The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-16
FOR THE MADISONIAN.


Those who have marked the course of " the
Globe" for the last few years, know that it is
essentially ultra in most of its views, and that
it represents the opinions and policy OF the
ultras of the Democratic party, exclusively. In
no part of the country is il considered the expo
nent Of the Democratic party-as party.
Imbued as it is and has been for many years
with the dangerous heresies Of school of Eng
lish radicals, it has wandered far from the sound
and long cherished principles of Jefferson and
| Madison, after strange doctrines, not less ex
ceptionabe than the worst measures Of the
federal party in '9S and il has been received
by those who in truth and in spirit represent The
Democratic party
| The Globe is thoroughly partisan, with no
sound or settled principles to influence the ad-
mnistralion Of Government, or to sustain
great and consistent party. Looking more to
! the success of one or two men, than to the
| healthiu action of government and the prospe-
rity of the country, its policy is to strike at every
obstacle TO the accomplishm ent of that end, and
with broken sceptre, TO battle for the recovery
of place and patronage. 1t is not, therefore,
matter of surprise, that the Globe, with such
reprehensible selfish objects, should be seen
making war upon the President, who never has
and never will be the advocate of its radical and
revolutionary notions,-eve way unsound and
mischievous.
| 1t may have been stimulated 10 commence its
attacks thus early, by observing the current of
public opinion and the necessity of arrestng its
direction by issuing sentence of excommuni-
cation against the President upon the very Sc f.
complacently assumed authority of party /!
But the time has long since passed when the
dictum Of the Globe was the law of party and
it will find very soon, if it has not already real
lied the fact, that its oracles and its power are
but the day dreams of bigot.
The distinctive PRINCIPLES of the Republican
party are so specific and clearly defined, tina, it
is not in the power Of utitarian speculatons
and the new born creed Of radicasm to mistify
their boundaries, change their features, or per
vert their authority They had their origin in
the councils of the good and great, from their
peculiar fitness for the character of our people
and the nature Of our institutions. They have
been tiled through good and adverse fortune ;
have been ratified by the sovereign will, and
made as immutable in the adaptation as the du-
ration of Government. The President knows
the exact locale of the Globe agreeably to the
chart, aud he finds its departure from the doc
trines of party, as laid down by the fathers OF
the church, so wide, that it is more Of a seceder
than the herald Of the primitive faith. He,
| therefore, can recognize no right on the part of
The Globe to speak in the name and on the au-
thority Of the great Republican party. To the
high aIbitament Of public opinion he is willing
to leave the issue between his claims to ortho-
doxy aud thos. OF the Gobe-belween the adap-
laton of his measures to the relief of suffer
ing and distracted country and the repudated
doctrines of the recognized organ of radicaism
aud revolution. To the same tribunal will he
leave the verdict that is 10 be given upon the
Treaty that has just been ratified with Eng
land, relying conhd ntly upon the intelligence
and virtue of the People, who can see the
clear distinction betw cen a patriotic and
faithful discharge of sacr,d duty, which has
secured the honor, the rights and peace of a
great nation and that morbid knocking of JUS
tice, that would stife truth to injure an adverse