The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-13
FOR THE MADIsoNIAS.
TO THE DEMOCRACY OF THE UNION.


Ourcountry now, like the bark of the old voyager,
Is between ScyDa and Charybds. 1t is no time
for lders TO look on with unconcern or for trail
tors TO talsliy the charts. Patriotism and honor
require every man on board to be up and doing,
and the heart that beats in sefshness is I'M
worthy of the breast of an American citizen.
The writer of this communication is Democrat
| of the deepest dye. He was prescribed by General
Harrisons Clay Cabinet for his politics solely and
sent forth upon the world without acopper, to admire
that liberty of speech which secured to every
American citizen by the Constitution of his country,
and to grow fat upon the East wind of public sympathy
The talents which the Almighty had given him, how
ever, were better than Office fees, and honesty and
| perseverance brought their promised reward. No
one, therefore, accuse him of improper mo-
tiyes in making this appeal to his Democratic coun-
| trymen.
| A short time since, and the universal Wing party,
like the hordes of Scandinavia, the country
and placed their leader in the chair of state. This
being accomplished, the individuals who had Joined
for one common measure became different In their
tastes and opinions the Cloths and the Vandals.
| Promises made to God and the People were forgot
| ten, or, if remembered, remembered only to be
| broken issues made, never presented to
the country, and principles that had been discarded
like old coats brushed up and restored to favor
| While the first symptoms of approaching anarchy
| were being developed, General Harrison was called
to his dread account by the King of kings, and Mr.
| Tyler became President The death of General
Harrison was fresh signal for the disatected to
volt. The eye of the man who had previously kept
| the leaders in awe was cold in death; his memory
had been carried to the archives of the past, and his
voice, that might have reproached the unprincpled
with their villany, silent as the grave.
When Mr. Tyler entered the Presidential mansion
the days of mourning not over-the tears for
the dead yet trickling down the cheeks of the
mourners, and the public press teemed with lamen-
| tations.
A few weeks passed away, and the new Congress
came together the bidding of the departed president
The representatives fresh from the People and
the old Cabinet fingered around the skirts of the
| Executive.
The representatives found themselves in fearful
dilemma Never there such body of men as
sembled together under the guse of friendship, as
met in the Capitol at Washington on the Both day OF
May l64l. Every claimed to be the yard stick
of his party, and those who did not come up to his
notches were read out Of the political church,
1t was apparent, that without King Caucus
| and the truck system nothing could be done. The
representatives of the universal Wing party therefore
came together night after night, and after log-rong
and making faces at each other for some weeks, the
plan of operations was adopted, and then those who
scarcely knew who they were or why they were
there ascertained what Wing principles WERE and
...,h, A. lynfxt tO
tear the carcass of betrayed and wounded country
MIR. Tyler, however, never attended these MD
night meetings. He had no new understanding OF
truth-no reading of the Constitution to guide
him. He poor man, was deemed by the Legislature
to be instrument to carry out their will and
pleasure sort of political tee-to-tem, and those
whose motto was q throw conscience to the Devil,
believed that he would follow suit.
But alas for them, Mr.. Tyler turned out a trump
He could neither be bought, frightened, nor coaxed
He placed his foot upon the Constitutions and said to
faction, with unhallowsd steps it approached the
holy altar, to mar its beauty" In the name OF the
People of the Union forbid"
This was a terrible blow to the hopes of those who
had determined to make the end justify the
Mr.. Tyler was pronounced to be traitor His Cab
met off like platoon of new recruits in a night
And the writer of the celebrated coffee house letter
boldly declared his intention to head him or die"
The Fiscal Agent was vetoed. The Fiscal Cor
poration was vetoed and Notwithstanding Mr.. Tyler
signed every other bill which the Wings presented tc
him-and some bitter myrrh, doubt--ht
was declared to be Judas Iscariot and the quasi
Wing party committed suicide cursng his conscience
and traducing his acts.
| The breaking up of the old Cabinet, however, did
not produce the startling effect in the country that
was anticipated by the disorganzers. 1t was nine
days wonder and then the recreant advisers for
gotten or if remembered remembered only for their
strange narratives which contradiced each other and
threw doubt upon the history Of the times.
The Wings then met in convention, where more
proxies represented than were found in Rhode
Island the vote upon the Peoples Constitution, and
proceeded with due solemnity to illuminate bull
| against the President and his conscience-a docu.
meni which never was equaed for it's want of temper
and style, and one which, but for its honorable au
thors would have been left to stop rathole bro
ken pane.
Congress, at its regular and appointed day, agar
assembled in the Capitol, where it has sat ever since
and where it is likely to sit SO long as the Treasury
has the ready money to pay the per diem President
Tyler this session, actuaed by the purest motives,
found it necessary and proper to recommend repeal
of the land distribution section of the temporary tariff
of the extra session. This another crying sin.
For this he was to be condcmA ed all hazards and
here the Wing trumpeters thought the American PEG
pie would say amen. But alas for them A few
faint echoes from spectators and spendthrltts alone
came upon the ear, and then died, leaving the 81
lence around terrible than it would have been
had cry of disapprobation echoed along the CONT
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