The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-21
OUR COUNTY FIRST-POLITIC1AN
AFTER WARDS

| The Western Empire, Democratic pape
published at Dayton, Ohio, scourges some Off
| party contemporaries for their Wholesale conden
| nation OF President Tyler, and takes very ia
| view OF parties an men as they at present
pear In this country. The Empire says, th
within short period, the tone of the Democrf
| lc press is much changed, and much more sc
sible than it has been prevously-and, in tn
that paper does not err. There were but tv
Democratic papers, in all Ohio, three wee
| since, that stood out in their denunciatlons
the President, land one ofthese has now come for
IN proper spirit. We mean the Clevela
Plain Dealer, which rejoices at the third Vet
and concludes powerful article in the FOLLOW
ing words:
We say to President Tyler, go on Act for yo'
country, your whole country, and nothing but yoI
country; and the gratitude of noble and generou
people awaits you"
The Cincinnati Enquirer is the only Demo
cratic paper, now in Ohio, that continues throw
ing its bile out upon the President and why
should do so is more than can fathom. lr
reply TO the Enquirer the Western Empire can
didly remarks:
Would the Enquirer have the people of free Anne
RIGA become as restless and changing and turbulent as
were the excited pOpuace of Rome during the days
Of her last Tribunes? Would it keep the whole coun
try forever unsetted' Can it not consent to treat
with deco UNI, with liberality common decency,
man whom it has once had occasion to oppose' Can
it find it in its power to continue to with the ORR
glnator-the agent in the perfection of Democratic
measures-Orever? Is it so very fearful that candor
and courtesy towards the President will ultimately
place him in the way of some favorite Democratic
canddate' We frankly declare, that we are not pre-
pared to advocate the claims of John Tyler for the
Presidency in 1874. We not called upon, either
by sense OF justice, gratitude, policy or duty to dc
So We are not even willing to agtate the Presiden
tial question But God knows that we perceive mel
Their sense, justice, policy in joining in with Fede
raj Clay-whigs in the wholesale abuse of man, who
has hree times, within one year, saved his country
from ruin and disgrace, and the Democratic party
from twenty-five years defeat And, what is more
if the policy dicium of the Democratic parry
quires this at our hands, prepared to lay dow
our editorial charge, and beake ourselves to cultiva
ting potatoes ~
We trust this will prove salutary to some
the Democratic editors and in all truth and no
nesty, and without particle Of political feeling il
the case, we ask not only the editors here alluded
TO, but all who are free from sectional trammels
and above mere party lines, is it not for the good
OF the whole country to stand by President,
who, because he has done his duty, is TO be
forcibly deposed, if force can do it? Are the
Democrats-are the Whigs-are any classes.
except the Clay men-prepared TO see the Pre-
sident politically butchered, because they did OF
did not happen to vote for him 2
We answer no! The time has arrived, as il
arrives in war, when the bitterest political foes
meet to defend the Government from common
danger. The time has arrived when all the
friends of liberty join hands in protecting the
land they love from anarchy, and our glorious
institutions from disgrace, ruin and annihila
ton. The cry of danger has gone forth--lhe
beacon lights are flaming in the yellow valleys
and on the snow-covered mountains-lhe
tocsin Is ringing from ocean to ocean-from
gulf to gulf, and the people already have thrown
off party ties to meet common enemy.