The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-12-14

and who has not promptly declined when II mas
been offered. Can the Regulars Of the Dicta-
torship say as much2 Count their applications
on file; and Oh how much more infinite II
would be 10 sum up the fawning sycophancy, the
crouching servility, the beggarly sacrifice oil
manly pride and independence OF many OF those
who preferred their all, and all that they were
for place until il was denied, and, then, turned
TO vent the spleen Of their disappointment as
bitterly upon The President as they had before
volunteered their curses upon his foes, and are
now the most yenemous among the malignant
who rail and rage al him for treachery and peril
DIV And these, not of the legion Of locusts who
came no from the land on the 4th of March; but
more cadayerous and hungry and wolhsh still,
they are not, the lowest or the least OF those
who presume TO speak for the great Wing
party in the language of disinterested patriots,
as magnates Of the land They have as little
shame as honesty, for some Of these very men
undertake 10 be witnesses too before the public.
Ready themselves TO join any body for any pur-
pose, provided they were first provided for they
were the first TO accuse the Guard of an attempt
to form a "Terlium Qud"-a third party
This charge was ridiculous and presumed that
we were as great blunderers as the lncorrigi-
bles. They imagined that the Wing party was
built up for them. Our simple effort was to
convince them Of their egregrious mistake 10
teach them that the Wing organization was not
to promote National, but Constitutional Re-
publicanism; flavor the federatve features ofthe
National Compact; TO protect both the Rights
Of the States and OF the General Government
under a strict Interpretation Of the grants of
power; and, to check the tendency Of their lati-
tudinarian construction towards consolidation
and capitalization. For these ends we thought
that the Wing party itself was formed, and there
was no necessity for a new party. The Dlcta
torship feigned surprise at this just view OF
things and itself began a new organization
To cover up its own designs TO pervert the
sUnion Of the Wings" TO its own purposes, it
began systematically to treat +" the Republican
portion of The Wing party" as aliens and enc
mics to the household of its faith and traitors
and renegades who were attempting TO destroy
the old and to form new party whilst they
themselves were in truth trying their best 10 re-
store an old, banished and defunct party, which
ended before the Wing party began. We were
for adherng to the Wing organization on its
avowed principles, and they were for retro
gadng to the Nationalism Of 1928. We were
no tertium quids. Republicanism needs no
third party in this country its yotaries are a
majority Of the nation. We were opposed to
the ,lfraism of National Wings, as we were
to the Locofocoism of modern democracy. The
latter extreme Of parties had been eiiectually
routed and Frustrated; and the wanton and
wicked war which the Dictatorship has waged
upon the President will as certainly destroy the
former. The dangerous extremes Of both par
ties humbed and subdued, we may now hope
to see pure and undefled Constitutional Repub-
licanism established in the place Of Agraranism
on the one hand and of Federalism on the other
Let all true Republicans unite, and this viii be
the glorious fruit Of the ever memorable Wing
yictorysof 1910. This is the object Of the stIug-
gle of the Constitutional Guard. We want no
Citizen King, any more than we desire an alb
solute monarchy. And those Bourbons Of Anne
rica, the lncorrigibles, "who never learn any
thing and never forget anything" the Old
Regimen must be brought TO their senses and
be taught to respect minority before they are
| themselves worthy Of respect in majority
They must be taught what tertium guilds are,
who they are, and what they can effect, before
they will cease TO buster and bully and learn
how TO behave themselves. They are as hum
BILE and unpretending as any body in a minority,
but most intolerably supercilious, TO those even
who achieved their victories when suddenly
raised into majority.
| AS 10 the war upon the President it is most
| like a serve Instruction Some of the Reti-
| ring Cdbinef-not all Of them, one or two of
those men respect-reminded me of unfaithful
knnwina they were 10 receive "nine and thirty
well laid on" the next morning, bundled up and
put out the over night Sure that no reward
would be offered for the apprehension of such
runaways, for they knew that they were not
worth having, and there were plenty OF better
hands without them left on the plantation, they
did what have before known fugitive slaves TO
do--wrote back to their master most impudent
| and insulting letters, in the hope to dlscredt
him among his neighbors. Forgetting that
their testimony would not be taken by moral
and just men 10 their own cases; that the Pre-
sident would not be excused for condescendlng
10 controversy with them, because, if for no
| other reason, the tests of the truth of their
statements were involved in Cabinet confidence
and belonged not TO him but to his office which
he dared not betray and that the only Impair
tial witness who knew all the facts of the case,
and the best witness which the nature Of the
case admitted Of the Secretary of State, to
whom they referred, could not confirm their
statements, and would not follow their course
1t is amusing to those who know the truth OF
the transactions in the case, to hear Mr. Bolts
letter talked Of as the first revelation 10 the Pre-
sdent and his friends of per6dy on the part OF
those who are now most vociierously charging
periidy on the President That letter was Pi-
per's news was comparatively innocent
and probably sincere; but weeks before il
made its appearance al the Coffee House IN
Richmond, il was well known to the President
and his friends that several of those who had
constituted themselves special deputies from the
great Wing party TO visit him at the White
House and TO advise and counsel and teach him
without being asked, as 10 his duty; all profess
ing the kindest friendship for the man, the warm
est wishes for the success of his administration
and the deepest interest in the perpetuation o.
his. fame, were seen publicly plotting in the lob
bies and elsewhere, comparing their various
versions Of conversations snatched with him in
an evening crowd or caught in morning hustle
10 provide proof of contradictory declarations IN
case he should veto, in fact 10 intimidate veto
and, in case he should even sign Bank bill o.
their own clumsy contrivance, TO array such
proof TO demonstrate his vacillating weakness
, and TO justify them in chuckling at the easy
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