The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-08-14

were eyered and frantic with the court the ls,;sla
ture met and passed law organizing new co,,,, i,
appeals, Of which Mr.. 4 Barry, late postmas,,,
General, was ohiefjustice, and Francis p Blair co
adjutor of Mr. Kendall in the Argus office now e,,
of the Globe, was the clerk. VIII be- belieyed ,l.,
at the time Of the passage Of the new court I'm hee
stated, there was court Of appeals actually in heo,,
constituted by the Constitution of The STATE H.
judges whereof held their Offices by the tenu,e ~
behaviour and that in consequence OF the pass,r, -
that bill there were for some time in that State 49,,
courts n appeals although the constitution provides
for but one This ras IL rioiation orae Conait
lion IF ne Sfafe and totally repugnaHtf 10 principle
Bm NJ. Kendall deemed Il erpedienL
Ihese hobbies had done Mr. Kendall and his many
good service in the funess Of time il was foreseen
they must die and the party get on on foot unless some
expedient could be devised By industry. by econo
my, by the fertility Of her lands and BY The native
energies of her sons Kentucky was fast riddine her
self of her Indebtedness VIVA, was then ia he dooo
Mr. Clay had shown an unbending rec,itud, nuon an
these party questions constituting the Constitution
both of the State and the United States by Inc MAJ,
import Of their terms He could not condeseen1 "a
yield his honest opinions TO be the puppe Of Gem
porary erpedients This sufficiently seen and il
was decided by Mr.. H. To select a hobby of Oid
Hickory, with which to PROSTATE him If to arrive al
this determination, he found it necessary to abandon
his early friend to forget personal kindness and per
sonal obligations to forget the hand prompted by
benevolent heart,) which than any other had
introduced him public notice, and elevated him in
the public favor-the public ought not to in this
deportation Of principle, but only close attention TO
sT aets IN CHI
might not be justifable But his heathenish copno-
men Of the western Argus" binds him not 10 chris
tan morals.
have thought that if instead of the 0Western A.,
gus his sheet had been styled the Western cerho.
rus, it would have been more true to Character Tn.
barkings of Cerberus hushed with cake-the
official cake offered him at Washington. through Mr.
Clay, was not large enough to cram his yoracious
mouth He mounted his hickory hobby, rode 10
Washington city-abandoned Kentucky, (Which has
since been comparatively without hobbies, and has
prospered and is at rest and thus glimpse a, his
Cerberean Majesty obtained at the time of his ad
vent to Washington city.
He had for years enjoyed in Kentucky the patron
age Of public printer His course and tone had been
invariably one of high party excitement his morals
uniformly resolved themselves by the question of OK.
pedency and his political expostions of the Cons,itu
tons both of Kentucky and the United States. Pro
crustes like, he stretched Topped off to the measure
of party MISUNDERSTANDING to power truculent to op.
position, false to principle, without friendships and
having IN his wooden nutmeg philosophy no object OF
SO much Importance to contend for the flesh pots
Egypt This lank lean, cadaverous Cassius- looking
Knight OF Intrigue duly installed into the Office
OF 4th Auditor, at Gen Jacksons Presidential Inau-
guration, with salary of $4,000 per annum. He was
also, il rumor can be credited duly installed Lord
High Constable of the Kitchen Cabinet Now this
last named cabinet is unknown to the Constitution
and laws of the United States. But by little Pro
crustean stretching, it might be therebesides "Lord
High Constable" sounds so polite, SO Frenchfed so
grand, SO monarchical, much like aproper officer to
cleanse the Augean Stable; and if there be no such
officer officers, by the Constitution vet what odds2
1t was necessary and therefore erpedient He well
knew the value of the office Of public printer and
therefore +. 2. Blair, clerk of the court of lap
peas in Kentucky, his coadutor in the Argus news
paper, soon resigned the one abandoned the other,
and repaired to Washington, where de sat up the
Globe with the modest pretension of performing such
jobs OF public printing the Telegraph, (hen Exc
cutive organ) had not time to perform The
Telegraph had done much and valuable service to-
wards the election of Gen. Jackson yet the Augcan
Stable was soon cleansed of it, and the Globe became
executive and official oracle of the Administration
This was erpedient Soon the whole country was
thrown into excitement and astounded by the re
movals from office for opinions sake But General
Jackson did it, and it erpedient.
The Bank of the United States was attacked and
destroyed, and with il the heahful pecuniary crcu-
Ia r. n. II -.
was necessary because the Bank unconstitu-
tional Procruses like they Topped off the accustom-
ed construction Of that instrument. II was erpedent
During this operation, the State Banks Were auded
beyond mcasure--but because they dared to suspend
specie payments, when they hadn't it, they too must
be demolished 1t is erpedient. We have been edi-
fed for the last two three years, with magnificent
plan of finance, called famliarly the Sub-treasury
schcme-thc administration announces it necessary
A huge standing army has been recently preached
by the Prcsident-- is deemed necessary. These
projects, if carried out will give the President
patronage far greater than conferred on of the
crowned heads of Europe. The perish credit perish
commerce doctrine which this and the last adml
nistraons have acted had for its effect to punish en-
terprse to cramp the spirit ofndependence and make
all feel their subservency to the federal admins
tration. Tonduce this feeling snecessary-tha the
public mind being seized by political mountebanklsm
they might avow with more safety, and act ON the
doctrine to the victors belong the spoilsp These
again prepared the way for further innovation on
the old landmarks of the Constitution, and former adj
ministrations under it, II Is now the doctrine that
" the Government must be divorced from the people,
il has enough to do to take Of ITSELF Yet honest
Amos cmbarks with hearty good will in the defence
Of the administration and ofconse Of all its political