The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-13
From the Portsmouth, VA Chronicle & Old Dominion
CONGRESs-THE HOUSE PRINTER.

CONGRESS-THE HOUSE PRINTER.
The meeting of the Twenty eighth Congress
is close at hand, and from the peculiar manner
in which it is constituted, we do not apprehend
that any important reforms will be consumma-
ted or salutary laws enacted. The Senate is
yet in the hands of the Federalists, and of
course every thing that will have a tendency TO
meliorate the condition Of thePeope, or bring
back the Government to its original simplicity
and purity will be energetcally and doggedly
opposed by that body Besides this, there can
not be possible doubt, but that the coon fac
ton, in the House Of Representatives, will do
every thing in its power TO sow discussion. con-
fusion and distraction in that body. There is
one other subject which we fear will cause de-
lay-and that is the elections which have taken
place in some Of the States, in non-conformity
to the law Of the last Congress ordering the
States to be Distracted. We have also several
contested seats, which, if suffered TO be con-
Quoted on the principles that have heretofore,
prevailed in the House, will consume great
part Of the session. as there can be no doubt that
such men as John Minor Bolts have only made
this demonstration, in order TO get a foot-hold
within the bar of the House, in order to carry
on the nefarious schemes which were prepared
and acted on during the last wing saturnalia,
marked by the retiring from public life Of Mr..
CLAY, and known as the Twenty-sevenh Con-
gress; a Congress whose acts were more fatal
TO the prosperity Of this country, than would
have been "war, pestilence and famine" so
E,r, nd b,,f ~
Cynosurc, Henry Clay, raging over our beloved
land for the same period that that Congress was
in existence.
Although we must bow in submission to the
will Of an nscrutable Providence, who has so
chastened US, and who yet wilhholds from US
the full huiton of our wishes as a nation, by
leaving the yoke on our necks, in the shape of
Federal Congress, we have cause 10 rejoice and
be thankful that the Executive Head and Re
preventative Department of the Government is
Democratic, by which we are assured no farther
encroachments on the Constitution will be al
owed-lhe torrent Of corruption will be stayed
at least until the time arrives when the People
and the Constitution will purge the Senate
Chamber, from the Federal majority which
stands between the People and their rights and
which would now be materially lessened had
the Globe, printed by BLAIR & RrvEs, been true
to the party that enriched them, instead Of ins-
diously aiding the enemy, by scattering its fire
brands in our own party, and Illuminating its
denunciatons against the great and good men
in that party. To this press, (and few others,
that followed in its lead, unconscious Of
the evil that they were entailing upon the
country, we doubt not,) may be attributed
our total overthrow in Tennessee and Mary
sylvania, and Ohio. This press, ostensibly sus-
tanning Mr.. Van Buren,, and speaking for the
Democratic Tarty. has done more than any other
to injure that gentleman and advance the pros
poets of Mr.. Clay, than all the Federal presses
of the country could have accompli he'd, as it
has never, until few days past, sp,k ken Of Mr.
Clay but in the most mik-and-water manner,
when compelled to notice him at all, while its
columns teemed with fiery wrath, and bitter de-
nunciation against every prominent candidate
for the Presidency, and every press in the coun-
try, not submissive TO its dcation was r, ad out
ofthe party by il.
The Globe is now candidate for The Con-
gress Printing. Shall it have it7 So far as
our voice goes it shall not. What claims has il
upon the pary2 Its editor, FRANols PREsroN
BLAIR has been enriched by the party lie
came from Kentucky rocking with bank corrup-
ton, his hands unwashed from the infamous
transaction that cheated Gen. Jackson out OF /
his election in 1924 and seated the old Federal
Aboltionist John Quincy Adams in the Presi-
dental chair, and made Henry Clay a traitor to
his party. lie came to Washington poor and |
despised, but the unbouuded popularity of Jack
son, the detection Of Duff Green, and the ncccs-
sty Of an organ at the seat Of Government,
brought this unlocked cub into notice, and gave
him importance and power, raising up brutal
porrenu, whose touch was contamination. and
with whom 10 be associated was disgrace. All
the defeat Of Mr. Van Buren, in 1910, il was his !
intention to have discontinued the Globe, until
he was compelled publish it by the party who