The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-18
THE RHODE ISLAND DIFFICULTY
THE DEMAGOGUES.

was so palpably manifest as al the present ma
ment. Adventurous demagogues have no end
In view but sef-aggrandisement They labor
exclusively for selfish purposes. They are heed.
less OF the general welfare, if lis attainme,,,
does not promote indiridual interests This.
the secret Of the Globes hostility TO the AL.
ministration. That paper is the organ of tbs
Destructives. The few must triumpb a. u,
expense of the many. These Jacobn leader.
must maintain their power at all hazards And
this can only be done by keeping some enemy
IN view for the purpose of attack. If the en-.
envy is upright and unassailabe in his princlpe,
and practices, he must be misrepresentation
doctrines must be imputed 10 him so that hemay
be continual target for the shafts of the adyen.
| turers. Party peace would be fatal to these
Desuuctives. They live by the political sword
and they are never at loss to make false issues
with the peaceably disposed.
| The alarming aspect which the Rhode
Island difficulty has assumed is the work Of
these Destructives. And if an amicabe al.
justment of the affair is prevented-if blood
must flow in servile war-the responsibility
will rest with the demagogues ont Of Rhode
Island.
When the late President was snatched from
earth, the act was generally regarded a. the in
terpostion Of Divine Providence, for wise and
benefcent purposes. The God which had pro.
tected US during the perils of the Revolution.
and conducted us in safety far on the highway
to national prosperity-thus evincing to the
world that America enjoyed His peculiar favor
again interposed in our behalf, that we Nigh,
be rescued from the fatal effects of internal
partisan fury.
The president without party has his des-
tiny to fulfil The end is not yet Sore trials
are to be encountered, and great evils are 10 b.
overcome. The disease of Demagoguisnl is
deep-rooted, and cannot be eradicated in day
Yet the decree Of Jehovah must and will b.
| fulfilled
The violent struggles Of the Destructives OF
which the Globe is the organ, is a symptom
that the remedy is at last reaching the heart of
the cancer Though imperceptbe at first, the
novel course pursued by the present Republican
Administration is now obviously tearing down
the landmarks Of the late contending parties.
Both parties will be remodelled, and the third,
if there is to be third party, will merely con
sist Of the ercreScenceS, the scabs and sores
extracted from the regenerated body polite
| This party will be headed by the Globe, and the
respective organs Of Mangum, Clay Benton
| Bolts, and Arnold.
Our destiny must be fulfilled. Though the
march OF regeneration and reform is opposed a
every step by the articles of the delnagogues, its
su cess has been ordained by Omnipotence and
opposition will be bootless.
tits by no means surprising that the Destruc-
lives have labored to give threatening shape
to the Rhode Island difficulty. The object wa,
to throw stumbling block in the way of the
President. They perceived that his course
would ultimately destroy all the cobweb fabrics
OF ambitious aspirants, and ON the preservation
of these their own existence depends Some
thing must be interposed to force the President
to take issue, that they may be able to rally
their old rank and file once more, TO arrest the
progress Of an old-fashioned Republican Execu.
tive in these modern times The difficulty
must be kept Up. 1t must be sustained or the
President will soon have the great body of the
People with him! Such is the motive Ths
is the reason why the demagogues have labored
so asslduously to Prerent an adjustment OF the
Rhode Island difficulty. And now they are
sangune of success-barring accidents or an
other interposilion of Providence. Certain we
are, that if information was brought TO the
Capitol to-day that the difficulty was actually
adJusted,-the Destuctives would either re.
sign or make an attempt to impeach the Pre-
sident.
But, what has the President done in the Pre-
misses, that the demagogues should attempt 70
cast odium on him2 In his replies to Goycrnor
King, he has merely stated what it will be h,
duty to do In certain emergencies. He has
quoted the letter of the Constitution. Woul.
the Destructives strike the first blow at the Con
stitution2 Would they destroy that instruments
rather than see their unhoy partisan schemes
frustrated? True, the Constitution says Re
publican Government shall be guaranteed to all
the States. But, does it say the Federal Go
vernment shall make them for the States
Rhode Island was one of the old "thrteenN
Its charter government was recognised as the
legal government when the compact was enter
ed into And shall the Confederacy nor annul
it? Or shall that portion of the Federal Con
stitution relating to Instructions now be cons
dered dead letter Undoubtedly not, the de
magogues to the contrary notwithstanding.
But, in UNFOLDING the Constitution, does Il
follow that the President is opposed to the sue
cess of the Suffrage Party2 BY no means. II (.
they forma majority of the voters of the State he
desires, as ardenty as any one, that all then egI-
innate and legal efforts to establish a new Con
stitution may, be successful Ect them ascff
tain to certainty that they form a MAJORITY
Then let them proceed pedceably to assert thr
" Il ~, al.