The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-27

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lntelligencer in its contradictory statements, bu
the contradictions there mentioned occurred
nearly one month apart. We did not expec
these foreigneditors; after leaping clear over the
fence Ia month, To jump back again IN two
days; yet, on opening their paper yesterday
we found they had, at single bound, lighted
precisely on the same spot whence they origl-
nally started on Mr.. Adams report
The Intelligencer is now very fearful that
| Congress will break up in row-that ON Mon
day next so many of the Wing majority will
absent themselves that there will be no quo
probably the House. Now this the Intelli-
gencer stigmatises as a disgrace TO the country,
and assumes that its bare notice of the fact will
prevent an occurrence so outrageous. SO then,
the foreign EDITORS at last acknowledge that
their dictate to the American Congress will
prevent members from disgracing themselves
ltlikewise coniesses and boasts that il inliu-
ences the movements of members, and can ac-
tually prevent gross outrage upon the Consul
tuition. Now, if the editors of that paper pos
sess such unbounded power, why did not one
of them, with his additional powers as Mayor
rowdies from their disgraceful serenade Of The
Chief Magistrate of the Union about one year
since2 Why did not the editors prevent Mr..
Bolts from Offering his articles of Impeachment
after they had condemned them2 We might
ask, why did they not prevent Mr.. Arnold and
his friends voting away $4,000 for old books,
but this inquiry nigh; appear personal, and we
merely note it and pass on; because such an
interference on the part OF that honest paper,
might make the editors appear as if they had
"condescended too far"
But how stand the facts of the Intelligencer's
erudie and consistent editorias2
Let US examine little. On the Goth OF July,
they pronounced the act OF deserving Legisla-
tive body decidedly unconstitutional an out
rage; a disgrace
August 24th-they declared such an act per-
fectly within the line Of the Constitution, and
involving no moral or political crime.
August 26th--they insisted that such mea-
sure would be a disgrace to the country.
Bennett, of the Herald, squints terribly from
one eye, and he declares that it was caused by
watching the changes Of MIR. Van Buren, but
should he endeavor to follow the tergiversalions
OF the lntelligencer, he would loose both eyes
and be totally blind, in less than a month. The
majority Of Congress ought to publish some sort
of index telling on which side of the fence their
printers will be about every three days of the
sion No doubt the editors would cheerfuly
make up such an important document for the
sake of the printing
In reading the late numbers OF our contempt
raries' paper, we could not help contrasting them
with one of the primer stories sung to us by
our nurse; and had the intelligent writer of
those delicious verses lived in the present day
and published his composition, no doubt would
rest on the mind of an observant reader but that
the writing editor of the lntelligencer sat for
the picture SO glowingy handled. We will con
clude by giving only two verses of that justly
celebrated poem, and they run thus:
There u man in our town,
And he was wonJrcus wise,
He jumped into bnar bush,
And scratched out both his eyes.
And when he his eyes were out,
With all his might and main,
He Jumped into another bush,
And scratched them in again"
Where, oh where, will the Inteligencer
jump to morrow2