The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-08
From the Phil. Ledger.
PARTISAN EAI SL,uDDDS

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| From the Phil. Ledger.
PARTISAN FALSEHOODS.
We have already noticed and denied the charge
1 preferred against by the New York Courier and
Enquirer, of having sold influence to the Federal
/ Executive We will now offer word about the orr
gin Of this sandeI and the char acer of its authors
As reach tpeny readers where the Courier reaches
one, we doubt not that any Executive would regard
our support most respectfully and thankfully and
pport nohing but right take for pra tied that
the President Of the United States if an honest man,
and resolved to do right, would place much higher
value upon our support than upon that Of the whole
| partisan press, We may add that no honest man
would feel fattered by the support Of the Courier or
ony one Of the proflgete clique who control IT, We
supported and shall continue TO support the Presi
dents two petoes not for John Tylers sake but for
the sake ofthe country; and we reolced in them not
the instruments OF John Tylers political promotion,
but the Instruments OF saving the country from the
mischievou rule of foreign stockholders. We sup
ported Mr. Webster continuance in the Cabinet after
the flight of his associate secretaries, because we
thought thata difference of opinion between him and
the President upon a point belonging exclusively to
the President and Congress, sufficient reason
for his abandonment Of official duy We said then,
and now repeat, that Mr.. Webster decided like a
saesmen while the fugtves decided like parlisans
that his object was to serve the country faithfully and
efficiently the extent OF his ability, superinend-
ing its foreign relations, while theirs was, at least
| in appearance, to enbarrass the President Such
were first impressions of the Presidents vetocs
and Of the of the different officers of the first
Cabinet and these impressions have been confirmed
by all that has been done since, of political charac-
Ter, by the President, or either of the Secretaries or
the political friends and foes Of either.
The origin of this SANDER is twofold the envy of
profgate, deceiving, and almost bankrupt partisan
press and the revenge Of clique of greedy, disap-
pointed, unprincipled ofce-hunters, striving in the
hope Of grasping the spos" Of Office to aid the po.
litcal promotion of few gaming politicians The
partisan press is declining in all the cities The peo-
pie becoming thoroughly disguised with the gno-
rance the venaty, the contempt of truth which cha
racterize such papers the Courier and are turn
ing in Masses for correct information and sound OPT
Mons to the independent press. The conductors of
those declining Journals see that the penny papers,
daily gaining public support and respect and daily
drawing support from their own organs of exclusive
interests and to check this rapid revolution in pub
lie opinion they endeavor to fasen upon the indie
pendent press the charge of partisan connection
But these poor vpers bite file. They will never
| thrive by slandering the independent press. They
have destroyed themselves by their system of SANDER
upon public servants, and will retrieve their bro
ken fortunes by seeking new objects of SANDER. The
mischief is in the trade, and not in its objects The
cliques of disappointed Office hunters who control
such presses the Courier and the clique who con-
troll that paper especially, the avowed and bitter
enemies Of the President, because he would not APP
point them to Office, and because he would not CON
sent to the establishment of National Bank which
might supply them with the means of speculation
They are also the bitter enemies of Mr.. Webster be-
cause he consented to enter the cabinet and refused
to Join the fugitives from it. And why should they
hate and denounce and SANDER him for either of these
acts Because their object was to keep the control
| Of the cabinet, aud they knew that Mr. Webster
would not be their plant instrument and might be
the rival Of some candidate of their own for the Pre-
| sdency.
Fney knew that General Harrison, whose tho
| rough honesty of purpose was not united with the
most acute udgmen of character would be easily ir-
| M ed v IF
| site compile xon and they know that Mr.. Webster
understood them well to be deceived terrified by
the n, and would often nerpose imself shield
between the President and theiI mischievous designs
Hence their strenuous efforts to exclude him from me
Cabinet and their rage when those efforts
vaIng. But not until the flight Of the first Cabine,
upon the refoes, and the refusal of MIR. Webster L.,
join the ugitives did their rage burst all bounds Of
decency. From this flight, this Hygira, which the
honest portion of the country ought venerate the
! Turks do the fight of Mahomet, for it is the com
mencement of the country freedom from the rule OF
foreign stock jobbels, these enraged politicians have
conducted open and Incorporating war upon
Mr., Webster for the purpose of driving him from the
Cabinet. They believe that while in his present po.
sition he is formidable rival to any candidate for the
Presidency ION whom they expect the ''spols of vic
tory;" and though his prospects or means of reaching
the Presidency not our concern, we shall enter
into partisan contests, yet free TO declare
that they equal at least to those OF any candidate
whom his proaga,e slanderers do or will support
Nothing in their nature could lead them TO support
any thing better than selfish, INSCRIPTIONS partisan
who regarded the Presidency merely an instrument
of personal ambition and not Inst ument OF be-
neit TO the country or mankind.
But why should the malignant hostility Of these
disappointed otfce-hunters to Mr.. Webster or the
President mpel them to ISLANDERS upon the independent
press As we have already said, we have defended
the Presidents veoes, Mr. Websters refusal to aban-
don his duty in the cabinet, and have recently de-
Tended him against the foul ibes of these prohgacs
,eIt Infn
but speak daily to large bodies Of intelligent
and honest men, and always speak truth, they are in
huentia enough to make them tred Bile.
And who conducts the paper in which this SANDER
Of the independent press appearss One whom we
have had frequent occasion to MENTION when speak
ing of murders, riots libels, and other crimes fol
which he snotorious, and who stands before the pub
lie under the dlsgraceful mputation of brbery by
swinding institution. The charge of BRIBERY comes
with good grace from him And who is his au-
thorityi Some skulking iabricaor of ISLANDERS in
Washington who is employed by venal press to IL
bel every high public servant who will not be the in
srument OF some political ''backleg'sn designs upon
the Presidency We speak decidedly of such people
because we have had abundant opportunities of wit
Messing their baseness, aud have always regarded il
with oathing. And one proof in this poor calumn
ator's opinion, OF the bargain between the President
and the independent press, was the ciyility of tn,
former to proprietor of the latter, in recent visit
to Washington In reply we say that the President
is civil to all and reasonably attentive to every per
son who conducts himself with proprety, and thai
those connected with the "penny pressr have moi
earned the reputation for mobs, riots libels muir
ders, bribery, gambling, and other things which have
rendered the Courier and its kindred 50 conspicuous
Another OF his proofs is the appearance of govern
mental advertisements in the New York Sun If the
object OF advertising be publicity, the government
merely discharges its duty to the country by employ
ing as advertising organs the papers of most extern
slye circulation; and every body in New York knows