The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-04
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
Ffom the Boston Daily Times
CONGRESS AND THE COUNTRf-lhE
ARMY AND THE NAVY.


From time to time il has been our painful duty as
conductors of an independent press, to express our
modification and Indignation at the course puIsu.u
by Congress in reference TO the great questions u
national policy which have come before IT,
witnessed with aslonshment ana shane 'ne Ia Ia
Abandonment of principle by the ullIasls to the calls
and apparent interest of party In their rejection OF
men oil undoubled ability and proby, when nominal
ed to offices of trust and profit, merely because ,es
men were nominated and countenanced py tue resi-
dent We have had ample proof OF the suoser'leney
of our electioneerng Representatives to party nu'
we confess that had INDUCED hope tha' tue
open and expressed Indignation, and the hohes' re-
monsrances of the great mass oil the hmehean P'o
pie would not be utterly fruitless-iha me voice o.
rebuke would penetrate the Halls OF Legslaton-ahu
that corruption and intrigue had reached their acme
But we have been wofuIly disappointed. IL would
seem as if these recreants-these lscariets OF ooh
gress in their base determination to cripple anu rem
der aboltive all the judcious efforts OIL the huuinis
tration were determined to prove To what extent c,i
paracidal and suicidal policy might be pushed
The friends of the Administration, were innueneeu
by other motives than th,se of honest PATRIOTISM tey
would take selfish pleasure IN the course ~
the ultra opposition men in Congress- iof ny 60
be well aware that they destroying 'ner iainu
and influence, and conjurng up tempest whieh WI
free the nation of their degrading and dishonest pfh
cples. But the true patriot feels no IN '' -
contemplation of men who sit, moi deiloeial'hg :"
calm debate" but wasting the night IN WORDS, IN
active save in opposition all measures dictated by
iudcious policy, or in personal disputes, OF ioushe
from their apathy to propose and advocate heasues
the effect of which is to degrade and Cripple 'he pa
ton, and lay il open TO the tersion ana assauls o.
foreign powers 10 whom the existence oil hou'is"
ing Democracy, is gall and wormwood.
Solong as they confne their hostile demonstrators
tho rejection of men nominated 70 Certain G Oh.
the injury they infilc upon the public ueeIy
10 be deplored is neither ireparable nor runous, pu
n blow is stricken at military and naval power
when an attempt made TO render US eithet "h"ly
deenceless crippled as to invite aggression anu
insult from abroad, it is time for the Peopeno' .e
miserable slaves of party-not those who OBEY the
guidance of the leading slaves of demagogues nut
the WHOLE PEoPLE-all who have their country ln'e
rests in view, to rise one man and illuminate ''e,
honest anathemas against those who wouiu pe'ay anu
destroy them
The Army and the Navy What true American
heart that does not beat higher at the very mention OF
those Names What true American is there VINO
does not feel the flush of shame and Indignation wnen
he reads that his paid servants
are connivng to reduce to yet smaller scale, the gar
liant little navy Of our republic-to thin the ranks Of
our handful of troops, till the very name of army be-
comes mockery1 Are we indeed retrograding In
enterprise and prosperty-have we nothing worth de-
Tending and preserving on he ocean and the land
Look abroad, beyond the confines OF our republic
In the north and the SOUTH in the east and the west
our sails are whitening every ocean. Shall we de-
prve of its dignity and tn starspanged BAN
ner which has always claimed respect from
" Each flag that floats the main"
Shall we court aggression and then plead reuknesS as
apology for non 'reslstancef In whatever aspect
we view the condition Of country we shall have
cause to denounce the traitorous of reduc-
ton of the army and the navy Our relations with
Great Britain, the greatest maritime power on the
globe, yet unsettled those with Mexico are far
from satisfactorya local revolution has hut lately
threatened become the nucleus of civil war, in
volving many interests within its vortex, we have
tribes of hostile neghbors lowering about our frontier
and yet we are insulted by schemes for reducing
our too meagre force. Wo to those who seek to be-
tray our nere is when they called upon TO rem
der account for their stewardship They will find
but find too late for themselves, that
Even. handed justice
Returns the ingredients of the poisoned chalce
TO their own lips" .