The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-14
Correspondence Of the Madisonian.
CUMBERLAND, MD, Sept. 1912.

| renders The aphoIisu, none the less terse.
This has been great day in the political history of
Allegheny eouniy,-a day rendered memorable as
having witnessed the sitting of the Universal Wing"
| Convention of the Mountain county Do you know
what County Convention really isl Have you
ever witnessed one Are you familiar with their pc
cullarities their dongs their modus operandi? II
you are, then you can easily imagine, within the pre-
cncls Of your editorial sanctum, the glorious melees
that coming of in majority Of the sovereign |
counties of the twenty six sovereign States spread
out from the pictured rocks Lake Superior to the
hieroglyphics of Old Dighion-from the Passamaquod
Gy to the Sabine.
County Convention in the estimation Of one
half he People, and three fourths Of he small pota,oe
dc;nagogues is Of the "lalest" gatherings that
can possibly take place it is pouring out of the ge
MUS, the WORTH the bone and sinew of he land it
is agoing up of worshppers to political Mecca in
comparison with whose enthusiasm the devotion of
pilgrims to the Oriental city was scarcely clash in
the pam" In short, it is an index of the popular
mind, and woe unto the unfortunate wight who evin-
ces lack of f"aty to its mighty behes.s Just such
a Conven in have we had here-a thorough. going,
ultra Clay Wing Convention -"FuIl Of fioth and |
fury, signfying nothing"
with, and "four good Clay, Wings" nominated for the
next House of Delegates, one Of The nominees, Il |
Mr. p, rose and expressed disposition to prove TO
the Convention, by ocular demonstration, that he
was not hafas great people took him
to be. He seemed to be complete walking mag azDe
of cInp,ap rodomontades, blowing away against
ry thing in general and John Tyler in particular
If he does not 90 of by spontaneous combustion be-
tween this and the 9Th proxmo the Wings may thank
| their stars.
| GAS OF of the nominees of Convention composed
| of men, of whom 1 knew to be intelligent and
discriminating, it but in justice TO them that !
looked for worthy display the present occasion
but bah, such pseudo politicians, his who'll ha.
rangue was but the -echong of all the ns.ra-
bic slang Of the day-newspaper twattle, .uch as
traitor, "gerrymandering," corruption &c, &c. |
&c. l C ud not but think, as he vocferating at
the top of bis voice, "treason "stratagem &C., il
he would not like 10 get some of the "spoiis" The
reflection has frequently forced itself upon me- as
have heard men denounce the present Executive,
whether they did not expect quid pro quo when
they squned at the baot-box in lS4O2 whether their
present cry for change is TO be attributed to their So
lcitude for the institutions of country or for the
flesh pots of Egypt? Nous verrons.
1t Is said the party have placed the of MIR. p
| on their ticket that they may secure the mob, &c.
whom they believe he will be able to caole through
the potent nlue &c Of his stunpng abilities. lfthis
Is the case, imagine they will the day it done
and the election returns begin in, like the
boy in the woods who halooed to prevent being hight
ened, they will all join hands and shout in the ears of
their deunct orator,
"a htHe learning is dangerous hing"
Mr.. p. was excrua,ingy upon the Loco
focos of the Ohio Legislature for attempting to "gcr-
rymander' 90 900 frcemen of their political rights
He said they wanted the State up in all sorts
figures, resembling animals omniverous, carniverous
and every other lveous, exhibiting at the time
the cut of giraffe, which created quite as great
sensation would have DR.. Sewalls diagrams of a
drunkards stomach. Sure enough, there vast the gi-
ra1e divided of in scientific style, each division repre-
senling county, and the whole district; all seemed
to be rr'poroned with plysol gical precision, and
every part appeared to share in the distctiug except
the taA-hod. Verify, fear we shall hear of another
about ''disputed territory"
From The late "gerymandeng' spirit in the Buckeye
State, the enthusiastic nominee thought The coming
session ofth, Maryland Lea isature one rife with
the deepe>t interest to her people and although he
did state round terms yet he hintcd in pretty
broad ones that if he should Prove fortunate
have devolve upon him to carry certain credentials
to Anna polls, he would assure them they would find
gerry ndering' on Lis part. o, the old coon.
he ought not to speak SD positively; certain indica-
lions of his visage belle him.
Mr. P conceived most villainously tied to-
geher now and have doubt he thinks old Lord Bal
morc acted most unchrstian like part by he Peo-
pie Of Allegheny for "gerrymanderng' their county
away up into the "Glades, where the sun ranaiory
scarcely ever shines, and the political, of course,
never does, only when chance carries his effulgent
person into that region.
The present district, therefore, Mr. P. denounced
as outrageous, and concluded this part of his 81
rafe' gyrations, by giving us significant inmation
that it might not have been So only ten years ago.
as he flialy expressed it, he was nothing but
" young youth !"
80! this learning, what thing it is ~
The next turn our prodigy took upon his tambour-
inc, something intended for " Hail to the Chief"
and the way he drummed up the glores of Harry
of the West was perfect caution to Captain Ty-
ler" and the "corporal's guard" Poor fellow
how pitied his exhausting efforts Indeed, more
than once, felt like breaking in upon him with
40, take your time Miss Lucy"
But, horrida beio, what means this onslaught
Blood and thunder how orator plunged into the
Captanl" Why you would have thought that in
Simultaneous humiliation awaited the dispenser of all
favors, ay and Of all vetoes. Terrible, indeed was
the little mans wrath; thrice terrible his watch
words, traitor Z" treason" Captain Tyler"
"Veto," No. g." &c. &c.
have not precisely ascertained the result Of this