The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-12-13
Loco-Foco NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

LOCO-FOCO ABOLITION-AGITATI
We invite the attention Of our readers to
the proceedings forced upon the House Of
Representatives. The times are portentous
of evil. Loco-focoism and its co-laborer Cal
houn- Modification, are poisoning the very at
mosphere we breathe. Their united efforts
seek. a common object, which is to be obtain
ed at the risk of the Union, viz the esta-
blishment Of the " two-legged- Sub treasury
Plundering-system," and perpetual ascen-
dancy" to monopolize the spoils now and
forever. The Loco-foco coalition have fail
ed Of all argument--of all facts 10 sustain
them of even their hypocritical cant about
"Biddle and the Bank !" and of the counte-
nance Of the American people To what
are the desperadoes driven now ? To false
hood and deception, to Juggling and humbug,
to gagging and force. By grand scheme of
deception, they now seek to frighten the PEG.
pie Of the South, into the support Of coalition
at whose designs their good sense, their con-
sciences, and their love of country reuolts
They are now to play with the most sacred
interests of the South, as though they were
but the tools and appliances of gambling ia
bic. The Calhoun and Van Buren, Coalition,
carried district in Vermont, by seducing the
Abolitionists into their support-they carried
district in Massachusetts, by putting forward
Calhoun Van Buren, Aboli,ionist, as their
chosen candidate-the forces Of the same
grand alliance, headed by the renowned Abo-
litionists Morris and Duncan, administration
leaders, one in the Senate, and the other in
the House Of Representatives, conquered
Ohio. and brought her to the 'footstool Of the
Executive, as a tributary province of the pro-
jected Sub-treasury kingdom-,hey combined
also in Michigan, and returned an AboltiOnist
from the whole State and now that the mot
ley forces are gathered in the councils of
the Loco-foco camp, and a great battle is to be
waged in the cotton and sugar fields of the
South, they have the unprincipled hardihood to
proclaim themselves the foes Of Abolition, and
the anointed friends and appointed Saviours
Of the slave interests To the North they
held mp slavery as the beading head Of Me-
dusa, and beckoncd the people to come to their
relief, and conquer the enemies of liberty !!
To the South they now proclaim that they
are struggling to slay Abolition in The North J;
and Abolition becomes the Gorgon head, by
which Messrs. Calhoun and Van Buren,
would win the South, as Perseus won andre
media. ..
But we would earnestly warn the South
that the offspring OF this unholy coalition
is like the Thessalan OK, fed with poison,
and which is to be sent to the people that
they may eat the flesh, become delirious, and
prove an easy conquest! .o...
The manner in which Mr.. Atherton's reso-
lutions were forced upon the House Of Re-
prese natives, land we have spoken of them
without any reference to their abstract me-
rits,) is Unprecedented and the secret origin
of these vain metaphysics, too nice for popu.
lar understanding, is as plain as their designs
are shallow Mr.. Calhoun is playing trapper
for the political Nimrod of the White House,
and an instrument from the extreme North is
selected, in expectation of quilting the South
thereby with the more facility. The trap has
been sprung, but it is too weak for any game
but "Northern man with Southern princi-
pies"
The resolutions have been passed with
great unanimity. In this result the agita-
tors are disappointed. They had hoped to
excite a sufficient degree Of party spirit to
involve the anti-Sub-treasnry party in trap.
The manner of bringing forward the resolu-
tons, making an 'ex-parle speech upon them,
and then gagging all others from saying
word, by moving the previous question, was
premeditated in caucus. In that caucus
we believe the Calhoun division of the Sub,
treasury ranks bartered away their specie
clause for these resolutions. Has not the
South abandoned the protection Of the Consti-
tuition, for the temporary expedients of a weak
and ephemeral party3
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