The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-14
1.-THE PRESIDENT AND THE COUNTRY

In the ordinary concerns Oh illt, we hdVo al
ways been governed by the principle that II was
far more proper to have an open enemy than a
treacherous friend. Hence, in our political re-
lations we have sought to conform to the spirit
of the motto which 'heads" our editorial CO.
lumn. :" In those things which are essential
let there be UNITY in non-essentials LIBERTY
and in all things CHARITY" We have, there
fore, let those alone who let US alone. Our aim
has been to conciliate and preserve-not de-
stroy-where injury would result to both par
ties in the contest We wished not by sOphism
Or casuistry to throw dust into the eyes of those
with whom we were dealing. II TRUTH could
not convince, we felt satisfied that our cause
was hopeless with a certain set. None OF them
have met us on the fair field Of argument, as
our most bitter opponent must acknowledge,
and it was only yesterday morning that our
"clarum ct venerable nomen" neighbors of
the Intelligencer undertook to make the high
sounding issue which heads this article.
THE President and the country" Who is
the COUNTRY? If our digni6ed friend had
oheaded" his article 9 The President and the
Constitution Us. Henry Clay" he would have
hit the mark to T. AS it is, however, we can
find only the following argument in regard to the
Executives:
GA mind thus cramped and fettered by prejudices
hardly be in a condition to form sound Judg-
ment upon any measures which it might become the
duty Of Congress to present to the President"
Throwing dignity" like physic, to the dogs,
there is decided "odi protanum Uulgus"
about this paragraph which we did rot expect
from the Intelligencer. Since the death and
burial Of Cock Robin we suppose that cen the
Gods themselves must become solutions, or
starve for want Of the cooking of their proven
der.
But ''THE COUNTRY !o We fear our neghbors
are in state of posthumous Mesmerism in re-
gard 10 this said country. Our Ignorant self
had counted the People of Maryland, Connect
cut, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too' States, as having
some People in their limits since the first VETO
was issued, although we had neither four ham
dred and eighty thousand, nor even ffty-tl0o
thousand REASONS TO Storm sound Judgment
on the subject!
To revert to our text however: We are glad
that the Intelligencer has at last shown the clo-
ven foot. We have too long nurtured wolves in
sleeps clothing amongst US. The tatted calf
of the House Of Representatives has turned, like
the canine animal, to the oa of former times. The
same ''ancient and fsh-like smell'' is perceptible
in the different gradations he has marked out
for himself, and the monster returns to his ma
tive Clay.
In thus boldly yielding himself to the ''collar'
of his old master, he does not hesitate to take
up his last card Of making the Constitution the
odd trick. The Briton and the gamester are
plainly seen in the movement, and, at a proper
time, they shall be exposed.
The noodesty of the editors of the lntelllgen-
ceris proverbial 1t does not deign to seek the
opponents of p, bic opinion in the Republican
and independent press. Oh no! Looking
down from their high eminence they say
81 am his Highness' dog at Kew,
And now, pray, sir whose dog are you =
We have been willing to put up with this
Chief Justice Dogberry style, as 1t OILY bursts
forth once month We were even willing to
allow our neighbor the privilege of becoming Sir
Oracle, that "when his mouth did ope, the dogs
would bark" But must confess that the
time has gone by, and the light of other days
has faded" when we greet the noble brother
hood of the Inelligencer, Louisville Journal,
and Courier g. Enquirer We even ask Prem
tice's pardon in placing ham in such company,
for. though natural BLACKBOARD, he received no
solid reasons from his employers, for improving
in his vocation.
The deuslon" of the President is great
source of trouble to the Integencer. He would
have the Chief Magistrate
with optics keen, ween
That sees ,chat is not to be seen !"
And il is pity that keepers were not appointed
TO deter him from doing ausht than exercising
ga sound Judgment" A man that has been
in the world more than half century, apd
nassed throuoh all the trials of a political life,
must certainly need pery ''sound Judgment
to yield up his opinions at the shrine OF disap
pointed md corrupt poiticalleader who has, as Il
suited him, assumed all the colors OF the chame
lion. And yet for doing this the President Oh tht
People is to be sacri6ced-and as a commence
ment offering, the Horeb is to be built up OF the
shattered foundations of the Constitution
Towards the close of its article, the Inte
genCer mas attempted W piinS III tue reuei"r
lstu to its support. This rose may not swell sc
sweet in regard to the Veto as the editors wish
and as we will show at another time. Our OBJ
iect to-day is merely to take view, en- passdnf
of the insdous efforts resorted to by our oppo
nents to deceive the People by making fals'
issues Thus casual observer, IN looking a
the Inteligencer yesterday, might suppose tina
there really ,oas difference between "the Pre-
s;dent and the countrU:" when The fact is, tina