The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-26
FOR THE MAplsoNIAN.
Mr.. KENDALL'S ADDRESS.
HOW IT srRIKEs THE PRIvAr

HOW 1T STRikES THE PRIVATE CITIZEN.
Mr.. EDITOR II am no politician hold no Office and
never have, and entirely secluded from party din
and party strife Long SINCE had come to the con
cluson to be surprised at nothing which might do
under the influence of highly excited feeling
But production like that which has just emanated
fresh from the pen of the late Post Master General
was not, indeed anticipated, by the writer II was
handed me with the request to perusc it. did SO,
but with feelings it is impossible to express.
have been accustomed TO speak respectfully of
public officers. My religious crced-''thou shalt not
speak evil of the ruler Of my people," cnforces it the
dignity of our country demands it; and it is
possible to dvest ones self Of that habit give
free utterance the emotions thus called forth If
the effect produced upon the common mass of mind,
not warmly enlisted in political are, be such as that
produced upon my own, long and bitterly will MI.
Kendall repent the day and the hour which gave birth
to his Address to the People Of the United States
Safely may say, that this production is without pa
rallel in the history of our country God grant that
may never find its counterpart that it may leave be-
hind no kith kin to inherit its qualities that its
birth, life and death, may hereafter be registered on
the list of strange things Can it be possible that
mind, engaged his has been the exercise of such
high and responsible duties, could stoop SO low p
Fresh is that gentleman's brow with the wreath of
high official station station too second in extent of
its influence only to that of our Chief Magistrate
And yet, ere time had been allowed for scarcely
nights repose after the surrender of his and
honorable duties before the arrival of his successor
while standing even in the very vestibule of his Of
flee, and still holding in hand the keys of power;
with the other he has penned Address, which
should have been concealed from the eye Of the world
like untimely birth. People of the United States
when public functionary desccnds from his lofty en-
inence, to utter language and sentiments which, God
forbid child Of mine should ever read when he who
has had his hand yea and still has IT, upon every ave-
through which flows information to the whole
Of mind, when he prosttu tes this power to pur-
poses so base il is time to beware.
Whether Wings or Democrats, il matters not, re.
buke calmly but firmly the foul and tainted spirit of
that publication IT'S indigenous to our SOIL but
alien; its home is here Send II to minge with
the deadly sirocco Of the desert dwell with the
shades of the "sans culotte' of Paris
An address, written osensbly from great regard for
the people, and yet the people who compose one party
if not majority minority by no means contempt
Bile, accused Of parade riot and drunkenness,
fit only to amuse, if they did not disgust, London
populace, or Partisan mob"
II is with grief that am compelled 10 admit the
striking similarity between the spirit here exhibited
and that which was rife in France during the dark
and dismal period Of her revolution
Were any one to personify the genius of this adj
dress, it would stand before YOU holding in hand
the banner of liberty, emblazoned on its margin in
characters Of light morality public and private virtue
and in its centre the Goddess herself with the scales
Of justice in one hand and the olive branch in the
other But yet while it unfods to the breeze tins sub
lime and noble emblem, in the other hand il grasps a
sword red with the blood of its victims who have re-
fused to sacrifice at this shrine Of power It talks,
forsooth of virtue and liberty, and every thing noble
and generous and free and yet the coven foot is hardly
concealed by the lightest gosssmer
Fervcntly do | hope that those in power though
friends even of the present administration and whose
patriotism is not the profession Of the lips will
Indignantly reject all such aid to secure the election Of
favorite candidate Ifthe so called Democratic party
adopt this as an expose of their own views nesd'