The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-02
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the Administration and .the Wings" Inc
InteIlgencer hopes not, for it knows that II
would have nothing TO expect from such re-
union IL knows that ''the Wings" 1--WE mean
not the ultras were led away from the Adui'n-
istration in the first instance by the misfeP,e-
sensations Of itself and other ultra Journals
which, (while the President had no presses "
speak for him, labored TO convince 'the wings
that the Administration had betrayed them, tha'
the President was perhdious, ana that py adam
doning them the entire victorious party OF is4o
would rally under the banner OF Clay, and car
nv everything before il, now and hereafter
| The Clay partisans hired professed backguards,
| unkempt. unclean, mendaclous both by nature
and education, TO blacken the character OF the
President, private and public, TO caumniate the
Cabinet, and assail the wives, living and dead,
of such members of Congress as would notion
in The hue and cry against the President and his
friends. And they added insult to injury
While all this was going on-while the columns
of the ultra journals were teeming with the
vilest slanders-slanders furnished the accom-
plished blackguards that wrote for them, by
graue Senator's, and Others of superficial digni-
ty the editors-the gentiemanly editors-were
hanging about the Departments, in pers on or by
proxy, seeking, like hungry sharks, TO devour
every grain of sustenance that fell from the pub
lie crib Nor was this all--these editors and
their friends, The grare Senators, and others OF
superficial dignity, have actually sought to
quarter their hired slanderers and proiessed
blackguards, unkempt and uncean as they are,
on the Government And they still hope to
succeed, by fair words of friendship, thinking,
perchance, that the Secretaries are too honest
themselves to believe that men can lie about
their sentim nts for paltry gold
But 10 return TO the Intelligencer. The timld
editors of this yariegaed journal, doubtless APP
prehend real danger from reunion of 'the
Wings" with the Administration. The lntelli-
Wings" Ii has led them into all kinds of diff
cultes AT the close OF the recent session,
after having led them through boys and briers
for nine long months, Jack blep out his light,
and left them 10 extricate themselves as they best
could 1t feared TO take sides with Marshall or
Adams in the House, OF Choate or Archer in
the Senate. 1t had most admirably conducted
them all into the mre, and then its oil gdre
out
And is il probable that "the Wings after be-
ing thus despatched, bed agged and torn, would,
after reaching terra frma once more, submit
again to the guidance of the lneigencer p
What have they gained by It's advice Di,as-
ter and defeat in nearly every State where elcc-
lions have been he'd
Which course does duty, as well as interest,
whisper to "the Wings" 10 pursue? 1t is true
the "Bank Wings cannot coalesce with Presi-
dent Tyler Let them go-they are now re-
duced to a shadow OF shade. But how shall
the rest choose Which will they adhere 10,
the ultra leaders, who misied them, by
heaping foul ISLANDERS on the Chief Magistrate,
(all of which have been since satisfactorily dis
proved or an upright Republican President OF
the JefIersonian stamp? One who entertains
the same Democratic Republican principles
now, tina, he held before the election. He is
opposed 10 high prohlbitory tarlf-to Ma
tonal Bank-,o assumption Of State debts, &c
| All these are ultra measures-and ultra mea
sures and ultra men must be repudiated before
we can be firmly established on the old Republi
can ground. The Democratic, as well as the W hiG
party, will find il necessary to repudlate ultra
men and ultra measures. We doubt whether
there will be another ultra man elected Presi
dent Tor forty years to come
But the anti Bank Wings must inevitably
cast off both Clay and the lntelligencer, how
ever distressing it may be to the edl ors. Thes
Wings were hostile TO the President for
tme-for time they believed the extraysgan
tales of the recreant retired Cab net, of the dozel
reckless mousers in Congress, and the effuslons o
the professed blackguards who were hired Il
b!acken the Presidents character But now
all these calumnies have been wiped away, AM
honest men will be disposed to do justice to tn
innocent victim of vlllanous cabal. The,
will be more likely to support an honest Presi
dent than the assassins of public and private
character and 10 the great lntelligencer 1t
self, will be without party"