The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-27
From the Richmond Enquirer.


Our anxiety to present these three reports in one
paper, narrows our editorial space very much this
morning Mr.. Adams's is the frst-that report
which the Wings anticipated To be one of the great
est'' efforts of his great" mind-the most wonder
fun chef daeuvre OF his :" wonderful intellect But
il comes far short of the public expectation and is
admitted 10 be complete failure by many Of his
own party. IL is neither elegant in its style, nor
able in its arguments, nor clear in its statements.
Who but MIR. Adams could have stopped TO introduce
into grave State paper hit at President Tyler,
through his Philadelphia dinner-pariy letter." Or,
who but the author of I" Dermot McMurough,n Tor
the author Of the Ebony and Topaz toast) would be
guilty of the vile taste of far traveseng of
the poets quaint and humorous passages TO speak
Of the Z" Government forever heaping million upon
million of annual expenditures 10 sickie armies and
dry the land ?-that is TO say, dr-nurse the land
for the support of the wet navy, presume. But
the beauty of MIR. Adams's report is that il arrives
at the lame and lmpotent conclusion" of proposing
to expunge the veto power from the Constitution,
when but few months since, this very consistent
politician denounced the proposition, when brought
forward by Mr.. Clay, calculated to destroy the
Constitution. So much for the author of the or
~ report OF the ten Wings out oil the thirteen
mittee men
Fortunately for the of truth these three De-
mocraiic Committee men contained more real talent
in the composition, than their ten Wing colleagues,
with the redoubtable John q Adams at the head of
them We are indebted to them for too rep0ts-either
of which is more than sufficient to overthrow the
giant report OF the maJory-and to furnish arguments,
to address appeals to the public mind, which carry
with them more moral power than is to be found in
| the champion and pensman of the Wing party. Mr..
Gilmer's report follows Mr. Adams's. 1t is an adj
| mirable paper-calm in IFS temper-dignihed in its
manner, and able in its positions Mr. lngersols re-
port is in the happiest vein of the author of Inche-
gums Leters-racy in its humor recherche in its his
| torcal illusions, commanding in its arguments, and
powerfully addressing itself to the best and wisest,
and patriotic sentiments Of the whole country With
what prophetic Inspiration does it warn the recre-
ant Wings of the mschiefs which they are bringing
upon their heads if they should refuse to raise
the necessary supplies for the support of the Govern
ment. 1t tells them, in language which no man can
vertebrate in awful echoes through the whole breadth
Of this Republic
The undersigned discern, with deep dsapproval,
that the report Of the majority of this committee in
conformity with The votes of its chairman strenuous
y argues distribution of the public lands TO pay the
| debts OF the States This is not the occasion de-
| velop the dangers Of that much condemned scheme
In preference for another and much better nearly all
Congrs coincide in opinion with the Pres dent and
| the people, VIZ: that immediate relief would proceed
| from moderate, discriminating, permanent Tariff
| Why is 1t not a law 7 Why may it not be at once
Who hinders IL z Is party passion to prevail or mag
| unanimous patriotism The undersigned will no,
doubt, even though perhaps doomed to dsappoint,
| ment.
"This mortal issue, feast by Congress upon an in,
jured, nsuted, oppressed and outraged people, may
! return, with dread responsibility, with deep damna.
ton, to plague the inventors of such mischief"