The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-29
OUR COUNTRY RST-POLITICIANS
AFTER WARDS.

Congress- session iTduSut Win ulscoiuah
ebullitions--and bu, lille good has beer
wrought for the country, save what has beer
accomplished by the almost unaided efforts o
the Executive.
Wild with the intoxicalion of glorious trl
umpb, the selfish and ambitious leaders Of III,
Wing party, resolved impetuously 10 monopo
lie the fruits of victory themselves, utterly ant
disg'acetully neglecling their common country
John Tyler, animated by the spirit OF his pa
triotic father, aud the brilliant example Of JET
ferson, his preceptor, determined Otherwise
Hence arose the savage and demoniacal wal
against him hence the furious efforts of a score
Of dishonest partisan leaders TO crush and ami
hiate an honest "PresidenI, without party
Magnanimous, courageous politicians! They
had the nerve 10 wage war against an homes
'President without party" But perhaps i
was rashness, rather than courage their pres
ent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. powerless, dashed
into nothingness-would seem to indicats the
former
Now, all men can glance back at the events
of the las, twelve or fifteen months. And what
is The spectacle presented What has Con-
gress meditated for the good of the country ?
Nothing whatever! Every measure of the
slightest importance to the country which has
been consummated, they have been driren into,
enfrapped by the Executive, who has bagged
them at the very moment when they thought
they chad him sure" 1t was so with the ia
riff, particularly.
Il q. ~ a. ~ Co.
has hitherto expended all its time in party le-
gislation. Witness their manifestos. and the
reports Of their mousing investigating commit
tees. But the leaders have at length expended
their wrath-they are PROSTATE and poweress-
and we hope something will yet be done for the
country. II would have been far better for them,
if they had turned their attention to the country
first
Well, what is the actual result OF the pas
sionate oratcrical, and newspaper war, waged
against the President for more than a year by
the ultra Wing leaders? The arch leader of
them all, lies fiat on his back, and his minis
terial tools are wandering about in desoiate
places, and hiding themselves like so many
Gains.
Is it any wonder that the People are abandon
ing such leaders Not at all. They were be-
trayed by them, and now they know it.
AT first, these recreant ultra leaders said the
President was pledged to approve Bank before
the election. Afterwards they said he approve
the second bill before it passed. He vetoed
both of the Bank bills. The Cabinet scattered
among the People, and uttered all kinds Of lies
against the President. They said he abused
them; that he deceived his friends, and in,ma-
ted that has motire pds to secure a re election!
Truly these were startling developmenls."-
The President had no presses-the retired Cabi-
net, their arch leader and his ultra satellites had
thousand The tale few upon the winds like
ghost tale. Men stood aghast, wondering if
1t could be true. For time they waited to
hear the other side" Alas, there were no
presses on the other side then. No conradic-
ton reaching them, at length most of them be-
lieyed the assertion Of their ultra leaders In
dignalion against the President, with many,
followed the conviction Of his turptude. The
leaders chuckled with delight. They had their
victim bound-tied hand and foot, and gagged
and nothing remained but for them to colec the
scattered forces for their own benefit
Undismayed as he was honest, the Chief
Magistrate uttered no complaint. He "be-
lieved," as Mr.. Calhoun sad Sin fruth"-lhat
Truth, crushed to earth, would rise again"
And so he bore the reproaches of deceived
party in silence; and, conscious of his own
rectitude, applied himself to the honest dis
charge of his high duties. Presently, here and
there, few editors saw through the disguise o.
his heartless Prosecutors aud spoke their mind:
freely. This attracted the attention Of Others
who likewise saw the injustice done the head O
the nation, and they, too, ranged themselves OF
his side. Now the cloven foot was discovered
at one place, and the forked tongue at another
revealing the demon sanderers of the Pres
dent, and the People hestaled TO follow thei
leaders any further. On the other hand, trutl
dsrising, and forming bright halo drount
the brop of''a President uithont pariy."-
1t was proved, mndeniabiy, that the false ultr;
leaders kneic the President was opposed to TIT
establishment Of Bank before the election
II was proved that the retired Cabinet, who ha,
created the belief that the Presidents motive
was to secure a reelection when he vetoed tn,
Bank bills, actually persuaded him to suppress
paragraph ia his last Teto Message, de
cidring his intention NOT to be a candidate
Ii was proved that this same Cabinet, after III
Vetoes, rere riAing 10 sustain him, If h
mould make apiedge foretain them in office
These things operated on the minds of lh
People like electricity. They paused-they re
fected-they grew indignant at the base cor
duct of their deceivers-and, finally, they wen
10 The polls and voted against all their minion.
the ultra Wing candidates, which had bee