The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1837-11-28

The following very just article is from that ser-
ling Republican journal, the Utica en- W O5ser-
per. II will apply as well to the Globe, as to the
Evening Post, and we commend il to the particular
attention and study of the former print. We have
only to say to New York friends, that political
intolerance and prescription must be eradeated from
the party, or 1t will rise no more forever.
"The wings are busy in parceng out the Stale
Offices among themselves. You are to take the
office of Attorney General; am to be Secretary of
State our friend here shall be Comptroller and the
rest of us shall be Canal Commissioners Such are
the dialogues which il is said take place among the
chiefs Of the victorious party. But their hopes are
doomed to be disappointed. The Canal Commits
soners, hold their Office during the pleasure of the
legislature and are removable only by Joint reso-
luton of both houses The Secretary of State, the
Comptroller and Attorney General hold for three
years, and were appointed in February 1886. The
offices Of the Treasurer and Surveyor General only,
expire at the next session, and they will probably be
displaced they are chosen by joint ballot Of the
two houses. We could spare the Attorney General 10
the Whigs ciM pleasure"
The above is from that organ of radicaism in the
the city of New York, which is still laboring with
all its might notwithstanding the late emphatic les
son, it has been, directly or indirectly since
its first establishment as an old fashioned fedeEal
journal, TO break down the democratic party
The Ner York Ercning Post, whether unconscious
ly or designedly, is doing the Administration and
its friends essential and irreparabe injury than
all the acknowledged opposition newspapers put To-
geher. The fact is palpabe. Now il attacks mea-
sures now men; democratic measures and demo-
cratic men; men, too, who were democrats while
this very Post was looked up to as the Corypheus
of heightened federalism. And yet itself claims to
be democratic; and with tone OF unparalleled SUI
percilousness and arrogance, 1t also claims 10 de-
eide, who and what shall be deemed dem0crdtic.--
We cannot but esteem it as unfortunate for any
party to have such an auxiliary. It is one Of which
II may be forcibly said Save from my friends"
If we desire to ruin any thing, except verses and pc
RODS, we would call upon the Post 10 do the Office
of destruction. II seems to possess very inveterate
propensity to subvert whatever il undertakes to
serve.
The Post apparently is unconscious of any notable
difference either between right and expediency or
wrong and expedency In truth, II is always, whe-
Their right or wrong, disrustful of expediency not
wiihsiandng that in political matters ii is of the
cardinal virtues If the question is Of abolition il is
for immediate addition; If of reform, it is for de-
sruciion; il of moderation, il Is for uraism if Of
calmness, it is for warmth; it knows no medium, no
Cancellation, no prndence and in the supremacy Of
its wisdom, with all the imperiousness OF an over
bearing and selconstitutcd arbiter seems to fancy
every body irbecile besides itself This may be a
very lofty and poetcal turn of thinking, but 1t is
neither very practical nor very democratic. We
doubt its utility, even in private matters in those
which are political we kaop Its pernicious and ire
sstibe tendency, first to distraction, and then to
ruin.
During a long existence the Post has been uni
form in only two things: the one, ultraism, whether
as the organ Of federalism or of democracy; the
other, a tendency "to break down the democratic
party" For this latter purpose its tone and temper
are admirably well fitted ftjudges without candor,
and condemns with asperity. Stiff in the mainte-
nance of its own opinions, it is without charity for
the opinions of others Its own headong will is the
rule of action for itself, and whoever does not bend
to the same unyiclding Standard is heterodox be
yond redemption II exalts questions of detail into
cardinal principles Of political faith; and Eliminates
its thunder against every one who does not magnify
them into the same importance. II inven.s new tests
of political orthodoxy, and forthwith denonnces all
who protest against their genuineuess. In short, to
b, a democrat, one mast move at exactly an even
pace with the Post whether its object b, TO advance,
to sustain or to destroy. All who do not thus
comb to its dogm1s are beyond the pale of the true
faith, excommunica,ed, branded, traduced they are