The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-17
PERPLEXED IN THE EXTREME.

"The following epistle," says the Char
lottesville Advocate, found its way into our
receptacle of small favors, whether by mistake,
accident, mIsadventure or design, matters not.
We give it for what it is worth, hoping that
Mr.. Richie will condescend to relieve his
afflicted reader and correspondent"
Although special deposite, it is too good
to be lost to the uses and profits Of the coun-
try, and we therefore take the liberty of shank
ing upon it," and reissue it for circulation.
The author, like the Moor, and like many,
very many politicians here, is perplexed in
the extreme If New York goes for the adj
ministration, however, all these perplexities
will be relieved. The doubling and the doubt
full will rush with one accord to the black flag
of the Sub-treasury. Indeed, mutitudes could
scarcely contain themselves under the com
bined moral influence Of the news from Ohio
and Pennsylvania and Sub-treasuryism be-
gan to peep out of it's shell, as if it had been a
universal, but latent principle. 1t is, indeed,
much like an ignis fatuus. If no danger of
smotheration is at hand, it flares up prod-
gously; but if the enemy approaches in APP
parently increasing numbers, it turns pale and
sickly, and sinks into the earth. If the ult-
mate returns of the elections shall prove that
the general contest has been but drawn bat
tie between the belligerent armies, as we think
they will, multitudes of profound politicians
will be found as much perplesed as "Nous
VERRoNs," whose case we commend for the
charitable consideration Of the reader.
LONG AND HUNGRY, Sept. 25, 1888
Mr. RitcAie-Dear Sir, wish you to do me one
favor, which, under present circumstances, will
forget, and hope you will, at your earliest
convenience, attend to my case. want TO know
where am and what am whether am demo-
crat or a republican, or democratic republican, or
federalist, or nullifer, or a conservative or
wbig; whether go for bank or for the banks,
against bank, against the banks, for hard money,
or against hard money, for the President or against
the President and whether must abuse General
Jackson or Mr.. Van Buren,, Mr.. Calhoun, or Mr..
Clay or General Harrison; whether, in fact, am
on my head or my heels, in the party or out of The
party. have concluded, in my own mind, that
am some thing of special dcpositc just now, sorter
so and sorer not so, and want to know whether
had best keep dark while longer or come out
There is another subject about which want your
advice-had better stop the Globe or the Madiso-
man, lOI u uOtS SeeD " Ilc lldiu W eApCCt d
plain man, without much learning, to stick TO both
sides of every question. have stuck TO the Enqu-
rer, through thick and thin, and don't mean to
mind the hard things they say about you now, but
to hold as long there is pea in the dish-only
like to show my coors, sometimes. went with
you for the gun-boas and against them, under JEFF
ferson, and for the war and against the gun-boats,
under Madison. followed you and Jefferson against
the bank ditto 10 you and Madison when he went
tor the bank read your paper and supported Mon
roe, when you and he went against Jackson, and
turned against Adams, tooth and oenal, and went
for jackson when you did the like loaded my
lowling piece when they begun to talk about light
houses in the skics-I went for the proclamation,
and against the proclamation in Spots and after that
resolved not TO split The party for anything, and
swallowed the removal of the deposes the protest
the black lines, and last, though not least, Mr. Van
Buren, and Colonel Dick Johnson. But confess Pm
bothered now. l want light and would like to
know when it is convenient whether must now
go for principles without men, or men without prn-
cipleS.
remain yours, until death,
NOUS vERRoNs