The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-16
LETTERS TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

The Intelligencer Of yesterday contains letters
TO members of Congress from different portions
Of the country, and in the editorial caption the
dignifed gentlemen take especial care to be-
stride the fence in time, ready to slip over quiet
ly on whichever side il may be policy TO come
down. They rather desire Congress should
try again at Tariff, yet confess they have but
little hope from the President. This is fully
on par with their usual hypocrisy: but as we
do not intend at presentto touch too hard on that
papers wishy -washy articles, we merely refer
TO the letters, for the double purpose of showing
the foreign influence always bearing upon them,
Ohe editors and the opinions of the majority
of Congress.
The first letter begins with a solemn declara-
ton that Congress should follow the course usu-
ally pursued by the British Parliament of with
holding supplies until The President has tasted
long enough to "come TO his senses" The
writer of this letter pretends to be desc endant
Of the Puritans, but to judge from his remarks,
we should be inclined to the opinion that
his relationship with England does not go
back many years. 1t Is but another
of those futile attempts that have been
so often made to deceive the People Of this
country into the support of monarchical sys-
tens; but, thank Heaven, all such attempts
have been promptly met, as they ever will be,
by the great Democracy Of the country. He,
a Puritan, indeed! Why, the Puritans fled
from Kingy oppression, and he advises King
ly remedy to dero Sc the President.
But again: Parlia nent wlthholds supplies to
procure a change of ministry not for the rebel
llous purpose of destroying the Government
Withhold supplies, and would it not tend to
bring upon us all the frauds that now character
lze the English elections? But there is no fear
of such an attempt on the part of Congress.
The writer next goes on to propose, Indirect
y, an alteration of our form Of Government
from Republican TO limited Monarchy. No
wonder the Intelligencer would not endorse
such open revolution TO place King a
throne in Washington. The only wonder is,
tAat TIE intesencer dared to publish the letter
for any member of Congress, but it is only in
keeping with the constant aristocratlcal argu
ments of that paper.
The next letter is rather more moderate
and the writer even has the frankness o confess
that he "s not afraid that John TYLER is To be
the usurper of our liberties" Thank you,
sir, whoever you are but why urge Congress, &c
"reto the President" That probably is only
intended la Bolts; as he says, If this canno
be done sour Constitution is not worth as mucf
trash as can be grasped thus |" When the gen
ueman wrote the last words, he probably grasp
ed the pen that had portrayed his moderat,
fury and the idea of calling his effervcscenc,
trash, is an admirable conception. We recon
mend it to his great prototype and the unedu
Gated Mr.. Arnold. Possibly the latter woult
like to retrench upon the full submity of tn
beautiful simile, but no doubt he can find some
ih'ng equally romantic in some of those book