The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-08

barely have fuel enough to carry her back to Eng
land. This would take her from to days. So
that she would reach Liverpool about Goth Dist.
Allow her days to repair, get fuel and stores, she
could not depart before the Oath Give her then Is
days out, she would not be due here until lth or 10Th
instant. Il.
From the Phil. Ledger.
PARTISAN FALSEHOODS.
We have already noticed and denied the charge
preferred against us 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 chala Of its authors
As reach tpety readers wherethe Courier reaches
one, we doubt not that any Executive would regard
our support most respectfully and thankfully and
support nothing but right take for gra tied that
the President of the United States if an honest man.
and resolved to do right, would place much higher
value upon support, than upon that Of the whole
partisan press. We may add that honest man
would feel 1attered by the support of the Courier or
ony one Of the profigute clique who control it. We
supported, and shall continue to support the Presi
dents two pstoes, not for John Tylers sake, but for
the sake ofthe country and we rejoced in them,
the instruments of John Tylers political promotion
but the instruments of saving the country from the
mischevous rule of foreign stock obbers We sup
ported Mr. Websters continuancein the Cabinet after
the flight Of his associate secretaries, because
thought that difference Of opinion between him and
the President, upon point belonging exclusively to
the President and Congress- no sufficient reason
fOr MS abandonment OF Onclal 0uy. w SAID then,
and now repeat, that Mr.. Webster decided like a
aesmep while the fugitives decided like parsans ;
that his object to serve the country faithfully and
efficiently, to the extent of his ability in superntend-
ing its foreign relations, while theirs was, at least
in appearance, to enbarrass the President. Such
first Impressions of the Presidents vetoes,
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
the political friends and foes of either.
The origin Of this SANDER is twofold the envy of
profigate, deceivng, and almost bankrupt partisan
press, and the revenge of clique Of greedy, disap-
pointed, unprnciped ofice-hunters, striving in the
hope of graspng the "spos" of Office to aid the pc.
ltcal 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 venalty 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 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 fasten upon the indie
pendent press the charge of partisan connection
But these poor vipers 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 not 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 as the Courier, and the clique who con
troll that paper especially are the avowed and bitter
enemies Of the President, because he would not APP
point them Ito office, and because he would not con-
sent to the establishment of National Bank which
might supply them with the means Of speculation
They 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, and they knew that MIR. Webster
would not be their plant instrument, and might be
the rival of some candidate Of their for the Pre-
sdency.
They knew that General Harrison, whose tho
rough honesty of purpose not united with the
most acute judgmen Of character, would be easily iT
posed upon, If surrounded by politicians of the requi
site complexion and they know that Mr. Webster
understood them too well to be deceived terrified by
them, and would often interpose himself as shield
between the President and their mschievous designs.
Hence their strenuous efforts to exclude him from the
Cabinet, and their rage when those efforts were una
vailing But not until the flight of the first Cabinet
upon the uetoes, and the refusal of Mr. Webster to
join the fugitives did their rage burst all bounds of
decency. From this flight, this Hydra, which the
honest portion Of the country ought to venerate as the
Turks do the flight of Mahomet, for it is the con-
mencement of the countrys freedom from the rule of
foreign stockholders these enraged politicians have
conducted open and incorporating upon
Mr. ebster, 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 spolls of VIC
tory and though his prospects or means of reaching
the Presidency are not our concern as We shall enter
into no partisan contests, yet we are free TO declare
that they equal at least to those of any candidate
whom his proflgate sanderers 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 instrument
of personal ambition, and not instrument of be-
neft to the country mankind.
But why should the malignant hostility Of these
disappointed ofice-hunters to Mr. Webster the
President impel them to ISLANDERS upon the independent
press' AS we have already said we have defended
the Presidents vetoes, Mr. Websers refusal to aban-
don his duty in the cabinet and have recently de-
Tended him against the foul libes of these profgaes
and these defences not only their condemnation,
but speak daily TO large bodies Of intelligent
and honest men, and always speak truth, they in
huential enough to make them treIbe.
And who conducts the paper in which this SANDER
of the independent press appears' One whom we
have had frequent occasion to mention, when speak
ing of MURDERS riots, libels, and other crimes for
which he isnotorous, and who stands before the pub
lie under the dsgraceful imputaton Of bribery by
swinding institution. The charge of bribery comes
with good grace from him And who is his al-
thority' Some skulbing fabricator 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 "blacklegs" designs upon
the Presidency We speak decidedly of such people,
because we have had abundant opportunities of wit
Messing their baseness, and have always regarded it
with loathing. And one proof, in this poor calumni-
ators opinion Of the bargain between the President
and the independent press, the civility of the
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 that
those connected with the "penny press' have not
earned the reputation for mobs, riots libels, muir
ders bribery, gambling, and other things which have
rendered the Courier and its kindred conspicuous.
Another of his proofs is the appearance of govern
mental advertisements in the New York Sun. If the