The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-12-10
From The Boston Daily Timei.
JOHN. Nj. Bolts.

Few men, comparatively speaking, have il in their
power to obtain lasting fame, but almost any one
arrive at notoriety if he will but stoop low
enough. There are few men of the present genera
ton whose destined, likethc stars, to shine
through future ages The famous men Of one gene
ration are sometimes not even thought of by the
next. Notoriety, however, temporary renown, the
fame of a little mind is easily attainable. Do any
thing eccentric, wear hat shaped different from other
peoples hats or walk upon your hands by way of va
riety, and you will be notorious. A very yiItuous
man is famous, downright scamp notorious. Fene-
lon and Washington were famous-Joe Smith and
John M. Bolts notorious Bolts is curious man.
who but he ever thought of obtaining notorety by
the ingenus cxpedient Of {" heading President -
Bolts is a favored man, he sees and hears what no
else is permitted to and hear. Thus he heard
Judge Upshur express some very reprehensble sent-
ments on board steamboat, but, though large COM
pany surrounded him, no one but Mr. Bolts heard
any thing out of the way. Oh favored Bolts We
arc inclined to think that Mr.. Bolts has very vivid
fancy-that he imagncs realities, and mistakes the
shadow for the substance. However this NAV be- if
appears the following story told by Bolts in letter
to the Wings Of Kentucky, replying to and declining
their invitation to Notification and goIfcation is
believed by very few. Some shrug their shoulders
when they read it, others elevate their eyebrows
and the majority touch their foreheads mysterously
and shake their heads at it. We subjoin the extract.
FANCY SKETCH.
UFftteH expressly Oy me fsoh. ~ W. BOTS, f0T NE
Wigs Of Kentucky
A reference TO this subject (the par, that Mr..
Bolts enacted in lSi0) reminds me Of what some of
you will Tecoect, that the occasion 70 which
have alluded, travelled in company with the bor
(Pre.den Tyler) of these disasters (,he defeat of
the Whgs) whom then had every reason to be-
eve spirited, true-souled genuine Wing
One who on all occasions preached the true Wing
doc,rine-Bank, Distribution, Tariff, and all-but
the Bank chiefly and in particular; denounced in the
strongest terms the Democracy, of whom he now
claims to be one for the ruin they had brought on
the country not less by the folly and madness of their
measures than the mere,ricous wickedness attending
their purposes damned Locofocoism with unsparing
pains, much for its Jemoraiz ng influences as for
lis destructive and detcstable heresies extoed
Mr.. Clay far beyond the reach of comparison with
any living man. and ranked him only with the great
beneactors Of the age tha, bad passed until by
his ardor in the Wing cause and the fervor of his
opposition TO the party then in power, he wormed
himself into the confidence and sympathy ofthose he
clearly saw, Mt that day, to be in trium-
plant ascendancy and 6naly.by shedding crocodile
tears over the defeat of Mr.. Clay at the Harrisburg
Convention, and making professions of change of
opinion on the subject of Bank, to Governor Ow-
en-, (the chairman of the committee and others he
secured for himself the nomination Tor the second of
fee in the Government"
Poor Bolts We cannot eIecra,e--we can only
pity him,