The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-06-16
THE DIABOLICAL PLOT-THE REV T.
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THINGS CHARITf.-duS
THE DIABOLICAL PLOT-THE REEVE
REDISTRIBUTION.
We have On more than one occasion charac-
terised the schemes of vengeance and destruc-
ton meditated by the Clay Wings in Congress.
Our information has been sneered at by the
Claywhig press-but it was nevertheless true.
few weeks more will develope everything.
The demoniac plan to crush the President
was concocted and determined on by the Dicta-
tor himself The magnitude and complication
of the machinery required great circumspection
and foresight in its formation. Its author was
not deficient in mind. The diabolical instru-
ment is now completed and awaits the day set
apart (Mr. Fillmore managed his part very
adroitly-giving his action the appearance OF an
"atier thought"-skilfuly avoiding the suspl-
con of pren,editatiom) for execution, toreceive
the victim.
Seven long months have rolled by, and Con-
gress has done nothing but to erect
machine to torture the President. Exchequer,
Tariff, Distribution, all have been neglected,
notwithstanding the cries of the People. The
Dictator decreed that nothing should be done for
the country, until the President was killed.
And now the day approaches. Fourteen days
more, and there will be no means of collecting
the revenue, and the sums arising from the pub
lie lands must be distributed among the States.
After yielding implicit obedience to the man
date of the Dictator, having remained idle and
inactive seven months, the ultra Wing Congress
frames bill of twelve lines, in violation of the
Compromise act, and like band of cold-blood
ed Inquisitors, resolve to bind the President up
on their internal wheel-apply the engines OF
torture-and offer him no other alternative but
instant recantation or political death. They
say that his belief in the inviolability OF the
Compromise act must be Internationally re-
canted, and his sense of the propriety of sus-
pending the Distribution until the national debt
is paid, repudiated-or he shall now be broken
on the wheel SO carefully prepared for the occa-
sion He must put on sack cloth and ashes at
their bidding, and bow himself in the dust-ac-
knowledge himself at the mercy of his tormen-
ters-sacrifce his consistency, his conscience,
his honor or undergo instantaneous immoa-
ton! They have brought (during the sepen
SNNAAHJ
the verge of ruin-they have (they Think plac-
ed the President between themselves and the
precpice-spears are cleaning in their hands
he must (they think y crave the mercy Of the
Dictator, or be hurled down the Tarpean rock
If the revenue of the country is annihiated
within the next thirty days Notwithstanding the
seven months aoasted) the President must (they
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And this is the death-the Wing death-they
offer, or deliberate (they think) dishonor! Will
the Wings of the country approve their con-
duct? We trust not! But if they do, the ap-
peal is to the PEOPLE. What will the Peo-
pie say to such an indignity offered TO the Chief
Magistrate of the nation? What will they say
if the alternative of dishonor or death Whig
THE UNITED STATES? What would the DE-
MOCRATS say2 All! here we have the
Dictator and his base mnions What would
the DEMOCRATS say? They would say
that the death the ultra Wings could infict on
the President, would only elevate him into a
neao life, another existence, forever beyond the
reach of their assaults
If the Dictator doubts the Presidents merUe,
let him proceed with his Vaccinations Even
Mr. Clay himself. or the basest of his minions,
never yet dared TO express doubt OF his honor
If they think now to assail it successfully, let
them venture on the attempt. John Tyler
would unhesitatingly sacrifice both political and
human life, if it were necessary, to maintain his
purity Even now, when the result of all their
schemes, plans and plots, is apparent, and the
GREAT CRISIS is at hand, he defes their malice
Armed with the intellect and the purity of mo-
tive which God gave him, he stands unmoved,
unawed, over the political volcano they have
prepared for his destruction. And there he will
stand, uNHARMED He stands before his coun-
try, not guilty and crest-fallen, but with brow
erect, and consciousness of rectitude.
We ask no favors of the Clay Wing MAORI
ty in Congress. If the approaching crisis is to
prove disastrous to the country, 1t Is all their
own doing. They have filled the chalice with
bitterness by their seven months delay If it
must be quaffed, they shall drink it! Such will
be the verdict of the People.
The People have beheld the unworthy con-
duct of this president making" Congress-
They have marked the shameful attempts to
''headn the President. They have seen Con-
gress idle away seven months and then peril
the revenue of the country FOR WANT OF TIME to
pass law providing for the collection of the du-
ties! The Clay legislators have consumed
sepen months without attempting to do any
thing, and now they only have fourteen days in
which to pass the most important measure Of
the session And this they frame in so "ques-
tnnable shane y that they hone it will ethead