The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-08-31
MIR. BoTTs, CARD.

in the form of hand-bilI to be thumbed and
necessary to notice it. We should not now adj
vert to it had it not been dignifed by publca-
tien in the Richmond Wing, N. Y. American, ~
York Courier and Enquirer, and the N. Y.
Commercial Advertlser-papers, which by the
act, have done what no paper, Of any party here
would do-given currency, and fpossible, gra-
pity, to venemous and insulting attack on the
President.
We will allow Mr. Bolts the benefit of say
ing, through our columns, that his first letter
was not intended for publication in the newspa-
pers, but he says, 81 wrote that letter to Mr..
Lynch, commencing, as before remarked, and
as the letter shows, "Dear sir !" but in the hur-
ry of preparing number of letters for the
mail, which was about to close, it seems mad
vertently directed the letter to the "Coffee
House." instead of Jas. H. Lynch, Coffee
House, Richmond, which is my usual mode Of
directing documents and other papers to him"
So much for the writing and direction. Now
as to the publication. Mr.. Bolts says:
The idea of its publication no more entered into
my mind than the publication of the conversation that
hold daily with my messmates at table; it has been
not only without authority, but in violation of every
principle Of confidence recognized among gentlemen"
But Mr.. Bolts admits,
That my expectation and design icas, that il
should Be read BY those Of my friends and constitu
snts ,ho in the habit Of attending Mr. Lyneh's
READINg RooMn
Now then, although Mr. Bolts insists that il
was indecent and ungentlemanly to publish his
pirate letter. we ask the reader, if, according
to the gentleman's own showing, the letter was
not really public one, expected and de-
signed" so to be, and in fact published by the
author himself2 II was intended for a ''read
ing ROOM" And what is reading room, buta
place where published and current news is con-
centrated and exposed? tits room open to those
who are subscribers, or areintroduced bv suhseri
bers Well, cannot all the world share the be-
nefts of the reading room by complying with
its terms2 Most certainly. Our conclus ion
therefore is, that Mr. Bolts published his oacn
letter, and that such was his expectation and
design And has not the President right of
defence, when such letter is published 10 Mr.
Bolts friends and constituents" And is not
g treason" always to be arrested and exposed
upon the instant, wherever discovered ?-or is it
to be allowed TO concert and prosecute its plots
Suppose Mr.. Bolts belonged to
an army, and in time of war, he should disco
yer one of his fellow-sodiers engaged in plot
10 " head" and I" fasten" his "Captain," would
he not expose him, and bring him TO the punish
ment he deserved2
So much for the publication of the letter in
he Madisonian, which, however painful, we
hink we have shown 10 be justified Now, as
o some (not alD Of the collateral matters al
uded to by Mr.. Bolts, in his card. Speaking
If Mr.. Tyler, Mr.. Bolts says
The very measure of compromise, adopted against
he wishes and judgment of every Wing in Congress,
please his particular friends who generously
Inclined to interpose and who incurred the hazard of
acrfcing themselves him from the alternative
If Veto he generously turns to his own advantage
ashes them the face with the instrument they
lad thus furnished him. and then attempts to the
whole party Of friends who placed him in power into
idicule Some men are blind and cannot see. Others
lave their vision and will not but there things
hat cannot shut my eyes against if would, and
would not if could"
We presume that amongst the things which
Mr. Bolts cannot shut his eyes against" is the
: Rumor" which attributes to him the author
hip of the compromise" to which he refers
Pumor says, that Mr.. Bolts presented that very
II he 4
hat the President without hesitation, declared
hat it would not answer; and that, with full
that the President would veto it, he
Mr. Botts) added his influence and vote, to
hose of others, to introduce that "measure of
in the bill, and to urge it through
Congress. IL Rumor, therefore, speaks the truth,
loes it not seem as though Mr.. Bolts was one Of
hose who 'have their vision and will not see2"
ind that he ''shut his eyes" to the character and
ate Of a measure, whose origin and defeat he
low generously turns to his own advantage7',
lie now clashes" Mr.. Tyler with the fragments
# the moose, which proved too weak for the vic
i'm it was apparently designed to "head" and
sfasten." But though this did not succeed, Mr..
Bolts wrote, in his letter of the 10th, that he
could be "headed YET"
We will not go into other matters treated OF
" Mr.. Bolts. II is sufficient for US TO say that
lie stands nearly alone in Congress-the Wing
,arty generally dsclaim and reprobate both his
etters and as for the effect Of his address, i
arries with il its own antdote, in the venomous
prit in which il is conceived, and The coarse
less of style in which it is communicated.
We omit to notice the unfounded and unintel-
igible personal reference to ourselves, in para
,raph remarkable only for its want OF perspi !