The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-01-20
JACK oeTHE observation-disclosures

The Boston Courier has recently been as
sailed by some Of the Clay subject-to-the- dec'-
sion the ballo box presses as Tyler paper
After admitting such low, long, black, piratlcal
schooner the following craft, into lis edilo-
rial harbor, (t is The first article under the edi-
torial head, let no such scandal be repeated.
We utterly repudiale all such .'backing of
friends" This incident portends mu,iny
| Mr. Profit has offended the writer's dignity
| Who the mischief is the wrer2 He is able,
hut wicked. Will he meet Mr.. Profit face TO
facet "Exchequerism," quotha2 VIII you
sign your real name TO that Mr.. Hamilton
| But to make Bolts an instrument to bespat-
Ter the President! "Hamillon" true lover of
| Bots!
This mystery must be unravelled. But here's
the letter:
Correspondence Of The Boston Courier.
ceive from its tone, well as signature is not from
our usual correspondent "UNcAs."l
WAsuNGros, Jan. H. lS43.
| The aflrs of Massachusetts excite, as you may
suppose much interest in Washington. How smooth
were proceeding to seize upon the Bay State They
deprecated premature agitation; /. they did not
want to have noise made in the bough-house. They
did not wish to waste public time, and disturb har-
mony and gooJ feeling, by medding with ian excl
ting topic" Innocent souls! What a pity such
sweet peace, such heavenly harmony, should have
been interrupted. Mr. Brooks stripped off the sleeps
clothing, and Mr.. Adams showed that 'the third par
tyr did not enjoy even ga state of betweenity" as
Western member said here. Messrs Bgelow and
IN for in ~
business. But alas for the apathy, and might al
most say the imbecty, Of the Wing party in Massa-
chusetis. The stork put his head into the VOLTS
mouth and if the beast had not been taken with the
cramp, so that he could moi shut his Jaws it would
have been all over with the poor bird. Suppose the
Locos had elected Speaker at either of the three first
ballotngs; you would have had fraudulent Speak
err, fraudulent committees, and the whole govern
ment fraud and it would have been fair sample
of LOcofoism. 1t is a source OF humiliation and
alarm to my mind, that SO many honest and plain men
Of the yeomanry, could have been willing to counte-
such piece of villany and try to conceal and
luggermugger it, until their leader, goaded by fear
and shame Of the palpable inconsistency and base
ness OF the thing told them that they must act above
board, and sign their names to their deeds If such
things, in so clear case, (and they showed by the
attempt at concealment that they conscious of
the enormty of the transacton,) can happen in old
Massachusetts, We have much reason to say, "God
save the Commonwealth" and the whole country
ASeu 80 h6o oiO hCAC, AudNc sccH mourning equal TO
this.
1t becomes the Wings seriously TO inquire into the
immediate cause of the peril to which we have been
exposed Was it a radical defect in the customary
manner of organizing the House' Was it the alb
sence of regulation by law, of vigilance in the
committee who collected the certifcates9 Surely
there ought to be some way of keeping usurpers from
the bosom of legislative body. Shall revolution
and rascality stalk into halls and depreeaiing a
iation, peacefully take the helm of s,ate'
There Is one very great and absurd anomaly in the
constitution of the Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, of which every good citizen should de-
mand the immediate correction. 1t is the small
ness Of the quorum. II is, think, but about one
seventh the whole House, when it ought to be at least
majority of the whole. The present number re-
quled to form quorum was established believe
long before the revolutionary war, and when the
whole number of Represe natives was less than I5O
Mr.. Profit, of Indiana, who bears the soubriquet
OF "lhe Presdents popgun" is in the midst of rant
ing speech in behslf of Exchequerism. He is mere
tympanum tearsr, this Profit.
Had Botts's motion Teen brought forward by o
member in whom the House had much confidence, il
would probably have prevailed 30 far as To have
caused an inquiry 10 be instituted into the Presidents
conduct. Yours,
HAMILTON