The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
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We wish sincerely that the Great Humbug-
ger could be delivered, without farther delay,
of his intolerable load of venom against the
Exchequer Scheme. If it were not IN his pow
er TO vent portion of it through the daily press,
ne would doubtless go into commissions before
the day of delivery came.
We venture to assert, that during the whole OF
the Great Mssourium's political life he neverex-
ulted more heartily over suffering enemy than
he does at this moment over the distresses OF
his country-and his country is very fortunately
his enemy. That his opm party does not CO.
incide with him in the policy of goring the
body polite for the purpose OF eftecung the
downfall of the President and the Cabinet by
its proslration, is apparent to every one lie
but wins the scorn and contempt OF all
Republicans by his coarse and savage ex-
ultations over his PROSTATE country. He
shouts with JOY while his country groans, and
might perhaps dance if the Capitol were in
flames. Thanks to the spirit of patriotism that
yet pervades the land, he has not and cannot
obtain any serious influence among the People.
He is never before the public eye save when he
thrusts himself thither. The party which has
rather permitted than courted his alliance, IN
looking among its prominent leaders for future
head, has uniformly passed him by. Johnson,
Van Buren,, Buchanan, Calhoun, Cass, &C. &C.,
have all been indicated in turn, but the Great
Missourium never He was the first to dishon-
or his country by exposing with demoniac sat
isfactlon its empty treasury. He was among
the first to advocate reduction of revenue,
and when so reduced that the expenses of the
Government could not be paid without using
the paper of the Government, he was the uery
first man to call for gold, when he knew there
was none in the Treasury, and to throw distrust
on that paper, with view to disgrace the Adj
minstration Was this the conduct of Wash
ngton, when the credit of his bleeding coun
try and the patriot SIN of the People were his
only dependence in the hour of peril God
forgive us for using the name of the slumbering
hero and statesman in this paragraph Arnold
would be the better association. We used it
| for the antithesis. f
| Before the expiration of the Spring months,
| the armed fleets of powerful enemy mag be
upon our coasts. The American People will
be animated with the same spirit of patriotism
| that nerved their Revolutionary sires Fathers,
mothers and daughters will promptly offer up
their wealth anil jewels on the altar of Liberty.
Our wounded and bleeding country will be bound
| up and assuaged by the affections and tears OF
devoted freemen. Our national honor will be
preserved untarnished in the din Of conflict
Traitors and Tories will hide their diminished
heads The Senator who stands at the door Of
the empty Treasury, demanding that his coun-
try shall be protested, disgraced and dishon-
ored, because his paltry wages cannot be paid
| in "the hard" will find to his sorrow that his
brutal propensity has led him to the commission
of an act which can only be expiated by the
fatal cravings of remorse, an obscurity securing
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