The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-05

;ndncement to encounter the labor of elevated office
but pecuniary compensation But even those of such
limited views, think, would reflect that ne
whose professional reputation can command more
employment than any human mind or body could ac-
complish would find little nducement in the salary
of Office to encounter its labors Its exrinsic hon
ors can weigh but little with who has received
the homage of two nations, and the office of Secre-
tary of State can add nothing to the fame of Daniel
Webster, save, in the opportunity it affords him OF
advancing the interests of his country Surely patri-
otto and vrtuous motives Of action are yet to DC
found among countrymen, and we can no where
look for them with so much confidence as in those
whose whole lives have been one continued flow OF
patriotic exertion and the true sphere of such men
is in the councils of the nation. But in the eyes OF
party no does eminent statesman reach
such position of usefulness than, despite the estab-
shed character of LIFETIME he is regarded as being
influenced by motives the most mean and contempti-
BILE. Fortunately those who are influenced by
of duty and have at heart the interests of their
country will not be driven from the performance of
that duty by any such assaults. 1t is weak patriot
ism which only acts in conjunction with its ease
and comfort.
If it was not melancholy fact of history,
should not believe that the same party malignant
cy which at this time foams at the feet of Daniel
| Webster, once assaed the glorious name of the
great and good Washington he did his duty in spite
of it, and now has the generation of the world. We
are told in relation to this great man, that zone
two public journals under the control of his nvidous
political enemies, were incessant and shameless in
their ordinations. Washington did not condescend
to notice these vrulent attacks, in public manner ;
but his private letters to personal friends show
ed that he was not insensible to the cruel charges
brought against his official character. In July, 1793
at public festival at which the Governor of Penn
syvania present. toast was drank, which insin-
uated that Washington was the .aod of his country
and might merit dagger to his bosom!
The spirit of party which thus assas the personal
character of its political opponents, is than the
spirit which would, with vandal baibarism, destroy
| the libraries specimens of fine arts and monuments
| of hostile nation, for it seeks to mutilate and de-
stroy the most honorable specimens of its country s
greatness to overturn and deface that which it
not appreciate. What are patriotism and considera-
tons of national greatness with those who led on
by spoils and plunder2 They are unknown; they
cannot be understood by them. Long and wide
would the chasm yawn before Curtius would leap
| Into it from their ranks to save Rome
The political course of Daniel Webster is before
the nation; let those opposed to attack it, expose
its defects and, if possible defeat it, but when selfish
politicians incapable of higher modes of attack, at
tempt to assa his name with low abuse and vile SLAM
ders they the honest patriotism of every cit-
of this Union whether his political friend or op-
ponent, and the foreign invader, who in the hour
of triumph, mutates our monuments of marble, ex-
cites universal Indignation and contempt, these emo
tons are far greater towards him whose traitor pen
would desecrate the more NOBLE intellectual monu-
ments of his country's fame.
| NO PARTISAN.