The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-21
CRITICAL NOTICES.

i CRITICAL NOTICES.
The CRISIS THE REMEDY, by Pubus, New
York, lS42.-The above is the title of pamphlet OF
~ pages, which has JUS. made its appearance, pur-
porting to have been called forth by the crisis" OF
the times. " Publius" has certainly much 10 learn
before setting up regular PRACTITIONER licentiat tie
pescriber of remedies for all the ills that Govern
ment is heir to. As yet should take him to be a
mere quack-a Thompsonan in finance who would
feign steam the country to death under the regimen
of another National Bank.
What glorious " Universal Yankee nation" we
are to be sure not the Sigh commotion occur
in the moral, intellectual OF physical world-not a
crisis" in the financial, commercial or political, but
that host of protecting spirits spring spontaneous
from the midst Of the people, like Minerva from her
fathers brain, armed, capa-pt to do battle for their
country cause, prescribe " remedy" which can
not fail prove "real blessing mothers "a 'sootl-
ing syrup" tothe nation.
But, TO Publius and his remedy hear him" The
only question before the people for many years past,
has been the settlement OF the currency, and
complsh that important object by putting down the
Sub Treasury system and substituting National
Bank the end and aim of the exertions and hopes
of the PEOPLE" Does Pubus dare to presume
that the issue of the glorious campaign of ls40 by
which wong was put down and right reinstated, was
made upon the question OF Bank or no Bank ~
1t is the miserable twaltle of the day that was
no more the question than was g War or no War"
with Eng land Perhaps in New York and some of
the other larger Atlantic cites such idea may have
been entertained by few deeply designing polili-
clans; but how was il all the large middle and
western States, among the strong armed hard listed
| yeomanry 2" What said the Address of the Vir-
| ginia Wing State Convention What said that of
Ohio, of Indiana Of the congregated hosts Tippe-
canoe, Dayton, Fort Meigs, ay, and Of Bunker Hill
These questions commend to the consideration
| Of Publius, aud trust hereafter we shall hear no
more of such vile reflections as " the Wing party has
been betrayed" This is entirely too late day for
| uitraism in finance and politics combined, and il We
| are not most egregously mistaken, think the
People wlllpu u VETO upon it more emphatic and
enduring than has could ever be done by the one
| man power" We opne that Pubus' and his
visionary co-workers for National Bank will find it
no easy task to convince the country that the late
strugge was decisive in behalf Of such an institution
and were we endowed with the spirit of prophecy we
would venture to predict that ia less than twelve
months, instead of finding the popular mind infu-
enced by the miserable cry" the Wing party has
been betrayed, to find majority of all good and
true raying around the betrayer" as the standard
of their hopes and eager for the time when they will
be able to give conclusive demonstrations of their
attachment to his principles and his course In con-
clusion, we will give word of advice to all such
thinkers as Publius"-bemare of the poisoned
chaicc.
| MoRRlsoNs STRANGER GUIDE To WAsHNGToN -
OF the many excellent books which this enterprisne
publisher has thrown before the reading public none
are deserving of greater cammendation and none we
venture say will afford general satisfaction
than the one bearing his name above
To strangers visiting the metropolis there no one
greater of annoyance and Inconvenience than
90 be made conversant with public edifces-,he
highways and byways Of the city of magnificent
distances, as the eccentric genius of Roanoke was
wont to call it,
1t is true many minor publications, similar in cha
racer TO the one under consideration, have from time to
time, made their appearance bu, like Congressional
Directories seemed endowed with vitality only for the
season which give them birth In this "Guile, how
ever, We have something enduring. Its full
though succlnc description of all the Government
buildings, its beautiful representations of Mt Yer
non, Alexandra, Georgetown, the Little Falls Bla-
densburg, Congressional Buryng Ground, &C., &c,
all the finest steel engravngs render far superior to
any similar work ever before published in his mcri-
dian. Its typographical execution is beautiful while
the admirable views of the Capitol, the President 5
House, and all the most important of the lublic
buildings, bring before the eye of distant readers the
exact form and appearance Of our national edfces
In short, it is just SUCH book every person who
visits Washington, should have, as well as every one
who leaves, that he may exhibit Ito distant friends
places, which should be familiar to every Ameri-
can, as household scenes,-the place where lived
died and lies entombed, He who frsi in war
first in peace and first in the hearts his country
men"