The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-10-12
Nem York correspondents.
New YoRK, Oct. 5, 1913

of American fall weather, moderate in its tenn
perature. bracing from the purity and elasticity
of the atmosphere, and resplendant in gori-
Gus sunlight, which spreads abroad an aIl-cheer-
ing influence that nothing else can impart.
| Much as we hear of the climate of the South
of Europe, it may well be questioned whether
at any it is so perfect for all the purposes
of health and comfort, and partakes of as much
beauty as the finest days of American fall
such as the one which now blesses us, and I'M
der the influence of which hope to write you
at least tranquil and pleasant letter.
Indeed, never felt more in accord with the
beautiful, than do at this moment for there is
much TO cheer the heart, not only in the great
and abundant prosperity everywhere so bcunti-
fully showered upon our land, but l think see
in the prospect before us calm and quiet in the
public mind, which cannot fail to be most use
full; and this in the face of attempts without
number, on the part of pre- fessed politicians, to
create great excitement, and array the People
in the most bitter and vindictve party warfare.
Not only do these disturbers of the public
peace-these destroyers of all heallhful action
feeling between the two great parties into which
the country may be said TO be divided, but it
really appears as if they were determined to
give the People no choice, to allow them to take
no part, in the question Of who shall be the next
President
1t is, however, not only consoling, but de-
ligh,fu, 10 see how little they are enabled 10
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persons made up the great mass of almost every
political meeting that is here called.
| If the Calhoun men call meeting, they APP
point their officers to preside, and their politi-
Clans of course, will go to carry the resolutions
which are prepared for the occasion, the
counts that are published claiming the whole
| number present as Calhoun men. If the Van
| Buren, politicians call a meeting, the raised
! platform contains their principal men, and they
claim the whole number present as Van Buren,
men. There was never much greater hum
bug than these meetings now are, and it may
well admit Of doubt how far the persons at
tending them the same, no matter by which
party they are called. was present and saw
two meetings in the Park, one Calhoun, and
the other Van Buren,, they contained about
equal numbers and though doubtless there was
some difference In the men who voted pro and
con, yet it would have caused your risble
muscles TO contract greatly, had you seen how
nearly they were composed Of the same mate
rial. The People, the real quiet orderly me-
chanics and aborers, were not visible. Office
holders and expectants, and rank political parli-
sans, made up the assemblage, and these OF
both the friends of Mr. Calhoun and Mr.. Van
Buren,, to say ay on occasion, and no on the
! other.
am led TO notice these meetings, and to give
my views of their materieW with a desire TO
add my testimony to the views so ably advanced
! by the "good counsel" have read with such
delight in your paper of Tuesday evening. | am
so much gratifed with its tenor and can vouch
so confidently for its truth that must quote
the following paragraph, which is as perfectly
applicable to this meridian as 1t can possibly be
to that of Virg mia any other. 1t is in these
words
"Rey upon it that the People are becoming more
and more in favor Of this Administration every day.
They that the Government was never better ad-
mlnistered, and il must be acknow lodged that the
country was never in a more prosperous condition.
| The foul caumnies which the Presidents enemies
attempt to fix upon his public character are of an
ephcmcra nature; but bis acts, If his services
were to erd to-day, would form bright page in his
countrys history"
The truth is the American People, being en-
tirely free, act from the most virtuous impulses
they draw the distinction between public ser
wants who sympathize with them, and those
who do not-and they nell understand the real
question at issue between the two great parties
that divide the country Politicians, of all par
ties, who have only in view the elevation of par
ticular men 10 power, try TO hide this true issue
in vain-they think to keep from the mass of
voters some facts that obvious as the
splendid sun now shining, but they cannot sue
coed The true state of President Tyler's posi
ton is well known-it is known that the Wing
leaders wished to create an administration upon
moneyed power, wholly independent of the
People TO govern them, and moi permit them 10
govern themselves-and that President TYLER
stepped in, and by one Of those noble and high
souled acts which considered self as NOTHING
threw himself into the breach regardless of con.
sequences. They know that it is the natural
result of such a measure that mammon should
buy up presses to revle and malign the man
who bad the courage to take sides with The
People and overthrow the money changers.
therefore fully agree with your sage coun-
sellor Of Virginia in his advice to the friends Of
the President to be " firm, steadfast, immovabe,
! doing no wrong" /