The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-15
From the Baltimore Republican.
WHO ARE THEY ?

keeps" This old truism Is as applicable 10 parlies
as TO men and particularly so, when applied
TO those who either tolerated or selected as the
leaders or head men, whose tracks are To be follow
ed by the rank and file, and whose words are to be
the watchwords TO cheer on the attack. 1t IS too
often the case in high party times, that lose sight,
in the melee if may term II, OF The real charac
ter of those who participate IN the struggle-only
looking success without regard 10 the means en-
ployed and them when success does come, il is but
To find new enemies and other difficulties to
ter This has been particularly the case with the
'Uniyersal Wing Party During the last campaign
drummed together from all sects, conditions parties
and quarters, they cared not so they obtained but
one end and that was power and place, each lacuon
relying after over the common ioe upon ITS
own resources of intrigue, cunning, duphcity and
treachery to overcome the other and cause the scale
of power to be placed in their hands, by which they
expected to weigh out such principles and measures
and policy as they might deem expedient or proper
for the other.
This was the secret game Of the old blue lights,
who entered the Wing ranks with a hope OF obtain
ing once foothold in the national councils
and by duplicity, hypocrisy and cunning, they sue
ceeded in the malgamation. they worked all well
enough together until the time arrived for holding the
rens-then the masks fell-the cloaks were stripped
off and they stood boldly forth, to the astonshment
of their former allies and friends, in the black coors
of abolitonsts and the blue colors OF Hartford Con-
yenton federalists. This startled those who profess
ed to be Republicans, and they found, when too late
that they had been warming into existence the cold
and torpid vipers that now ready to stick their
forked fangs into the same dish with those who had
ever been their deadllest foes and they now ind IL
difficult either to crush shake them oil. Their
long pent up venom is dealt out with desperate reck-
essness poisoning all within its reach AT the head
of them is the old serpent from Massachusetts, who
now leads the reptile in their attack upon ev-
erything that savors Of Republicanism.
The veto power having always proved an impassa-
bile barrier their uuhOly attempts republican
freedom, and kept them from poisoning the pure
streams of the living waters OF liberty, they now,
with eyes goatng with revenge, turn all their rage
and vent their spleen upon the Executive, who has
had holiness and honesty enough to lnterPose this
conservative feature of the Constitution between
them and their damnable purposes And these men
do this under the cry of ''traitor ~ wretch J" &c
and declare they have dissolved all union or inter-
between the legislative and executive branch
es of the government because he has dared to check
and thwart them in their destructive course They
call upon the American people, too,-they attempt
to break down the Constitution, and say it is all for
the good of the people, the Executive officer IS
''traitor!" 'tyrant!" "wretch"'--he must De
''impeached :" removed" that they may rule in his
stead And who is the chief leader in this last on
slaught lis it who has had the CONN
dence Of the American people? No Is 1t man
who has served his country in the field! NO
Is it one whom the people conhdc In and love! On
the contrary, 1t is one who has ever proved their
deadiest enemy-one whom they despise for his
haunting and coolblooded remarks made upon the
land of his birth, when that land was beset and
scourged by bold, daring and unprncipled foreign
foe. When the best blood of the country was being
poured out in the defence of homes and hresides
this anti-American spirit-this leader OF the
Wing party in the House of Representatives, wrote
as follows. Let the reader ask himself If the author
OF such letter. written at such time, and under
such circumstances, could or can have single germ
of Republican patriotic feeling in his bosom and
whether no of a m shnuld looked
upon forever with distrust No time it appears, can
mellow his fassions-no time can alter ms bitter en-
nifty to everything like repubcanism. But we thank
our God that his iangs are harmess-that there is an
antidote for his plison-a remedy for his slime.
JOHN G. ADAMS'S LETTER TO LEVITT
HARRIS
CLIENT, 10th November, 1914
"The occurrences OF the war in America have
been of q diversified nature. Success and defeat
have alternately attended me armies of both bege-
rents and hitherto have left them nearly where they
were at the commencement of the campaign. 1t
has been, on our part, merely defensive, with the
single exception of taking fort E.:s 18th yhsh #
the Defence 6b battles IF 81 the 18th August and the
naval action Lake Champain on the | 18th Sep
TENDER, have redounded to glory much as to
our advantage; while the loss of Washington, the
capitulatlons of Alexandria and of Washington
ty, Massachusetts, and Nantucket, have been more
disgraceful to than in furious
"THE DEFENCE OF BALTIMORE HAS
GIVEN US LITTLE MORE TO BE PROUD OF,
THAN THE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST 1T
HAS AFFORDED TO OUR ENEMY
"Prevost's retreat from Platsburg has been more
disgracetiu to Them than honorable to as; and Yelling
tons veterans, the re-eater Brisbane, and the fire
brand Cockburn, have kept the rdnkest of our
countenance by their erperness in the art drumming
aDay
"The general issue of the campaign is yet to come,
and there is too much reason to apprehend that wH
be us.tarorable to Left by concurrence of cir
cumstances unexampled in the annals Of the world to
struggle alone and frendess against the whole coos
| sal power of Great Britain; fighting in reality
against her for the Of Europe with all Europe
codly looking basey bound not to raise in ia
helping hand, secretly wishing us success, and
not daring much to cheer in the strife, what
could be expected from the first fures of this unequal
conflict but disaster and discontinue to us
divided among ourselves, more in passion than
interest, with NATION SOLD THEIR PRE-
JUDGE AND THEIR IGNORANCE TO OUR ENEMY, WITH A
FEEBLE AND PENURIoUs GOVERNMENT, WITH FIVE
FRIGATEs FOR A NAVY, AND SCARCELY FIVE EFFICIENT
REGIMENTS ARMY, ho,r 1t be expected that
should resist the Of force ,ohch that GIGANTIC
poaoer (Engand) has collected to crush at blolo?
From the Baltimore Argus.