The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-09-04
From he Charleston Courier.
TO THE HON. GEORGE M'DurrIE

TO THE HON. GEORGE M'DurFIE:
SlR-The letter which it your pleasure TO adj
dress to the recent Van Buren, convention in Georgia.
has arrested very general attention 1t has met with
the singular of having been gratifying to all
parties alike and whilst it has delighted your friends
it has been the occasion of triumph will not say
your enemles-but to your present opponents, the
enemies of the present Administration. The support
ers of the Administration have adopted you their
witness-they have endorsed your honesty of charac
ter, and extoled your machless wisdom. Until now,
you authority with them, and we might in
vain have quoted from those productions which, from
your present seemingly fixed aversion to political life,
| sorry to think, will be your only though sufl
Gent monuments OF greatness You have now ceased
to be bank bought" MIR. Kendall has youched for
the purity of your character Mr.. Woodbury. stands
ready to afx his official seal to your financial wis
dom; Mr. Van Buren, il satisfied with the elevation
of your spirit its Roman consistency, its naughty indie
pendence, its suen contempt of suppeness and syco
phancy. You new man. Such you are, and
such as they noto say your are we are wiling to &C
cep of you You before the public to testify for
the Administration. We know speak the feelings
of the opposition, when say glad to see you
on the stand and TO hail you as their nifness. The
country has read with startled interest the deposition
you have made against William Henry Harrison
Before any is offered upon the specifications
of that Deposition permit me to bring before tina
try-the great jury of the nation--your conyic
lions to the character and policy OF present
rulers their folly and their wickedness the nefarous
and the desructveness of their spirit and their
policy. When.I tell you that heard the language
which am about TO quote when it burst from your
lips, need not tell you it was heard never to be for
gotten Then might have been fully realized the say
ing OF Cicero that to be perfect orator. the orator
must be perfect However else imperfect the
honest feeling, the of that perfection the great
orator meant, you possessed pre-eminently Mighty
indeed, and awful, was the righteous Indignation
poured out against the deliberate betrdyers of their
country Inexpressbly mournful and solemn the ex
preston of the desoang conviction that the people
had been ever and were ever to be the victims of i'm
posture. Profoundly souowtul and saddening to the
spirit those words and tones, which babe final fare
well to all hope for mankind and your country Sure
ly sir that hot and phrenzed Indignation of honest
heart, against brazen 'front.' imposture-that holy
grief OF the patriot for his country, and the philan
thropst for his kind- could not all have been
moving pageant pathetic passage of play, and the
simple victim of the art of well graced actor and the
skill which comes of the bar the theatre No,
sir il was not it could not be- You have told us what
you have thought of Gen. Harrison his party and his
policy. Let, then the nation read that which YOU
have honestly spoken, and believe of Martin Van
buren,, his party and his policy
In the presencalamitous condition of the country
we have melancholy exemplfcaton to prove how
small share Of human pisdom is requisite to pro
duce the greatest conceivable extent of uman misery
| The MEANFsT rIGMY, armed with scepfre, de-
stroy, in single day the great fabric of nations
prosperity which all the intellectual giants of the land
cannot build in long and laborous course of wears
WILL NOT TELL THE, PEOPLE TO LOOK FOR SALIVA
TON TO THOSE WHO HAVE INVOLVED THEM IN THIS
CALAMITY. No, sir, this storm has been produced by
species of necromancy, which is endowed only with
the faculty OF mischief and which, having raised the
elements, has no power of erOrcSm to lay them The
Perospero, whose fatal wand has coniurcd up these
elements into this wild and fearful and disastrous
commoton, has no magic power to call up the minis
tcrng spirits OF the stormy deep the sinking
fortunes of whole people, rashly and wickedly OK
posed to the rocks, winds and quicksands of the most
desperate and wicked experiment.
The experience of The last felo years has eHtireiy
changed my ptetrs 10 The destiny Of the human race
My youthful visions OF the perecbilty of mankind
have vanished before the sad realities Of the times
| hey are gone for | am constrained TO be
e,e that with all the lights OF reason and experience
and the political improvements OF our country men are
stu the doatrous and prcdestined victims of impos
ture, before that God to irhom ! am responsible for
ichdt say hare do beiiere that he annals ofhundn
tdosdfry and defusion cannot furnish example of
more lMPUDESr, ArDAcous, and INDUSTRIOUS IMpos-
TtRE, than that iehich the Administration Is ahempt-
ing, and fear NTH TOO much success 10 palm upon
the peopfe Of the United States under the fipsv and
destte guise ofretrniHg to the primitive simplicity
Of hard Touey Government Nothing Thar hare
read among all the superstiions Of The rorld tran
sends us monstrouS duddcity
s. is cvcntful crisis in our history and II re-
mains to be decided whether the people can he made
me dnpts Of this monstrous schema IF ambition CO.
Nered over by he prefenre Of going back 10 sirer
currency Sir it is not the first time in the history of
human dolary when the horrid features Of foul ana
unnatural monster have been concealed from the ewes
of his deludcd followers by silver veil You have no
doubt read sir the instructive illustration OF the weak
ness of human dcluson and the boldncss Of human
lnposture the Ncied Prophet Of Khorassan. De