The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-05
The MADISONIAN.

calls himself Wing, and II IS 10 De ies',
that the great body Of Wings do not agree WIN
him in opinion We insert the articles Oh pom
Democrats and Wings, and care not whieh 'hey
are, or may have been, so they support the Al
ministralion-ED,
Every generous and soundly thinking mind cannot
but deplore that the exalted Office in the gift OF
the American People, is yearly becoming an object OF
less desirable attainment than formerly. The happy
and useful enjoyment of that office must depend es-
sentialy upon the confidential and harmonious rea"
ton between the people and their Chief Magistrate
but, if the people stimulated by ambitious leaders
TO interrupt that confidence and harmony, not only
the happn ness Of the Office is greatly marred but lis
utility is necessarily much impeded
As an old-fashioned politician, Of more primitive
and purer days, cannot but deeply lament the pre-
partisan aspect that attempted to be forced up
ON the nation, and equally admire the patriotic ana
honest equanimty maintained by the President in the
midst Of the arrows which shot around, and al
him. mot by the people large, but) by disconnected
aspirants of various kinds, and by indscreet polit
clans each class looking far less to the present good of
the lphoie than the future emolumen of the fer,
am, also sufficiently old-fashioned, Mr.. Editor,
greatly to admire the position recently taken by the
MADIsoNIAN, that there should be recognised
hut two partes--the ADMINISTRATIONS, and the OpPo-
sIrIoN,-this is sound in patriotism, and is common
in political morals: for, let me ask, what is
new Administration constituted for, by the People,
but to make fair, undisturbed and honest trial Of
such measures as the new President, and enligh
ened Cabinet may deliberately advise If the hounds
of partisan warfare are to be let loose upon every
measure, actual or contempated-if these are to be
assaed even before they called into being, and
vexaously aspersed when exstant, if the worst mo-
,iyes are to be gratuitousy imputed to them-if the
minds of the people to be industriously poisoned
and every imaginary evil exaggeraed-if the sound
reasonngs made to appear sheer folly if the
most pure and carefully deliberated plans pro-
nounced to be crude impracticable, and hasty-lf,
finally, the measures of Government all to be
sailed and even stopped for the purpose OF exciting
pejudces that shall operate favoraby for the Opposi
ton be they the Dems the Whigs) at some future
day, for one, will never cease to warn the people
that this is not patriotic is anti-constuiona,
anti-poitical, ant-social, and anmora
Il is idle to intimate feebly, as has been often
done that Mr. Tyler was not elected President of the
United States by the PEoPLE He ~as SO elected, if
we have Constitution that means any thing The
people did vote for John Tyler, Vice President
and for John Tyler as President, upon the happen
ing of certain event explicitly named in the Consti-
tuition That event did come to pass; and am again
sufficiently oidfashioned to express my respect and
confidence in that OF Cop which called the Peo-
pies choice into actual operation. To my mind, there
is something anti Christian, well anti conslitu
tlonal deal with that in the coarse, abusive,
and vulgar terms, in which it met, soon,
as the thought 1oas conceded that his Administration
might prove peaceful, honest and beneficial, as to
awaken the gratiul e of the nation in his behalf,
and thereby excite willingness to continue him as our
Chief M ,gstrae for another 1t seems however,
that the very thought of such event. reused all the
hostile feelings of certain class for, be it
membered, that this abuse was showered down upon
the new President long before there the slightest
manifestation that the thought was in his mind
No one can say that Mr.. Tyler, eight months ago,
gave to any human being the least cause to believe
that he thought of the Presidency beyond 1874 but,
as opine, the people have thought for him, and will
continue so to think stronger and stronger every day
and why, among other reasons The reply is obvi-
Gus generous nation will perceive in all this two
things first that his opponents have, in their ndis-
Greet anxiety, shown their own demerts and second
y the Administration BY their equanmity and desire
to harmonse the nation, have shown their rust-wor
thiness, and have disproved the numerous ISLANDERS
cast upon it. Doubtless, this Administration, like all
others that have been, shall be, has commit
ted mistakes Of policy and of fact but, are their
skill and patriotism and industry to be therefore for
gotten, rather wholly denied and will err
rors, strong differences of opinion, justify Sc
we're abuse and relentless opposition to sound
sures2 think not. We all know that the nation has
been strongly agitatedhat it has been long, and is
greatly suffering and that individual distresses
cover the whole land. We therefore, also know that
the people need repose that every healing medica-
ment should be applied that generous confidence
should be reposed in the Administration; that its
should be fairly tried and that idle refine
ments should not be magnifed into things of mpor-
lance. Every true lover of his country also knows
that the Opposition should not vexatously hunt up |
every possible, every imaginary, every ingenious ar
gument that may disparage measures, which, if not
fauess are still far better than Observation-Disclosures
better than those of the Opposition, and far better
than Bentonianism and Clayism in any shape in
which they have yet been manifested.
1t to be calamity necessarily attendant up
on Repubcanism that we should have parties; butt |.
voluntary and wholly Fictitious evil that we as
sumo to ourselves whenever we convert party discus
sion into mere rancerous and partisan warfare-a
warfare reckless of consequences, regardul of the
peoples wants, Indifferent to the judgments of sound
reasoning, querulous and suspicious to the motives
of those in power, abusive and disingenuous as to
their political and even personal character and,
finally, checking perpetually the wholesome current
of legislation and Of Executive action for some re-
mote and sinister purpose! All such proceedings
have more of passion than of patriotism, and are
gross departures from the high obligations due to the