The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-13
OFFICIAL.
APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT.
WILLIAM p DuvAL, of Tallahassee, to be
Law Agent in The Territory Of Florida

FOR Tyler paper, or Tyler party, Distinct from
the Wigs, there IS neither at Washington nor else
where, as We spprehend any favor, nor any chance
Of successfully American
From the above, the inference is lin the estimation
OF Inc ~ Y. Amsrican,) that President Tyler and
his friends are in most lamentable condition. Inthc
hrst place the President oslracsed by the editor othe
~ r. American and few Of his city contemporaries, and
Is utterly unable TO do any thing without their
cuirence In the next place, Gas is asserted by
respondent in the Ameriean) "lhe real Wing party
i at present in power" and President Tyler and his
friends must depend entirely upon the benefcence OF
that party for subsistence The President is tried,
condemned, and executed, by these puissant editors,
and afterwards threatened by them.
II these violent partisan presses are determined to
array themselves in hostile attitude against the pre-
sent Administration, does not common sense to say
nothing of common modesty dictate the propriety of
not claiming TO be "in power at present." . If the
President actually dead il seems to us that he should
be decenlly buried, at all events, before these hot
headed editors assume the reins of Government.
But, paradorcal as it may appear the Americans
correspondent proceeds as follows
"John Tyler, the President tells the office. holders
ifyou NEEDLE in elections, III you of office
but he cannot extend this order TO the Qfcesekers
they are left free to act but la &c portion Of present
office-holders not Whigs-have they been as pas
sve as those who are Whigs2 | think not. Add
these then to the wide circle of office seekers and who
can only reach office by change Of party in power
and you find ncaculabe political force in the field
acting against the real Wing party"
The Office holders, it would appear then, are some
what influenced by the decision of the defunc, Pres
dent notwithstanding the real WI ig par,y--by which
to understand the Clay Bank party--"is at pre-
sent in power" But the President cannot control
oce-seekers--and inasmuch Office seekers look to
the President rather than the "reai Wing party"
Notwithstanding the Wings care at present in pow
er, It follows Of course that they bereft Of the
usual means ofempoying ppeayers to operate against
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that if the President is truly
dead, his ghost still has the power to annoy his enc
mics.
But many "ofhce- holders are not Wings" This is
the secret Of their bile. Although they care at pre-
sent in power" they are at a loss how to get their
friends in, and all others out This puzzles them
prodgiously. If (being at "present in poverty they
only had the disposal of forty thousand offices,
they might manage to bury the President deep enough
They made the confusion themselves, and are becom-
ing worse confounJed every day. The only way to
be lin power at present. at any other time, is to
promote union and harmony, eschew all disorganzing
PASSIONS and bury the President before he dies in
earnest