The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-06-11
OUR COUNTRY.

OUR COUNTRY.
Even water wears away the rock" When
impending perils threaten the welfare of our
country, it becomes its defenders to make up for
any deficiency there may exist in numbers, by
zeal and perseverance. five are right in our
| conviction of the Importance of jealousy sus-
tanning the conservative policy of the present
Administrations course alike independent Of
the favor and maledictions of ultra party leaders
| we will certainly be successful in the end. If
our cause is just one, it will triumph, ulti-
mately, in spite of the odds against us. The
indomitable spirits of the Revolution set an ex-
ample to the world, which should never be lost
sight ofby men struggling in behalf of truth and
justice.
We have vowed to roll back the mountain of
misrepresentation and SANDER heaped upon an
honest and wise Chief Magistrate. We are
| aware that we are out-numbered hundred fold
by our enemies; we are conscious that thou
| sand pens are employed to counteract whatever
we may say yet we will speak on we will nei-
Their be silenced nor disheartened. If our thou
sand opponents are wrong, the millions will dis
cover it sooner than they might if fewer were
arrayed against US. There is a true standard
of justice in the breasts of the People, which is
indestructible. To this tribunal we carry our
appeal. We will be patient and untiring, and
hope on to the last.
We plead for a Chief Magistrate whose whole
heart is devoted to his COUNTRY We are OPP
posel by those who are devoted to MEN. We ad
vocate the cause of the MANY-though we con-
tend almost single-handed- They labor for the
benefit of the rEw-while they are host them
selves Through the dark clouds that lower
around us at present, we espy the bright CLEANS
of victory in the future. And shall we be dis
mayed No! Our heart may burst, but our
last cry shall be-RALLY IN BEHALF OF YOUR coUN-
TRY.
We ask the People to give the President a
fair tria'. Judge him by his acts. Aid him in
his endeavors to secure the prosperity of his
country. If the measures he recommends fail
in their operation, then scrutinize his wisdom and
honesty. But do not condemn him umtried.-
If his meditated acts are to be denounced be-
forehand, how are we to know that they would
not have been salutary, and proved highly be-
ne6cial to the People2
But Congress has already denounced both the
President and all the measures he has proposed.
Congress has the power to prevent the fruition
Of his measures. and it has been exercised
Thus all the important acts recommended by
the Executive have been defeated-defeated by
politicians, not tried and condemned by the
Tha oh H.,
for this--he did all that was in his power. If
the country has suffered for the want of prompt
and efficient Legislation, we invoke our fellow
citizens to visit the guilty with their blasting
indignation. Spare the innocent.
All men must acknowledge that Congress has
not only prevented the perfection ofthe measures
recommended by the President in conformity
with the provisions of the Constitution, but it
has neither originated nor passed any itself to
sub,er the interests of the People, unless, at
the same time, some party end was to be ac-
complished.
And Congress has been in session nearly
whole year, without doing anything. Will the
People take sides with Congress in the war
against the President? They cannot, will not
do tive know they will not, because they are
intelligent and honorable. We have an abd-
ing confidence in their friendship and support
as long as the Administration is upright and
just.
Mr.. Clay's partisans in Congress have perse-
cuted the President, and pursued his friends
with an unrelentng vengeance. Arnold, Bolts,
and other members of similar conceptions and
dispositions, have abused the Chief Magistrate
in the most offensive manner that the language
would permit, and then taken away from the
journal that defended him the small amount of
Executive patronage that had been left at the
disposal of the Presidents from the DAYS of Wash
ington. Messrs. Mangum, Archer, and others
in the Senate, have repeatedly applied the most
abusive and debasing epithets both to the Presi
dent and this paper Mr.. Benton brought for
| ward aresolution to compel us to say whence we
| derived material to make up our editorial de-
fence of the Administration. Mr. Davis had
us dragged before his committee to answer, on
compulson, who did or did not write for our pa
per, and who did or did not recompense our con-
tributors for their services. II is true our an
swers jumped with our inclination, or all the in
qusitoral force of Congressional tyrants could
never have extracted one irrelevant word from