The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-04-03


lion and bearing; but prosperity and wealth. acc"
| musled without merit and without enort' may p'"s
into action all the worst features IN the character "
| man--ngralitode, pride, supercilious osefoea'ne'
disregard of the common decencies OF life, and uis-
regard OF both truth and principle. That your owh
case is an unhappy illustration Of the truth tha' po
VERY, superinduced by proaigacy and extravaganza
followed by accidental accumulation without iaoof'
leads to all the concomilant vices OF eager asarice'
il viii be my object and design now TO demonstrate
! appear not against you as voluntary accuseri
take up my pen in selfdelence; and now show you
up to the world in your true colors, because your
wan,on and malignant attacks have made II necessa-
ry the world should fully understand your character,
to do mine simple justice.
The citizen of distant State Of the smallest pre-
tensions, holding no Office, the candidate Tor no once
with no provocation, more than year ago. the VIII
ter was assaulted in the Globe for what you are
pleased to term Mr.. Hills first enlargement from
his party" For this assault you are pleased to oner
as the excuse in the Globe of March 2S that then
most insidously and indusriously busted myself
in peregrinatons through the State, to dupe honest
Democrats to lend their names to oppose the regular
nominations of the party, and succeeded by his lmy
long commanding influence with it, to divide the De-
mocracy, and endanger its defeat by Federalism
yet the struggle over, it was thought well to forgive
and forget the offence. Deeply (you contnue) as we
we're impressed, at the time, that attempt so wan
ton to ruin great party for the pretended wrong of
solitary member of it--sensible we were that
mercenary feeling operated by the Federal corpo-
rations forming new allegiance that was to subject
L EoIo, oha-
tion-WE yet thought it due to old relations to make
an appeal to his better feelings and higher principles
to redeem him. In q tone and temper NEVER BEFORE
used by the Globe to aposates, the kiades the MOST
REsrEcrruL-nay, THE MOST FLArrERING CONSIDER
ATOMS were addressed to Mr.. Hill, to induce him
to renew his old relations nth his real friends II was
all in vain"
Magnanimous Globe Most distinguished and most
generous friendship To be made an exception to
all other aposates and traitorsto be presented with
the most RESPECTFUL, the most FLATTERING cONsI-
pERArIoNs, as inducemsnt to dra,o quietly in the
traces and act as the bondslave of men who required
mo to do violence to the principles of right and JUS
tce, to all that independence of thought and action
and that consistency profession and practice which
had been the high governing motive to which all
other sacrifices had been made subservient from my
youth up-what gratitude was not due to Francis ?.
Blair for his friendly, kind montons to the return
ing sinner to "rene,c his old relations with what the
Globe is pleased to term :" his real friends"
Instead of interfering in matters with which you
had no more right to interfere than have to go into
your family aud instruct your servants how they
shall prepare tomorrows dinner, it might have been
well that you had at first inquired into the real merits
of the controversy which existed in New Hampshire
previous to the election of l642 If you had marked
that controversy, as it your duty to do, before
you had gratuitously undertaken to act umpire in
settling it, you would have seen that the party on
whom you charge the aggression was there acting
purely on the defensive; that he, on whom you are
now so fond of repeating the epthets of renegade"
and "aposate," was required by renegade and spos-
tate Federalists, who had joined the Democratic
party to rule to ruin it, to subscribe to doctrine.
and tests relative TO corporations and other questions
affecting great interests of the State of ~ Hampshire
such had been repudaed by the fathers of the De
mocracy Go to the State Of ~ Hampshire at this mo.
ment and inquire you will there find more thousands
ofhones Democrats than at the last election voted for
John H. White, who will tell you that if Henry Hub
bard and the lawyer-clique, who have there obtained
the temporary ascendency, do not the steps
Of the last years legislation, and repeal those laws
now in force, which must drive millions Of capital
invested in manufactures useful to the country be-
yond the limits of the State and which will prevent
those great public Improvements which the enter
prise of that people is so ready to undertake, and
PROSTATE the active industry and energy of popula
ton second TO in this any other country
N a.. l.. |
private life, and to that contempt which all selfish
and mercenary public officers deserve, despite of the
efforts Of external ultra politicians and ultra political
newspapers 10 sustain them
repeat sir, you had no right to condemn withou,
inquiry you had no right to charge on me "mer-
cenory~feeng, operated on by the Federal corpora
tons, and with forming new allegiance, subject
ing me "foreyer to Federalism" without offering
the color of proof | quote your accusations a,
proof Of your recklcssness to truth and your impu-
den, interference in the affairs not only Of distant
State, where you had concern but in the private
affairs of an individual whom you are greedy to in
jure by every false report which rumor sounds in
your ears, or which you ready to supply Of your
own invention without the authority Of r,,mor
You say of me, your apology for your last year.
attack
GLOW painfully, lamen'ably, deplorably have we
been disappointed in granite Democrat lie
dsbbles in some dirty banks; speculs,es in poor
lands TO be enriched by some railroad association
quarres with the political friend to whom he had
sold his newspaper establishment, seeking means to
meet the obligations in which he was immesbed
by the Federal monopoes; calls in Governor Hun
BARD, political friend 10 arbitrate his exravagant
and unsupported demands upon those who were
struggngt~ith difficulties TO maintain the press he |
had abandoned and, being disappointed in the
award, he makes his discomfort prctext for ac-
quirng favor with the new party, IN whose power his
cupidlty had placed him, by abandonment Of his /
principles and an attempt to sacrifice the old party
by which be had been counienanced so long, and
honored beyond descrtn