The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-02-24
COMMUNICATIONS.
ron rnE MAplsOSIAS.
suB.TREAsuRY SCHEME.

B-IkEAcuhl oGt1nsNtN-.
The official channel (the Gobe) through which
this financial scheme was promulgated last spring.
and It's appearance also In pamphlet form, Induced
many TO read ii through with attention; but believe
every practical financier-as well friend as foe OF
the adminisiralion--threw II by as impracticable,
visionary, ephemeral Not 50 the Administration.
blind iatalism seems 10 have seized them. These
modern Alchymisls seem not less infatuated, than
those Of the dark ages Every sensible honest man
condemns the scheme; the people rePudia'e II; the
ballot boxes repudiaie it. None but the othce-hold-
ers and expecants, 1.-THE laiterby the by, are tgtoHs
cling to H. and through them, their party friends Il
has been made the test question at oil The elections
from Maine 10 Louisiana. The administration has
already LOST more than fifty thousand votes, by It's
pertinacous hug Of the scheme and still they cling
to il with the spasmodc grasp OF the Russian bearto
the hunters spear more and more firmly as u nears
the heart Why is this7 II Is the force Of party
the discipline of paTyi the collar, the manacie Of
parry; the Executive party influence, and power.
have scarcely conyersed with asensible, candid man
of any party, who denies this. No rational uncol-
Jared man approves the scheme Are there five OF
the ffy-two Federal Senator'S, who believe this the
best financial measure, even toierable one, for
the present condition of the naioni fear mott
doubt that an immense majority deem IL measure
deadly 10 our prosperity Why, then, is proceeded
inl Why not abandoned7 Why, sir, the mana
cles of party sustain il The party iron has entered into
their souls Is there no way break these shacklesa
Il would seem not An unaceountable faulty has
seized their minds; dark, murky, mental blindness
rests upon the administration or is il the work OF
desperation Do they feel that the party is utterly,
rrecoverably destroyed already And do they now
seek kind of second Samson glory Of destroying the
nation?
Lknow il is said the scheme can never become
law; and know that common sense, reason, patri-
otism all lead the mind 10 this conclusion. But If
that party faulty, or if that Sampsoa-deYcration
which many of us fear, has seized the minds of the
majority Of Congress, have we not reason to fear
fatal result
There is no reason in our maniac aSylums; all
signs, all data all conclusions fail us there would
surprise me less now TO see the scheme consummat-
ed, than did its advent in the first message, with SO
MANY portentous signs against it And infinitely less
than its temperance in The second message with
so many fatal omcns staring in its face yc present
stage Of the disease be DESPERATION should be treated
as SUCH All cheering hope, and gentle persuasion
should be administered An immense majority OF
Republicans. II is true great majority Of the De-
mocracy of Numbers have summed the polls since this
mad scheme was brought on the taps; and great
mass Of the democracy of common sense and sound
patriotism, which loved its party, but its country
more, has eschewed, repudiated and divorced Loco
focoism forever, in all It's forms. Let the admins
tration do SO too let it return on its own wandering
TRAIL let it return to the common sense Democratic
Republican standard; lei il dirorce itself from the
English dcmoaiacal Pueella, and all her noble and
ignoble followers, with her political and moral here
sies and the administration will still be sustained
through its legal term. There are some indeed,
strong pillars of the party, active powerful honest
,cho created the administration whose lives have been
spent in placing Mr. Van Buren, IN the Presidential
chair--who feel too deeply the political suicide
which has wrought their political immolation with
his own, who may pity and forgive, but who Will
never again trust him with power. But even such,
for the honor Of great State, and for the great
interests of the nation, would cooperate in sustain
ing him through his legal term
soar Country and our Party-our country now
and ever" is the wach-word every where, except in
| the Federal city. SHERMAN.
New York, Feb H. 1888.
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