The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-23
ABUSE OF THE PRESIDENT.
From The ST. Louis Gazette.


From the Madisonian we copy the following ex-
tract from an article in the Richmond Wing, address
ed from Lynchburg to a member of the Virginia Lee
gislature
"The accident of an Accident; famshed Charles
CITY pettyfogger whom Nature never intended TO ele-
vae above the trial Of ten dollar warrants upon pam
cases. a man destitute of intellect and integrity,
whose name is the SYNONYM of nihu and one whose
very face nature has placed her stamp OF lnsighln
canoe and inferorty very sucker, full grown ana
full blooded such man, base, selfish, and perfld-
GUS; whose faith is broken pledges; whose honor is
treachery, and whose conscience, about lhe tendeT-
of which he has so much enlightened the world
is his ruling love of office. Such man, so mlser-
able thing can be called man unsupported by
either of the great parties of the country; held IN
execration by the and contempt by the other ;
and used by corrupt cabal, for the vest party pur
poses, at the expense OF the great interests OF te
country caioed and circumvented and fooled by nat
terers ministered to by lick-sptes and surrounded
by epers; such miserable thing in tree America
presides over the Republic ike vast nightmare and
doctors the body polite with his vetoes, with the as
sumed authority Of Russian Autocrat spreading ms
ukase through his dominions and bids defiance to his
former friends and an overwhelming majority OF hi
teen millions of freemen making even the test OF
patriotism itself and the passport to office, adhesion
to him. o for whip in every honest hand, to lash
the rascal naked through the word3"
The Richmond Wing is strong partisan paper
and is not usually sparing of invective we might,
therefore, expect it to be rather violent IN Its treat
ment of the President whose urse 1t dsapproves
But the above furious trade full OF vituperation,
SO overrunnng with abuse is really too outrageous to
deserve place even in the Richmond Wing. We
are always careful not to speak as partisan But
we may, without offence, declare it as our opinion
that the President of the United States should
be assaed in such language except upon the gravest
provocaton that nothing can excuse 1t, but such
open, palpable and fragrant maconduct as would JUS
ty articles of impeachment against him.
Can it be either polite or just to assall the Chief
Magistrate the Union, in this manner Can 1t be
Just Can it be possible that John Tyler man
who has been in public life, in the most elevated ana
responsible situations for many years; and whom
large party, comprising majority OF our people, have
fit to place in position next to the highest Ia
our Government an elevation to which presupposes
fitness for that highest, is possible, we ask, tha
he can deserve the ephets heaped upon him by TINS
correspondent of the Richmond Wing
Is it polite thus to outrage his feelings and the
feelings of those who may be attached to his person,
or friendly to his policy What is gaineds
Ifthere ever was time when the different parties
into which our country divided, should feel the ne
cessity of concession, forbearance and union, that
time is now At home and abroad, clouds lower and
the storm threatens. A calm wisdom, warm and
earnest vet intelligent and forecasting patriotism
without violence and freed from every impurty o
faction are the characteristics which should now dis
tingush the American press and people.