The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-07
From the Old School Republican.
WAR UPON THE PRESIDENT CONTINUED


WAR UPON THE PRESIDENT CONTINUED.
Mr.. Clay has retired from Congress. His garden
fences said to have long needed repairing, but he
has evidently left in the close keeping of his friends
at Washington, the future defence of his fair fame
and the toilsome task of setting the Ball in motion for
his fourth great defeat upon the Presidential turf and
well they ply the spurs-All the Gentry of the
West pompous, inflated upsart Of the House of that
significant cognomen from Tennessee with more vani-
ty than brains, and professions than good sense,
has just delivered himself of string of gasconade
epthets against the President and his friends which
occupies an entire page OF the National lntelligen-
We would copy literally from this Speech were
we about to give treat upon Fish market orgies or
prepare lecture upon public billingsgate with the
racy explosives of empty nonsense.
This MIR. Gentry, as every way htted attempts
retort upon Mr.. WISE and Mr. PROFIT, for their
late mastery and unanswerabe efforts in defence Of
the Administration it is indeed an attempt for
nothing of argument-nothing either Of interest or
common sense, is to be found in the entire rhapsody
of words employed in this miserable TRADE OF abuse.
Willing to pro mote the best interest Of the Admin
istration, and anxious to shield it from SANDER and
unmeasured detracton, we earnestly invite the peru
sal of this speech 1t must it will do the President
more real service than all the direct plauds that can
be made to flow from thousand pens Let honest
and generous hearted Wings and Democrats every
wherever those, who have been accustomed to
regard the President in unfavorabe light-let em
yea, let all who respect principle, and in whose bo
SONS the undyng spark Of justice yet lngers turn
the speech of MIR. Gentry, Of Tennessee, and exam
inc with care his menacng thrusts and malignant
denuncations. Certain we that the candid read
er will rise from its perusal with oathing and dis
gust yes let all read it. 1t will doubt be repub-
lished in the ultra Clay organs, with characteristic
admiration 1t will be spread the country, and
we would not stay its circulation Let all ponder
upon this scurrilous echo of the "Stalwart hero Of
Ashland"
How perfectly in keeping is the language employed
the speech alluded to, with the ranking malignity
of Mr. CLAY himself, in his late Alexandria letter
In that very delicate specimen of the nice and refined
sensibities of HENRY CLAY, among other similar de-
mandatory expressions it will be seen that he calls
Mr. TYLER ''lceak Facilitating, taithleSs chief Magis-
trate," a language unbecoming Statesman, uncon-
genial with the liberal views of generous, high
minded language that berays the turbulence
of passions and feelings that sufficiently indicate his
utter untness for the high station to which he aspres
the Executive head of seventeen millions of intel
ligent freemen who claiming for themselves the right
to independent thought and action-,epudiute-o
and abhor the idea that every difference of CD Mon
presupposes corruption in others. person a1ording
such evidence Of an intolerant spirit obtain
the confidence Of the American people. Mr.. Clay
is now formally before the country candidate for
the highest honors of the Republic. He has thrown
himself into the arena, breathing vengeance against
him, who, called by the voice Of the people, and in
the Providence of God is placed upon the outer walls
Of the citadel of liberty, refuses to exert the powers
conferred upon him, for public and benecent Objects
to the furtherence of his ,u,chastened ambition.