The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-12-29
MEN AND MEASURES.

What the next two years may bring forth, may
be onjec,ured. The President, We contend,
hss done more for the country during the last two
years, than was ever accomplished by any Chief
Magistrate in the same length of time. What
he has done will not only be fraught with imme
date good, but will confer its benefits on future
generations.
President Tyler is Democratic Republican
of the patriotic stamp-not a modern cantng
Demagogue. The measures he proposes are
not party measures-neither does he oppose
any measures on mere party grounds. He
looks 10 the good of the rAole country in all his
acts. This no man can deny. His conduct,
since his accession to The Presidency, affords
too many proofs Of the justice of the assertion
TO admit Of doubt
Ii the Bentonan Destruc,iyes could procure
the passage of an unconstitutional or unjust
law, President Tyler would veto it with as little
hesitation, and as little regard of consequences
10 himself, as he did The ultra Wing Distribu-
ton Tariff bill. He has done, and will continue
to do, precisely what he conceiyes to be RIGHT,
relying implicitly on the intelligence, honesty,
aud justice Of the People (nol party) to guard
his reputation from injury
But the greatest good which The President has
accomplished, is The prospective publication Of
the body polite, growing out OF the present
chaotic condition Of parties, which may be justly
attributed 10 the upright and fearless course
which he deemed it incumbent on him to adopt.
Both parties needed reform, and yet the mod
Of III -
throw of the yoke Of their leaders (who live
upon party corrupion) until the Chief Magis-
trate evinced a determination to espouse the
cause Of the masses in the struggle against the
political Patricians. Since the President
espoused the cause Of the People, they have
proved victorious in every contest. And now
that the People have experienced the benefits Of
being rid of party diclators, it is prepos,erous
to suppose that they will ever again submit to
their arbitrary control. Hence we may expect
greater prosperity and happiness hereafter than
has hitherto been vouchsafed us.
Any one who will contrast the present con-
dition of parties with that of 1899, will at once
see the astonishing effect produced by the hon
est efforts of the People and President of the
old school. Bank or Sub Treasury, Tariff or
anti Tariff, were the great questions which but
few years ago divided the whole People into
two distinct and conendng parties. How the
scene has changed Notwithstanding the ef-
forts of the party leaders and the ultra presses
to the contrary, the great mass Of the People
have almost completely compromised their party
differences. The advocates of National
Bank have abandoned the project as an
"obsolete idea" The very originators of
the Sub-Treasury, acknowledge that they
do not desire TO see that scheme re-
vived precisely as it existed when it was con-
demned in 1910 by such ian overwhelming ma
jority Of the People of the United States At
the last session we beheld the more moderate of
both parties in Congress voting for the Tariff,
while the ultras of both sides united against it,
Thus we will see the masses joining in support
Of the Administration hereafter, while the ultra
leaders of both parties will combine against
Them Some of our friends at first hootcd at
an offensive alliance against the Administration
They did not reflect that Mr.. Benton and Mr.. |
Adams united in opposition to the Tariff!
However far the subjects of Tariff and Cur
rency are from being settled at present, we have1
ample evidence that, if the Presidents recon-
mendations were adopted, they would be spec
Oily adjusted according to the wishes of the |
People. A Revenue Tariff, and an Excheauer,
as he describes them in his Messages, would sa-
tisfy the moderate men of all parties. Now the
moderate men of all parties have only to organ
ise-AND 1T WILL BE DoNE-to carry these two
principal bones of contention among the ultra
leaders. And we repeat, What we assert !
ed in our Mondays paper, that this immense
mass Of honest and, moderate citizens, will not
be a " third party" Was ii third party that
passed the Tariff last SUMMER Were there
three parties in Congress? No. as it was then,
so il will be again-the Behtonans will unite
with the Clay men, just as the Globe now unites
with the Federal National Iltelligencer.
1t is such movements on the part of the mo-
derate classes-the true Republicans-which
strike the greatest terror in the breasts of the
ultra leaders. The party dictators grow alarm
ed on beholding the mighty masses recedinc
from them. The power of the ultra leaders is |
obtained only in party excitement and party
warfare, and when these subside they are shorn
of their locks Hence their constant anxiety TO |
produce political eYcitements.
The Globe and Mr.. Benton, and the Intelli- |
cancer and Mr.. Bolts, have failed in their com
bined efforts to incense the country against the
President. The People are fast receding from
the arrogant leaders. Ere long the honest and
rational men of both parties will become con-
sohdated, and then union will take place be
tween the extremes Of parties. The first will
sustain the AdniDistration-ihe last will not
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