The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-04-23
ABUSE OF THE PRESIDENT.

From the 81. Louis Gazette
From the Madisonian we copy the following ex-
tract, from an article in the Richmond Wing, address
ed from Lynchburg to member of the Virginia Lee
gslature
"The accident of an Accident famished Charles
City petyfogger whom Nature never intended to ee-
vate above the trial Of ten dollar warrants upon plain
cases, man destitute of intellect and integrity,
whose name is the SYNONYM of Mill and one whose
very face nature has placed her stamp OF nslgnifl-
and inferiority very sucker iull grown ana
full blooded; such man, BASE selfish, and perhdi-
Gus whose faith is broken pledges whose honor is
treachery and whose conscience, about the tender
ness of which he has much enlightened the world,
is his ruling love Of office Such man, II so mser-
able thing can be called man unsupported by
either of the great parties of the country; held in
execration by the one and contempt by the other
and used by corrupt caba for the vllest party pur
poses at the expense of the great interests of the
country caolcd and myented and fooled by flat
terers mnstered to by lick-spttles, and surrounded
by lepers such miserable thing in free America
presides over the Republic ike vast nightmare and
doctors the body polite with his vetoes with the as
sumed authority of Russian Autocrat spreading his
ukase through his domnons, and bids defiance to his
former friends, and overwhelming majority of hf-
teen millions Of freemen making even the test of
patriotism itself and the passport to Office adhesion
to him. % for whip in every honest hand, to lash
the rascal naked through the worldn"
The Richmond Wing is a strong partisan paper
and is not usually sparng of invective. We might,
therefore expect it to be rather violent in its treat
mcnt of the President, whose urse il disapproves.
But the above furious TRADE, full of vituperaton,
so overrunning with abuse really too outrageous to
deserve place even in the Richmond Wing. We
| are always careful not to speak as PARTISAN. But
we may, without offence, declare it as our opinion
that the President of the United States should
be dssdiled in such language except upon the gravcst
provocation that nothing can excuse it, but such
Open palp Bile and fragrant malconduct as would JUS
tify articles of Impeachment against him.
Can it be either polite just to assail the Chief
Magistrate ofthe Union, in this manner} Can 1t be
Just : Can it be possible that John Tylcr-a man
who has been in public life in the most elevated and
responsible situations for many years and whom a
large party comprising majority of our people, have
fit TO place in POI ition next to the highest IN
Government, an elevation to which presupposes
fitness for that highest, is it possible ask that
he deserve the epthets heaped upon him by this
correspondent of the Richmond Wing 2
l. l. it polite thus to outrage his feelings and the
feelings of those ho may be attached to his person,
or friendly to his policy What is gal ed :
lfthere ever was time when the different parties
into which country is divided should feel the ne.
cessity of concession, forbearance and union, that
tineis now. At home and abroad, clouds lower and
the storm threatens. calm wisdom, warm and
earnest yet intelligent and forecasting patriotism
without violence and freed from every impuri,y OF
faction, are the characteristics which should now DIS
tingulsh the American press and people