The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-08-14
TENNESSEE ELECTION.


| Otherwise heard from. If the Journals rumsor
be correct, the indication would be, comparing
the returns with those Of the last eleclion) thai
Jones will carry the State by 10000.
The Wing papers now acknowledge that
Sianly has been defeated. If Bolts and Stan
y had not been in The last Congress the Wings
would have occupied many more seats in the
next than they are likely TO do Many of the
Wing members were hurried mpeluously into
extreme measures against the President, which
they would never have sanctioned, if they had
been suffered to call cool reflection to their aid
No doubt many true Republican heart will
beat under Wing vest in the next Congress.
Some of the members elect, we knoU are not
the advocates of a National Bank
The Globe is like ship at sea, without spars,
compass, or undertaking about in the guilt
stream OF Its own cross-cunents, one day with
It's head and the next with stern to windward,
but constantly setting towards that lee shore Of
politics, upon which it must soon be wrecked,
unless the wind freshens, jury masts are rugged,
| and 1t can crawl into the traders.
L
Gratis who believe that The majority should gov
ern, except when the majority are opposed to
| their dogmaS, and then they stouty maintain
that the majority are either weak, or wicked, OF
| both
When Granger and other members of the late
Cabinet swept Democrats from office by thou
sands, prescription, unexampled and unjusti6-
| obi ~, Ger.
lamentations; yet, when that "reign of terror"
ceased, and the comparatively few who were
displaced were those who had cheered on the
heading pack, who were hunting the Execu-
tive like so many bloodhounds, and seeking to
drive him from the constitutional path of his
duty, the Globe had no word of appreciation for
the man to whom it had made acknowledge
ments" for having, by the exercise of the veto
power, rendered the "epoch'' of that exercise
''the most glorious of his life"
We have, in several recent articles, shown
the facility with which the Globe can revolve
on its axis. and present an Opaque or luminous
aspect TO Democrats in or out of office, accord
ing TO the eclipse which it suffers from day TO
day, and there is no longer necessity for our
pointing to the dark spots with which it is
marked.
II We cared only for the characters of the po-
liticians, as such, whom the Globe has assailed,
our anxiety on their account would be of short
duration, since malevolence, sooner or later,
works its own destruction, and worthy men can
live down calumny but, as if public officers and
the expectants of Office were not sufficiently
numerous for the disT lay Of the de,ractive spirit
which appears 10 animate the Globe, it has en-
tered on wider field, and actually holds up the
great mass of the People Of this country to the
contempt of foreign nations, by prociaiming
that the two great parties of this Republic are
essentially corrupt, and that none but few ul-
tras in politics possess any title to honesty.
| II is our boast, and boast springing from our
purest conviction, that, as People, we have
more of that virtue which should bind the insti-
tutions of a country indissolubly, than is pos
sessed by any nation on earth; and yet public
journal, protesting to speak the sentiments of
the majority of the People-for the Globe, as
well as ourselves, claims that the majority are
Democrats-proclaims to the world, that the
great body of the People are unfit for the
freedom they enjoy, and are mere place hun
ters-loaves and fishes meanwhile the few mad
cap ultras, who always have disgraced and al
ways will disgrace US in our own eyes, and in
the eyes Of other nations, are the only viruous
and honest men among US.
Ii might be tolerated in one of those rhapso-
dists who look upon every expression of the
popular will, as an evidence OF our tendency TO
anarchy, that he should make the weIkin ring
when the fit is on him, but that journal, once
the organ Of mighty party, and aspiring again
to that distinction, should denounce all those
connected with the government of the Republic,
as so many corrupt and prohigate spoilers of her
fame, cannot be borne.
Sooner or later the man, the journal, and the
factions, daring thus to hold US up to the scorn
and contempt of christendom, must find level
far beneath that to which any such atrocity car
hope to sink the only Government in which the
| people rule. Soon, if the time has not already
arrived to the Globe, the day will come, when
the wholesale defamers Of our public men, and
of the institutions of the country, will be ranked
! below those pensioned hacks, which the jealous
and dreading monarchists Of Europe have sent
among Va, to libel and caricature whatever we
have that tends 10 render harmonious and dura-
BILE the union of these States. There may be
traitors in peace, as those who deliver up fleets,
armies, and fortresses in war, and he is as dan
gerous TO public liberty who endeavors to sap
its foundations, as be who attempts 10 esta-
bljsb open despotism.
Blythe President was assailed Yesterday
by the Globe for number of appointments mad e
by the Clay cabinet Most ofbe persons named
Chose appointed by the retired cabine) are as