The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-27
EVERY INCH A WHIG."[4l

poioio mo hmcIiCan pcope.
Now this charge of calling President Tyler every
inch Whig," we suspect must have been wrongly
telegraphed, and wrongly interpreted. If any such
expression has escaped our tongue pen, we
confess il was scandalun nagnatum, and could not
have been made in lucid intervals and We shall
therefore put in the usual plea in such casesvz that
of nsanitya maIady, it is sad that is peculiar the
politicians Of this counry-and what is more remark
able, it is contagious! .# f..,.-
We hoseihe Telegraph will show ,Ohsn, and lOhsrs
and how we used this expression-which we have
the most cogent reasons for believing never used
at ALL
In the first place, the figure is entirely unphIologi
cal, and grossly catacrestical, when applied to a
"Whg, though it may be very proper when applied
to king as the crazy Lear applied it to himself:
Lear. Gay, every inch king"
But, had we intended to pay any such compliment to
the President we charged WITH should have
said
every drop Whigl"-
because the metaphor belongs to liquid and not long
measure-as we expect to show in the course of our
defence: hence, had we used the metaphor should
have substituted "drop" for "inch."
As it is quite notorious the Madsonian has always
been known and recognized a CONSERVA
TIVE it had no occasion to call ITSELF or any body il
supported, "Whig." As to political name, it has
always considered that the best and the only proper
name that could be properly adopted by the support
ers Of the Constitution and the laws, was Repaid
lican.
We never were at all in love with the name of
Whig and we have no belief that this name had any
particular spell in winning the great victory in favor
of Harrison The charm, if any were used, may be
found, we think, in the names of
Iyppecanoe and Tyler TOO!
But we have other reasons for not acknowledging
the Madisonian to be Wing, and not charging others
with being Wings, whom it undertakes to support:
The name of Wing originated with faction, in
the Old World, and has any great honor in
modern times in the New, till it was surrendered to
Tippecanoe and Tyler too
and lost in the name of Conservative.
We must consult the learned Doctors in Etymoo-
gy and Phylology. This is desperate disease, and
requires desperate remedy.
Let US consult the learned Doctor Richardson
What saith the Doctor You shall hear
| Wing, or See WHEr.- Applisdst 20 whey, 70 any
Wig. 'hins made with whey.
In Notlnghamshire, kind Of bun or light cake
is so called:
Some were dronke in lent of aoigges and cracknels
and yet ye would not ruste that lent were for done
Str T. More. Workes, p. 1873.
Having been longe accustomed to the old sour Wing
of Moses law the could not avail with the must Of
evangelical charitee.-U dal Luke c.. 6.
Now by good luck, I know not how,
There thither came a strange stay COW,
And We had milk and waters
To nine good stomachs with our aoigg
AT last we got roasting pigg,
This dyet was our bounds
A poem attributed to Bro,one.
Wing See the quotation from Burnet. DR..
Whiggish JAMESON mentions a MS. poem
Whiggishly called, The Whiggamer Road into
Whiggism Edinburgh, Nov. 1928. He. also
cites at length from Burnet; and as follows from
Woodrow:
The poor honest people, who in raiIlery called
Whiggs from kind of milk they forced drink
in their wandrings and straits, became fathers
all who espoused the interest of liberty and property
through Britain and Ireland" HIST vol j., p 262.
A noise was made of arbitrary sway,
But in revenge, you Wings have found way,
An arbitrary duty now to pay
Dryden. Duke Of Guise, Prol.
The Southwest counties of Scotland have seldom
earned enough to serve them round the year and the
Northern parts producing more than they need those
in the West come in the summer to buy at Leeth the
stores that come from the North; and from word,
Whggham, used in driving their horses, all that
drove were called Whiggamors, and shorter, the
Wigs.
Now in that year before the news came down of
Duke HdmiHon's defeat the ministers animated their
people to rise and march Edinburg; and they came
up marching at the head of their parishes with
heard Of fury! praying and preaching all the way as
they came
The Marquis of Argyle and his party came and
headed them! they being about six thousand This
was called the Whiggamor's inroad; and ever after
that all that opposed the court came in contempt to be
called Wigs; and from Scotland the word was
brought into England, where it is no,o one Of our
unhappy terms Of disusion
Burned. Opn Times, 81.
Whoever has a true value for Church and State,
should avoid the extreme of Wing for the sake of the
former and the extremes of Tory account Of the
latter.-SwVt.
Thomas Cox] was physician in the Parliament
army afterward fellow of the College of Physicians,
and President thereof but being Whiggishty inclined,
was deprived Of that office in Oct, l6S3-Hood
Fast Oron vol. ii.
In 1856 fell out a controversy between him [Fow-
lerl and some of his parshoners, because, as they
said, he was guilty Of Whiggism, that he admitted I"
were absoved, &c-Wood ALhene Oron., vol. IL
She'll prove herself a tory plain,
From principles the Wings maintain;
And to defend the Whiggish cause,
Her topics from the Tories draws-Soif.
The author was known indeed to have been warm
y. strenuously, and aectionately against all allure
ments of ambition, and all possibility of alienation
from pride personal pique peevish jealousy at
tached to the Wing party.-Burke. Appeattr the
NeW to the Old Wings (179l.)
could quote from fifty pamphlets, wholly made up
of Whiggism and ATHEIsM-Swift.
Not Wings, nor tories they; nor this, nor that;
Not birds, nor beasts; but just kind of bat;
A twilight animal true to neither cause,
With tory wings, but Whiggish teeth and claws
Dryden. Duke of Guise, PROB.
whey. )See WING. Anglo Saxon H'peg'
Wheyey. Dutch Wey. Martineus (says Ju-
Wheyish. nius) suspects from the Latin, wi
dus Whey is the waiery portion of milk. Perhaps
from the German, Wsieh,-Dutch, IVeyck, macerAtuS
tits applied to the watery portion of milk; to any