The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-26
THE APPOR HILL--HYPOC-
RisY OF THE NATIONAL INTELLI-
CENCER-INsULT TO THE MEMORY
oE WASHINGTON.

slider necessary. The atrocious act of the
Wing members of the Legislature of that State,
and the bold and reckless support of that open
treason by the National Intelligencer and its
kindred prints, demand clear and dispassion-
ate review of the guilty deed, the conduct OF its
wicked perpetrators and the glorying OF It's
aiders and abettors. If rebellion is TO be openly
countenanced and encouraged by the trends OF
Mr. Clay, who securing heaven and earth 10
place him in power:-if destruction OF the or
ranic system of legislation is to be one of their
grand hobbies If the will of the State ma orl
ties is 10 be defed, abrogated and trampled in
the dust by the disgusting and loathsome rea-
son Of the minority then is II time for the
People to rouse from their slumbers and prepare
10 meet still more terrible attempt to place the
many under the control of the few by the esta-
blshment of monarchy.
For the last twelve months we have seen one
cloud after another rise in the political horizon,
and each successor larger, darker and more ter
rife than its precursor. We have seen them all
gather and burst upon the White House, while
the bolts of thunders roared from the Capitol,
and shook the Avenue from end to end We
have seen the whoe Pandemonium chatterng
fury from the Halls OF power; even appealing
TO open insurrection, and invoking the God Of
battles TO the unhoIy conflict.
The President signed the Apportionment bill
under an exposition of his reasons for SO doing.
Mr. Adams procured Select Committee on the
sonduct Of the Executive and denounced his
rrbf ,eH,, ha he
President saw the evils which Mr.. Adams would
not acknowledge, because it was part Of the
policy of the secret treaty of Client to produce
as much confusion as possible, that MIR. Clay
might be called, like Cincinnatus from the
plough, to the Office of Dictator, for the purpose
of restoring the country from the curse into
which his friends, with his connvance, had
conlrived TO throw it. twas Mr.. Adams policy
10 expand brilliant sophistry to lull the Peo
pie into fancied security, and throw veil of
eloquence over the corruption and rottenness by
which one ally has enjoyed the Presidency and
through which the other expects to be in like
manner blessed.
While these plots are terminating, the Janus
faced columns of the lntelligencer are sounding
the advance or retreat, as clrcums stances
quire, upon their organ Of dlscordant barrels.
Their dapasons are regulated by the tenn er of
their employers but without re- gard to harmony;
and iftheir discords be complained of, they excuse
their instrument at the expense of their mas
tiers.
To show how preposterous are their articles,
we will give extracts from two published at
different times, but upon the same subject,
and we shall place them side by side, that they
may be the more readily compared by the read
er who alone seeks truth The column below
marked "No. l." is taken from the Intelligen-
Ger Of July 26, 1912, and in it the editors de-
clare how much they fear that the Democrats
may set at defiance the Constitution by refusing
to district the States The extracts marked % No.
g." are from the Integencer of August "a,
1912, and from an article prefxed to an extract
from the address of the resigning Wing mem
bers of the Ohio Legislature. In these it will
be seen that the lntegencer justifes these re-
cusant Ohio Wings, for the very act it had de-
cared (not one month before) would be unconsi-
tutiona, ifperpetrated by the Democrats.
No. /. No 2.
From the Intetllgenc.r Of From the InteHigencer Of
J,lg 26. .4ug. "a, 1912.
We dare say there are The indignant thunders
some readers who may of Locoioco press, now
have thought the sugges- heard in peas OF denun-
ton of MIR. Adams, in his citation of act perfectly
report upon the Pres- innocent in Itself
dents reasons for signing
the Appointment act,of
the existence of embryo To resign an office is to
designs for defeating the do act admitted by all
execution of that act to to be lawful per in It,
have been unkind and self the act IS consistent
harsh, rather than In every particular with
natural and probable the principles OF public
We confess that our eyes and p1Uate morality, and
first opened by that violates no legal corsti
report to the possibility tutionai duty. Ii stands
ofany serious design to re- justified by the example
sist eudde the provisions Of Udshington and by
Of the .4pportionmet act. the pure and patriotic of
Already however, we our land, IRON the earli-
have evidence that Mr.. est days of the Republic
Adams is right, and that, to the present time In
In the rage and Jury o. deed, so lar Is resignation
party zeal 1t Is quite pos oil ONCE from being view
sble that attempt may ed as crime or calam-
be made to break doicn the ity that could many
barriers of the Constitution po,oer be persuaded to
by outrage yet more initiate the example OF
violent than that perpe the Wing members OF the
trated in the of the Ohio Legislature, they
New Jersey election would, by such an In
The evidence to which stance of seltdentdl, con-
refer is the follow Ter lasting benefits on their
ing significant paragraph country.
from one of the most Was it wrong in the
thorough going Locoioco Wing members of the
papers in the Union, Ohio Legislature to re-
which boldly avows the sign at the time and IN
design to sci at defiance the manner they did? Ii
the Constitution and the is incontestibie that they
La,c and take the chance violated no ta'o.
Of having majority Of ITS
party IN the neat
House Of Represent atiues TO
stand by The iniqtity.
The first idea the Integencer had of any
serious design to evade the law was from a
Democratic paper; and the editors then thought
that the "fury Of party zeal might break down
the barriers of the Constitutions" in the belief