The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-06-08
.,,o,,r,oN AND LoCoFocoIsM.

.nah his exquisite i" d----ee II | spare sim
ole Dggy in all Broadway it has been said
o., h. wrote in his best vein of humor--
~L;. however, we have discovered, was lot
he ONLY ilIustrous instance in which his hu-
NOR was displayed. It was trne, as his critic
said that, pigs" and "piggies' seemed quite
essential elements Of his humor. "We have
looked through hafa volume" said his critic,
to fiud page without pig in it. tits pig
all over" There was still a page which his
critic did not see, and perhaps did not re-
member He did not see 1t, because it was
no, there to be seen. 1hepage, nevertheless,
was once written and published. It was
peculiar page II was not peculiar because
Of its not having "pig' in i. Pig" Uas in
il. 1t was peculiar for its sentiments, and
peculiar Cor its being the first TO be buried by
its own author. Time and accident some
times exhunes dry bones-,hey have disin-
tered this long buried page, and given it a
history co.equal in curiosity with that Of the
page cut out of the Library copy Of Mrs.
Grahan's Journal, which disclosed some par
,iculars so interesting 10 the Secretary of
War.
1t seems that, some years ago, ere Mr..
Padding began to indulge political aspira-
lions, there were few who revIled the siape-
AOLhrs more acrimoniously than he He
did not scruple, it would appear, to throw the
greatest odium upon the south and its domes-
tic Institutions His " Letters from the South"
have been admired by his frields, as among
the most spirited Of his works. Now the pc.
culiar page to which we have referred, was
printed in this volume when it first appeared.
As specimen of what was to be seen in the
South, he drew the subjoined picture, for
which we are indebted to the Louisville
Journal: "@
1.-The shining ont very hot, ard in turning
angle OF the road encountered the following
group; FIRST little drawn by one horse. in when
es s,r half naked black children innibicd like
pigs together. The cart had covering, AL they
seemed 10 have been actually broiled sleep Behind
the marched three black with head. neck,
AMI breasts uncovered aud without shoes or stockings
three men, bsreheaded, half naked aud
chained together tuh chuin Last Of all came
rymg pistols his belt and who, as we passed him.
had The Impotence to look us in the face without blush
ing l should Ike TO haze him hunted by bio0d-
bounds. A. a house where we stopped little further
we learned that he had bought these miserable be-
nSs IN Mary land, and marching them in this
ner to some Of the Southern States. Shame on
the State OF Mary land! say-and shame the State
OF Virginia aud every State through which this
wretched cavalcade permitted 10 pass Do they
expect that such exhibitions will not dlshonor them
ga al ihav, lar cil.l
to them by education and habit"
Does the critic now find this description in
the " Complete Works" Of Pauding, just
published! Mott is not there! But it
stands in the early edition, we are told, where
it was permitted to stand for years, until, at
length, the author beginning to banker after
office, second edition of Letters from the
South was published from which the passage
was omitted This, the author, being the
proprietor of his own works, of course had
right to do. A long disquisilion in favor of
slavery, with great Difference to honesty and
consistency, was substituted, part of which
reads as follows:
"The second cause Of disuniou will be found in
the slave population Of the South chenerer The ms.
guided, or wilfuliy malignant zeal of the advocates
Of emancipation shall institute, day Doubtless
pd, crusade against the constitutional rights of
The slave owners by sending among them tanatcal
agents and tanatica tracts calculated to render the
slave dSafected and the Il uaion of The master and
his family dangerous: when appeals shall be made
under The sanction of rego the passions Of these
ignorant and excited blacks, calculated and intended
10 rouse their worst and most danger passions,
and TO place the very lives of their masters their
WIVES and their children in the deepest peril; rhen
"ctcS tOrnled in the sister States for the avowed
purpose Of virtually destroying the value of this
PRINCIPAL uem in the property of southern planters
"nen becomes question mooted in the legi>la-
MteS" Me States, Of The General Government
M"e'ntf The ghs Of the master over his slave shall
rs any longer recognized or maintained, and when
-, - al lds' evident that nothing will preserve them
ou secession then Will certain of the States of our
o>auiul constellation !" start madly from their
'p"efes and ostle the others in their wild career"
such has been the course of Mr.. Van Bu-
rehs Secretary on the question Of slavery.
II ne made friends of the Abollionis,s by his
hrst Publication, we suppose he has conciiat-
ed the shareholders by his last. This has
been The conduct Of those statesmen, who
have crawled into notice by initiating the dou-
oe-taced policy of Van Buren,. We have
Out to knock off the masks they wear to be-
hold the handspring -interest-which moves
and moulds their outward conduct, and teach
es them to wear any disguise TO accomplish
us ends. The people are to judge whether
'Ael' confidence is worhily reposed in men,
who hold one kind of mask to the North,
aud another TO the South. ......