The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-24
REUNION OF THE WING PARTY.

About once month rumor goes the ROUNDS
that the President has submitted under the
lash, and finally agreed to surrender the Admi-
nistration into the hands of the ultra Wings, on
condition that his measures shall be supported
by the Wing majority in Congress, and himself
escape, in future, the torrents Of savage abuse
hitherto aimed at him by the Clay Wing press
That such is the design of the Clay Wings, no
rational man can doubt: but that there is the
slightest possibility Of such an end being &C
complished, we have positive knowledge to the
contrary.
The President is, has been, and we are quite
certain always qoiU be, fearless old school Re-
publican We are also quite sure that great
portion OF the Harrison party Of 1910, was like
wise Republican. This portion will continue
to adhere to the President in spite of all the ar
li6ces of Mr. Clay to secure the succession
Mr. Clay may be able to muster the old INA
tonal Republicans" the high tariff and Bank
men-precisely the same party that has been
defeated so often during the last twelve or hf-
teen years, and he will be defeated again Of
course.
This rumor of reconciliation and reunion is
sometimes got up by the ultra Wings and some
times by the ultra Democrats. After threaten
ing in vain, abusing in vain, the ultra Wings
will al last beg in vain to have the influence OF
the Administration exerted to secure MIR. Clay's
election in 1914. But why should the ultra
Democrats, Cat least some of the Senatorial
leaders, strive to encourage the circulation Of
e,,b ON ohourd run,or1 Tho raacOn iS verv oh
vous to US. They behold the honest and mode
rate Democrats of 1880, with whom the Presi.
dent was identified heart and souD in every sec
ton of the country rallying in support of the
Administration. They see them abandoning
the standard of defeated candidate-defeated
because of the dctatoral usurpations and domi-
neerlng tyranny of his Jacobinical counseors-
counsellors and leaders who regard the sovereign
People as slaves, and themselves as masters
men who care nothing for country, everything
for party. 1t is no wonder these men are striv-
ing to saddle the odium and dead weight of the
Bank faction and Clayites on the Admins
tration. They well know that if Clay were
identified with the Administration, with pros
pect of being the administration candidate for
the Presidency, that even the Harrison and
Tyler party proper would abandon the Pre-
sident. Their motives are not obscured
by so much as gossamer veil. If the Pre-
sident could be made false to his true
friends, recreant to himself and inveged into
the sanctioning of Bank a high protective Ia
riff, &C., &C., these ultra gentry would doubtless
clap their hands and rejoice. Then the ster-
ling old Democrats, the Jefersonians, the State
Rights men, &C., &C., by uniting with these
leaders, would inevitably form as large party
as Jackson's was in 1882. And they would do
it, too, If there was no other alternative but
Clay. OF the two evils, they would choose the
least. And we are free to confess that we be-
lieve Van Burensm would be the least of the
two. Recent events have forced this opinion
on us. We will enumerate few of them. The
upconscionable and illimitable abuse of the
Bank-hought presses which Mr. Clay has been
breeding and training for the last fifteen or
twenty years-the desperate and reckless polit-
cal hacks stationed at all the important posts by
Mr.. Clay's Cabnet-the utter disregard of the
necessities of the country, by Mr.. Clay majo
ity in Congress refusing to pass any measure
for the People, unless it will benefit the party
the factious rejection OF nominations merely TO
annoy and thwart the President, and this, too,
in one instance, when an important portion of
the machinery of Government was stopped in
consequence-the delay in passing the Appro-
pration bill, and thereby plunging thousands in
the employ of the Government into the deepest
distress, simply to mortify the President these
and thousand others too numerous to mention,
inpel us to declare frankly that zoe would rather
have any one to rule over us than Mr. Clay.
We do not wonder then that the rabid Loco
loco leaders strive to impose Mr.. Clay on the
Administration The Presidents loss would be
their gain But we will have none of him, and
SO they must be content to make the most of
their own capital without any such adventurous
aid
The Administration will be sustained by all
the Republicans in the Union. Mr.. Clay, with
his little batch Of Bankites, will probably join
Van Buren, and his squad of Radicals, and both
together will make but an aapkward squad, in
opposition to the Administration party We
presume the high contracting parties are ar
ranging the articles OF agreement now at Ash
land. In the meantime Mr.. Benton and his
posse are endeavoring to prevent the Democrats
that re banished from office by the retired
Cabinet, from being restored to their former
places, on the one hand while the ultra Wing
sheets cry out prescription every time one OF
the near incumbents is touched on the other.
MR. CUNNINGHAM'S REJECTION
of with his head So much for Buckingham %