The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-24
AN EXECRABLE TRAITOR.

AN EXECRABLE TRAITOR.
We ask our readers and the whole country L
peruse the following extract from the Washing
ton correspondence Of the NEW YORK AME
RICAN:
observe that in your editorials on the subject o
onr relations with Great Britain, you say that you
priyate Washington letters make no mention OF 'hs
nature of the impression produced here by the oe
snatches and public intelligence by the Acadia w eli
come now here it Is from your public corrs sponue
who would have given it to you before IT ne had oeei
conscious of any especial public interest IN the SUBJECT
or anxiety to the prospect of a war. IN Idc'' any
man ,cho kn0los the mind Of Congress ON inc Suojec
Of any i0ar, but one OF absolute ~ tal
THERE Is NOT ANY PROBABLE occAsloN) must Jeei fo1
nueh contempt for these rumors Of lrar, TO trn ms
attention to matter so disgracefl to the American
characfer-soon zoe trust, to betorgoften forever
Your readers by the way VIII please TO observe mat
no the Constitution of the U S., Congress alone has
ower to declare war" So that the OPT Mons of the
PRESIDENT AND THE SIX HEAD CLERKS
AROUND HIM, Coy some singular and gross psrper-
sion of language, miscaUed q CABINET, though des
ttute of every distinctive poloer Of that sovereign a.
yectipe council so styled constitutional monarcf1ss
DIsrRUsrED AS THEY ARE BY MAJORITY OF JUST ~
4STHs CONGRESS, ARE THE LAST MATTERS rAAhN
INTO ACCOUNT HERE IN ESTIMATING THE cHANohs of
WAR AND PEACE. Your readers will please to observe
=
nublican Government the Minister of Foreign AT
fairs here is not the head of the Department OF state
but the Chairman of the Home COMMITTEE OF foregh
Affairs. John quincy Adams. WHENEVER HE RE-
YIN IN DEFENCE OF SLAVERY AND THE
DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE, IT WILL BE INEvI-
TABLE; AND | SHALL THEREFORE HOLD MYSELF IN
CONSCIENCE UND TO GIVE YOU EARLY PREMoNITIoNs
OF AN EVENT so DECISIVE OF OUR MA
TIONAL DESTINY
We appeal to the Speaker of the House OF
Representatives to say whether he willingly
permits this British-AbolitionT Tory to hur his
fire-brands from the very Halls of Congress
throughout the Union. To say whether such a
fiend enjoys his countenance and protection IN
denouncing the PRESIDENT and his CABl-
NET in the CAPITOL of the nation. We
appeal to the venerable Ex-President Of the
United States, the son of patriotic sire,
to say whether this despicable traitor has his
authority to mpicate him thus in his treason
not believe it
Wa ,hington and his Cabinet entertained pre-
cisely the same sentiments in relation to "the
property of slaves as is protested by President
TYLER and his Cabinet-and the American who
can thus stig,natlse the Government of his own
country, would not hesitate to exhume the bones
of Washington, and hang them on gibbet
And is there paper, with the word "Ameri-
cam at its head, that will print such perfidious
and ncendiary sentiments? 1t is too true
And this is the paper which is ever foremost in
its denuncations of the President! Will the
Wig party longer tolerate its inaammatory
and reasonable ebullitions? If it does, 1t can
not long continue to be party
And does it really seek TO avert a var by such
brutal bravado? Would it intimdate the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet? Would it ''fan the en-
bers" of discord in Congress to induce that body
to WELD to British influence and make war on
the President and the Cabinet, instead of
naughty overbearing British foes? We will
see If such is the purpose of hired abolition
journalists in this country, the sooner the day OF
reckoning comes the better The sooner this
growing cancer on the body polite is eradicated
the better The purging and blood letting had
better be done at once, before the Constitution
is undermined by the insidlous disease.