The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-05-25
FOR THE MADIsoNIAN.
rem EGADOES.

This word, originally applied to Christians, who, re-
noucng the assumed the turban has been cor
ruped from its legitimate purpose to answer the de-
signs of political braves, and added to the category
of phrases through which they seek to blacken the
fame and reputation of those whose position like
the bird Of Jove, is too the for their puny
arrows to reach. A is declared
gade who finds himself any longer unable to keep
pace with such leaving the beaten path strike out
roads and insist upon his following in their foot
steps, or he is renegade if the party chief whose
Insignia he bears, ''new lights that play the
igns, faiutS, and leads his deuded followers into
'briar and brake halts upon the brink of destruc-
ton and declares he can follow no longer. He is a
who claim to be his conscience-keepers, and who,
while descanting upon the blessings of liberty and
the purity of the elective franchise, seek TO
him into measures at variance with his principles,
threaten HIM with immolaton upon the shrine of the
great moloch If he dares to disobey the fiat Of the
puissant dictator But of all the appropriations
which has been made Of this word none is so ex-
tremely absurd-nay, despcably pitiabe, SO oppo-
site to iactas lis application TO the President, the
Secretary Of the Treasury and the honest and pari
otto citizens who, having supported the nomination
| of the Harrisburg Convention, continue TO support
the living representative (now that the older hero
sleeps in dusO instead of building new temples,
erecting new altirs, and enshrining new gods! Re-
negadoes, indeed Why, who the renegadoes
| if the term shall be used Is il those who continue
to support and defend their own nomineei Did we
not all cry out PRINCIPLES, NOT MKs'i And has
he Ex fail a inf hch
was laid before the country openly, and fairly can
vassed in the great campaign i-(and not the u
s Bank question, supported in one sect n, con-
demned in a second, and said nothing about in a
third IT should suit the local phase OF the district
Has he deyiated from single principle professed in
long public life, as Governor as Senator, and such
as he was known to entertain when he entered the
Convention Of 40r Will you who cry out renegade
in the language of the Courier, American and Patriot
and you who cry turncoat in the less elevated par
lance of tie humber ultra presses-will you main
tain yourselves being good and true to the of
| 1910, and denounce US as iIflel who stand where
thea stood, by the side Of "honest John Tyler, "
and denied Gas do now, aud ever shalD the fulmi-
mating power and riLh, Of the immaculate, unerring
Clay the mighty man Of Gath-this new raised
Cgsar-who
doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus ~
this bashaw Of three tails, whose trembling follow
ers, looking up with awe, cry,
Pacha, TO hear is to obey ."
Must you not rather admit that you were attached to
MEN, and not PRINCIPLES, and that you raised the war
cry to deceive and allure Must you not admit that
in your endeavorsto the venerated Harrison ard
his patriotic successor your tools aud the tools Of
Clay, Providence, in its supervision the rights
aud blessings Of our beloved country called away the
8" weaker vessel aud left you one who knew his
rights, and knowing, dared maintain them"-One
who
"NeFer bent the pregnant hinges Of the knee
That thrift might follow fawning"-
One, who descended through a long line Of patriots,
feels within him the pulsations of patriots heart
and forgetting party and self sees only before him
the bright star Of his countrys redemption and
glory
Renegsdoes, forsooth We will try the issue with
you; we will meet you-not at Philipp in blood and
battle agony-but at the baot-box in IA and show
you that you have stgmatsed enegadoes the great
mass Of the honest and intelligent voters Of the Re.
public. We will come, not as recreanls seeking TO
he admitted back to the ranks Of The 6i6tE-not So
liciting fayors-bu as the barons bold, - the cham
pious Of liberty who bequeathed us Magma Charta.
met the tyrant aud his host at Runnimede Ay, We
will come as the oonqueror trophied ban
ners borne upon the breeze, and our psans filling
echo with the shouts Of victory We will remem-
Der that the price Of liberty is eternal vigilance, y
and VIC viii watch you by day and observe you by
night; beacon fires will light up every hill and
ceaseless energies be only equsllcd by the illus
trous ycomen who in the fields Of freedom
Lay down TO rest,
With corset laced,
Phowed on buckler cold and hard
Who carved at the meal
With gloves of steel,
And drank the red wine through the helmet barrd "
CASSlUS.