Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-23
FROM WASHINGTON
Correspondence Of the Baltimore po,.,
WASHINGTON Anvil IN W.

~ VIZ Do@ttOTe P0frin,
WASHINGTON, April 90 1870,
The last week was an eventful week in w
lngton,-and the coming week is big Wit, ~ ash
portance. Ot all the remarkable Doom a,n I'm,
signed ANDREW Jackson" none is more rss ,l
able than the late attack upon the Senate aSk
u. States The Bank is now fo rootta OF the
wrath of the deluded old man.-and tbo IL IN the
now is his monomania. This is "the ~ oehate
of the hero; this his wild beast at n,oISter'
the phantom that haunts and perplexes III This
eased imagination. 0" Ills dis
The diseases which the President as
markable and are worthy of other not;o are fe
have seen given. When the Chero,lNoe Than
ton was under discussion, the Judicio'e Cues
his monomania, and that was tho Was
When notification was prominent bn'onser
his monomania, and he was the mona.o ouh Vas
yesterday the Bank was his monomae But
iithat was his monster: but when the Sena.na} and
itself between him and his ruthless attanSu few
that Institution, the Senate became TaS upon
mania, and that is now the monster lnoho-
is fact, the Bank for the week past bnence 1t
almost forgotten at the White House'--ssSSS9e en
Senate, the Senate, the monstrous Senate y, Iae
Southland, Leigh and others have been tb11 Cay,
sters that have haunted the Presidents ys ]lun'
No knowing what disease the Prnsdon,.SOnS.
may have but this is disease. which a IL mex next
to last for many days, and in the mean IL niAey
Bank may escape, for he never has two N Gs. ae
es at time. eaS'
have observed another fact in the cb,,...
of the President. He cannot live unlesa I p
in troubled waters. He grows sick in nc nc
1t was the aim OF the lustriouS Wasbinn.nlI
and all his successors to escape as much as0'
sible from the tnmults of party spirit and to pos
along on calm and gentle current NJ"
however, with our modern Solomon. Tbo.%
ment the Reptile grows calm, he becomes siaS,
The moment storm arises, his health is NV
rated and do believe, that if this country ,5o
in peace and harmony, if all was onist az as
would not live out his term. az
For example, winter before last, when :, ;.
true. there were warm debates in CONGRESS b,
nothing SO warm as the debates the two winter
past, he was sick all the time, every day aflir,
ed with disease. The nullferS by the fine of
another winter had unfurled their banners and
then all of sudden he grew mighty and strOnr
vivifed, it seems, by the hope OF cutting IN and
for aught know, sailing down John C. Cal.
houn. Well peace came on: Clay's Compro
mise Bill hushed the stormy winds ,-and calm.
ness was abroad in the land. Then it was, the
President resolved upon his Northern tour. and
when he saw that eqen the Yankee race had
Hall was opened to him, then it was he grew
sick, and his death-bed liked to have been in Bos
ton. AT this moment, Mr.. Van Buren, and the
Kitchen Cabinet saw that they were about 10
lose the shoulders on which they were to ride
into power, unless they animated the sinking
frame by blowing it into some furious storm
and 10, at once, as Mr.. Duane, informs us, he
received a letter from Boston, announcing in
substance that the deposites must be removed
and then it was, we saw the sick old man rising
all so suddenly from what many thought would
be his bed of death, and dashing his way 10
Washington, as it were, on the wings of the
wind!
All this confirms me in the fact that he can.
not live but in storm, -that peace is death to
him, and hence when he sees that the Bank is
Frustrated he makes a rush upon the Senate
But in attacking this body he will be foiled He
is attacking the States, and the Representatives
of the States, of courage, and nerve Of
intellect and eloquence, who standing upon the
Constitution will defy him and his wrath-and
the People, who VIII never yield power to one
man, and who are not ready to subscribe TO to.
ry doctrines, and tory principles, will rush 1.-THE
rescue. The Constitution is in danger and IN.
der its banner, let us sound the tocsin of alarm
FIR and wide. The truth is now fully develop.
ed that this IS question of Law, or no Law,
Constitution, or no Constitution.