The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-25
From the Boston Mercantile Journal
Caller CUSHING


We are sorry 10 see that many Of our political pa
pers pursuing the same towards those who
profess TO be friends Of the present Administration,
that the members of Congress towards the fx-
ecutiye. A merely factous feeling seems to have
sprung up in and out of Congress- the leaders al
Washington setting them on and every man irho has
been disappointed ia obtaining office, or who has some
personal malgnity TO crafty or who receives hiht
from his friend or leter-writer at Washington echoes
the miserable slang. This course we nave mort es-
course in regard the Administration, we nave rea
son to believe, meets the approval oil many OF the
soundes men in the District which he represents IN
our national councils. The principal GROUNDS OF al
legged complaint against Mr.. Gushing, seem to be,
that he has refused to join in the denunclation
put forth by the forty members of the Wing party IN
Congress (who sent them TO Washington TO denounce
an Executive in advance, have never found out y
and in moi reading the Executive out of fellowship,
without ceremony, because he saw fit to carry into
effect the opinions which he had all his lifetime
ayowed, and which were well known when the peo-
pie voted for him Vice President Perhaps an
other may be found in the fact, which is shown
in the records of Congress, that MIR Gushing has
thought the interests of his constituents would be
best promoted by supporting the Executive, far as
New England can support him, instead oil joining IN
the tactious attempt To head him. in every measure.
He has seldom spoken during this session, but when
he has spoken, we beg all who any thing about
this matter say whether his remarks have originated
in iactious feeling, whether they have been
words of peace and soberness, for the purpose OF
stng the tempest in the House, and bringing the
members TO 4 sense of their duty to the country.
We speak from mere personal friendship for Mr.
Gushing, but despise any such miserable attempt
to cropd down because he has mind OF his
own and chooses TO be himself the Judge of the wishes
OF his constituents rather than be ruled by this or that
clique And " hen we learn too that this intere-
renee about be carried into his district, and
that persons endeay orng 10 sow dissenson among
Mr. Gushing own constituents, we must say we 'hlnk
this is interfering where they have no interest. And
they will p obaby find that the men of Essex choose
Ia do their thinking and Judging well as rof-
ing; and of too much good sense, and too
much Yankee shrewdness and Independence, to con-
denim because he does not happen TO think pre-
cisely dominant faction in Congress chooses ne
should Mink-and precisely as that dominant iaciion
Themselves may choose To think
We should like ask any one Of these men, who
iefcely denounce the course OF every one who
chooses to be somewhat independent, whether he
thinks the country-the Peopie-are quite as well on
now, as they would have been if all the Wing Repre-
sentaives had taken the course pursued by Mr. Cush
ing instead of denouncing without measure Pfes-
dent, whom they were comprehensive him or dislike
him-to have for three years moref Would not the
Peopte-not the poiiticidns-but the great mass Of
THE PEOPLE have been in tar better condition than
they are now Would not the country no% have
had an Exohequer, which IN the opinion OF some Ju-
dcious men, better than Bank, and in the opinion
of almost every would be better than nothing,
and all they get, and are therefore willing to 'ry
il? 1.-THE Wing party had Continued urifed, instead
Of INDUCING in impotent Indignation against the Elk
they had gone forward ike men, like lsgs-
iators like patriots should we not ee this, have had
some protection 10 our iabor-and revenue tor the
now empty Golfers of Government Would there
| have been all the confusion and noise, and sheer
waste of time in the Halls of Congress which is re-
bukcd by the people in strong language, from every
part Of the land. Would the Congress of this country
have been by-word of contempt, if more of the
Representatives had pursued the course that Ca
| leb Gushing has pursued and is now pursuing 2
These and others the queries which the mechanics
selves and there can be no doub, that the press the
who undertakes to crolrd d0,cn their Represents
tive, will find they have got into the wrong place and
among the wrong people.