The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-10-24
Killed in action with the Indians in Florida.
From the Ne1e York Times
TO OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS.

Most of our readers will probably be unprepared
for the annuncation that the present the last sheet
that will be issued from press The immediate
cause for this disconlinuance Of the Times will be
| found in the financial statement inserted in our
columns this morning BY IL our readers will per-
ceive the utter impossbility of longer continuance
OF our publication without sacrificing the little we
have accumulated BY years of intense application.
Perhaps il does not become to al an event
which, however disastrous TO our interests, unhap-
ply hnds numerous parallels among our most enter
priSlng and discreet business men,
On every side compelled to witness the
overthrow of the farest prospects and the destruc-
ton Of the most stable and well founded anticpa-
tionS. Unfortunately for the desnes of the party
to which we are sincerely attached byconvction and
feeling, a radical and destructive spirit has been
cherished and sustained by portion of those TO whom
the democracy has cohfded their interests, until
| numerous body of the most able, discreet and Judi
ciouS OF our friends have been induced either
uIe from The contest or remit those active and well
directed exeronS which heretofore SO powerfully
contributed to achieve our brilliant triumphs
That these clouds in our political horizon have
contributed with other causes to reduce the income
OF the Times is most probable, for zeal and spirit
in the community are indispensable to the successful
prosecution of a political Journal
While retiring from the station which we have so
long occupied in the political arena ii is proper that
we should declare our continued attachment to the
principles which have so zealously defended
through good and evil report
Although We cannot disguise our fears, that the
ultra theorists now in the ranks of the party will
conSummateit its temporary defeat vet entertain the
most implicit confidence in the intelligence and vir-
tue of the people, will doubt that the noxious
tenets that now find advocacy in certain quarters,
will either be repudated or their authors consigned
to that oblivion in which their prototypes in all ages
| have found repose. Our views on the expediency of
| the Sub-treasury system unchanged and we
think that it will never be again urged in our nation
al councilS-lt is no little consolation for TO find
| by the increase to subscription list in the coun-
| discussion Treasury hal
the yeomairy of the land are with this import
ant question, can the reduction of ten subscribers
to city list during the last three months be
Sidercd evidence of the diSapprobltion of any con-
siderable portion Of our friends here. II is our adj
vertisng patronage that has diminished and that
not from the loss of those customers who have been
in the habit of favoring us with their orders but from
| the general stagnaiion of business, which caused
them to have little or nothing to do.
The deep and mighty efforts of Radicalism have
already greatly afflicted or destroyed commerce,
manufactures, and domestic industry and the en-
barasSmenS and distress of the present time are not
lighened by any cheering hopes for the future I'm
der these circumstances arc compelled to look
for selt-prcservalion in retirement from business
which is ruinous in its prosecution. In our past
| labJrs we have endeavored to defend the character
OF our city and its citizens of our State and its rights,
| of the Union, and the administration the General
| Government. We have steadily opposed the fanati-
cal and insane principles of Loco Focoism, and up
held and maintained the purity of the constitution
We were satisfied with the political institutions and
political principles of the founders and fathers of the
democracy; reoiced in the prosperity and honor
TO which their practice had led us as people and
nation and would have avoided new expert
mens and untried expedienr. If our views on these
| important subjects have not always predomnated in
the councils and course of the party we have the
ISOLATION of having expressed them fully and urged
| them firmly; and indulge the beliefthat our humble
but sincere labors in the great of Democratic
| Republicanism have not been in vain.
To our patrons and friends we tender sincere ac-
acknowledgements for the many acts of kindness and
courtesy have been the recipients of, and respect
| fully bid them farewell.