Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-11-23
Erom The Milwaukee Courier.

| Tur M,pIsos1.N. President TYLER, AND Mr..
V.y BUREs-A late number OF the Nladlsonian,
| contains the following article, by way OF comment
| upon paragraph that appeared In the GLOBE:
GAS to Mr.. Van Buren,, we never said any hard
things of him. nor he of US, we 1t may
not be SO with our predecessor; but we more
RESPONSIBLE for his acts, than the present editor OF
the journal established by Ben Franklin Is for the
error (f ANY, committed by that philosopher nearly
century ago And we do not hesitate to declare
| that should Mr.. Van Buren, be the choice of the
| Republican party, we will nail his coors to the
most, and never cease fire on his enemies as
long as we have muzzle above the water.
sIBut in the meantime, and until the will OF the
people is fully and unequlvocay expressed, 1t is
both our vocation and inclination to defend, vndl
cate and support the 'powers that be. But most
gladly would agree to fight none but Sour COM
mon enemies in future. And why Will not our
friends in principle all over the country agree with
us?'
Now we put it to the Madisonan, and we desire
it to answer US in the spirit of frankness that the
query is propounded, whether the Democratic par
y of the West ought to lend its aid to the powers
that be, until those powers evince disposition to
support the party9 At present the Democratic
party in the north west has the influence OF 'the
powers that be- to contend with.
Particularly is this the this Territory, and
that the face of the protestations OF
nineteen -twenteths of the community. Every She
riff and nearly every other officer appointed by the
of Henry Clay and will not, and say they dare
even publish an official notice in Democratic pa
per.
At the recent election, the Democracy had all
the Office holders with the governmental their head
10 contend with. The Governor attended the poll
! all day at Madison, and eectioneered most indus
| ,riously for the whig ticket The Marshal OF the
Territory threatened the sheriff of Racine county
with removal, because some of the candidates on
| the Wing ticket did not receive larger vote IN
| the town in which he T the sheriff resided.
We are aware that the office holders alluded to,
were forced upon President Tyler by the Clay fac
ton but we ask whether he does owe IL to HIM
self and the party that he appeals to for support
| to remove them and fill their places with men
whose views and feelings in consonance with
| his own.
When President Tyler's vetoes on the Bank and
Exchequer bills made their appearance, none were
more ready in their deunclatlons, or muttered dee
per curses against him than the that hold office
under him in this Territory; and it was most sin
| gular scene to WITHSTAND 1t was one frequently
| witnessed by us-to see the that President Ty-
Ter has appointed to office cursng, and those that
he had removed, praisng him for his vetoes. We
venture the assertion, (and so confident we OF
| its truth, that would stake existence upon
it, could the matter be tested) that if the Office hol-
ders appointed under President Tyler in this Terri
| tory could be called upon tomorrow to give the
casting vote between Tyler and Clay they would
throw a vote Tor Clay. AS to the opinion, the pre-
! sent Governor of this Territory holds upon this
point, Mr.. Jones need only call on Mcssrs. Chit
tenden and Van Rensselaer, of the New York dele
CATION, and ask them what were Doty's views in
| 1840-I. We know that there is more ardent
u States Bank man in the northwest than J. ID.
| Do;y.
In the name OF the Democracy of Wisconsin we
solicit from the Madisonian its views upon the
points touched upon in the above. The Democra
! cy of the Territory are DESTROYS of knowing what
they and their brethren of the north west have to
expect from Mr.. Tyler.