The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-09

though not recognised as the Chief Magistrate
| by the Federal Clay Wing majority.
| Mangum may require the office-holders to
obey him, and inasmuch as most of the impor-
tant offices are filled by the mnions and syco-
plants of Clay, it is probable they will yield
obedience. Those who do not, can be easily
relnoued
The session will be prolonged. The sweets
of supreme command will not be relinquished
by the powers that be, until the last possible
moment. The trial will be purposely continued
for months.
In the meantime duplicate Cabinet may
be appointed, should the old one prove refracto-
ry. There may be struggle for the possession
of the archives. Some of the Cabinet Minis
tiers have their marble tenements pretty well
garrisoned and will doubtless be found to have
hearts bold enough to defend them.
Thus the reign of terror commences. We
will be among the first Of its victims. And
we pray Heaven that we may not live to witness
the utter, hopeless, complete prostraton of Ii.
BERTY!
1t is said that most of the Army and Navy
officers are the partsans of the Dictator-but,
thank God we have reason to believe that the
rank and file are not. If any of the officers
should be found willing to obey the mandates Of
the Royal Deputy, we have full confidence In the
land
May that Almighty God who watched over
US, and protected US in the gloom of the Revo-
luton, not forsake us in the present crisis! He
who now occupies the Presidential chair was
called thither by the voice of our Heavenly
Father. We place our trust in HIM He will
not forsake US. He will still guard our glorious
Constitution, and shield our Constitutional
President against the wicked assaults of all po-
ltical blacklegs and inebriate traitors.
Our country cannot be doomed to fall thus ig-
nobly. The Republic cannot be thus sacrificed
to appease the ambition Of few reckless, I'M
principled demagogues, who could never OBJ
tain the power they seek by means of the bal
ot-boxes.
An impeachment was once meditated and
moped against THOMAS JEFFERSON, the Apostle
of Democracy. Then, Henry Clay was Dem
ocrat. When this Bottonian prototype rose to
prefer his charges, MIR. Clay sprang to the floor,
and cried out, 90 Mr. Speaker, the gentleman
soils the floor upon Which he stands !"
Is it any wonder, then, that the ardent and
jealous disciple of Jeffersonian Democracy
should share the fate of his ilustrious predeces-
sor? But Mr.. Clay is not there to rebuke the
mover. And were he present, would he do it?
He is no longer Democrat! But if the mover
served the rebuke which he received, and which
in our opinion he eminently merited, what
ought to be said Of the unworthy being who has
avowed his determination to impeach President
Tyler
We fear not the result. We know that the
President is as spotess as Washington, in his
official capacity. What "treason, high crime,
or misdemeanor," has he committed? None
and his accusers know it. But they are resolved
to suspend him. that they may, in the interval,
fix upon the country the fangs Of their Federal
measures
He will be acquitted, truml hantly acquitted,
and comforted and sustained, by the unanimous
voice of the nation
But the reign of terror, however short, may
fix stigma upon our Republican system of Go
vernment. But the usurpers will be punished.
Their reign will be brief as it will be ingori-
Gus, and the penalty will be adequate to the Of
fence.