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

the incoming party-was pledged by President Har-
rson, and has been carried out Ly President Tyler,
with exemplary irmness, and which might have been
more correctly accomplished, had there been less OF
angry opposition. am free to own that do not my
self approve of every thing thai has been done in this
respect but where every thing else far has been
exactly right ii seems 10 that patriotism should
have forbidden iabd fault-fnding, and should have
dictated generous support of his Administration and
that, too, by the OUTS and much more so by the
INNS if not by open approval, yet certainly by less
angry opposition
No Administration can labor efficiently for the
general good if the Opposition feels itself entitled TO
be forever ON the alert raise difficulties, and to swell
the tide of opposition. The wheels OF Government
must then stop-the public veal must then succomb
to the comparatively private wishes and advantage OF
few political leaders in each State of the Union,
and the people must continue to suffer until time and
opportunity Through the medium of an enlightened
press) shall gradually teach them the wholesome
truth that there can be no heathfu Administration
of the Constitution sound legislation and no wise
execution of existing laws and powers in the midst
of partisan turmoil and Of gra.ui,ous opposition.
1t is therefore most sautary doctrine that shuts out
all party distinctions save that Of the ApMNsTR ALTON
and Of the OPPOSITION we've that the generally re-
ceived and practsed doctrine during every Presiden
tal term each Administration would have fair trial
and would then be eventually judged by its measures
and when the day Of reckoning came the whole mass
of administrative (afer ria would be fairly
before the people, who the constituted judges and
who then would have the means of soundy judging
That much evil results from perpetual opposition
willis. measures are forming, and gradually ma
turing, question often contem-
plate with surprise, the long cherished oppo-
siton of considerable party in France, to
the reign of Louis Philippe, believing as do that
since the days of Henry w, she has never had SC
WISE so honest, and practical monarch and yet
there are thousands who would hur him from his
throne-whose prejudices so nveterate that the
cannot the merits of his peaceful and emnently
wise administration and who would both bless and
curse the day that should consgn him to tomb
in st. Denis But mankind in all ages and coun-
tries has been much the same present and idle dis
content lost in the yet idle hopes of the flu
ture selfshness shuts out reason, and Fictitious evils
are made the stalkinghorse that shuts from our view
the existing goods And this is owing, in small
degree, to the excitable nature of the great mass
and to the vast power which intellectual few may
exercise, for veal or for wo But let me again ask
is il not the province of sober judgment of honest
patriotism, and of practical wisdom, to check that
tumultuous ardor Of the multitude and should not
the gifted few exert their high powers to sober the
public mnd-to calm the too angry excitement--to
correct all erroneous opinions and to annihiate pre-
JUDGES J, Were these things done, no people upon
earth are more soundy thinking than the American
public-none more gener Jus--none more disposed
for the tranquil and industrious pursuits of life The
watchword, them should be MODERATION AND VI
GLANCE" for whilst calm discussion and judicious
inquiry should be cherished the surest preserva-
ves of liberty, all ultra opposition should be regard
ed the most infallibe and mortal foe to the per-
manency of our Republican institutions Italy, with
her twelve millions has never since the fall of the
empire, taken that stand among the nations of the
earth which her high intellectual attachments, he r
genius, and her physical advantages would have con-
ferred upon her and the is mostly to be found
in that rancorous spirit with which she has always
pursued every matter of politics. of religion itera
ture, and of general opinion And so with us. In
our mixed population, there must necessarily be much
Of miscellaneous thought upon nearly all subjects and
hence arises the strong moral, and physical ne
cessty for the cultivation at all times of that recp
rocal giving and receiving which is called moderation
and which never fails to bless equally the giyer and
the receiver The apiees juris-the unalloyed good
the perfect justice-the beau ideal Of Government,
seldom, if ever, attanable and he who seeks for
such pursues a phantom The closest approxima
top, then to all these is to be fondly cherished and
the people not fairly dealt with when the wheels
of Government stopped or shackled under the plea
that ideal and mpracticable perfection is to be
pursued How important, then, repeat again, is the
doctrine that whenever choice is made Of a
new Administration, it should be literally sus-
ained-gracousy dealt with --freey tried and
never coarsely abused, Nor do ! pretend to assert
tina, there has been no abuse the administrative
side; but do say that it has been mostly, if not
tirely, defensioe. lament that there has been any,
any where Facts always stubborn things
facts the ADMINISTRATION party has had in profu
SION and therefore never had occasion to follow bad
example. But still, the severity of remark, or the
invetcracy Of attack his been the other side The
vituperative resolutions-lhe burning in etfgy-the
wordy abuse, &c. of President Tyler-those upon
Mr.. Secretary Webster, that upon Mr. Secretary Up
shur, and others, have been such as no condition Of
party excitement and even imminent peril Of the
Republic, would justify They, indeed, have been
most triumphantly refuted but that only makes them
the more odlous, and strips them, the more, Of all
show of justification. myself no partisan,
though truca Wing can be found but have ever
aimed at much higher ground, viz. at the preservation
ofthe Union, for ever-at the universal improvement
Of the public morals-,he enactment Of salutary laws
the permanency Of orthodox poitics-.he extinction
Of man worship-the bold annunciation oftruth-he
honor and welfare ofmy whole country-ihe separs-
lion of all uhraism from Democracy, and from Fede-
rasm, and from Whigism and finally, the reduction
Of all politics TO AMERicANIsM.
CoRN PLANTER