The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-09-30

ment TO him and no evidence that the President
is true TO his party. Yet again. While the
Manifesto declares, in effect that the President
Is unworthy the confidence of his party, he re-
constructs his Cabinet Of good Wing materials,
and brings round him eminent and able Wings,
70 whom he voluntarily gives his confidence and
receives theirs in return.
In this confusion, on which side is the party
and where are the people2 house divided
against itself cannot stand. The theory Of our
Government points out the true course II is,
that each coordinate branch is to act conclu-
slvely IN its own department. While il does
this, and no more, there is no reason to com
PLAIN Difference of opinion is necessary con-
sequence OF division of power, and is an evil,
or rather an incident that has its compensations.
The historian, in future times, when, from the
rock OF ages he shall review the turbulence, of
party strife and personal dlsappontments in the
security OF distance, will not find in the legisla-
ton Of Congress that intelligence and prudence
which belong TO statesmen or partisans whose
| buoyant spirits should have carried them beyond
the storms Of passion and the clouds Of temper.
/
ed second Veto from their Executive chief
He will see in it none of that skill BY which Ma
poleon made even his mistakes minister to his
victory, but the repetition OF fault-worse than
crime
| The Wing party, if il is not ready for dissolu-
ton, must again rally its broken columns under
the President as its chief, under his Cabinet as
/ ~ GalJ - r. II. n
stitution, by authority of which every thing has
been done, and with full trust in Providence
that the Ills, if there be any will be cured by
time, and partial evil prove universal good.
| A writer in the Richmond Wing, addressing
himself to the g Editor of the Madisonian," ac-
cuses us of having g changed our W hole moral
and political CODE"
Another ultra Wing Bank paper charges us
with having, not long since, earnestly advocat-
ed National Bank
| Although we should not feel that we had COM
mitted very heinous crime if we had changed
an opinion of some persons and their prnc-
Piles, yet il so happens that it is in our power to
deny thatwe are guilty Of either Of the charges
| dDoVe dHuutu ". sustain the uenidl, we
have no other means of proof than the columns
Of the Madisonian, to which, as record of our
opinions and principles we point with confidence
and triumph. We defy any man to show, from
the past volumes of the Madisonian, that our
moral and political code" has ever been difle-
rent from what it is at this day, or that we have
ever ADVOCATED National Bank, either :" ear
nestly" or indiferently. The denunciations
and charges with which we are visited by the
ultra WI g- Bank press, will, unless accompa-
MED by evidence to sustain them, pass by as the
mere vaporings ofparty passion and intolerance.
If we had been soft enough to abandon the Ad-
ministration for Veto Of a miserable, deform-
ed, and impracticable Bank bill, we might then,
in truth, have been charged with inconsistency,
and the proofs of it would have been abundant.
| The President has approved every measure
passed by the Wing party, at the late session,
except the Bank. The sole cause of difference,
denunciation, and separation, then, is the Bank.
| OF this question the ultras are on one side,
and we are on the other and for the position
we occupy, we are accused Of changing our
,"whole moral and political CODE" The accu-
sation is false and groundless, as can be easily
| shown. For this purpose, we beg leave to refer
our accusers TO the first volume of the Madiso-
Man. When we came upon this arena we ad-
dressed "the Republicans of the United States"
in language of which the following is part and
a specimen
But the times are propitious for the schemes of
the designing and the occasion has been improved by
one party, to urge the establishment Of a National
Bank, as the only hope Of relief and by another to
clamor for the destruction of all Banks and the entire
eradication of the system from the policy of the States
BoTH ARE AT WAR WITH WHAT WE BELIEVE TO BE THE
SAFER ExPEDIENTs OF REPuBLIcANIsM "-Madsonian,
August, 1887.
The same hand which penned that paragraph
is penning this, to vindcate its own consistency
The judgment and the conscience which guided
it then, guide it now, and approve the same
opinion still entertained.
If this is not enough, we refer our accusers
to the correspondence between WATSON &.
LAWRENCE, chairman of the corresponding
committee of Tammany Hall, New York, and
THOMAS ALLEN, editor of the Madisonian in
the same wear, 1887 Tammany Hall informed
us that it had been alledged as an objection to
the endorsement Of the Madisonian, that it was
our "design and intent to make the proposed
new paper an organ for the establishment Of
National Bank"
The answer we gave is on record in Tamma-
nv Hall, and the following is an extract:
'ln reply, am free to say that it is moi now and
never has been my design and intent to make the pro-
posed new paper 1.-THE Madisonian an organ for the