The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-09-08

tho great commercial emporium. IL Is the
market and the outlet of millions produced in
other parts Of the country, and il is the point
to which the mercantile community Of nearly
the whole Union look for supplies. Il is also
the great moneyed mart to which the enter
prise OF States and individuals resort, for ia
cllites to carry out the various schemes for
internal improvement, and the multifarious
pursuits Of enterprise In proportion as tho
policy Of the General Government is wise and
liberal in promoting these great springs Of
individual and national prosperity, in the same
ratio will they thrive; and just in the same
proportion as they are enervated and clogged
with difficulties, will they sink into decay and
ruin.
The thirteen old colonies had not more
direct interest in resisting the oppression Of
the mother country, than has the State Of New
York in an unyielding opposition to the lead
ing policy Of the present Administration
The course Of the one was not more oppres-
sive and fatal to its dependents than is the
policy Of the other, arbitrary and ruinous to
this emporium Of the republic. II has de-
clared an unrelenting war upon commerce,
the freedom Of trade, the moneyed institutions,
the whole system Of credit, internal improve
ments and every other great interest that be-
longs to the country. 1t is war that rejects
all the benefits Of foreign capital, that stag
mates emigration, that checks the settlement
of our southwestern and western domain, that
represses the energies Of an active and indus
trious people, and paralyzes the thousand
springs Of enterprise. And to complete its
scheme Of innovation and ruin, il strikes at
the whole moral system of society, Infringing
all that is permanent, defacing all that is beau
tiful, and oblterating all that is sacred by hold
ing out covenant to infdelity and reward to
the licentous.
In the zenith Of her glory, New York was
cut down by this scourge, and more melan-
choy scene has seldom been Witnessed than
the ruin and suffering that overwhelmed a
people that were the pride Of their country
and the admiration Of the world. She has
drunk from this bitter cup, and in despite of
every effort to fasten this policy permanently
upon her, she is just rising from her sick bed,
and essaying again upon the work and the re-
ward of the strong man. Will she, can she
court her own ruin and dishonor by lending
herself to the mad and fatal schemes Of the
Administration If she will, her days of re-
pentance may come when she is in chains,
and when there will be none to give her
succor. The question is simple and as plain
as the MONDAY sun-will the people Of New
York support political party for party pur-
poses and their own oppression; or will they
support their country as becomes patriots, and
for their own happiness
LET THE OFFICIAL TELL WHO Is THE
DEFAMER.
The only person who has attempted to vim
dictate the Secretary Of the Navy against the
charge of being the author of the attack upon
the Navy, is the editor Of the Richmond En-
qulrer, and ne denies it upon the authority of
a letter which he saw, purporting to be from
the Secretary, denying the authorship. We
say again with increased confidence that he
has been imposed upon by that letter. Mr..
Paulding would not, under the circumstances,
hazard the total prostration Of his character
by denying, under his own hand, that he was
the author, or that he did not know who was.
That which we implicitly believe, he did him
sel-he may not confess, but he will not de-
ny. The editor of the Richmond Enquirer
was not less confident of the authenticity of
the celebrated "east room letter." Why should
the Enquirer, in preference to all other papers,
be selected to exculpate the Secretary, when
the Globe, which kne,o, not at second hand,
the whole of the facts >! Why go away to
Richmond to publish an equivocal denial,
when the Globe, at The door of the Secretary,
could tell the whole tale? The editor of the
Enquirer owes it to its own character, and to
the public, to place the proof of its assertion
beyond the reach of cavil. The sequel will
prove what we first asserted, that Mr. Paul.
ding is tile author. If the revelation should
be postponed until the meeting of Congress,
it will then be elected In the meantime, the
cloud will thicken over his head, and more
portentous will be the consequences.
Although the Enquirer has. done with the
subject" we have not, nor shall we until the
calumniator is exposed to the just Indignation
Of every honest man and patriot.
The Norfolk Herald, after declaring its dis
belief that Mr.. Paulding wrote the attack,
thus remarks:
:" Need we ask, why does the wretch skulk'
from his responsibility II is the instinct Of cowardice,