The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-06
From the Republican and Argus.
THE SEAL OF CONDENSATION

If ever there a set of men who have the hear
ty of the people of this country is such men
as are now controlling the action of Congress Deep
and long are the impsecalOns that poured forth
upon them-not by Democrats aIone--not by the par
ty press-not by any political gathering or patty band
but by honest Wings, by sincere Democrats--by
patriotic of all classes politics and professions
The Democratic presses the strictly neutral and in
dependent presses have echoed and re-echoed the deep
toned anathemas of suffering community, upon this
most unprinciped fall assemblages that has
vened together since America took her station among
the nations OF the earth. SO Infamous has been the
conduct and course Of this band Of Consprators that
even the ultra Clay presses have been forced, by the
deeptoned Indignation of the people, to deal out some
little Of their 'intclligent thunder upon those whom
they are secretly cheering on In their unhallowed
course. But we thank our God the day OF retribu-
ton is fast approaching, when this reckless and un-
principled band will be forced to bend their stubborn
necks to the overwhelming weight of public senti-
men and fly for shelter from the indignant rowns Of
abused constituency into the deep of eter
nal retiracy-to be remembered only to be cursed,
and their names to be mentioned only in connection
with infamy and disgrace, and linked with those of
wretches of the most desperate character The fol-
lowing, from the Philadelphia Evening Journal, Ga
neutral Wing paper) although severe, is just and
well deserved; and is but the promulg CATION of the
real sentiments and eing of every honest, intelIi
gent patriotic individual from the Sabine TO the new
boundary line at the Northeast
"A desperate struggle for the 'loaves and fishes is
the mnst odiOus feature of the times. The spirit of
venahty that has been starved out of broken and
empty banks to have taken up its abode In the
halls of Legislation and the Departments of Govern
ment. The battle for the spoils of Office once de-
cried infamous, has been legalsed by the practice
of those who, in olden times cried out shame upon
the Gothic creed of Vandal horde of blood suckers
who would make the noble Institutions OF free coun-
try prey factions and reduce the qualifications Of
Cover nmen to the most expert in fraud, the most im
pudent IN slang, and the most daring, adro In In
rigue. Driven from the banks, whose naked bones
deride even the jaws of famine to scrape scanty
meal, these vultures flock around Government,
screaming for crumbs in the Custom house, croak-
ing their death-notes liberty amidst the members of
Congress, who devote their days and nights to the
holy work Of "Presdent-making
Never has this country felt the curse of Office
hunting till now, when it testers with rottenness the
seats of legislation. Never before has this PERM
cous lust cast OFT all shame and avOwed its obscene
passions in the high places of the nation Up to this
time, the AFFECT baseness of the vice has been cloth
ed in decent drapery and was tolerated. because not
avOwed-and not only concealed, but dscaimed, as
charge allied to treason fraught with di-grace and
shrunk from as if loaded with the infection of nfa-
my unto death! Now, what contrasts Now, we
hear men who once stunned it as they would the
charge of g thelt' murder"-boldly proclaim
that they have converted the halls of Congress into
SHAMELESS for the purchase and sale of Offices Pros
ttuting the character of the Representative-per-
verting every function of their constitutional duty
by turning their powers to the destruction of our lib
critics and rights. Congress proclaim to the world
that they continue In not to legisate-not to
succor the country and afford relief to the people
but to sc make President" To secure offices for
themselves, their friends and their families! They
the reason They glory in their shame.
They defy the People. Let them beware, how far
they carry that defiance.
PRESIDENT MAKING.-In what page Of the Consti-
tuition the Members of Congress invested with the
rfohf,t tor
the People from the just exercise of that-their ex-
elusive prerogative? We never saw-never heard of
such clause. But the contrary, their duty is
strictly confined to making laws for the general bene
fit OF the People, while the solemn duty is imposed
on the People, IN their sovereign nigh: and majesty
as mass, of making the President! Shame, shame,
on such nefarious usurpation!
Congress What is Congress-! The servants. the
representatives, the agents of the people, How dare
they usurp on the rights of the people? How dare
they depart from the special object of their creation
How dare they neglect to provide for s'the general
welfare, and leave the people to all the anguish and
misery of social chans, which they might cure in one
week by wise legislation at least mitigate to devote
themselves to what they have no right to NEEDLE with
Presdent-makingi We speak on this subject boldly
iearlessly, without reserve We express only the
honest Indignation which burns in the bosom of eve
ny free republican, at the reasonable misconduct of
factious, selfish and prosttuted Congress- who
glory the shame, discredt and ruin of their coun-
try, because out of that shame, and that ruin they
hope and calculate to make President! What has
it indeed come to this that desperate faction shall
deliberately take possession of the halls of Congress-
there to remain, until by the torture and rack Of So
ca misery, they force the people to foreswear their
honest convictions of the fitness of candidates. and
adopt President OF their dictation' Is this the
scheme, rank with treason to the people Is this the
liberty for which our fathers fought and bled? Is
this the virtue, patriotism and wisdom of the twenty
sixth Congress- If so, the people will look to them
selves for Safety and they hold the power to pun
sh their perfdious servants in their own hands they
will select time and place to make these traitors to
their trust accountable for their crimes! Crimes
| Yes.
| We say crimes-crimes Of the deepest die that a
Congress of the servants of the people can commit
crimes for which, in France, Napoleon would dis
perse them at the point of the bayOne-and in Eng
land Cromwell would bring them to the block
and for which enraged American people may yet
visit them with them with signal vengeance The
extremtes of suffering may exhaust the patience of
the most fortearing people Congress met to devise
relief for the country They elected for the
purpose. Demagogues in both houses professed their
power and disposition to grant relief to distressed
people. But demon in the shape of ambition ar
rested their proceedings They were forbidden to
grant relief which would deprive them of the pow
| er to make the next President! They were COM
manded to keep the country in torture for three
years-and thus force the people, by misery, by the
pangs of anguish and the groans of want, to choose
the man of their debating! What punishment could
be too great for such perfdious servants for such
reasonable, cruel, heartless, despicabe conduct
We can imagine none.
But where is our proof In the boastings of these
traitors of the people. Read their ultra factous
Arnals listen to the threats of ruin and their shouts
of triumph the ruins of the land look upon an
empty Treasury, beggared nation, blasted credit
defenceless coast, naked harbors, exposed from
tier idle and impoverished people, mechanics dis
charged, our merchants plundered spoliations una
toned for, the public nsuted, the country convused
our trade languishing, commerce extinct, manufac-
lures neglected and breaking up, FORCES without
nres, and whole people standing idle for want of
occupaton-because Congress must make Presi-
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