Daily National Intelligencer

In the election of Mr. Monroe to the Presidency, the people of the United States will exhibit to the world the spectacle, unparallelled in modern times, of a nation pursuing the same system of public policy for at least twenty years together which is an argument of more real weight than appears to have been allowed to it, in the estimate of the advantages to be derived from electing this gentleman in preference to any other. It demonstrates the uniformity of republican government, which is a most important object. In this view the much hackneyed objection of Mr. Monroe's being a Virginian assumes a very different and a favourable complexion. Whatever internal jealousy, even though well founded jealousy, may exist among ourselves, it is of moment to the United States in their foreign relations, that one course of policy, and, in a measure, the same class of statesmen should appear to have a constant ascendancy. It acquires and receives the confidence and respect of other powers. Supposing Mr. Monroe's administration to last eight years, then there will have been four and twenty successive years of the same system of public measures. Indeed, throwing aside the four years of Mr. Adams' irregular career and attaching the last administrations, those of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, to that of Washington, to which they properly belong in the series, notwithstanding the unfounded assumptions of those who now pervert the name and attributes of the first President—then the United States of America, with their representative institutions, will have adhered to the same plan of government, from their first union down to the year 1825. What other nation can say as much? In England they have had their Pitt ministry and their Fox ministry, their Addingtons and their Cannings, each one chiefly employed in undoing the work of their predecessors. In France, changes without end. In Russia, in Spain, in Italy, in Holland, almost as many mutations, while the rational people of America have been constantly re-electing those, whom, on trial, they found worthy, occasionally casting off an unworthy servant, and steadily pursuing the same design till they have become as powerful and formidable as they were originally sensible and free.

This is a practical refutation of all those weak theories of the monarchists which assert the fickleness of the people. It is monarchs and their ministers, who are apt to change. The people seldom do.

Dem. Press.