The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-25

II was clearly no part Of Mi. KrsDALL's de-
sign TO sustain Mr.. VAN BuREN, personally, for
his name is not mentioned through the entire
address. Neither could he have intended 10
sustain his Administration and measures, mas
much as the Sub-Treasury scheme, which con.
stitutes his great and only important measure
which Congress has thrice rejected, and the
people have as often .condemned-is neither
mentioned nor defended The grand object of
The address was first to get money out Of there
tanners 81 the party, and secondly, to wrife
dorm NE mass Of the people TO ridicule their
conduct, discredt their intelligence, scout their
patriotism, and discountenance their peaceable
assemblings Hear him:
We have accordingly seen rast assemblages, col
ected together at great labor and cost 10 respond
10 any principle, listen TO any argument but to
aromn ne roee Of in the shouts Of rereiry and
lead eaPhre the feelings Of the people in senseiess
ercitemenfn
Beautiful commentary on the intelligence
and virtue Of the vast assemblages" of freemen,
who, under a senseless excitement" recently
rallied on the old battle grounds Of the West, to
commemorate the deeds, and honor the men of
our second war Of independence" High en-
comium on the old soldiers, and sons Of soldiers,
whometat Tippecanoe and Fort Meigs TO ''drown
the voice Of reason" in ''rejoicng al victories
over our country's enemies"
We venture TO aver that the tens Of thou
sands who listened for an hour 10 the thrilling
voice of the "old General" as he recalled the
scenes Of past days, and re-asserted the old de-
mocratic doctrines, really believed they were re-
spending to some principle" and listening 10
some argument But, perhaps the FIX Post
Master General knows better We doubt not
he wishes they had all STAYED at home about
their work, and got some post master 10 "tor-
rard their names and money" To HIM. There
would have been vast deal Of "principle" and
argument" in this; and he would have had all
the excitement" to himself But let us follow
the knight Of the quill in his onslaught
Huzzas for the newly found hero enunciations
of his poverty of his residence in log cabin and love
Of hard cider the hauling Of miniature log cabins and
canoes and cider barrels through the streets, the
rolling of balls and display of banners with unmean-
ing notices. doggrel rhymes and vulgar pictures the
drinking of cider and mumbling Of gingerbread &c.
are the new means of ecctoneering, by which ii Is
vainy expected induce the community to surrender
itself like a charmed bird TO the jaws OF the willy SER
pent, which stands ready TO devour it..
Mark how purse-proud, pampered menial,
and woud-be despot, who draws his eleemose-
nary thousands from the sympathies and fears
Of his spoils-gathering partsans, and who sits
on Brussels carpets and drinks champaign, sup
piled by recent grasp on the public treasury
mark how fippanty he prates Of the hard cider
and log cabins Of his poorer fellow citizens. We
can tell him that though he sneers at their home
y fare and honest joys, there are thousands Of
his fellow citizens who drink hard cider and
humble gingerbread, and yet carry bold hearts,
honest hands and independent votes and are
his superiors in every moral qualification.
But the rebellious and contumacious people
will not be written down. In vain were the
mails burdened with "Kendalps Address," duly
franked by members Of Congress. In vain did
subsidized and partisan presses, throughout the
Union, repeat and republish the base ISLANDERS
and stale wit. The subscriptions" with the
"names and money" came in slowly; but the
accounts Of public meetings, log cabin raisings,
and all the demonstrations ofpopular enthusiasm
for General Harrison, came in faster The last
experiment" has failed Log cabin stock has
risen. Irredeemabe Govenment-paper-h hum
bug stock has fallen. The face of Kendall
grows daily longer; the columns Of the Globe
look daily bluer; the howl of the special editor
grows daily louder signing through all its
works." the government organ gives woful signs
that . is lost" Indeed, the very genius of
despair seems to have seized the pen and fren-
zied the brain Of the ExPostmaster General.
In the Globe of the 10th instant, he vents his
rawlings in the following manner:
"Signs and badges adopted by them (the Opposi-
ton) and their adherents to ercite the passions and
sruLTFY THE JUDGMENTS of the people; songs, in
spired bv the FuRIEs AND WRITTEN Nth riREBRANDs,
and rabdy ciamoured through the streets the waving
in their inerant pageanis of banners bearing STUPID
NOTICES as bitter irony of the popular good sense
nd lastly 10 complete these ignoble saturndiid
TEMPERANCE itself, crooked auxiliary FIEND in a
FiENpsH CAUSE, in the form Of BARREL ON
,chich are ,rritten the arords HARD ClDERtl! All
these ioasome appeals to BRUTAL FEELINGS and to the
more debasing propensities of deprared minds, sc
II there is any thing in the English language
surprising this rabid display Of federal fury and
rhodomontade, it is TO be found in the outpourings
of Mr. Kendals co-worker and adjunct in Loco
foco Van Burenism, Col. John H. Prentiss, Of
Cooperstown, New York. Hear him:
of nv humble labors in my native county have
produced the change in favor Of federalism in this
county then have arrived at the of all my hopes
and summit Of all my wishes"
DrMocRAcY MONSTER WILD that thich
roas The Liban inases, and joys 10 drsnch its tsks
in blood pEsrrLENcE that spreads coatagion orer
he ,nhole erfcnt Of country--a PERNcious BLAST
that rithers erery thing il touches"
a1He rRrGHTrrL HYDRA OF DEMOCRACY begins 10
droop head before The hearen directed spirit 81 rE-
DERALIsM"