The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-13

forks, and the strains of martial music will die away
in the reaper's song of harvest home.
A new Tariff bill, with the same bride to the
States OF the Union, has again passed the House OF
Representatives. and it will be whether the
President who has vetoed three bills upon principle
will sign more obnoxious one through fear.
And shall the Democratic party of the country
stand idly by and say what is all this to us Shall
a President who has Hercules like, knocked OF three
heads of the hydra, and whose club is ready to
knock down the fourth, be left alone in the field OF
battle because the old Cabinet made removals whic
he dsapproved Of, and because the Clay Wing ofhce-
holders have removed those under them who were
Democrats and put in men of their own kidney The
country requires the services of its
"America expects every man to do his duty'-and
unless the Democrats in Congress march boldly to
the rescue, the People will march themselves to
the support of their defender
1t will not answer to say we disapproved of this
thing or that thing, but it will be required of ev-
cry Republican to stand up and say whether the doc
trines Of Jefferson were left to become byword
and stencil in the nostrs of the country, for fear
that political aspirants to the Presidency
would be offended or not.
The toast returned by Col. Page to the Tyler din
ner at McArran's, was in opinion discourteous,
and in bad TASTE 1t smacked of private revenge, and
looked like refusal to partake of feast be-
fore invitation had been given than anything else.
Principles, not men, is the watch-word OF De-
mocracy. If Mr.. Tyler throws himself between
the ranks of conending parties, and, snatching the
standard of Democracy from the hands of the
standard bearer bears it proudly up and plants it firm
y on the bastions of the enemy, to hang back
and say we will not move in the path of glory
No Republican can refuse to sustain Mr.. Tyler in
his of late. 1t is true more must be done by
him before he can be counted auorite leader of
party: but if | might prophecy with the RICHMOND
ORACLE, / should say that long before the 10000
bayonets glitter along Pennsylvania avenue, Mr.. ~
Ter will have leaned in confidence upon his old
friends and put his trust in the American People.
have long condemned Mr. Tyler's yacllating course,
but when consider in cool blood his stuation-when
think of the great Wing party that brought him into
power, and then like the foam upon the top of the
ocean-wave burst like a thousand bubbles upon the
air-when consider who he had for his early adj
vsers, and the mournul end of his predecessor, who
wished to have the true principles of Government
understood and carried out and nothing more''-
when | consider how he has been baited, chafed,
traduced forsaken and despised, by those who are
unworthy to cross his Threshold when | consider
how much he has done for the People-how manful-
ly he has resisted every thing that faction and malice
invented laughed to every attempt at ntimi-
dation, can not but admire his frmness of charac-
ter and his honesty of purpose
The People will, as they ever have done, remem-
Der their beneactors and whether the Convention of
the Democracy select Mr.. Tyler or not, every true
Democrat should hasten to his relief and shield him
in the hour of danger; for if he falls in the
ter, he will fall fighting their battles and defending
their principles
BosroN, Aug T. 1912.