The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-27
MR.. ADAMS.

A true patriot and good man will merge all
his personal resentments and his private griets
in the absorbing and controlling desire for his
country's good. What does it matter to him
who has offended his vanity, or disappointed his
ambition, when the deep and thrilling interests
of his country are at stake2 How cheerfully
and magnanimously he lays all private and sell
fish considerations upon the altar of his coun-
try and. in the eager and ardent desire to pro-
mote its highest and most permanent good, does
he forget that he has ever cherished personal
animosity, or that he has any private revenge to
crafty. How elevated is such a position !
How magnanimous such career! How great
how venerable such man
What pleasing duty would it be to pro-
nounce Mr.. Adams such man. Such fame
it was within his power to secure, and to In
scribe his name upon the brightest records of his
country's history as the wisest of her statesmen
and the most generous and magnanimous OF her
benefactors His walks might have been on the
high mountains of his country's greatness,
whence he might have beheld and not mingled
in the storm and the tempest that ragged below
His might have been the sacred duty to have re-
buked the storm, to have hushed the angry tenn
pest.
Not so with Mr. Adams. Virginia had given
another Republican President to the Union. 1t
was enough for Mr.. Adams that Virginia had
defeated the House Of Braintree, that her JEFF
ferson had defeated the elder Adams, and that
when the defamer of Jefferson, and the au-
thor of dusky SAIL" was candidate for that
high office, John Randolph, and the whole pha-
lanx of the Democracy of the Old Dominion,
came to their country's rescue against him. If
no bargain between him and the Lord of Ash
land were TO be consummated, the long cherish
ed animosties and inveterate prejudices Of
Mr. Adams would still be excited against Vir-
hand and his agitated frame would be seen on
the arena of fierce debate and angry discussion !;
and the phrenzied and maniac violence of bitter
ly disappointed ambition would proclaim that
all the high attributes of the statesman and the
patriot were lost in the angry passions and the
the bigoted and vndictive Federalist.
The Old Dominion has ever raised her voice
against the Federalism Of Braintree, and hence,
if President Tyler had been as pure as an an
gel, he could not have escaped the bitter ,Oppo-
sition of Mr.. Adams. In opposition TO the Pre-
sident, he can war against Virginia he can as
sail the Democracy of the Union, and he can
seek to carry out the memorable bargain be-
tween himself and Mr.. Clay
In the struggle of the Democracy against the
powers Of Federalism, Thomas Jefferson was
opposed by the elder Adams, as, in the present
struggle, between Federalism and Democracy,
John Tyler is opposed by the younger Adams.
Thomas Jefferson, the great Apostle Of human
liberty, sustained the same relation to the great
Democratic cause that Mr.. Tyler now sustains !;
and, in after ages, the name of John Tyler will
be proudly associated with that of Thomas JEFF
ferson.
1t will be his happy lot to re-unite the old
Democratic family Mr.. Clay, when he fell
like Lucifer drew with him many an honest
man from the Democratic ranks; and from
time to time, many good and true men were Sc
paratng on some question of policy, and per-
haps of comparatively minor importance. The
courage and independence of the President, in
planting himself on the broad Democratic plat
form, has presented desirable opportunity for
full and cordial reunion of all the branches of
the great Democratic family. Such an union
cannot be resisted by the House Of Brainree
must fall and with him Mr.. Adams and old
Federalism.
Then let Mr.. Adams rave-let him raise the
voice tremuous with age, and in maniac despe-
ration appeal to the God of battles-let him pour
out the boarded bitterness of long cherished pri-
vate griefs, and the offensive venom Of long dis
appointed ambiton-let him be the fierce mas
ter spirit in scenes of mad and Jacobin confu-
sion and violence, in which desperate and tur-
bulent majority forget the high dictates of the
duty the solemn obligation Of patriots, and the
loud and thrilling cry from an embarrassed and
mon purpose, and obey only the fell and
cruel command of the one fierce and Unsuitable
desire REVENGE! Let Mr.. Adams, now in the
evening of his days, bow down before this dark
and furious deity, and away from the altar. of
his country, away from her sacred and honored
shrine, away from the wisdom, the gravity, and
the influence of venerated age-lel him pour
out before her the meet and acceptable offering
of angry violence, mixing bitterness, fend-lke
hate The Presidents position is that Of his
countrys good, and his panoply is the conf
dence of vrtuous People.
THE BALL IN MOTION.
The People are rousing from their ethargy
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