The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-01
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FOR THE MADIsoNIAN.
HON. HENRY A.. WISE.

We have observed that some of the ultra Wing
newspapers have been employed in denouncing Mr..
Wise. We think they will discover, in the end, that
they might have employed their rhetoric to better
purpose for the service of their cause The party,
both in and out of Congress- which follows the polit
cal fortunes of disappointed and desperate leader
naturally regard Mr.. Wise with little kindness To
him, more than to any man, that prohigate fac
ton owe the check which they received in the first
hour of their triumph. While the honest men who
had united with them to overthrow the preceding adj
ministration, were gazing in establishment at their
insane conduct in the victory they had achieved, it
was the voice of the eloquent and eheared repre-
sentative of the old unterrifed Commonwealth which
first startled his late associates in their new career
which first called upon them to redeem their pledges
Ito keep their faith with the people--to remember
in power the principles they had professed in opposi-
ton. From that hour the party out of Congress
united to put down Mr.. Wise. They attempted to
drown his eloquent nyectves in an absurd clamor in
which was mingled every dcnunciation that could be
hurled at the head Of political man. Their leader
thought it necessary to rally the party in Congress to
the aid of the newspaper outcry Mr.. Clay made his
speech in the Senate in which he produced his charge
in relation to the existence of new Kitchen Cabi-
net. The device failed signally, so far as it was
meant to operate the feelings of the President and
his friends Among the people, no one believed it,
nor perhaps did its author expect any one to believe
it. He aimed to excite personal jealousies among
political men, The manner in which Mr. Wise met
the rnor" from his place in the House, at once ar
rested that topic for all future debates in Congress-
We fancy no one in either House will repeat the
charge even upon the authority of =" rumor." The
most distinguished member of the lower House among
the friends of Mr.. Clay, distinguished as much for
high spirit and generosity of feeling which scorns the
rules of party discretion, as for those talents
which give new lustre even to the name of Mar
SHALL and which make HIM the first orator, if not the
first debater in that assembly-this gentleman has
recently in debate had the magnanimity to refer TO
the subject, and, with gentlemanlike frankness,
sought to propagate. Mr. Marshall, we are assured,
in following the dictates Of his honorable senti-
ments, needs no applause from the opposite ranks.
But may be allowed to express our esteem for a
conduct, which well exempfes the fine maxim OF
Mr.. Burke now too seldom observed by men who
embark with all their feelings in the struggles of par.
ty, that eve ought to be politicians as not to for
get we are gentlemen"
vulgar partisan cannot afford to regulate his con-
duct by such standard. But Mr.. Marshals talents
happily release him from the sordid obligations which
party imposes upon the common herd of trading poll
ticans. In political conduct to the high feelings OF
proud mind this is not among the least gratifica-
tons which derived from the possession of real
talents
The attempt to direct an assault on Mr.. Wise in
Congress, ended with the occasion on which it com
menced. There were evidently certain hazards con-
nected with the unworthy enterprise which no one
felt DESTROYS to go out of his way to assume The
task of demolishing Mr. Wise's political character
and fortunes was, therefore, to be left to the newspa
pers few of them took up the task with yea
which responded cordially to the party interests
which were supposed to be involved in the issue
The abuse, for time, was vehement and unceasing
all OF 1t hearty, and some of it toleraby good-tha
is, good enough as mere newspaper literature, with
some want OF variety in the topics and some want Of
skill In the handling of them but good for nothing
so TAR as any object to be accomplished by it,
cept the qualification Of political disappointment and
personal hatred The violent editor of the Indepen-