The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-07
From the .Ne,o Orleans advertiser
MR.. CLAY'S ALEXANDRIA EPISTLE

I" Never did any legislative body assemble with
majority more disposed to perform its whole duty to-
wards the country than the present Congress but it
has been thwarted and circumyente when it should
have met with nothing but cordial cooperation and
support. And it so happens that, of all the members
composing the body, no one was honored with lar
ger share of Executive enmity than have been for
other than that preferred to endeavor to
carry out the just wishes of the people rather than con-
form to the caprces of weak vacillating and faith
less Chief Magistrate"
We do not believe it possible to crowd into the
same space greater amount of vndictve falsehood
than that contained in the above lines from Mr. Claws
Alexandria Episte.
1t is no longer matter Of doubt but an authent-
Gated fact, which no Misrepresentation, however
subtle, effect, that the Wing ma ority of the pre-
sent Congress, assembled at Washington on the 3lst
day of May, lS4l with no other earthly purpose in
view than to legslae Mr. Clay into the Presidency in
the year 1845. That object the precise measure
of its I" duty towards the country" The hope that
the majority having such scheme at heart would
meet with nothing but cordial cooperation and sup
port on the part Of the Executive, was not for
moment INDUCED in by Mr., Clay and his fawnng
friends, and hence they set about to hwart and cir
cumvent the President, in order to force him to aid
them in the prosecution Of their projects, or to com
pei him to retire from power. This the real truth
of the case, and the country see it and know it, de-
spite Mr.. Clays false representations. The people
are not to be humbugged any longer by such slang
though it comes directly from the pen of the re-
tired Senator.
One would suppose that Mr.. Clay would have
stopped at this point of misrep essen alton, but So
He tells the Wings Of Alexandria and The world, that
he specially honored with larger share of Exc
cutiye enmy than any man in Congress This is
the first time that we have ever heard of nmical rela
tons having subssed between the Senator al large
aud the President prior TO the second Veto On the
contrary the President throughout the whole of the
extra session, manifested the most earnest wish
continue on terms political friendship with the Ken
tuckan, and were to point TO the evidence we
would direct finger to the thousand and ono Of
red hot Clay men, whom Mr.. Tyler named to Office
the instance of Mr.. Clays friends in Congress add
out. 1t not until Mr.. Clay's presses and brother
Senator'S and brother Representatives. opened the
walls of wrath upon MIR. Tylers head that The Presi-
dent withdrew his confidence from that gentleman
and his friends. But even after the explosion of the
Cabinet and the appearance of the Wing Manifesto
Mr.. Clay was treated IN the kindest manner by the
President and his friends. AT no time has he been
handled with deserving severity by those who al
heIed to Mr.. Tyler and the true Whig doctrines of
1910, in the general break up and as To the Presl-
dent, he has shown his magnanimiy in not being
turned from his path by the violent storm of abuse
which has been directed against him, throughout at
the nstigaon of this Senator The history Of he
times Utterly alsfes Mr.. Clays assertion but as he
has declared open war against the Administration he
must not complain through treatment at the hands Of
those whom he and his friends have SO shamefuy
vifed.
la the canvass Of 1910, Mr.. Clay himself on more
than occasion, denied that National Bank was
the question before the people, and man in Tie couu-
try knew better than he that the popular feeling Vas
opposed to such institution. lie knew, too, that
knowledge Of this fact was the only reason why he
was sci aside at Harrisburg and an Anti. National
Bank ticket formed And yet, when in power, he
brings forward old-iashioned Bank as one of the
corner stones of Whiggery, and now tells us that it.
establishment was ofthe "jus wishes Of the 'peo-
pie" Such reckless assertion is chafac erslic of
Mr.. Clay. lie knows how to binf, better than any
man in the Union; but the people understand his
game and to be driven from their posts by any
such bullying. If Bank had been Whig mea-