The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-05

nducement to encounter the labor of elevated Office
but pecunary compensation, But even those of such
limited views, we think, would reflect, that he
whose professional reputation can command more
employment than any human mind or body could ac-
compllsh would find little inducemen in the salary
of office, to encounter its labors Its extrinsc hon
ors can weigh but little with one who has received
the homage OF two nations, and the office of Secre-
tary Of State can add nothing to the fame of Daniel
Webster, save, in the opportunity it affords him of
advancing the interests Of his country Surely patri
otto and vrtuous motives Of action are yet to be
found among our countrymen, and we can no where
look for them with so much confidence as in those
whose whole lives have been one continued flow Of
patriotic exertion; and the true sphere of such men
is in the councils of the nation. But in the eyes of
party, no sooner does an eminent statesman reach
such position of usefulness, than despite the esab
shed character of lifetime, he is regarded as being
influenced by motives the most mean and contempti-
BILE. Fortunately those who are influenced by
Of Duty and have heart the interests of their
country will mol be driven from the performance of
that duty by any such assaults 1t is weak patriot
ism which only acts in conjunction with its own ease
and comfort
If it was not melancholy fact of history, we
should not now believe that the same party malignant
cy which at this time foams at the feet of Daniel
Webster, once assaed the glorious name of the
great and good Washington; he did his duty in spite
of II, and now has the generation of the world. We
are told in relation to this great man, that zone or
two public journals, under the control of his nvidous
political enemies incessan and shameless in
their examinations. Washington did not condesceAi
to notice these yiruent attacks in public manner
but his private letters to some personal friends show
ed that he was not insensble to the cruel charges
brought against his official character. In July, 1893
at public festival at which the Governor of Penn
sylvania was present, toast was drank which nsn-
uated that Washington was the Arnoldof his country
and might merit dagger to his bosom
The spirit of party which thus assails the personal
character of its political opponents is worse than the
spirit which would, with vanda baibarism DESTROY
the Libraries, specimens Of fine arts, and monuments
of hostile nation, for it seeks to mutiate and de-
stroy the most honorable specimens of its country's
greatness to overturn and detace that which il can
not appreciate What are patriotism and considera-
tons of national greatness with those who are led on
by spoils and plumber They are unknown they
cannot be understood by them. Long and wide
would the chasm yawn before a Curus would leap
Into it from their ranks to save Rome.
The political course of Daniel Webster is before
the nation; let those opposed to it attack it, expose
its defects and, if possible defeat it, but when selfish
politicians incapable of higher modes of attack, at
tempt to assail his name with low abuse and vile Sian.
ders they the honest patriotism of every citi-
zen Of this Union whether his political friend or OPP
ponent and as the foreign invader, who, in the hour
oftnumph, mulates our monuments Of marble, ex-
cites universal Indignation and contempt these emo.
tons are far greater towards him whose traitor pen
would desecrate the more noble intellectual monu-
nents Of his country's fame.
NO PARTISAN.