The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-01-13
THE ALBANY ARGUS AND THE DEMO
CRATIC REPUBLICANS.


the Conservative meeting called at Tammany Hall
on Tuesday evening, and which being refused ad.
mittance there, assembled in front of the City Hall,
aud were interrupted. M. M. Quackenbos presided,
assisted by ifiy-sxl vice presidents, and fourteen
| secretaries! Among these, while we recognize some
names thai we regret TO see thus employed there are
many who at the late election openly voted the fede-
raj Ticket and who have since united with that party
IN celebrating the victories Of federalism over The
democracy OF the State There are certainly some
among these names, Your Judah Hanmonds Gideon
! Lees, Samuel Swartwouts, and the like whom the
Democracy can well spare; but there are some
others whom we do not YET believe have allowed
themselves TO stand in this attitude before the COM
muniiy. The resolutions and address, by whomso-
ever penned or adopted, are in the worst spirit OF
hostility to the present democratic administration,
and as SUCH will be viewedand appreciated by every
republican throughout the state We shall recur 10
| the subject.
That the Albany Argus should find fault
with any public meeting not called "by authori-
| ty," or denouRce and prescribe men who dare
entertain and proclaim opinions not precisely
squaring with its own, is not in any degree
surprising. The " new light" anti-Jefferso-
man system Of political dogma,ism and intole-
rance, has become the order of the day with
a certain class Of politicians, among whom
the Argus is growing conspicuous. Where
those politicians exercise any control il is not
to be expected hereafter that any independent
opinion can be safely entertained, or any pub
lie meeting but such as are of their own insti-
galion. be peaceably holden, and, indeed, il is
beginning to be questionable whether any per-
son shall hold property except it be lawfully
subject to the free bootage Of the Loco -focos,
as illustrated in the destruction Of The New
York flour stores. The Argus signalizes its
newborn loyalty to the Loco-focos, by exult-
ingly designating the Democratic Republican
meeting as the Conservative meeting, called
at Tammany Hall on Tuesday evening, and
which, being refused admittance there, assem-
bled in front Of the City Hall, and uere inter
rupted." BY whom were they interrupted,
but by train band of RobespierreGn Knitters,
regularly organized and employed by the De-
struclives, as the savages are allured into the
Canadian warfare, with promises Of pilage!
Their attempts to break up peaceable assem-
blies, and put down free discussion as well as
their aiders and abettors after the fact, will
be universally regarded with the same odium
and detestation as the Jacqaerie Of France,
who sought to cut the throat Of every man who
owned an estate above the common people.
The Argus might better have spared" its
regrets" at the spectacle presented by the
meeting, than any members from the ranks of
its party. We can assure the Argus, that it
has but few men to spare'-the necessities
Of the Sub-'l'reasury will indicate the hus-
banding of all the possible party resources,
which then will not and cannot be competent
to the establishment Of that fatal scheme.
The " battalions of rank and file" so conf
IDENTIFY anticipated as the result of the favorite
recommendation of Divorce" have turned
out to be 'spare" platoon, a forlorn hope,
rallying under the "tattered and torn" banner
of Calhoun notification!
| But if the Resolutions and Address are in
the worst spirit of hostility to the present ad-
mnistration,' then the Argus is in the " worst
spirit Of hostility to Jeffersonian principles
We challenge the Argus to point out single
anti-Democra,ic doctrine throughout the whole
Of those proceedings, or any doctrine even that
guided the electors of Mr.. Van Buren,, unless
it be the portion relating TO small bills, which
refers to matter of merely local and Temporal
ry expediency These denunciations come
with very i'll grace from quarter that siren
uously advocated the same doctrines in 1874,
that it now repudiates If these proceedings
arc " hostile" to the present administration,
then the conduct of the Argus in 1884 was
either in the "worst spirit of hostility" to
Gen. Jackson's administration, or in the worst
possible spirit of hypocrisy. If the Argus of
1884 should now be in the course of publica-
ton in the same identical language, the Argus
of 1888 would stigmatize its own offspring as
rank " Conservative" an enemy in disguise
another treacherous Madisonian," and as
such, no doubt, il would he " viewed and APP
preciated by every republican throughout the
State"
Suo sibi gladio hume jajalo. lie, the Ar
gus Of 1894 bear testimony against the Ar
gus of 1893.
During the panic session when Mr.. Rives
nobly defended on the floor of the Senate
the credit of the State institutions against the
panic cry of . distress and ruin" the Alba
ny Argus in February thus complimented his
effort
Virginia nav reH beproad ola son--tic disciple
and relatire Of The iHuariOUS JfcrS0n-,rho 50 rel
susaiH The great principles Of her democracy, in the