The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-16
From the Baltimore Republican.
WHO ARE THEY :

as to men; and more particularly so, when applied
TO those who are either tolerated selected Is the
leaders head men, whose tracks are TO be follow
ed by the rank and file, and whose words to be
the watchwords TO cheer the attack. 1t is too
often the case in high party times that we lose sight
in the melee, if may term 1t, of the real charac
ter of those who participate in the struggle-only
looking to success, without regard to the means en-
plOyed and then, when success does come, 1t Is but
to find new enemies and other difficulties to encoun-
ter. This has been particularly the case with the
"Universal Wing Party" During the last campaign,
drummed together from all sects conditions, parties
and quarters they cared not, so they obtained but
one end and that was power and place, each faction
relying after success the common foe, upon Its
own resources of intrigue, cunning, duplicity and
treachery to overcome the other and cause the scale
of power to be placed in their hands by which they
expected to weigh out such principles aud measures
and policy as they might deem expedlent or proper
for the other.
This was the secret game Of the old blue lights,
who entered the Wing ranks with hope OF obtain
ing once more foothod in the national councils !;
and, by dupcity, hypocrisy and cunning, they sue
ceeded in the amalgamation They worked all well
enough together until the time arrived for holding the
rcns-then the masks fell-the cloaks were stripped
off, and they stood boldly forth, to the establishment
of their former allies and friends in the black colors
of abolitonists and the blue cOlors OF Hartford Con-
vention ederalsts This startled those who profess
ed to be Republicans and they ound when too late,
that they had been warming into existence the cold
and torpid vpers that were now ready to stick their
forked fangs into the same dish with those who had
ever been their deadlest foes and they now find 1t
difficult either to crush or shake them OIL. Their
long pent up is dealt out with desperate reck-
essness, poisoning all within its reach. At the head
of them is the old serpent from Massachusetts, who
now leads the reptile in their attack upon ev-
erything that savors of Republicanism.
The veto power having always proved an impassa-
BILE barrier to their unhoy attempts upon republican
freedom, and kept them from poisoning the pure
streams of the living waters of liberty, they now,
with eyes gloating with revenge turn all their rage
and vent their spleen upon the Executive, who has
had holiness and honesty enough to interpose this
conservative feature of the Constitution between
them and their damnabe purposes. And these men
do this under the cry Of "traitor !" "wretch " &C.
and declare they have dissolved all union inter-
course between the legislative and executive branch
es of the government becatse he has dared to check
and thwart them in their destructive course. They
call upon the American people, too,-they attempt
to break down the Constitution, and say it is all Tor
the good of the people ?-the Executive officer is a
straitor!l s'tyrant wretch! '-he must be
stimpeached' s'removed, that they may rule in his
stead And who is the chief leader in this last on
slaught lis it man who has had the conf
dence of the American people? No! Is it man
who has served his country in the field? No!
Is it one whom the people confde in and love! On
the contrary 1t is one who has ever proved their
deadliest enemy-one whom they despise for his
haunting and cool-blooded remarks made upon the
land of his BIRTH when that land was beset and
scourged by bold, daring and unprncpied foreign
foe When the best blood Of the country was being
poured out in the defence of homes and resides,
this anti-American sprit-ths now leader OF the
Wing party in the House of Representatives, wrote
follows. Let the reader ask himself II the author
of such letter. written at such time, and under
such circumstances, could or can have single germ
of Republican patriotic feeling in his bosom, and
whether the acts of such man should not be looked
upon forever with distrust No time it appears, can
mellow his passionsno time can alter his bitter en-
nifty to everything like republicanism. But we thank
our God that his fangs harmlessthat there is an
antidote for his poison-a remedy for his slime.
JOHN G. ADAMS'S LETTER TO LEVITT
HARRIS.
CLIENT, 18th November, 1914.
uThe occurrences of the war in America have
been of diversified nature Success and defeat
have alternately attended the armies OF both belge-
rcnts and hitherto have left them nearly where they
were at the commencement of the campaign II
has been, on our part, merely defensive, with the
single exception of taking fort Erie, with which il
began The battles of Chippewa and Bridgewater,
the defence of Fort Erie on the 18th August and the
naval action on Lake Champlan on the 18th Sep
TENDER, have redounded to our glory as much as to
our advantage while the loss of Washington, the
captuations of Alexandria and of Washington coun-
ty, Massachusetts,, and Nantucket have been more
| disgraceful to us than injurious.
| @THE DEFENCE OF BALTIMORE HAS
GIVEN US LITTLE MORE TO BE PROUD OF,
THAN THE DEM ONSTRATION AGAINST 1T
| HAS AFFORDED TO OUR ENEMY.
| "Prevost's retreat from Plattsburg has been more
disgrace to Them than honorable to u.s. and Yelling
toms veterans, the fre-eater Brisbane, and the fire.
brand Cockburn, have kept the rukest of
IN countenance by their erperlness in the art drumming
atuay
'sThe general issue of the campaign is yet to come
and there is too much reason to appehend that 1t ,o
be unfaro rabe TO us. Left by of cir
cumstances nexampled in the annals Of the world t.
struggle alone and friendess against the whole coos
sal power of Great Britain; fighting in reality
against her for the cause of Europe with all Europe
coldly looking basey bound not to raise in ia
vor helping hand, secretly wishing success, ant
not daring so much to cheer in the strife, wha
could be expected from the first fries of this unequal
conflict but disaster and discontinue to u.s.
"Divided among ourselves, more in passion thar
| interest, with HALF THE NATION SOLD THEIR PRE-
| JUDGE AND THEIR IGNORANCE TO OUR ENEMY, WITH
| FEEBLE AND PENURIOUs GOVERNMENT, WITH FIvI
! FRIGArEs FOR A NAVY AND SCARCELY FIVE EFFICIENT
/ REGIMENTS FOR AN ARMY, hoiv can 1t be expected thu
zoe should resist the Of force iOhich that GIGANTIC
po,oer (England has collected to crush at bIo,o?"
/ From the Baltimore Argus.
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