The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-01-12
LETTERS FROM THE HOUSE OF RE
PRESENTATIVES-No. !.

This House seems TO have become kind OF
victory, without regard TO the subject OF dis
pute. person, by chance, arriving here dur
ing one of the late discussions, would rather
think it school of Earring disputants, than a
grave legislative assembly, whose province
should be the digest and enactment of laws, not
a school for the interchange OF unnecessary and
unmeaning jargon. "Defning positions is
the prevalent mania-and each puDy warbler,
who could not arlculale sense sufficient for a
dying confession, arises TO astonlsh the House
with 'his position"
Now, there's my friend McKeon, good fell
low enough, and what the Yankees would call
cever-he too, f)rsooth, must define his posi-
ton as If he had position to define. Why,
John has been turning round for months past,
like cur pleasantly engaged in tn, useless et-
fort TO catch his own tail, aud If he has stopped
now 40 define his position" ii must be 10 re-
cover breath The Hon. John has his pleasing
qualities, and is no despca speaker; but, IN
the name of all The Gods at once, why need he
consume the time of the House in utterng
things of which the good are not new, and the
new not lod ? If nature did not intend him
for an orator, she certainly fashioned him for
no ass, and therefore see no necessity for him
10 volunteer his talents in the latter line.
The fact is, and il may do my young and ac
comp>hed friend some good to inform him
thereof-the fact i, the Honorable John has
been injured by precocious growth He has
been urged forward by hind friends unkindly,
so as to have mistaken the uncertain gale OF
public favor, as elG-propelling influence Of his
own, a mistake great man would not commit
and one from which little man seldom recov-
ers After all. what a lady of our mutual ac-
quantance said Of him ! endorse-"Oh John
McKeon, like him-he is rather pleasant and
then, so petiien Whether her last descriptive
word was intended, as being in the softer gen
der, to convey the idea of feminine delicacy Of
sentiment, belonging 10 the Honorable gentle
man, or merely his mental, not physical, capaci-
ties, do not pretend TO say.
If the young man were to be reasoned with
by some judcious friend, and reminded of the
lOll1 VI spttIu NlNuOu' 'hOuSHti hN uliEht NC
improved into useful silence, and become an
honor TO the House of Representatives. Now,
his precocious tongue, like the tick Of watch,
but sounds the time, without indicating its loss,
and we only note his speech by its termina-
ton.
ale belongs to the Increment party" Egad,
he told the truth there-but then his constitu-
ents have placed him with the movement"
and, unless report bellies him, most against his
wi-he moved into the House, and has now
been removed. The movement may return
him to his seat here, bu am afraid i; will not
take that direction.
JJhns Democracy must have come by inspi-
raton--in the ordinary way he could not have
acquired so much He is Democracy's young
est son-an infant phenomenon, with that -
He spoutcd Democracy with his early articua.
ton, and has not improved upon his juvenile
efforts, and could not. He prefers his Demo
cracy to other peoples, and well he may, for no
other person could digest il. 1t must be great
deal like "Snarleyow, the Dog-fend," most
cordially. aud justly detested by every person
but its master, as he was the only person it
served.
OF other persons and matters, Of as much
importance as even John Mckeon, ! have yet
to write