The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-03
Nem Tork Correspondence.
New YoRK, Aug. 80, 1912


Great preparations are making here to give
certain prominent Western and Southern Clay
members grand reception after the adjourn
ment OF Congress. The Wing Young Mems
Committee have appointed ..Committee of
Arrangements" TO get up the jubilee If the Ia
riff bill becomes law, Committee of condo
lence would be more appropriate. However,
let these men, dressed in little brief authori-
ty," play their antics before high heaven while
they can; they are on their way 10 execution,
and If they choose to spend the short remainder
OF their political existence nlouatebank fashion,
why should any body interfere with their "dance
of death 2'
You will have seen that the Courier and En-
quirer and other Federal papers, are furious be-
cause the Madlsonan recommends the dismiss
al OF such Government officers as contribute 10
the support Of publications devoted to the abuse
OF the President and his Cabinet These very
liberal presses think it very wrong that the sub
ordinates of Government should not be allowed
TO expend their salaries in curses on the source
from which they are received. OF course the
President can neither be Democrat nor phian-
sworn enemies with cudgels 10 break his own
head. And then the ultra Wings set him such
noble example Wherever they have the ow-
er, they persecute every man that they have
reason to suspect thinks John Tyler an honest
man. Exquisite casuists, these Whigs-and so
consistent. Had they not better ask the Presi-
dent to pay, out Of the Treasury, for kinding
III n r. Ia, ,
and in which | verify believe some of them
would burn him bodily if lheirpower were equal
to their vindictiveness Office! Office! Of
flee is the alpha and omega of the Feeeralists
OF the present day. 1t was the cry that rang
perpetually in the ear of General Harrison from
the hour of his election till the day of his death
AN event which there is too much reason 10
believe it fastened, and in the great secret Of
the hatred borne to Mr.. Tyler by that hungry
faction-a secret which unconsciously leaks out
| through the columns of the would have-been
Postmaster of the Courier and Enquirer-is,
| that he would not, without examination or ques-
| ton, feed all its innumerable mouths out of the
public crib.
Iwould wind up these two or three pages OF
not, as the paragraphsts say, for the "dearlh or
incident" There has been little excitement
| believe to-day, among the gamblers and pick
pockets, in consequence of prize fight which
took place at Hart Island East River, between
an Englishman named Bell, and an Irishman
who calls himself Yankee Sullivan. Sullivan
beat his antagonist severely. The thermometer
has been, to-day, 81 in the shade, so that ii must
have been warm work. To the disgrace of our
city, prize fights are becoming very frequent in
its neighborhood, and for large sums. The con-
test to-day was for $500. Another proof that
we are not progressing in the path of virtue and
refinement, is the multiplication of obscene pub
locations among us. There are some four Of
five weekly papers, with illustrations of the most
immoral character, published here, and openly
cried in our streets and at the very doors Of our
churches, on the Sabbath. There are ample
laws for the suppression of these nuisances, but
the municipal authorities are culpably apahetc
on the subject
Our places Of amusement are very thinly at
tended-there is no money to throw away For
complishments, teachers of languages, and all
who deal in the luxuries Of life, complain bit
terly Of the "hard times" Hundreds and thou
sands Of those whom each of these classes con
sidered generous patrons few years ago, now
find it difficult to provide their own families with
the ordinary comforts, not to say necessaries, Of
life REPUBLICAN,