The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-27
HERE AND NOT HERE.


We yesterday took occasion 10 show up the
Intelligencer in its contradictory statements, but
the contradictions there mentioned occurred
nearly one month apart. We did not expect
these foreign editors after leaping clear over the
fence in month, to jump back again IN two
days; yet, on opening their paper yesterday
we found they had, at a single bound lighted
precisely on the same spot whence they orgi-
nally started on Mr.. Adams report.
The InteIligencer is now very fearful that
Congress will break up in a row-that on Mon
day next so many of the Wing majority will
absent themselves that there will be no quo
rum left one branch-iI does not say which
probably the House. Now this the lntel-
gencer stigmatises as 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 I!
1t likewise confesses and boasts that it infiu-
ences the movements of members, and can ac-
tually prevent gross outrage upon the Const-
sess such unbounded power, why did not one
of them, with his additional powers as Mayor
of the city, deter the Callathumpian Band of
rowdies from their dsgraceful serenade of the
Chief Magistrate of the Union about one year
since? 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 editorials2
Let us examine little. On the Goth Of July,
they pronounced the act of.deserting 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 Mr. Van Buren,; but
should he endeavor to follow the tergversalions
of the Inlegencer, he would loose both eyes
and be totally blind in less than 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 SEES
sion. No doubt the editors would cheerfully
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 Intelligencer sat for
the picture so glowingly handled. We will con-
clude by giving only two verses of that justly
celebrated poem, and they run thus:
"There man in our town,
And he was wondrOus wise,
He jumped into brlar bush,
And scratched out both his eyes,
And when he sa1o 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 Intelligencer
jump to morrow?