The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-04-12

and dressed me OF and sent me to Washington. o
Marylebone never produced pratties like This WAS
Introduced at The Vie US vent all over the mansion
and vas presented 10 the cabinet. lyas known TO be
The great champion OF Diworce-indeed Divorce
vas my name. vas permitted 10 recommend my
self 10 the cabinet And ven told them that the
world had never Witnessed such per6dy, treachery
and fraud as the Banks had been guilty Of and that
now vas the time 10 divorce the government forever
from the warmints, vas listened to With wonder and
delight. Ven described to them that the hydrosta-
TIC balance vas SO prepared as TO give always The
preponderance 10 the power of the Executive; that
the sliding draws would divorce the hard money
from the rags securing the former for the Office
holders and leaving the rest for the peepil that
would be 10 them the purse and the sword, and lend
them such absolute power over the country as TO
render them able 10 perpetiyate their sovereignty
| really thought they would pull me TO pieces they
we're so delighted With me. The President sat right
down and wrote proclamation for Congress 10 come
together, and gave me long letter Of recommends
tion 10 that body, and pledged himself that he would
stand BY me through thick and lhin Old Hickory
backed me up with letter to " dear ---, and the
children" and pirit-stirring voice from the banks
of the pure waters Of ST. Lawrence gave me poten-
| tial push. But vas no sooner announced for the
public sarwice than Ivas wiliied and abused by
ny warmth Federalist and Conservative that knew
my paternity But Notwithstanding the opprobrium
cast upon my relations the ghtened Senate appre-
ciated my sitivation and advised and consented that
should pass muster. ! vas pushed along by every
means vich my friends could provide. Some mem
bers treated me VERY kindly, and gave me some ex-
cellent pratties. Others wouldn't even look at me-
Others, the warmints, would bow and scrape to me
ven the President stood by but his back would be no
sooner turned than they would gime crack in the
nose, lunge in the flh rib, othervays wound my
| feelings. But ov all the impediments to that
vich had good reason to anticipate the rascaly
Consarwatis has been the worst. The consolation
have is that the traitorous warmnts will die re-
penting ov it, and my friends the Loco-focos Won't
| forgive them.
May il please, yer honors, confess that see no
prospect of Obtaining that justice in your courts vich
has been denied me. am disguised With your war
mint dimocracy, and wish vas quietly lying IN my
old straw at Billingsgate. shall attempt no more
to rewolutionize your rascally country, sought to
distribute the constitutional currency equally among
my constituents and the American peepil. But the
warmins Won't consent 10 break down their atrocous
Constitution. They viii insist on laying me under
the table, and yer rotten Banks prevent me from
/
vich they will Won day attain. warn you to beware
You may rawsh this body, bat the spirit will arise
and go TO its rest in the arms ov the sweet venus
of dimocracy Won day TO revenge itself in dewastat
ling in turn. | Won't conclude vdout thanking the
man who worked day and night solitary and alone"
to ruff me up the Marsipp river. only regret that
| cannot live to see him rewarded. To himl say,
Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been
A sound vich makes us linger yet, tarevell!"
II | am doomed TO die, no can Willy me by
saying Billy Divorce hasn't had good time ov it,
| The example Of my life will serve as a torch
light for my Loco-toco poSterity. They shall cher
| ish The memory of Billy Divorce, and inscrbe his
| last words on their banners Now, yer honors defy
! yer verdict. "Hurrah for Martin Wan Buren,"
| " Down With the Banks" Down With the rag par
tyr Up With the vorkies y
" My task is done-my song hath ceased-my theme
Has died into an echo" ....... ....
| " The match Shall be cxtinguished vch hath lit
My midnight camp .- ~.
| - but am not now
| That vch have been-and my visions fit
Less papaby before me-and the glow
Vich in my spirit dwe is futtering, faint, and low.
The court have listened to the prisoners
statement, but perceive no reason why the
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On the contrary, the prisoners confessions
have served but to aggravate the enormity Of
his offences, and place him beyond the pale of
that clemency which the court in proper cases,
is authorized to extend. Your origin and
history, when taken into view with Ethe mon
strous designs you have entertained against
the peace, good order, and liberties of the
country, which have all been proven and now
confirmed by your own confessions, present
to the mind of the court the most aggravated
case that has ever fallen under its jurisdiction
since its organization. The authorityjof the
constitution, the restraints of the statute, the
terrors Of justice, seem meyer to have entered
your thoughts in the prohigate course you have
chosen to pursue. With one single fell intent
to oyerturn the liberties you were unworthy to
enjoy, and actuated by passions the most evil,
and prcjudices the most unjust, you have pre-
cipitatcd yourself beyond all power to save,
and overstepped the bounds which mercy can
not transcend. The sentences of the court
are to certain extent discretionary, for the
purpose Of tempering justice to the precise
character ofthe case before it. We find you
guilty of moral and political treason, besides
being vagrant and an outlaw. If the Amer-
can law permitted you to live, it would still
find you unworthy of becoming naturalized
citizen of the Republic. But the law con-
dennis you to die, and the court, in order that
you may be made more notable example,
directs that J our remains be left with the col