The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-05
From h6 .ks,o Orleans advertiser.
STOPPING THE SUPPI les.

The reprehensible course which the Wing major
ity IN Congress have pursued with such obstinacy
since the assemblage of that body last December up
the present hour will bring forth appropriate fruits
in due 1t is rapidly awakening public aiieh-
ton, and fairly aroused, betrayed and out
ragged constituency will visit them with signal ven
geance. The grand object Of all their efforts, W
which every interest however important, was suoof
dinae has been the intimidation, the betrayal OF inc
expulsion Of the Executive and this ELECTED, upon
the ruins of institutions, IN the consequent pros
traon of one of its main pillars, we were 10 De VS.
tied with all the horrors Of legislative usurpauoh-
Thus u. 5. Bank, "such as Gen. Jackson 'etoeu u,
1882" high protective Iarih an assumption vi
the 1000 600 600 of State debts; perpetuation oil
the Distribution law and a ruthless prescription,
would be but the beginning OF an end which would
find the nation hopeessy IN debt; the channels oil
government corrupted to their source, proiigate
extravaganza in our expenditures with mat most
odious of all nobilities firmly established IN our
midst-a moneyed aristocracy, controlling the Gov
eminent. In word il would place us In the dread
ful position which England occupies at this moment
for to measures of the very same nature OF those
above which the Wing party would fasten upon the
country at all hazards, are to be attributed the m
equality of wealth and power, the misery and star
vation, with the impending ruin which threatens the
existence Of that nation.
To escape the horrors which followed in the foot
steps of actious and omnipotent Legislature, Eng
land once sought refuge in the supreme dictatorship
despotism of Napoleon. And the history neithero OF
the Commonwealth Parliament or OF the French
Chamber, furnishes nothing OF their early encroach-
ments that is not faithfully reflected III the merry zeal
and wicked recklessness oil their compeers oil our
present Congress.
We have been led to these reflections in marking
the deep determination evinced by the Wing majority
in Congress- as further developed day by day. TO effect
the darling object of their hearts, In destroying the
Executive-''to head him or die.n Once out Of the
he To plnli their
wishes lies before them. But he remains fixed like
the ocean dashed rock-though they chae him, they
cannot move him.
Repulsed and baffled, they pregnant with all
that mischief so readily appreciated by desperate
men; and with settled purpose to rule or ruin they
aim to effect by subtety and craft what it would be
dangerous to attempt by force. To discredt and
dishonor the President they frame laws so obnoxious
and unsound, furnishing in themselves the proof
that they intended for the veto and purposely
neglecting vital interests, upon which his favorable
opinions were well known, they rail at the undue ex-
ercise of executive power. They are watching with
eagle eyes for the first step which may be tortured
into singh crime or misdemeanor," whereupon to
mpeach him-and one of the fanatics has already
signifed his intention to to that effect on
grounds already transpired. While to finish the PIC
ture by an assumed for the interests of the
country, and fegned fit of economy, they are pro-
crastnating the adjustment of governmental liabil-
tiles, these proceedings having Tor their object
through Indirect meals, ulc more uaTHS measure,
it openly advanced, Of stopping the national sup
pi,s!
With majority SO decided as that they maintain
in Congress, it is in vain for them to shift the
sponsibility from their own shoulders. They, and
they only, are answerabe, not only for the policy
of the day, but for the consequences which may
grow out of it,
All the distress which the country has experienced
has mainly grown out of the violent MONSTER party.
1t has rendered our legislation weak and vasca-
ting" to proverb, and made our policy as change
able as the winds. Parties have been nicely bal
anced, that for the last twelve years. as power
changed hands, the first business of the dominant
faction of the hour to undo all that had pre-
viously been done. Party feeling has grown stronger
with years, and now it RACES to the destruction of
all that is left us to boast Of in prosper
BUS country. Its fatal effects exist in the ruin we
see around u.s.