments that now animate your speaker pervade the breast of every true democrat. And in my own, my native Empire State, they are determined to do him that justice by electing him in '44, for his two bank vetoes, that they did to Andrew Jackson when he was so triumphantly re-elected for his one bank veto in '32. Depend upon it, Mr. Van Buren can do no better in his own stale than he did in 1840. His defeat is as sure as fate itself if he is the candidate ; but with John Tyler, success will most triumphantly crown our efforts. They who know with what rap- tures of applause his name is now received by the democracy of the country, cannot but come to the same conclusion ; and he who thinks different, has not well reflected upon the subject, and little understands the feelings of the people in regard to the re- spective merits of the two individual candidates. Could they hear in every corner of the streets, and in every public place, on our rail ways and in our steamboats, on our farms and in our workshops, the every day language of the honest farmer, me- chanic, and tradesmen, they who doubt would be convinced, if proofs of any kind could produce conviction of the growing feel- ing for the president, & that Van Buren's chance is utterly hope- less. " What, have we got to take this man again and undertake to carry a load that will surely drag us down? Who that voted against him before will support him now ? Scarce an individual can be found, for you know he was never beloved by the people, an.l he rode into power upon the broad shoulders of the old hero in L-i:3(i ; and in 1840 it was the hatred of the man and his lead- ing measure that produced our marked defeat, and nothing has transpired to change any man's opinion in his favor; and in eve- ry opponent who fought him before with that settled and deadly hatred he will again find an enemy (lushed with his former suc- cess, rushing to the conflict with keener vengeance and redoubled vigor, carrying with him in thousands of instances his neighbors and his friends, and tens of thousands of the young democracy who have subsequently become voters, will not involve their for- tunes with this unsuccessful, distanced, and now hopeless can- didate. And what hind of democracy is it, to keep this selfish man iv office for life, to the exclusion of his superiors ? Why should he be kept ahead of Silas Wright, vastly more talented, and hon- est into the bargain, and whose opinions are always open, Irani. B 14 and decided, upon the great questions of state policy ? And who knows where Mr. VanBiiren is at this very moment, and how he would act upon the tariff question, the slave question, the Texas and Oregon questions. Some say that he will come out in favor of the re-annexation of the valuable region of territory which John Quincy Adams clandestinely surrendered to Spain, as will be seen by the letter of Gen. Jackson, recently published ? If he does, it will be certain that he has changed his mind for selfish and sordid purposes, as it will be recollected that when President he dictated a letter of Mr. Forsyth, who was in fivor of the measure, rejecting the overtures by which we might long since have been in the possession of this our rightful territory. Do you not recollect that he opposed James Madison during the last war, and then suddenly turned round to the support of him and the war; that he opposed the Erie Canal till he thought it would go through in spite of him, and all at once became a con- vert and made a speech in the New York Senate in its favor; and then did not Van Buren and his legislature attempt to rob De Wilt Clinton of his justly merited honor by shamefully turn- ing him out of the office of Canal Commissioner, when his great work was in triumphant and successful progress. Western and Central N. York can never forget his cold blooded stabs, through life, of the great father of internal improvement, and of being tempted to envy him his grave with its honors. And why, con- tinues the honest democrat, have we so long supported him? For the same reason that we may be compelled iu again — his in- fernal political machinery, which has ever forced us into a choico of evils. We knew that he was cold, callous and unprincipled, and had no fellow feeling with us ; that he pretended to be in favor of the extension of the right of suffrage at the formation of our new constitution; and in 1824 used tin' basest means to prevent the choice of Presidential Electors from being taken from the legis- lature and given to the people, for which he a id his seventeen automata Senators vvese SO suddenly and so signally rebuked by the Sovereigns. We know that he then came oul and supported the disti ict system, and afterwards opposed it ; thai he has been both for and against the general tieket system, and we know too for what base purposes. We remember his opposition to the election of Justices by the people, and also of being In favor of it ; that he was in favor of a United Slates Bank, and signed petitions lo have branches established in New- York, and of his subsequent opposition. We know him to have been an abolitionist in every sense of the word a: the time of the admission of Missouri, and remember hig uncalled for anticipated veto in his inaugural ad- dress of any bill to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia* without the COns&Ql of the slave Slates, and ih it he is now court- ing abolition votes at the north as his only hope there, while he Is holding out to the south th tl he is in favor of southern meas- ures and southern prim iples. Who does not remember his vote for the black tariff of 1828, and his recent letter lo Virginia, iu 15 which he declares his decided opposition to the piesent tariff in its principle and its details. We know all this, and aye. more; we well recollect him as one of the most violent opposers of the brave defender of the beanty and the booty of our great southern emporium, and with his leading organs, called General Jackson blood thirsty and tyrannical in 1824, and in 1828 became one of his warm supporters — wormed himself into the confidence of the old Roman — became a member of his cabinet, and subsequently his successor, upon the wave of his decided popularity, from which, after a brief trial, he was so signally displaced — when even Gen. Jackson could not avert the blow, for it was aimed by the people. And now again we must shoulder such a load, and thus hazard all our fair hopes of the ultimate triumph of democratic princi- ples. The deep game that was played in New York state last year, we fear will reduce us to the alternative of again voting for a man whom we never loved, and who has been on all sides of all questions, or of voting for Henry Clay and his mammoth Bank, which we cannot do; though we had about as williugly see him elected as rhe little magician. The way too, they cheated the people about the Syracuse Convention, is sufficient of itself to justify all true democrats to oppose Mr. Van Buren's nomination. See how deep the game. In the primary assemblies the district system was yielded, as also by the leading Van Buren presses; yet a short time before the Convention was held, and after the delegates were chosen, the terrors of excommunication were held over those who dared to act for themselves. The consequence was, that when more than half of the delegates assembled at the convention, had been instructed or had agreed to snpport the dis- trict systems only a small portion of them voted for it, the rest being whipped into the traces by the long lash of the retired state man. The evasive manner in which the convention had been called, caused the people to instruct a majority of the dele- gates, or to choose those who had expressed their decided pre- ference in favor of the district system ; and we little suspected that so long before the convention that delegates would thus be clandestinely appointed, as there had been nothing of the kind in the call ; nothing to arouse the people, who were not told in a bold and manly stye that the object was to appoint delegates to the Baltimore Convention, and that the whole democracy should convene in their primary assemblies, as the important question was to be decided who for four years should wield the destinies of twenty millions of freemen, with great diversities of interest, and the most complicated government on earth. We were de- ceived and cheated, and we ought not to submit. Language like this is as common as the water that runs — amcng democrats who want no office, go where you will. They feel insulted at the attempt to compel them to support a man they never did nor nev- er can love. Did we admire Mr. Van Buren, and wish his eleva- tion, we should still oppose his nomination upon the "principle that Brutus opposed Cesar,— not that he loved Cesar less, but . 16 "lirti he loved Rome more. Claiming that I love my country and ner free institutions better than any man who would hazard all upon the chance throw of an unsuccessful political gambler, I call upon every honest man to oppose him upon the same princi- ple, with all their mind, might and strength, and to use all hon- orable means to procure the nomination of the patriot to whom the nation is so deeply indebted. Will the untrammelled, high minded democracy of this great Union, permit this chance throw, this fatal move, for so it will prove, so sure as made, and stake all upon one dangerous exper- iment, one suicidal act ? If for nothing else, f would admire Mr. Van Buren for his moral courage, after being thus distanced, to enter the field against .such fearful odds, but I believe it too dignified a term, and that it is obstinacy and stupidity, not only in him, but in all who urge him on to certain and inevitable de- feat, with a reckless determination to bring all down with him, and again prostrate, nearly annihilate those who have done so much for him, and still adhere to his falling furtunes. I would fain believe him ignorant of the fact that he must be defeated, for I would not think him so morally depraved, as wilfully and knowingly again to bring such calamities upcn his friends and his country. Where is he to look for any accession of strengh ? Is it to be found in the enthusiasm of the people ? Who welcomes the return of the fallen chief from his exile ? Who invited it ? Who asked him from his political Elba to which the majesty of a great people had banished him, up to Albany to procure the still born legislative nomination he so coldly received 1 Not one of the people ! Who packed his Syracuse convention to forestal public opinion in other states ? The people knew not. nor suspected not, for what that convention was called. Who began the caucus move- ment in Missouri, and who did not see in that the finger of the successor to the restored, should a restoration take place ? With the elevation of the exited chief, will be the restoration of the old dynasty, and the continuance in office for life of many of the most obnoxious individuals in the land. Who wants either ? Do the people? Should he be restored, who would be his advisers and the dis- pensers of his favors ? The same old set of political paupers, incumba upon the body politic, destitute of common honesty, without principle of any kind, or one of the finer attributes of man, and what has the young, ardent and intelligent democracy to gain by his re-elevation to power, when only those are to bo rewarded who are destitute of merit, and have always lived by hanging on the skirts of this same aspiring politician. Men who have never originated a single improvement, or advanced any useful measure ; who in the conflicts of professional exertion, in open manly controversy, could not sustain themselves a sin- gle hour against the mass of intellect by which they are sur- rounded, and incapable of entering into business of any kind with •uccess, who know nothing of the people, of their wants and their feelings, and care as little. These are the men who would welcome his return, because they too return with him, political Jesuits, the same by whom we had so long been oppress- ed, the same that caused that outburst of public indignation, that could no longer be smothered in 18 If), and that will pro- duce a still more disastrous result, if the attempt is made at Bal- timore to force him upon the party. Show me any other class of citizens that want him ' They are not *o be found ! When principles are to be discussed, when right opinion is to be formed, when the essentials of a democratic faith are to be canvassed, we speak of the action of the people in their pri- mary assemblies, and of submitting to them all such questions, and of following the indications of popular sentiment. Has this been doue ? Who wants to hear the name of the rejectct the re- buked, of the h'gh tribunal of the American sovereigns ao-a ; n fall upon their ear? Does it not fall harsely ? What untrammell- ed, intelligent, unprejudiced, honest democrat, would save him by his casting vote? "Who cries- vive le Empereur ?" Is it heard among the rank and file, where is the love, the attachment that was feltfor Na- poleon on his return from Elba ? When he first set his feet upon the soil of his own dear France, unbared his bosom to his old companions in arms and asked them to fire upon their Em- peror, when the cry of "Vive le Empereur"rang with one accord- ant voice from rank to rank, in tones long, loud and heart-felt by the old heroes of an hundred battles. Had the democracy been smothering such feelings for their fallen chief, there would have been no conventions packed, no Missouri movement, no legisla- tive caucuses years before the election, to forestal public opinion and coerce the support of the democracy; but unfortunately for the hero of the Florida war, and the exile to "Lindenwald," none welcomes his return, there is no feeling of enthusiasm, no ardent attachment, but a coolness, indifference, ami want of confidence in his best friends, while three-fourths of the entire democracy are opposed to his nomination under any circumstan- ces. Previous to 1340, the democracy had triumphed all over the Union, and the result of that campaign with Mr. Van Buren to headend run behind the ticket every where, is well known, but mark, the very next year when his enormous weight was ofFou* shoulders, the demociacy again triumphed, and each successive contest added triumph to triumph, till the people saw the gullo- tine in operation, by which one favorite candidate after another was beheaded to make way for the arch magician, till they saw his leading organ here at the Capital irom the warmest praise and highest enlogums of the choice candidate whom the people- would now delight to honor, levelling all the envenomed shafts of malignity, barbed and poisoned, at the head of him whom it a few short months before had applauded as the great benefactor of his country, and again mark the results, nothing but defeat and disaster has been the consequence, which has carried dismay to B2 18 the heart of every true democrat, and pain ed the breast of the patriot all over our Union. During which time too, our common country had regained its long lost vigor, and was marching right onward in the high road of improvement, prosperity and happiness, under the present auspicious administration, which is truly the augustan age ol our democracy. The people were painel to see such a president, and such an administration so wantonly slandered by the organ they had en- riched by their munificence, of the candidate for whom they had already done sufficient to satisfy the ambition of any man, and give glory to any name. Mr. Van Buren can never know the injury nor the loss of friends this vile course has caused him. The remembrance of eveiy blow thus aimed, and every wound thus inflicted upon the honest patriot who had just saved them, is treasured up in the minds of this great people, who can never forgive the cold, callous hearted demagogue, who could have prompted or even permitted his leading organs thus wantonly to vilify the man to whom they, Van Buren, Benton, Blair and all, had just acknowledged themselves and the nation so deeply in- debted. Tis no excuse for the friends of the Kindcrhook poli- tician to say it was unauthorized. Who will believe it 1 How easy might he have denounced, if he could not have controlled their cours- , and thus saved and gained tens of thousands of friends ? But it was concerted and simultaneous, the Globe at Washington, the Atlas at Albany, and Mr. Benton's organ in Missouri, the Plebean in New York, all about the same time commenced their unkind attacks. They saw the growing af- fections of the democracy who were preparing to rally around the veto candidate with an enthusiasm felt for no other man. They saw the restoration, and the succession, both in danger, and the growing love of the people fdr the president strengthen- ing by every act of his virtuous administration, must be suppress- ed" the tide rolled back, or all would be swept away, an, I the rightful soverri«rns would (lestror ail their party engines, with the same tenacity that the populace of revolutionary France de- molished their ancient Bastile. Tia no excuse that the Albany Argus, and the more elevated of the democratic presses did not follow in the wake and also calumniate the president, no umro than that the people themselve* wore shocked at the moral serrso of such profligacy, and are determined, when possible, to re- dress the wrong. A people who never did nor never will see the injuries of their patriots and their statesmen go unavenged, who with your speaker and yourselves, I know by the emotions which now swell yo.tr bosoms, will nev*r relax their energies, will never cease their untiring exertions, till his wrongs are meet fully redressed, and the most ample justice done, net only for his vetoes, but his most wiae, politic and pfroapcrous- administra- tion of the affairs of tins complex gov*rnme»*. What stands in the way of rendering thi* loudly called fof honor and jnstice where it is so richly due to th« patriot, who bf- ene bold stroke of policy, saved us from the blighting inriueno# I 19 of an institution, more to be dreaded in this republic, than would have been the armies of Napoleon in the proudest days of his imperial power? Why say some of the president's warmest and most ardent, friends, it is contrary to usage to support a candi- date not regularly nominate.! ? ' Regularly nominated, let any man whose intellect can make him understand why two and two make four, read Mr. Calhoun's letter on this subject, and then eay that he cannot support a man that is not regularly nomi- nated by the Van Buren system of New York political machinery, eaid to have originated in the brain of Aaron Burr. Contrary to •Usage! It was once contrary to usage for common people to read ; It is now in some of the Catholic courtries for all but. the priests to read the bible. Conventions were formerly contrary to usaflfe, and legislative caucuses nominated our presidents and governors, but the popularity of the old hero decapitated thia oliticad 'lydra, and conventions succeeded, which, if possible, ave become still more corrupt, in their formation. But revolu- tions never go backwards. .Since tb.3 people of this country threw off the yoke of foreign domination, many changes have taken place in the moral and political world : mighty convulsions have shaken the thrones of Europe; the American resolution, and the splendid career of Napoleon, have produced a new era in the policies of nations, and the history of man. The serf is fast rising from his vas^alla«-e on one side of the Atlantic, while on the other the sovereignty of the people is no longer a chi- mera of the irnaoination, but a rational principle of truth, now deeply engrafted in the minds of all. And who of us is longer willing- to be chained to the car ofa political tyrant, and sponta- neonslv prostrate ourselves at the footstool ofa despotism as un- bending as that of theRossian Autocrat. Can such men as I see here around me, longer submit to such an odious svstem of perfected political despotism, in which tho elements of reform are never to be found ? No, no ! I hear from every quarter of this larjre assembly, and will it not be respond- ed bv your political friends in every rpiarter of this great nation ? Ajrain it is said by s.mie who admire, and would fain support the president, that he ran upon the whig ticken in 1340. True, and what democrat does not thank his stars that he did so run, whereby the party and the country have been saved. Who cl99 would have done it ? Who else possessed the moral courage to have done the noble deed, surrounded as he was by such despe- rate and infuriated partisans ? Th.rt he run upon the whig ticket in 1840, and was elected by sn unparalleled majority of the free people of this country, no cue will deny. Tnat he could not have been elected but for the rotes of hundreds of thousands of democrats must also be admitted ; for vhe» the party unite find rally upon a popular candidate, the democracy can giveae large a majority as the one hundred and fifty thousand by which they were then defeated, and yet he was elected by such demo- cratic states aa New York and Pennsylvania, the empire and tho Keystone, either capable of giving 20,000 majority for an honest 20 popular candidate in whom the entire democracy have con6- dence. He run as an anti-bank candidate, and as such received the votes of about three-fourths of the states, mostly democratic, and all which have given democratic majorities. It was at the time more of a contest between democrats than otherwise, the whigs said that they did not wish nor expect a bank, that John Tyler ever had and still was decidedly opposed to ore of any kind, which the old republican party knew to be true, and therefore elected him as he must have been by democratic votes. But he did not subscribe to the proclamation of Gen. Jackson, and the sub-treasury of Mr. Van Buren ; what democrat did to the former, which was afterwards repudiated by the old hero himself, and what portion of the democracy on its first promulgation to the latter, and which was also so signally repudiated by the people. Upon these questions and all others, John Tyler had a right to form his own opinion, and he responsible for his own acts in common with every citizen of the republic, and if those opinions and those acts were democratic, though in opposition to any man, his democracy should not be questioned. "To err, is human," and even arch angels fell. Gen. Jackson, great in the field, great in the cabinet, true every where, yet might be mistaken, was mistaken, and after magnanimously admitting his mistake, condemn not the man who was right, for being right, and having the independence to proclaim it, although in opposition to a name which carried all before it. Rather admire him for his wisdom and his boldness. Because Gen. Washington believed a United States Bank to bo constitutional, and the Supreme Court have so decided, yet the American people have a right to think different, to investigate and arrive nt the truth. Investigation is the spirit of the age, and for one man's opinion however great, be law, without appeal to the great tribunal of the people, would be contrary to the genius of our free institutions. Whose course through thirty years of public service, has been more truly democratic than that of the president, and the purity of whose private life has never been assailed. During the excit- ing campaign of 1340, 1 never heard the most ingenious and un- scrupulous orator aim a shaft at him, hnowing that he was in- vulnerable, and that it would fall blunted and broken by the in- vincible dignity of hi.-: character. No man supported (Jen. Jackson more firmly than the individ- ual now addressing you, commencing in 1824, when he was Utile talked of in my native Slate, and continuing even up to his farewell address, and with his successor long after bis defeat in 18*0, and until he, through his organs, commenced his wanton attack upon the man who nov> fills the presidential chair, in a manner that commands admiration at home, and respect abroad ; vet I was never, that man worshiper that would make me chain mvscli to the '•.)]■ of any chieftain, and prevent me from app ov- ing what was right, and also condemning what was wrong ; 21 the* jfore when I saw the independence of any man in pursuing the same course, I knew how to appreciate and approve it. What in one man will be approved, in another will be condemned, in every age and nation, owing to the fictitious advantages of birth, rank or fortune. Success vindicates the adoption of al- most every measure, is another axiom which every freeman should well study and reflect upon. When Lord Nf?lson at the Bombardment of Copenhagen, put his telescope to his blind eye and sa".l that he could not see the signal of 6'ir Hyde Parker, he did it as with a halter around his neck, but success crowned his bravery and victory perched upon his banner, and he was hailed as a nation's hero and benefactor. The great character and great success of Gen. Jackson made all his measures popular with a people by whom, he was beloved, and who doubts that with hiui the sub-treasury would have been popular, while with his successor it was most signally condemned. From these reflec- tions we are to learn that although the majority must be re- garded as right, being the essential feature in a free government, yet we see how easy it is for the purest democrats to arrive at different conclusions, and that altho' President Tyler differed in some things with Gen. Jackson, it is no better reason for ques- tioning his democracy, than it would nave been to have doubted Thomas Jefferson's because he differed with Gen Washington in regard to the original charter of th" old United States B ink. What man in the nation is more purely democratic than the President, and has done more to sustain democratic principles, and deserves more from the democratic party ? From very ear- ly life we see him ardently enlisted in the support of the war of 1812, and while in the Virginia legislature, often caused the hal- lowed halls of the Old Dominion, to ring with an eloquence the most fervid and convincing in favor of the most energetic mea- sures for defending the country from Brittish ao-gression. Not content, with that, we see him raising a company of militia and putting- himself at its head, being willing to shed his blood in the cause he had so arcently espoused, and for which unpatriotic act, his enemies who were principally opposed to that war, an. I en- gaged in burning blue lights, now in dension call him Captain Tyler, after having by a life of virtue and patriotism attained the presidential chair. Tis not. wondrous strange that he should now have such opponents. Even previous to this, in 1811, when he had scarcely reached his majority, we se him commence that war upon the United States Bank, which he so fearlessly contin- ued till he terminated it in glory at the memorable session of 1841, a period of 30 years. With that early attack on the bank was involved the question of the right of instruction, another im- portant democratic principle, Mr. Tyler being the author of the resolution censuring their U.S. senators for disobeying the in- struction'of theVirgin'a legislature to vote against the chartering of the United States Bank bill, which Mr. Madison vetoed, which right of instruction he most ably and eloquently advocated in Congress in 1316, and when himself was instructed in 1C36, 22 resigned his seat in the senate of the United States, because ho could nol conscient'ousl) obey. In 1819 we find him making one of the most masterly efforts of forensic eloquence ever heard in the house of representative, against the early corruptions of the United States Bank, which was afterwards conquered by Gen. Jackson after a conflict of eight years, in which, in the General's own language, it aspired to no divided empire. Tis strange how ignorant some who abuse the President arc of his superior order of talent. That great speech against the bank only three years after it was chartered, in which it has been said that he unmasked the monster in the don of his iniquity, should be read and treasured np in the mind of every freeman, to keep him ever on his guard against the unhallowed encroachments of associated wealth and powerful monopolies. This speech with his eulogy on Jeffer- son, were the first which attracted my attention, and since which I have admired him as an orator and a statesman, in the very first rank of a country most prolific in great names. I recollect receiving that splendid eulogy soon after it was de- livered, and with a fellow student, now high in literature, going into the field under a beautiful shade, and alternately reading till we had entirely committed it, to the neglect of our lessons, as we found when the professors bell rang in our ears. Let those who call him feeble read either of the above speeches, or his ele- gant address before the literary socities of Randolp and Macon College, and then see by whom he is surpassed of his calumnia- tors, in classical correctness of taste, of fertility and brilliancy of imagination, consummate purity of diction, or in any of the at- tributes which constitute the scholar, the orator, and the states- man. We again see him sustaining Gen. Jackson's veto in 1!{32, in the same masterly powers, and on all proper occasions has he evinced his deep and settled hostility to a national bank, and in the language of Mr. Benton, "There lives not a man on earth 60 long and so deeply committed against a national bank as Mr. Tyler, not even excepting General Jackson and Thomas H. Benton. Mr. T-'lcr began the war before I was in the senate, and before General Jackson was President, v and still he is branded as a traitor by such men as IJotts, who in every point of view is as much below him as the earth we inhabit is below the heavens above. When has John Tyler ever failed in coming up to any emergency however groat ! When has he ever proved himself an unworthy decendant of his illustrious ancestry, or of the no- ble State which gave him birth, and what true son of this great union would not feel proud in any clime of claiming him as a countryman, &t of ranking him with the greatest and the best of the distinguished patriots fc statesmen his country has produced? Who that has a heart would not gladly adopt the language of Gov. Reynold, when he said, "This proves the president to be a lineil decendant of that groat and glorious state which has pro- duced so many wise and giftcdjetatesnjen? The state may feel 23 proud for her talented and enlightened son John Tyler, and place him high in the estimation of the fathers ot the republic.'' Yes, such is the man you have so often heard so wantonly and unjustly abused by the minions of both Van Buren and Clay, and abused for his very worth. Who as a rentleman in his social in- tercourse with his fellows, has a heart so frank and manners so easy and affable, that he always wins. Who in all theduties and endearment of domestic life, has ever sustained the relative po- sitions of the husband and the father, with an affection and a kindness that is seldom seen in those engrossed so deeply in the affairs of state. Whose eloquence was an "'era in our senate,"' and lam yet to learn that, for fervid, chaste, and cunvincing elo- quence, he has been surpassed since the days of Henry anu Otis, not even excepting the orations of the God-like Daniel, and Ken- tucky's rash and haughty son : who as a man and a citizen has ever been best beloved where best known, and whose personal popularity among his neighbors, seemed almost incredible, hav- ing had no paraflel in the history of our republic; who as a statesman by his bold and masterly strokes of policy, with the deciucd opposition of the ultras of both parties, has actually done more for the benefit of his courtrymen and the cause of freedom, than any man of the aye in which we live ; who as the execu- tive officer of twenty-six confederated states, containing twenty millions of freemen, with the most complex government onc.jiii lias exhibited a firmness, c ecision, and puwer -.f concep- tion, that prostiated one party, and is now paralizing the oppo- sition of another, and well might I say of him as Grattan said of Chatham. — u The secretary stood alone, modern degenuary had not reached him ; the features of his mind had assumed the haiuiiiouu ol antiquity, while with one hand lie smote the house oi Bourbon, with the other he wielded the democracy of En- gland." Yes, such is the man I learned to love when Iicad and heard read, and read over again in the pure shade upon my own native hills, in my boyhood, and endeavored to i. hale some of its pathos and sumlimity, his great eulogium on Ins own and uitr own politi- cal fattier, the immortal author or tne declaration of American Independence, and would that I at this time possessed some of that fervid and lofty spirit and soul stirring genius, that I might do more ample justice in delineating the character o* him who so honorably fills the chair of state, oue (fignitied by him he so rich- ly eulogized. It was with feelings like these that I raised to the mast head, and inscribed upon the banner of the first demo- cratic paper in this Union that came out in his support the name of John Tyler, with such feelings have 1 continued my unceasing exertions, after being called the Tyler party in my own ft'tate, till I have seen the "corporal's guard'' swell to a mighty army of grateful freemen, determined to do him ample and speedy- justice, from the time that his cabinet resigned which with diffi- culty he could fill, till I see him able to call to the first place in his councils John C. Calhoun, and send on a foreign mission 24 VVm. R. King, and see an American senate who had seemed determined to embarrass him in every important appointment, unan mously confirm them both. Till Mr. Van Buren's own iile leaders admit him to be the only man with whom the democracy can defeat Henry Clay. And till I see the whigs fearful that he will be the nominee of both Baltimore conventions, knowing the tide will thereby be rolled buck upon them, and their overthrow would then be as sure as their success would otherwise be certain, and till we see the American people, rising with their native dignity, caring not for party forms, trampling in the dust the shackles the demagogue would fasten upon them, in the sentiment of Curran, "their souls walking abroad in their own majesty, the:r bodies swelling beyond the measure of their chains, standing redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled." When we behold such a mag- nificent spectacle, well may we exclaim that truth is mighty and will prevail ; and that it remained for the people of this conti- nent to wipe the foul stain of ingratitude from the character of freemen. With such feelings as now thrill through this assembly let us return to our respective homes, and ask our neighbors and our friends no longer to listen to those who would recklessly bring upon us another Waterloo defeat, who would then have been been twice mistaken, and would twice have prostrated the coun- try and the hope of the ultimate triumph ofdemocratc principles. Let us ask the honests democrat in every town, county aul state, not to involve their fortunes again with the man for whom they have done so much, and who would again be defeated as sure as fate itself. Let us point them to the only candidate who can succeed, and urge them on to prompt, continued, energetic and heart-felt action in his favor. Let us appeal to their gratitude, to their magnanimity, to their justice. Lotus point them to the culo- giums pronounced in yon senate chamber for his lofty acts of patriotism at the i ;ion, and to the respons? and heartfel j, ruse of the whole democratic press and democratic party. Let us ask them in kindness not again to be deceived by the selfish politician who would again jeo] ardize tne dearer interests of the ii public, and w ; . i loves them not. Let us show them the dangen i f the institution his course before would have fastened upon us, and appeal to their patriotism, and as they wish tc transmit unimpaired to their children the precious it. heritance o: their ancestors, to rally around the Hercules who was alone abl* o smother the m onster. W46 v* o % • • * % "\ * .0 4* .• i,, I *Stt: %/ :fc^ V/ ** ' .^-- %. < c .vgtafc %/ ; a| o delis'*- \* CT "Ti. V s " ^0' a ►»6J^^S • *r» a* *•- *?^ "IKS*/ ^°<* ° • * " a<» ^ *'^T* A rO^ .-L«. *C A> % . V-O^ *°^ r oK ^ 4 o (V t ° " • « "v> & . i ' » * .« l "