The Madisonian

PRESIDENT TYLER'S ADDRESS.

That President Tyler fully appreciates the peculiarity and great responsibility of his new position, understands the true principles of the government, and is willing and competent to carry them out, is very manifest from the prompt and seasonable appearance and just conceptions of his Address to the People of the U. S. Reared in the school of Jefferson and Madison, his political sympathies have always been given to those principles which were developed in the Declaration of Independence, and which formed the frame-work of our excellent Constitution. Looking to the independence and union of these States, and to those blessings of civil and religious liberty which followed in their train, as immediate consequences of the triumph of those principles which animated the revolution, he has studied and cherished with sacred regard that instrument by which these blessings were secured and perpetuated for us and our posterity. Through a long experience in public life he has watched its practical workings, and observed the uses and abuses which have arisen under it. The immediate descendant of a revolutionary sire, he feels the spirit of independence in his blood, and derives the enthusiasm of a patriot from every association most endeared to his affections. Well known to the Convention of 1839, and to us who gave unqualified and active support to their nominations, we were strong in the confidence of his capacity to meet any emergency likely to arise, and of the safety of his councils so far as his influence might extend in the administration of public affairs. The spirit of his Address, to the People, on his accession to the Presidency, justifies the confidence we reposed in him.

The President's Address, though written under circumstances of great trial and difficulty, is a concise and explicit exposition of his opinions and purposes. They are Republican and satisfactory. He places his reliance in the intelligence and patriotism of the people. He proposes to cultivate peace and amity with foreign nations, so far as they are inclined to reciprocate them; to extend and strengthen our military defences, and to promote the efficiency of the Army and Navy; to separate the purse and the sword; to repeal the sub-Treasury; to reduce Executive patronage; to respect and cause to be respected the freedom of opinion and the right of suffrage, so far as Executive power is liable to be brought in conflict with either; to resort to rigid economy in the public expenditures; to avoid a public debt; to abstain from temporizing expedients to supply a defect of revenue, preferring, no doubt, an equalization of the tariff to the issue of Treasury notes; to abolish sinecures; to encourage specific appropriations; to hold the agents of the Government to a strict responsibility; to stop the war the Government has made upon the currency; to sanction any constitutional measure originating in Congress, having for its object the restoration of a sound circulating medium, and in deciding upon the adoption of any such measure to the end proposed, as well as its conformity to the Constitution, to resort to the fathers of the great Republican school for advice and instruction; to abstain from the exercise of any powers not expressly granted, and thus cherish the Union and its blessings, and avoid a central and consolidated system.

These principles will find favor in the heart of every true Republican and patriot. Rigidly adhered to and practised upon, they will carry any administration through triumphantly.