The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-10
"THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER. "


ering the editors Of the Globe, win 'heir lau'hs,
and almost departed influence with The Demo
cracy, TO occasion any emotion oil indignation
mr. mai, within our breasts. We boldly pro-
claim that the day of the Globes power has
gone, and that the editors are very much mis-
taken if they suppose the catastrophe OF then
final downfall is not FASTENED by their senseless
and unadvised attacks on the President, and by
ou,raging the feelings and principles OF large
majority eff the Democratic party in The coas'i-
try.
After endeavoring to accomplish as much IN
iury TO the best interests of the Democratic par
" as possible, in its covert attacks on the Pre-
sident. through Mr.. Webster, because OF the
Treaty, and by an insidious war on Mr.. C'l-
houn, and other Democratic Senators, who, by
the Constitution of the United States, are now
lust as much responsible for the Treaty as the
President is, it has now, for its own interested
purposes. turned the batteries Of its attack most
unjustly, against man in whom majority o
The Democratic party have expressed great
confidence; in whom it is said Gen. Jackson re-
poses high regard for his firmness and patriot
ism. and to whom a majority OF Democrats
feel gratitude "a word of their own choice) Tor
his UNPARALLELED services in aid OF Democracy
and the country.
The Globe seizes on the idea of an "identity
between the Democrats and the friends OF MIR.
TYLER" set forth by a New York correspondent
of the Madisonian, for text on which 10 make
a commentary which, if lis purposes were car
ried out, could only prove eminently disastrous
to the Democratic party. On the very day OIL
the important election in New York, so preg-
nant with good or bad consequences as Demo
cracy succeeds or is beaten, this article appears
in the Globe. Messrs. Editors, do you think
that YOU would have served the cause Of VIM
C.. Bouck, or do you think he would have thank
ed YOU for your uncalled-fo tradeify you had pub
lshed .syour speech" week or fortnight ago4
Ills true YOU might have done so with impunly,
for a thousand Globes could not deter patriots
from doing what they conceive TO be their duty
But suppose that all men acted on the "ruie or
ruinn policy Of the Globe; suppose that all men
were Of the opinion Of these willy editors that no
man was to be advocated, and all measures OPP
posed, unless they themselves believed their
own peculiar personal interests advanced and
aggraudized by their conrse-what then
All the services of Mr.. Tyler do not weigh a
feathers weight in the scale-do not en,itlc him
personally or politically to moments consider
alion-some Of his acts are highly agreeable,
that's all. No. the great Democracy exhibit (ac-
cordng to the Globe) an evidence OF high poll
teal justice-of exceeding magnanlmlty OF
conduct and character when they speak OF the
President as the Globe here speaks of him-''as
q trimmer, an apostate-or one who, II he has
any fixed principles has not the rigor firm
ness TO maintain them"
And what constitutes the ground of this I'M
warranted and cruel attack on the part OF q
Democratic journal, which one would rather
suppose TO be the Lexington Observer" OF
New York " Courier and Enquirer" or some
other ultra Wing print, on the President? Now
Democrats, mark the reasons urged by the I'M
macuate Globe.
First: That he acould hare signed Bank
bill of a certain descrption-it does not at al
matter what sort of Bank bill this was Oh
no: we will only remark that the principle o
the Bank bill, which the Globe says that the
President pould hare signed, was asserted by
the votes of Mr.. Benton and every other Demo
cratic Senator, in 1882, fact the Journal OF The
Senate shows beyond contradiction. The veto
of tlpo Bank bills, which he and The Democrat
ic party alike thought unconstitutional, by
which, and ty which alone, the country was
saved from the infection of moneyed despo
tism, and this, too, at his own personal peril
unsupported and unterri6ed, goes for nothlng
These very considerate gentlemen can see no
thing in an act, which astonished and terrihe'
one great and victorious party, and which hliet
the Democratic party with JOY and admiration
except that which is "highiy agreeable" Y,
political Pelhams and Beau Brummels-y,
thoroughbred aristocratc editors who are noa
driven from your prophecies who cannot b
forced into any emotion of JOY or admiration, @
wonder or enthusiasm, whose feelings would b
shocked to reach beyond the mark of the "high
ly agreeable" head, we envy your equanimty
But tell us, can you not worship justice un
less she wears frown?
Second. That he only incidentally oppose
Distribution. Thath sared the country iron
Distribution, in which he and the Democrat
party alike agreed, is Of no manner of conse
quence, with the magnanimous editors. No
moths too was just "highly agreeable" that
ALL
Third He precipitately signed the repeal c
the Sub-Treasury. This was astonishing in
deed, seeing that only nineteen out of twenty
six States demanded it. And this seems stI
more astonishing, when we reflect that the oil
Sub-Treasury, as it was called, broke down tn
Democratic party in 1910, and when the Pres
dent, as Jeffersonian Democrat, has presente
an Exchequer plan, Swallowed forth by Thoma
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