The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-11
OUR COUNTRY


Even "water wears away the rock" When
impending perls threaten the welfare of our
| country, it becomes its defenders to make up for
any deficiency there may exist in numbers, by
zeal and perseverance If we are right in our
conviction of the importance OF zealously sus-
tanning the conservative policy of the present
Administrations course alike independent of
the favor and maledctons of ultra party leaders
we will certainly be successful in the end. If
our cause is just one, it will triumph ulli-
mately, in spite Of the odds against us. The
indomitable spirits of the Revolution set an ex-
ample to the world, which should never be lost
sight ofby men struggling in behalf Of truth and
justice.
We have vowed to roll back the mountain Of
misrepresentation and SANDER heaped upon an
honest and wise Chief Magistrate We are
aware that we are out-numbered hundred fold
by our enemies; we are conscious that thou
sand pens are employed TO counteract whatever
we may say yet we will speak on we will nei-
Their be silenced nor disheartened. If our thou
sand opponents are wrong, the millions will dis
cover it sooner than they might if fewer were
arrayed against US. There is true standard
of justice in the breasts of the People, which is
indeslructble. To this tribunal we carry our
appeal We will be patient and untirng, and
hope on to the last.
Weplead for Chief Magistrate whose whole
heart is devoted to his COUNTRY. We are op-
posel by those who are devoted to MEN. We ad-
vocate the cause of the MANY-though we con
tend almost single handed. They labor for the
benefit of the FEw-while they are a host them
selves. Through the dark clouds that lower
around US at present, we espy the bright CLEANS
of victory in the future. And shall we be dis
mayed? Mo- Our heart may burst, but our
last cry shall be--RALLY In BEHALF OF YOUR CoUN-
/ TRY.
We ask the People to give the President a
fair tra Judge him by his acts. Aid him in
| his endeavors TO secure the prosperity of his
country. II the measures he recommends fail
in their operation, then scrunize his wisdom and
honesty. But do not condemn him untried.--
If his medtated acts are to be denounced be-
forehand, how are we to know that they would
not have been salutary, and proved highly be-
ne6cial to the People
But Congress has already denounced both the
President and all the measures he has proposed.
| Congress has the power to prevent the fruition
of his measures and it has been exercised
Thus all the important acts recommended by
the Executive have been defeated by
politicians, not tried and condemned by the
People. The President should not be blamed
| for this-he did all that was in his power If
the country has suffered for the want of prompt
and efficient legislation, we invoke our fellow
citizens to visit the guilty with their blasting
Indignation. Spare the innocent.
All men must acknowledge that Congress has
not only prevented the perfection of the measures
recommended by the President in conformity
with the provisions of the Constitution but it
has neither orig mated nor passed any itself to
subs the interests of the People unless, at
the same time, some party end was to be ac-
complished.
And Congress has been in session nearly a
whole year. without doing anything. Will the
People take sides with Congress in the war
against the Presidents They cannot, will not
do tive know they will not, because they are
intelligent and honorable. We have an abid-
ing confidence in their friendship and support,
as long as the Administration is upright and
just.
Mr.. Clays partsans in Congress have perse-
cuted the President, and pursued his friends
with an unrelenting vengeance. Arnold, Bolts,
and other members of similar conceptions and
dispositions, have abused the Chief Magistrate
in the most offensive manner that the language
would permit, and then taken away from the
journal that defended him the small amount OF
Executive patronage that had been left at the
disposal of the Presidents from the DAYS of Wash
lngton. Messrs. Mangum, Archer, and other.
in the Senate, have repeatedly applied the most
abusive and debasing epithets both 10 the Presi.
dent and this paper Mr.. Benton brought for
, ward aresolution to compel us TO say whence we
r derived material to make up our editorial de
fence Of the Administration. Mr. Davis bae
us dragged before his committee to answer. or
compulsion, who did or did not write for our pa
$ per, and who did or did not recompense our con
s tributors for their services. Ii is true our an
. swers jumped with our inclination, or all the in
o qusitorial force of Congressional tyrants coul
: never have extracted one irrelevant word from