The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-12-05
THE INrELLIGEN Err AND THE PRESl-
DENT

a,t,ek ,h,. President aud the Administration
every dsy in The name of The Wings Of the
conntry. and do every thing, and, since Sep
rember, ls4l, have done every hing IN their
mower 10 sci all the Wings in the country against
The President constantly complain, neverthe-
less, or more properly speaking, constantly iret
aud scold, at what they consider the efforts OF
the Administration 10 conciliale the favor and
respect Of the other party. The Inlelligencer
would have the Wings be against the President,
but at the same time would have the Presiden,
be for the Wings.
Not unirequenlly il reprobates, in the harshesi
terms, what it peases 10 call "cooing and
courtship between the President and the Demo
cratic party +" 10 the very same columns in which
il accumulates, from its own coinage or other
sources, epithets Of reproach and conlumely
against the President, such as never found their
way into that paper before, as applied to the
Chief Magistrate of the country, IN the forty
years Of its existence.
In all this the Intelgencer only follows the
leaders Of the Manifesto Wing, whose conduct
in this respect, we must say has been charac-
d
rance.
1t is fit that the People should always keep
in mind the general outline Of the history OF the
discussion between the President and the Wing
leaders Of the present Congress
Both the President and the Wing members of
the present Congress came into power on the
same tide Of popular opinion, in 1910. BY the
h. ,,,ti,.
thorty devolved on the present President, and
the power of Congress, as all the world knows,
was welded by Mr.. Clay. Difficulties and dis
sessions arose. MIR. Clay urOuld mol take Mr..
Eaping's bill for 4 Bank, and the President neg
atived two subsequent blls In this state OF
things the Wings assembled in the Capitol
square, on the 18Th of September, and pro
scribed the President! This is the whole
story, briefly told. 1t has been said that only
some forty or fifty members attend the meet
ing. However that may have been, the meeting
purported TO be, "A MEETING OF THE " RiG
MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND OF THE House OF
REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE TWENTY SEVENTH
CONGRESS- % We believe it true that
there were many Wing, who did not al
tend the meeting and that some who did at
tend disap roved the proceeding but neither
the one class nor the other had courage TO MAKE
their absence or their dissent hnotrh. Ihev
allowed the proceedings to go forth as the pro-
ceedings of he Wigs of both Houses d Con-
gress We need not republish these proceed
ings; every body knows that in substance they
were violent denunciaiion OF the President,
ending with declaration that the most they
hoped for was that they might be able 10 check
at present some of The mischietS rhich, ander
a diferem state Of IMPURITIES, me Presidem
migat hare III e po'rer 10 impose.
Now, can any body wonder, after this. that
the President should withdraw his confidence
f---. wings of Congress? We say NE
Whigs Of Congress, because it is certain that
very many of the most respectable and patriotic
of The Wing party oM Of Congress, lamented
or reprobated all lhe.e proce, dlngs; and still
Continue 10 reprobate them, and 10 depore the
consequences which have flowed from them.
But the members Of Congress, those WHO con
Cured in This manifesto, and those who, not
concurrlng, lad not d. cision enough to make
their dissent known-is there any reas for all
o any of these to complain that the President
has Withdrawn his confidence from them
and given it TO others? And the Whis
presses which justified, and still justify, these
and other yet more hostile and violent proceed
ings against the Presden,-wi,h what face can
thy arraign the President for being untrue to
them and their friends in manfesting desire to
tn, ow himself upon the country-upon The pat
riolic men Of all parti,s--for a reasonable sup
port of the measures of his Admin ,lraton?
Time has already shown how really ncon
siderable were the grounds upon which The lead
ing Wings in Congress wen, into this crusade
against the President. Time has already shown
how unimpor,ant, pactcally and really, the
measures were which threw them into such
fame. Who cares any thing, now, about the
Bank bills which were vetord in lS41? Or
who thinks now, that if there acre no such
thing as a Teio in the world, a Bank o.
the United S ates, upon the old models, could
be established
But our purpo'e is not, at present, to go int
an extended discussion upon these matters.
simply is, to present TO the view of the world.
the bald injustice and cool assurance, not to us
a stronger phrase, Of reviliug the President,
daily, in the Wing presses, and using every cp-
portunity 10 represent the breach between him
and the Wings TO be incurabe and, at til, |
sane time, vocIlerou,y finding iaulr, that he |
should think any body else worthy Of his conf |
dence but the leaders Of the Wing party.
The Presidents course, meantime, we are
quite sure, will be commendablc. His path is
difficult and thorny, but 1t is straight, and he wi
pursue it, unseduced and unternfied, by tht
ai{kruis w hich ,r.,ild him In a