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Show JOSEPH SMITH'S POLICY. The Democrats are still holding that Jospj-it Smith the Prophet, was a Democrat. Dem-ocrat. Compare theii best argument in favor of this assertion with the Republican Republi-can doctrine that he taught: ix:muckatc (?) The respected and veneraole Thomas Jefferson, in his inaugural addles ;::ad more tlian forty vcais ago. show what a beautiful prospect an inn cent, virtui nu nation presents to the safe's eve, where there is space for enterprise, hands fir industry, heads for heroes, and heaits for ni : s greatness. He said, "A rising nation spieadover.i wide and fruitful laud, traversing all the seas with tli rich productions ol their industiy, engaged m commerce with nations wli i feel p o.ver and forget right, advancing rapidly to; destinies beyond the reacn of mortal eve wnen I Contemplate these trauscendaii. I . objectt.and see Hie honor. the haopiuess and the hopes of tin ic vei country comm.tted to the is-;u and ine auspices of tliis day, I shiiuk Irom th c mlemp la-lion la-lion and hum'jle myself before the magnitude mag-nitude ol the undertaking." Such a proe-pect proe-pect was truly soul stir in to a iood man. Genera! Jackson's adminisliatiou may be denominated the acme ol Aiiier;cau j;i ny, liberty and prosoeritv.lor t in national nat-ional debt, which 111 1815, 011 account tf the late war, H as $125,000,000, ami lessened less-ened gradually, w.s piid up in Ins ifoij n days; and preporaiious weie made to d stiitjute the suiplus mvenue mihoii..; the several States and that august pat riot, tousi.iiisij.vn wotiU in his own words in his farwell addiess, letne leaving leav-ing "a reat eople prosper ous and happy hap-py in lull enjoyment ol liberty and jeace honored and respucted by every nation of the world. Libettv and laws have walked hand in hand. All the purposes of huma 1 association asso-ciation have been accomplished as effectively ef-fectively as under any oilier government on the globe, aui at a c jst a littrle ex ceed.11; 111 a wli l jieiwratioii, t,e expenditure ex-penditure of ulhai nations in a single year. KErL'Ul.ICAN, Read in the eigth section and urst ar-. ticU of the constitution of the United Slates' the first Inuiletn'.h 'spec'lic' ;id not veiy limited p wen of tlie Federal Kovernmeiit, what can b done to protect pro-tect the lives, piopeity and i.jjhis ul virtuous pe iple, w hen tne ad nimsi 1 aim of the law and law makers, ne uiibouj;hi by bribes, tuicoi rupted bv pairy 1 n-J H r , ..loi'-ijile-d hy ial4.liji iwna" ' and iincoiitauiaidled by iVtJvhT ces even like Cesser's wile not uiTly un-spoted un-spoted but uinuspected! and God, wti'i Cooled tlie deal of a Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, or shut thi ni jitths of lions for the honor of a Daniel, will raise vour inind above the narrow notion, thftt the general government has no power lo tlie sublime idea that Conxresr., with the President as execilor, is as almighty in jts sphere as Jehovah is iu his. Give eveiy man his constitution))! frpe d mi, and the piesideut full power to jieiid an army lo supress mobs; and the suites authority to repeal and impung that retic of foil v which m tkes it necessary neces-sary for the governor of a siaie to make Itie demand of the pittidenl for troops, 111 case of iuvasi ni or rebellion Tne governor himself may be uiobber and, instead of t.eing punished, as be shou d be for murder and treason, he may de-siroythe de-siroythe very l.ves. rights, and property he should protiCi. When tlie people secure and their liyhts properly respucted, then ttis lour main p, liars cf prosperity, viz' atjricul tura.navigaiioH.aiid commerce need the fostering cure of government; aud 111 10 goodly a country as ouis .where the soil the climate, the rivers, the lakes, and the sea coast; the productions.the timber.the mineral"; and the inhabitants are so de-veisilied, de-veisilied, that a pleasing variety accommodates accom-modates all tates, tratles and calculations, calcula-tions, it certainly is the highest point ol subveision to protect the w hole noiihein and southern, eastern and western, centre cen-tre and circumference of the realm, by a Jcdicious tariff. |