The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-18
Communications.
ron THE MADlsosiAS
THE LATE ELECTIONS.

The State elections, with the exception OF those Oh
one or two of the smaller States which were expect
ed 10 occur between the adjournment Of Congress and
the winter session. have now all taken place, and GER
,any the public mind not entirely prepared Tor the
results that have followed the action Of Inc
People. The latter part Of this remark is made be-
cause conceive that only very few ofihose members
| Of Congress who much regretted the anti Bank
convictions Of the Chief Magistrate had just aPpre-
citation Of the Of public sentiment in reference to
the question Of Federal banking We confess we
should be very unhappy not 10 believe that there were
many gentlemen in Washington last summer, Who
differing with the President upon the constitutions
question of chartering a United States Bank, were
yet willing accord to this high functionary consis
tency Of conduct and who have been guilty Of
the discourtesy Of immortality of sneerng at his con-
| victions Of conscience. There many too, we
hope who, not concurrng with The President in his
views upon the question Of erpedieny in the establish
ment of Bank, yet have regarded themselves
as dictators or Sir Oracles" in matters Of State
and of political history who have thought the Pre-
sdent and the large of citizens who have agreed,
and do noD agree with him in his opinions on this
| subject, TO be either fools knaves. We are very
sure that there were many who condemned the Pre-
preciptately, and of course indiscreetly. What
proud position does the President occupy7 Will
any citizen however rabid he may be in blind and
automaton-like advocacy Of bank opinions, close his
eyes 10 the causes which have prosrated and well
near annihilated what has been called the Wing par
y2 1t is in vain mere subterfuge, absurdity to
deny that the bank ISSUE the general and control
ling test of action in the late elections decided those
results inauspciousy TO the hopes and wishes of
Bank men, in the full and perfect annuncation Of
anti Bank sentiments the part Of the people. How
| ridiculous now, the charge which has been made
against the President Of his having acted erdously
to the country and to the people, in the of the
Veto power last summcr2 And, in view of this
charge of perdy, is j, not Strange that States which
give such overwhelming majorities for General Hsr-
rison and Mr. Tyler, should have shown such incon-
sistency of conduct if we to presume that these
two gentlemen were regarded by the People as the
Bank candidates to have pronounced, in the short
space Of six months that although they had poted for
the Bank candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pre-
sidency, yet that they would not support Bank mea
sures? How unsound such conclusion To what
result then, are necessarily drven2 Are we not
forced by the argument admit that the country did
not regard the Wing candidates as Bank men The
President entertained this conviction He believed,
apart from is particular views in interpreta
ton of the Constitution and his impressions the
incl pediency Of the establishment of Government
Corporation, that the People of the United States
elected him to Office under the general conviction Of
his being opposed to Bank Of the United States
How fully have the late elections proven the truth
and wisdom Of the position he had the moral courage
to assume in position to the complaints and nvec-
tves Of large majority of the Wing party and the
nerve to maintain against their impeuous and malig
nant attacks. He has done his duty patriot, as
the and grandson Of patriots and the country has
noby sustained him, in his pride Of independence and
of patriotism.
On the contrary what an unenyiable position does
Mr. Clay, with the "retired" Secretaries, and the
Manifesto" Wings, occupy. The Wing party, ESQ
dear to them y is entirely Frustrated BY them, shape
less inanimate thing with its head broken from its
shoulders with the reckless wantoness that chill
dren destroy gilded toys when they become tired Of
their paint and tinsel Odium has accumulated, like
"Ossa piled Peleon upon the characters of those
to whom odium a certain degree previously at
tached and several innocent whose talents might
have noby illustrated and adorned the proud places
which they filled, have been swept down into the same
abysmal vortex, (never 10 the light y with
the odum Of guilty companionship for furnishing
their names
How lonely must they feel how wretched must
these be The innocent Comparatively full of
remorse, the guilty full Of despair What good has
Of their vuperave attacks their abusive speech
es, and their rbald and lying etters2 What good has
come Of their malignant efforts to blast the reputation
Of honest man, ito rob him of his good name ~
What good has come of and epiihets, and of
burnt and hung ef6ges? They have given occasion
TO at least one good thing, to be found IN a charac
teristic remark lately made by the President. He de-
eared "that the light of burning efiges has only
served to render the letter and spirit Of the Constu
ton more plain to his vision" Let it however be
subject Of consolation the peniten and like Goals
Of fire heaped up upon the heads the wicked and de-
signing that all their thousand efforts have entirely
failed to disgrace patriot bring down to dis
honored grave the spirit Of Chief Magistrate who
had aught the good of his soun,y at heart,
and who las much a a we'll can be) has never
suffered in public private life, bis individual inter
ests to swerve him from the performance Of an act OF
duty Let them all recoec, tina, in resisting tear and
threats alike, in vetoing those unwboesome and in
effective Bank bills presented TO him last summer, and
in maintaining his constitutional opinions on the sub
ject of Banking his will be regarded as another
instance superadded the many that have preceded
it, Of Observation-Disclosures patriotic devotion and firm
ness, which has marked character whose spirit
terrors suhjugatc And let the fate OF the rotten
Bank men, ma linen in politics. and rufians in private
life, seen in the present aspect of the times be
warning to all Federasts and Monopclists who, un-
der an impression Of heir ars,oca,ic Importance