The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-05-30
Communications.
A REPLY TO THE LATE SLANDERoUs
ADDRESS OF AMOS KENDALL TO THE
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES

y " extraordinary 10 what lengths the effoniery
OF this matchIess Jacobin has carried him. lie seems
to have descended from station which nature never
designed him for, TO that groveling debasement in
which his soul uxuriates as in its native element But
mule observation Is necessary to satisfy every that
All ms apparent party and ultra loco ocoism
hypocriticaly assumed for the polite and selfish
purpose OF extracting from the pockets Of his unfortu
nate dupes splendid fortune for himself for we can
not but remark that in every address, circular or pros
pecus which emanaes from his rabid PEN the conclu-
sion Is always to be found in the same uniform PRAYER
Of give me your dollar His antics and fantastic
tricks remind one ofthe clown in the circus who for
the sake Of contribution, will dstort his human
form divine into hundred deformations Before the
American people had seen the dsgraceii exhibition Of
high officer descending from his station 10 prostitute
his talents for the splendid bride he was offered there
was no one to be found who could have believed hui
man nature capable Of such open, avowed and un-
blushing hardihood Of misdcmeanor
Mr.. Kendall talks Of bis povcrty-he should have
said his orarice-for his whole life shows that his
principles always in the market for the highest bid
der And il is fresh in the memory Of all that AFTER
the election Of John Quincy Adams he applied to Mr.
Clay for Office, and because he could not get one
with certain salary, he Immediately determined to
make himself famous and infamous by treason I'M
paralleed in history In his reckless dissemination
distinguish his conversion 10 Jacksonisin by signal
serpice TO his allies he concocfed monstrous
cusaton against the fair fame of that benevolent and
generous man who had heaped fayors on his head in
his days Of real and squaiid poverty. Such is the
man who, for his parizan services that OCCASION in
due Of time translated from the soil of Ken
lucky, which heaved with indignation to him off,
and was brought TO the corrupt circles of power in
| Washington City, First an Auditor with a large
salary then Postmaster General, with stipend Of
| 5000 per annum. Poverty indeed But let him
be the poorest of the human family purse as he
in spirit, he is at last in fair way of gorging to the
full that demon Of avarce which has sovereign power
over his mcrcenary soul And, indeed il must be OBJ
vous to all that ordinary motive of aggrandise.
ment could have induced SO selfish man to abandon
SO high Office and become mere scavenger in po-
Iitics. Let US what his pecunary emoluments are
| likely to be in his new vocation2 According TO the
admission of Messrs Blair and Rves, he is to pocket
the whole profits of the Extra Globe, reward for
his partisan labors There are, at the lowest cacua-
tion forty thousand Office holders in the United States
who will be compelled, by the fear of losing Office
take copy each. This gives the Heaven born
Amos $4,000. But this is not half, for there are
at least sixty thousand more who expect Office under
the daily operations of this Adminstr ation who will
pay their last dollar for the Extra Globe show as
| passport TO Executive favor. Here is, then fund
OF to be raised for the boatcd avarice Of
reckless political writer out of the necessities Of
either in office toanting office What, would ask
the actual expenses Of printing this Extra Globe
for the short time it will exist AT the very highest
estimate, not $4,000; for, being printed at the Globe
Office the type and the hands already prepared and
nothing is required extra except the paper incon-
siderable item. Ninety thousand dollars clear nett
profit And all to be paid directly to Kendall as his
reward for slandcring the Opposition party and de-
ceiving the people
What must be the feeling Of utter desperation which
has seized upon the Administration party when they
are compelled to pay such exorbitant wages for the
mercenary pen Of single writer for five months But
it will all prove vain The monster corruption may
present its hydra-heads, with the kissing noise of a
thousand scrpcnts AHcrcules is in the field, armed
with simple club, and strangling the foul monster
head by head. Mr.. Kendall cares very little for the
triumph of his last adopted party, farther than will
give him future opportunities of adding the 500 600
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tires under the consolation of his money-bags. Can
it be possible that man, of this character has dared
TO come out under his own soied and blackened name
with address to the people of the United States y
Where did he get his Importance from2 How could
he conceive that the Of Amos Kendall affixed 10
his address would be any thing other than sending the
antidote with thc,poison But the vanity of the man
has led him to think that, because he has held office
under two party Presidents, he pass ortho
dox, and dictate the law under his own name to the
people of the United States" Vain error he has yet
to learn that the freemcn of America will yield
to the hirelngs of corrupt power and that he more
than ALL of the myrmdons that surround his master, is
most obnoxious to the honest the pure and the true
hearted" of all parties
The last address of this quandam Postmaster Gene
rail- seems to have been studiousy formed this
simple principle of bold falsehood, viz that to
his party, he would urge against their opponents, the
very crimes of which they guilty and stood alrea-
dy arragned for, at the bar of public opinion.
, How can you otherwise account for the following
extract from his address, viz: Laws violated with
impunty moral obligations scofed at and derded
Knavcry walks the street with the bold face of ho
nesty-piunderers of the public and Of public nstu
tons obtain sympathy and forgiveness and the Admin
straon which sterniy sets its face againse these erii
and their authors is sought to be made the victim Of
its frmncss and integrity" Now let any impartial
man take up and read this matchlcss paragraph, and
ask him upon whose back the lash falls he will tell
you it is surely meant cutting irony for the Ad-
ministration, " The plunderers Of the public who
are they but the defaultng partizans Of shameless
Administration, which far from sternly setting its
face " against them, gives them sympathy and for
givencss." How very low must the American people