The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-08-28
COMMUNICATION.
roa THE MAplsoNIAN.

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| To Ms Secretary of the Treasury:
No, Twelve months ago | had the fortune-good
or i-to see an engraved likeness Of you, and under
il was this moto-taken doubtless from one Of your
public harangues
1--WE go where Democratic principles go, and
when we lose sight of them we mean 10 stop"
Perhaps do not quote accurately as to the words
but my object is not much to show the beauty Of
the language as the substance Of the sentence and
the declaration Of faith 1t containsI SHALL there
fore, take the liberty to ask you some questions
about this same Democratic light You profess TO
follow; as am of The opinion that you are In re.
atty pursuing Jack O'Lantern," which decoys
you into so many boys and dirty places. If the
Globe should fit TO answer these questions, am
sure il would be gratifying to large portion Of your
Democratic fellow citizens"
l. What do you understand TO be the meaning Of
the term Democratic ipes"-and in your pub
lie career and private intercourse with society, do
you keep those principles strictly in view
2. You may be wolf in sleeps clothing" il
so the people should be made acquainted with The
fact.-Will you tell us whether you have peculiar
meaning for the term Democratic principles" and
whether you follow them according TO gonr ander
standing, to the general acceptaton of the term
g. When sitting in Cabinet Council in 1883, you
were called upon in turn, by General Jackson, for
| your opinion on the measure, of removing the de-
posites, you stated tina, although you had expressed
different opinions you must now 50 NTH the Ptesi-
dent, and advocate policy which you had hitherto
condemned Did you consider yourself as going
where Democratic principles CO." or did you con.
slider the President the concentration OF all De-
mocrac principles" and is it the same 10 substitute
| these words your motto =
| ave 60 where the President goes"
! 4. When called as witness before Committee
If Congress- you charged more than you were enii-
tied to by or 4 dollars !! upon some new and
strange construction Of your rights-(prelty much
| like Senator Benton's charge for crcutous mileage
TO the seat Of Government, only differing in
amount which charge of yours was disallowed-
Were you following the Democratic light, or the
q. Jack O'Laatern2"
| g. In your intercourse with your fellow citizens
generally do you consider Il enjoined by Demo
cratic principles" to treat them with chauffeur" and
not 10 recognize their salutatons the street,
know them elsewhere than at the frequent introduce
lions with which they are honored except forsooth
they be party pamphleteers, or "Globe" contri-
butorsl
G. What ideas of gentility, OF decency towards
society do your I" Democratic principles" leach7 o.
| More Smnggting--Collector Hoyt, of New York,
| seized on Friday, three pieces Of fine broadcloth,
valued al 300 per piece which had been Struggled
into New York by the mate Of the ship Eutaw, about
ten days previous.
Another.-The store OF Daniel Deak, in Market
street, was visited on Saturday morning, by the Off
GERS Of the Customs who seizeda quantity Of WOODEN
goods.
And YET aaother.-A quantity Of cloths we're seized
on Saturday, at the store of James Linn, Jr. & Co..
This is retail house, and il The officers of the Go
| vernment keep on, we WILL no doubt, some OF these
DAYS, see the coats Of citizens taken off their
backs in the streets. Where struggled goods have
/ gone into the hands of bona fde purchasers we
think they are, or ought to be, exempt from seizure.
10 order 70 defend the revenue, however, smuggers
should be severely punished.
| More Seienres-A quantity Of wooden goods we're
seized BY the New York Custom House officers, in
this city, on last Friday, at the auction store of Bat
/ turs, Dixie d Co. 10 Front street. above Market
Smuggliag, Immense quantities Of smuggled
/ goods have been landed at Detroit.
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