The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-12-17
A THIRD PARTY.

A correspondent in the North writes US that
there are three hundred voters in the town OF
hin residence, and that only three Democrats
in the place prefer MIR. Van Buren, to MIR. Ty-
Ter for the Presidency. These three, he says,
care real Bentonians, and take the Globe"
He farther states that ---, New York, in
1910, gave the Wing ticket majority of fifty.
The vote stood thus: Wings IT'S, Democrats
l25. In 1912, the Wing press ofihe town was.
he says, bitterly abusive of President Tyler,
which caused the Presidents friends TO co-ope-
rate with US last fall. Then we turned the
tables on our enemies. We beat them precise
N as they had beaten Us. Our vote was l7S,
and theirs was l28-a majority Of ttty We
slected our member 10 the Leg islature, and con-
'sxibuted 10 swell the majority Of our Governor.
..As soon," he continues, "as the last OF the
fan elections had taken place, and the last vic
tory won, by the aid Of President Iy!er's
friemds, we find the Globe and Mr.. Benton as
sailing the President at a furious rate, and en-
deavoring TO lead the Democratic presses every
where to follow their example. If they had fol-
lowed such profigate and Heacherous example,
/, for one, would have abandoned the party, and
such doubtless would have been the effect
throughout the Slate! A PROSTATE man, after
soliciting and receiving the aid of passer-by,
10 attempt to assault and rob his beaefactor the
moment he is laced on his feet, would be re-
garded by every honest and generous man as
miserable creature, to be execra,ed and avoided
by his species. And SO with party, under
similar circumstances, and the circumstances,
with ~, a. to the prostrate condition, and the
assissance received, are precisely the same
Were we to sting the hand that saved US, We
would deserve the vipers fate.
Nor could we escape justice. OF course
cannot speak for the whole Union, (yet human
nature is the same every where) but in our own
town there could be no doubt as to the conse-
quences of such dastdrdly movement as that
attempted by the Globe and Mr.. Benton. Why,
sir, not only the fifty that joined US and gave
W the victory thu. fall, but the whoie body OF
the Democratic with the exception of three)
would repudiate any leader who would SANG
TON such q palpably contemplate act of ,reach-
cry n the Globe and MIR. Benton are now at
tempting to perpetrate
II write with some warmth, admit but the
indignant feelings in my breast must have vent.
It may be (but think not) that my zeal runs
beyond my discretion in this matter. l &C
knowledge that am an Office -holder-appoin,ed
BY General Jackson--doomed by Granger.
had been tried by Mr.. Granger, or rather SEN
fenced without trial, and the day was at hand
for my execution, when PRESIDENT TYLER
matched the axe from the grasp Of the official
butcher, and saved me Some of The uira lead
srs of the Democratic party may prove migrate
full to The President, but will not, so help me
Heaven! Some 10000 others were saved by
him in the same way, and daily we hear of
res,orations. Does Col. Benton think we can
be made 10 hate s.honest JOHN TYLER" without
cause, as he is doing2 Isay without cause,
for the President is as true Republican as any
man living. II Mr.. Benton does think so, he
is beguiled by most fatal delusion
sWhat have stated in relation 10 the Dem
ocrats Of this town, l pledge you my honor is
true. You can easily refer to the returns in
1910 and 1912, to confirm what have said in
part, and you publish this Letter, it will not be
difficult for any well-informed politician in this
region to ascertain the truth of the rest.
"Cer,ainly if all the friends of the President
who voted the Democratic ticket in 1912, are
read out of the party by Mr.. Benton and the
Globe, the Democratic party would be left in
the same miserable minority it was in in 1910.
Blu, il will be still worse. When the Pres-
dents friends are accommodated, millions of
honest Democrats will 60 into voluntary erile
with them, and the Globes portion of the De-
moeratic party will be the "third party'-a
most Insignificant and impo,enl fdction!"
PLAGIARISM OR PIRACY.
WILL MR.. BUCHANAN PUBLISH HIS
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