The Spirit Of The Age

From the (Ga.) Constitutionalist.

THE TRUE ISSUE MADE UP.

Messrs Editors: The Democracy of Georgia may at last congratulate themselves, that there is something now presented which is tangible, against which they can war in open daylight. The principles which actuate the pernicious whig party. have at last been avowed-their preference for federal doctrines has only been hinted at. but sentiments, ultra federal in their tendency, have been openly avowed, and boldly proclaimed. The chairman of the corresponding committee of the Central Tippecanoe Club of Richmond County, in a speech made at the last meeting of that party, in this place, avowed his preference for Wm. H. Harrison, for the following reasons: 1st, because Mr Harrison was in favor of a National Bank, and so was he; 2d. because Mr Harrison was in favor of Tariffs and high protective duties, and so was he; 3d, because Mr Harrison, if elected, would carry out the views of Hamilton and Pickering and he was proud to say, that his views of government policy coincided with those gentlemen.

Here is an honest confession openly made. And how were these sentiments received by his whig brethren at the meeting?-in the most enthusiastic manner-with loud cheers and clapping of hands. The issue, then, in, the coming contest, is made up. Shall this be a government administered on democratic principles, as carried out by Jefferson Madison, Jackson, Van Buren, or shall it be a government where such doctrines are repudiated, and the principles of Hamilton and Pickering, with their high toned federalism, is to be carried out, as legitimate and orthodox republicanism.