The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-07-20
THE JUST CRITERION.

The subjoined article from the Boston Morn
ing Post, the leading organ of the Democratic
party in Massachusetts, exhibits the just critic
rion by which the Democracy, not only of
Messrs. Henshaw and Nelson, Lut of President
Tyler and this whole Cabinet, is to be tested.
Like Messrs. Henshaw and Nelson, President
Tyler himself entered upon the duties of his
high station, '.perfectly untrammelied" and
unpledged. except TO the maintenance Of De-
n.ocralic Republican principles. His present
standing with The Democratic party depends,
as his future standing will depend, "upon the
manner In ohich he adm iniste,S the duties Of
his office" This of course is what he de-
sires, and all he desires. 1t is all that
Messrs. Henshaw and Nelson, and all others
WHO act with them and the President, de-
sire. Neither Office nor Government pat
ronage clothes man with the mantle Of JEFF
carrying out his PRINCIPLES shall he be judged.
No set of newspapers or clique of men can ex-
ercise the prerogative of proclaimng any man
within or without the pale of Democracy IN
spite ofhis principles. BY their conduct and the
principles they openly avow, Messrs. Tyler, Hen
shaw and Nelson are just as much Democrats
as Gen. Jackson, Mr.. Van Buren,, Mr.. Calhoun,
and Mr.. Buchanan. The Democracy Of the
lchole country will so decide, however much TO
the contrary the Globe, the Pennsylvania, the
N. H. Patriot and State Gazette, &C., &C., may
labor and keep on laborng.
From the Boston Morning Post.
When Messrs. Henshaw and Nelson joined MIR.
Tyler's Cabinet "they threw off the hablments OF
democracy in party sense, and became Tyler men, -
says the N. Ii. Patriot and State Gazette. Ii this
be so,we suppose that Gen. Jackson "threw of the
habiliments of democracy when he asked Mr.. Ty-
Ter TO appoint the present U. s. Marshal Of Tennes-
see, and when he asked him to appoint the founder
of the Bay State Democrat and late editor of the
Nashville Union, Maj. J. G. Harris foreign com
mercial agent. That Mcssrs Henshaw and Nelson
took Office their responsibility, and that their
doing in 10 wise commits the democratic party to
the support Of Mr. Tyler, is true that the ipse
dirit Of man change their characters their
standing with their party. Mr.. Henshaw, we know,
goes into the Cabinet perfectly untra,naelled, and i'll
accordance with the advice of many good demo-
Gratis as live; nc is pledged 10 but in
aon to the candidate for the next Presidency, and
that IL to abide by The decision Of the Democratic Ma
tio,lai Convention. Hence he has compromised MOTH
ing IN accepting an appointment un Oliciled, which
so far from depriving him of his democratic habli-
ments," clothes him with increased power to sub
serve the great of true democracy, which he
has advocated from his youth up. HIS future stand
ing with the democratic party will depend upon the
manner in uhich he administers the dtt les of his office
and not upon the fact Of his holding t--he will be
Judged by his conduct, and the people will decide up
on that, unprejud ced by The denuncia,ions OF the
Washington Globe, or The few editors who submis-
svely follow It's proscriptive and dicatoral course.