The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-20

al an early period of the present session OF
congress, Messrs. Bolts, c. Davis, etc, were
unwilling to allow the President single press
IN Washington TO defend him. and assaiIed the
Madsonlan in the most efectual manner their
invention could suggest.
First, they as ,erted in the House that our
circulation only amounted TO a few hundred CO.
pies, while the Intelligencer had great many
thousand subscribers, and consequently all the
patronage should be taken from the former and
given TO the latter. These speeches were cub
| lished in tuH in the Intellgencer, and copied by
the innunerable Bank sheets in all sections of
the country.
All the Government patronage being thus ia
ken from US, and bestowed on our enemies
and the libels first promulgated in Congress,
in relation 10 our limited circulation, being
spread through every nook and corner in the
United States by means Of the partisan presses
these dignhed and honorable Representatives
looked calmly on, with the confident expectation
that at tarthest we would expire n a month or
two.
Thrice armed and doubly nerved by such
cruelty and persecution, our course became
more resolute and determined This exasperat-
ed our enemies to avail themselves of an expe-
dent which has ever been considered dastardy
and contemplate. With their own pens, and
those in their employ, they began to s,igmatze
our journal with the epthets of ''weak,n
childish" &C., for the purpose of prejudicing
those against it who had never read it, and to
induce the belief that it was unworthy of atten-
ton and support.
Even this resort did not realise their hopes
But there was yet one other mode to operate
against Us. The / 700 appointees of Mr.. Gran
ger, and the thousands appointed by the rest of
the retired Cabinet, were called upon to use
every exertion in their power to ''head' the
Madisonian. Mr.. Mangum went so far as to
call upon both parties to crush US Well, the
office holders, most of them, responded faith
fully to the call, aud we are frank TO acknow-
If this confession is gratifying to our enemies,
they are welcome to the enjoyment. But their
agents and tools must expect day Of reckon
ing before long We were ''scotched, not
killed.
All these things we bore with as good grace
as possible We had truth and Justice on our
side, and hoped some day to get the vantage
ground-which comes rather sooner than we
expected. The deep Indignation we felt at
such injustice inspired US with the confident
belief that it was not in the power of mortal men
to annihilate US under such circum stances, nd
so we plodded on, Gliding our time" with as
much equanimny as we could affect, and al
ways patient aud deliberate, though ever 1oatch-
.tul
We have not been disappointed-we have not
hoped vain Ourenemies in Congress are now
writing under the scorpion lash of ten million
tongues. The just denunciations of the weak"
and childish" Madisonian are flying on the
wings of the wind to every village and hamlet
throughout the length and breadth of this broad
land. Retributive justice has already over
taken our enemies. The identical men pho
sought so unuoorthiiy to crush us, are nop con-
temned, repudiated, disgraceT, by the whole
nation. And what is better, OUR PAPER $500
ING AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS.
We do not claim the merit of such an achieve
ment by dint of talent and assiduty. No
it is the palpable dishonesty and corruption of
the Clay Wings in Congress. Having such an
overwhelming majority 10 both Houses of Con-
gress, and thousand Bank presses to ring
their praises, whether they do good or i'll, it can
not be possible that ''pitful Corporal's
Guard" and a mere half dozen journals, the
central one being "childish," could so effeclu-
ally and triumphantly turn the tide against the
many enemies of the Administration No
justice was on our side. The President is hon
est and true, firm and wise, and has been
wronged, deeply wronged, by Mr.. Clay's infatu-
ated followers. This is the secret of our sue
cess. This is why the Wing party has been
broken to pieces and scattered to the winds