Excerpt from The True American, Vol. 2: Containing the Portraits of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, With a Sketch of Their Lives and Political Characters; Together With All Their Messages, Expecting Those Already Published in the First Volume of This Work; Jackson's Proclamation and Nullifica
The present is a time which must force people to serious reflection on the prospect of the country; and it therefore seems proper to recur to first principles, to go back and examine the views entertained and principles contended for by those whom the republic has ever delighted to honor.
The recent triumph of the whig party has revived systems and measures which, for nearly half a century, had been repudiated by the democracy as unsafe, unsound, inimical to liberty, and destructive of the best interests of the great mass of the people. The creation of a national debt; a national bank; increased taxation, by enhancing the tariff, not for the necessary purposes of revenue, nor yet for protection, but for distribution among the states in the shape of the proceeds of the public lands; a wanton profuseness and extravagance in the expenditure of the public money, exhausting the treasury for the benefit of partisans and dependents, thus rendering it necessary to replenish it by loans and the imposition of new taxes on industry and the necessaries of life; these all are measures so wide in their influence, and so important in their consequences, that their adoption and prosecution by the party in power cannot fail to awaken the whole community to deep and solemn thought. They are that system of measures which Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson so powerfully and successfully resisted.
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