Constitutional Whig

UTICA CONVENTION--PROBABLE DEFEAT OF JACKSON.

Many passages of the luminous Address issued by the late Republican Convention at Utica, are deserving of letters of gold. In particular, the arrogant assumption of the title of the Republican party, by the office holding and office seeking tools and partizans of the Executive--for that impertinence has been chiefly confined to half a dozen prints, Post Office and Custom House gentry, the bone and sinew of the party disdaining the invidious falsehood--is soundly chastised. Messrs. Marcy and Van Buren--the Senator whose debased principles avowed the "spoils of victory" to be the only object of contending parties, and the parasite Ex. Plenipotentiary who pronounced it "sufficient glory" for him, to have "won the confidence and esteem of such a chief as Jackson," of which, said he, "thank God, my enemies cannot deprive me"-- these two usurpers of the honored name of Republican, and selfish traders and speculators in politics, are mercilessly castigated in the Address. We invite attention to the following extract:

"We would now ask by what portion of our fellow citizens, is the re-election of Gen. Jackson advocated? His political adherents, by a strange perversion of terms, call themselves the Republican Party. If it is indeed true that they are the Republican party, when, at any previous time, did this party enrol among its members the opponents of every American interest, and the advocates of every foreign one? It was once a fixed and established principle of the Republican party, that this country should learn to depend on its internal resources, to the exclusion of such articles as could be produced at home; but since the new Republican party have instructed us in the doctrines of free trade, we have learned that patriotism is quite too exclusive a principle; and that the interest of other countries should participate in our regards equally with our own. In former times, it was the honest pride of the Republican party, that they were wedded to great principles, connected with the advancement of popular liberty in opposition to aristocratic usurpation and assumption; and that men, however distinguished, were valued only as they supported these great principles. It may be safely affirmed that there never existed a combination of men, in any country, at a more distant remove in all their feelings and habits, from personal idolatry, than the Republican party of the United States.

"Now let us turn to the new self-styled Republican party. By what principles are they distinguished? Surely by none, except, perhaps, the principle avowed by one of their number on the floor of the United States Senate, that the power and patronage of the government were spoils, which of right belonged to the victorious party. The entire freedom of this new party from all bonds of principle, was forcibly illustrated by the proceedings of their late National Convention, the members of which could agree in nothing, but ascriptions of praise to Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren; and the delegations from each State, were instructed to go home and declare those to be the principles of the party which best suited their respective political meridians.

"In concluding this topic of remark, we ask, which of the Presidents of the United States, elected by the Republican party, would have received adulation like this from a man who had been thought worthy to fill the first office in his cabinet, and to receive a nomination to an important foreign mission? "To have served under such a chief, and at such a time, and to have won his confidence and esteem, is sufficient glory, and of that, thank God, my enemies cannot deprive me." This is such incense as a Sejanus might have offered to a Tiberius, in the most corrupt age of the Roman empire; and yet this is the language of one republican citizen to another--of Martin Van Buren of New York, to Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee. We give this as a fair specimen of the deeply degraded feeling which pervades the ranks of Jacksonism, and are compelled to declare, that there never was a more impudent assumption, than that by which the supporters of the present administration appropriate to themselves the honored name of the Republican party."

The whole Union has watched with great solicitude, the progress towards a consolidation of the various fragments of opposition, in order that a powerful and concerted effort against the abominable tyranny and misrule of Jacksonism, might be made with a reasonable hope of success. It was believed, that such a consolidation between the powerful parties of National Republicans and Anti-Masons in the two great middle States of Pennsylvania and New York, only was wanting to secure the triumph of the Constitution and laws, and to chase the tyrant from the Republican Magistracy, which he had converted as far as in him lay, into the throne of a Despot. Friend and foe have watched the progress of the wise and patriotic efforts making to effect this consolidation, with equal, though with an anxiety originating in very different sources. The former have hailed the probability of its final consummation, with a pleasure proportionate to the important, the comprehensive, and the lasting benefits, which they believed it would confer upon the country; the latter viewing it as the shroud of Jacksonism, have assailed it with every epithet of reproach, and interposed every possible manoeuvre and intrigue, to defeat it. It is consummated, nevertheless, and the recitation of the causes which rendered it necessary, and the arguments which triumphantly justify it, as adduced by the Utica Convention, become, from the important consequences likely to flow from the "Coalition," highly interesting. The reader will peruse with pleasure, this part of their Address:

"The National Republican party having thus placed before the people their candidates, we as members and representatives of that party, feel bound to employ every means necessary to insure their election which sound morality and honor will justify. In making choice of these means, wisdom demands that we calmly survey the prospects before us. Our opponents have heretofore calculated, with great confidence, upon the electoral votes of this State; without the aid of these votes their candidates cannot be chosen.--If then we can insure the votes of this State for any other candidates than Jackson and Van Buren, the election of Henry Clay and John Sergeant can be relied upon with reasonable certainty, But how can this be effected? Not, we think, by placing a distinct ticket of our own formation before the people, but by giving our undivided support to the ticket nominated by a respectable and powerful branch of the opposition party, in this place, on the 21st of June last. This ticket is composed of men of established character, high personal honor, and undoubted patriotism: they have not been required to give any pledges, but have been wisely left to the exercise of that discretion, which the Constitution presumes to be vested in every elector. We feel confident, that if chosen, these electors will never vote for Andrew Jackson or Martin Van Buren; and we firmly believe that before called upon to give their votes, the absolute necessity will be seen and acknowledged, by every branch of the opposition party, of defeating the election of Andrew Jackson in order to save the Union from dissolution.

We therefore recommend to the undivided support of our party, in this State, the following electoral ticket.

"By making choice of this ticket we feel confident of defeating the election of Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren; and as an inducement to that undivided support which we solicit, we would present to you for a single moment, the consequences resulting from an opposite course; consequences, some of which may be calculated upon with certainty and others fearfully apprehended. The re-election of Andrew Jackson besides defeating the candidates, whom we have placed in nomination, will be urged with irresistible force, as giving the sanction of the people to the constitutional doctrines of Gen. Jackson, and the measures of his administration, thus making these doctrines and measures precedent for future times. Such success will also be readily adduced as evidence of a condemnation by the popular voice of the Senate of the United States, composed as it is of our most eminent statesmen and patriots, for having rejected the nomination of a man as ambassador to a foreign court, who had dared for the first time in our history, to expose our domestic differences to that court, and present us a divided people; and above all the success of our opponents will realize that fearful apprehension, before expressed of ruin to our country. Let us then, fellow citizens, be united; let us have the wisdom to accommodate ourselves to circumstances beyond our control; let us, for a season at least, bury our prejudices, conquer our antipathies, forego our private griefs, and regardless of mere names, look to results, and march in solid column to the salvation of our Republican institutions. If these institutions are destined to an overthrow, of what avail will be party names and those minor differences of opinion between men, substantially of the same principles, when the last hopes of civil liberty shall be extinguished!"

The Convention express a cheering confidence in the success of their tickets.

"Thus, then, fellow citizens, we have recommended tickets for your support, we have given you the reasons for our recommendation, and cautioned you against the arts of our opponents; and we would, once more, in conclusion, earnestly entreat you, by all that you hold estimable in those civil institutions which have brought you so much prosperity and happiness, and elevated you far above every other people, to make a magnanimous sacrifice of every partiality, and of every aversion, of all feelings of every description which would stand in the way of a perfect union of the WHOLE OPPOSITION to the present national administration. and the State Regency. Let this union prevail, as we confidently believe it will, and VICTORY, MORE THAN VICTORY, IS CERTAIN."