Republican Herald

Republican Herald.

"The will of the People must be understood,
respected and faithfully executed."

PROVIDENCE,
Saturday Morning, December 2, 1837.

THE PRESIDENT.

On Monday next Congress will meet, and
we look forward to the Message of the Chief
Magistrate with feelings of strong interest, and
with entire confidence that it will sustain.
without abatement or compromise, the opinions and measures set forth with so much clear-
ness, candor, and ability in his communication
at the previous extra session. We allude of
course to the policy recommended, and which
recommends itself to every real republican, in
the entire and final separation of Bank and State.
The President did not take the position he did
without deliberation, and he will maintain it
with firmness: we believe also, as confidently
as at any former time, with success—Yes, with
success—the federal victories to the contrary
notwithstanding.

We predict an entire disappointment to those political soothsayers, who
prophesy "smooth things" from a democratic
President, who has so lately told them the honest truth, and conducted so honorably, and with
so little regard for mere personal consequences, for the true interest of his constituents.—
Mr. Van Buren will take back nothing. He
will not bow the knee to Baal. He will not
recommend a National Bank. He will adhere
to his convictions of right, and commend them
again to the honest good sense and ultimate
justice of his countrymen. The Democratic
party look to him with confidence. His message, we cheerfully anticipate, will inspire
them with new zeal, and give a fresh impulse
to their exertions. Mr. Van Buren knows,
and the democracy, know that in the natural
order of things in this country, the men stand
first, and the money, stands only second. Any
disarrangement of this position, whether it was
brought about by the treachery of friends, or
the adroitness of the enemies, must be but
temporary. The people will set this matter
right. We repeat that our expectation of a
strong, firm, uncompromising message from
the Chief Magistrate is high. The daily insults
and menaces of the federal press confirm it —
Its managers know and dread the consequences of an undeviating consistency in the President, in a matter of such vital importance to
the good of the people. Their low and pitiable
abuse is a confession of their fears that the
President will read them another lesson like
the first. Let it not be said that we are im-
pugning the will of the majority, who reversed
the opinions of the last message. We make
no such admission. The false clamor of the
federal press has nearly spent its effect. The
end is not yet. The Republican party has out-
lived a great many such triumphs as those
which have been lately celebrated; and its
foundations have become more firmly settled
with every shock. The public will shall gov-
ern ours. But it is not the will of the brokers
and bankers. The panic is now almost over.
Business will resume its accustomed course.-
The country will prosper again, and all with-
out the " Great Regulator." The big guns do
not frighten us. We shall live (we trust) to
record the greatest triumph ever yet achieved
by the American Democracy.