The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-13

lives formally dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with the Democratic party OF
The nation The former bonds of sympathy in ad-
yersy and brotherly greetings in prosperity Oh re-
ciprocal confidence and good Offices OF cordial CO.
operation in veal and in woe in unfolding the time
honored principles of Democracy and IN resisting
the hostile march Of Federalism, are all, all dis
solved
Quem deus pHA perdere, priGs dementat-Globe,
9th instant. ..a"
With its present associations the Globe
will never lose its identity. Its organic dis
ease of mendacity cannot be cured, nor can
its characteristics be changed. The article
from which the above is taken was dictated by
a strange mixture Of madness and remorse
cloaked with an affectation Of triumph and ex-
ultation. 1t affords an opportunity for some
"reminiscences.
The Conservatives long since repudiated
Loco-focoism, and dissolved the bonds by
which they were temporarily connected with
it. 1.-THE Conservatives have separated them
selves from the administration, as they I'M
doubtedly have, the Globe may well exut
at the success which has attended its own
agency in accomplishing that end. If their
course has weakened the administration, the
Globe may well be angry and thank itself and
Loco-focoism if the administration is pros
trated, the Globe may be congratulated in ex-
periencing, for its own influence, that remorse
which comes too late. We long since predict
ed that the Globe would become Mr.. Van Blu
ren's winding sheet and the fuflment Of the
prophecy is at hand. The administration is
defeated, and the Globe is as triumphant as
the poisoned shirt that could not be cast
from the slain centaur.
When we first announced our intention of
coming to Washington, not differing shade
from Mr.. Van Buren,, the Globe with that
characteristic meanness which habitualIy
springs from its avarice illustrated its " bro
therly greetings and g cordial cooperation"
by denouncing us in advance as " federalist
in disguise"
When the currency policy of Mr. Rives
and Col. Benton first began to diverge, al
though the former strictly adhered to the poll
cy of Gen. Jackson, the Globe must needs
intrude its "brotherly greetings and "cor-
dial cooperation" by abandoning the party
grounds of eight years, and attempting 10 con-
vict Mr.. Rives Of inconsistency.
When the friends of the administration in
Congress cordially co-operated" in " Kidding
the Treasury of surplus" and in modifying
the specie circular, the brotherly greetings"
they met from the Globe office were denun-
Citations.
When Senator Tallmadge undertook to JUS
tify his course in favor of the Deposite Act,
and to recommend course Of policy to the
Legislature which he thought essential to the
preservation of the law prohibiting small bills,
the "brotherly greetings" he received, were
the epithets "traitor," apostate," /" federal
ist,' &c.
When the whole country became involved
in the vortex of a general calamity, and the
merchants bonds could not be paid, and the
banks were compelled by necessity to sus-
pend specie payments, the Globes I" recipro-
cal confidence and good offices" consisted of
jacobinical efforts to prejudice and alarm the
already panic-strcken public to inAame the
passions Of the ignorant; to heap reproaches
upon whole classes of the people, and to re-
commend doctrines, already, by itself, pro-
nounced revolutionary and disorganizing.
When some federalst in disguise stole into
the windows of the Democratic camp, and
revealed the golden vision of heathenish
Sub-reasury, with sliding drawers and hydro
static balances, and the anticipated movements
of -" heaven and hell" the Globe established
it as the Shibboleth of the true faith, and
cordially co-operated" in shooting down
every democrat who could not believe in what
it had written. When democratic representa-
tives presumed to express opinions differing
from the friends of that measure, the BROTH
erly greetings" of the Globe were like "damn'd
lagos" salutation to Cassie.
Kill men 1.-THE dark How is it brother?"
1t was well known that Mr. Van Buren, was
the principal author of the safety-fund bank
ing system of New York, and that Gen
Jackson's policy caused 800 democratic bank
ing institutions to spring into existence to
supply the currency Withdrawn by the dis
continuance of the Bank of the United States
and It's branches 1t was the policy Of the
democratic party to discourage the circulation
OF small notes; to infuse larger proportion
OF the metals into the circulation of the coun-
try; to better the currency and the means
OF accomplishing the desired reform, was the
system of deposite of the public money in
State banks. But, notwithstanding the de-
mOcratlc party were more COMPLETELY identi-