The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-03-10

munications- for that quarter, sent to the Navy
ID parlment on " before the Goth instant, will
be forwarded
EQUlVOCAL PRAISE.
We observed last week in the Baltimore
American, one Of the few respectable Wing pa
pers which are battling the watch under the Clay
flag, an editorial article (written before the ad-
journment Of Congress) which struck US as
somewhat curious. The following is the con.
cludiog portion OF il:
1--WE cannot di,miss the Twenty seventh Congress
from our thoughts without advcrting 10 two instances
which stand am, ne tho good things ii has accom-.
plished a. specimens Of legislation in no wise ndica-
tive Of ststesmanlike wisdom .or consistency. The
law to distribute tho proceeds Of the public land
sales among the States was coupled with proviso
wnsh operated As every one might have known At
the time Of lis insertion that it would operste--to
nuiiify the law itself And so it has passed away
alter an imperfect existence which allowed no op-
Portunlty for the measure to demonstrate its own
good merits. The other case referred to--that OF
the Bankrupt lawexhibits an illustration Of incon-
sancy and irresoution which we heartily wish might
have beea spared Wing Congress. When the Ko-
mans gave The namo Of virtxe cmphaticaIIy 10 that
qus'ity denoting fostitude and courage--when MIL-
roH declared soeakwss-nofai woakncss--to be the
greatest misery--the common sense and the common
feeling Of mankind spoke in the phrases When the
nrst ~ wanting-whero the second prcvails-rcspect
changes into comlssoraton, and it requires the pre-.
sence Of many meritorious qualities to save it from
SINKING INTO contemPt. cosid be curious thing II
the President whose vctoes have caused 80 much dis
appointment aud given much offence 10 the coun-
Try, should be invoked inisrposs ,c; ne reto 10
Citation 80" :
but we leave the subject--and VIC would leave it
In he A.
gress Tor the much valuable service il has dome
with due appreciation Of the difficulties il has had
70 contend wth--and with hopes that the succeeding
congress may contain As many able and patriotic
"en as mo one whose existence is just terminating !"
we thought ii, in Iced, "a curious thing,n 10
Ind Wing paper, devoted TO the cause of Mr..
Cay, thus indirectly appealing to The Execu-
tive TO 'nlerpose his veto, for the purpose Of
rescuins the country from the ill effects of The
vac'llat'on Of a Wing Congress. The veto
power, 1t seems, is not bad thing in itself, and
might De exercised to good effect even upon
grounds OF mere expediency-Eot only as
check TO legislative entertainments upon III,
constitution, but as a rebuke to legislative
weakness and vacllaton. This doctrine does
not exactly accord with that profe ssed and pro-
claimed by Mr. Clay, and the authors Of the
wing Manifesto, who would extirpa,e the veto
altogether. II is curious, too, TO find CLAY ma
per transferring to Congress the impu,ation of
weakness and vaciliation which Mr.. CLAY him
hell sndeavored TO fasien upon the President.
And II would be above ell curious, but still no,
surprising, II the ultra Wing or Clay members
OF The lite Congress should now issue another
manifesto. accusing the President of fresh
'reachery 10 not vetoing the law repeating the
Bankrupt act.
With such a Congress, charged by lis hes,
friends with inexcussble weakness and yaciIla-
lion, wha, security could the People have had
even " one Of the fiscal bank bills had become
law, that sufficient, number of The dominan,
party would not have Joined with the minori,v
aud enabled them to accomp, ID. their threat
ened repeal Of u, even before the expiration OF
the Congress which passed III
The American talks Of '',he good thinpsp
wh'c the Twenly-seventh Congress accom-
pushed. IL is true, the People were invited 10
q least OF good 'bings-bul they Jared pret,y
much Ike the guests at the Bamec,de,s simmer
or like Sancbo Panza at one of his gnhs,na,o-
hs' DINNERS. No sooner was a di,b touched
man u evapor ted. The three great measures
OF me Iwenty-seventh Congress were, IN,
D's'"ou'ion law, the Bankrupt law, and the Ia
IN Accordingly, the American mentions bu,
one OF these good things" as still in rxis,cnc.
The Ia it, II dwells largely on that. bu, nm
",''g'y, Pronounces its condemnation, and al
'uds' to vital defect 10 I, by saying that,
what The next Congress will do, relative TO the
Iarh, canno, COW be conjec,ured, since il We,
remains to be determined what the political
complexion Of that body will be.n
Now, the chief excellence of Tariff. cor.
'ainiy 80 inr as protection TO domestic industry
|" concerned, and. we might add. even with re-
eard'o revenue, Is its being so constructed as to
De likely TO last reasonable length of time, and
Withstand the assaults Of parties and faction.
stability - the great desideratum in a Tariff.
ana 'be thing most ardenily desired by the man
u'actufers themselves. Ye, here w. have a
uo''es',oo' mat The existence Of the present
IAN" depends upon ''the political complexion
OF The next Congress: which we think is very
nearly equivalent 10 an admission that il, en-
actmeni, IN its present form, was a mere nol;.
ucal or party measure, and that !, may be
c'assrd among The other specimens of Ieaisla.
ton IN no wise indicative Of statesmanlke wis
DOM
Inc American concludes by hoping that the
mex, Congress ''msy contain as many able and
pa"'o"c men" as the LIST. If should contain
J"s' ~ many and no more--and should be a.
Justly liable to The reproach of vacilla,ion veal.
ne's, aud want Of Roman vir,ue--w, are afraid
mat IT'S doIngs viii be likely to en,ile j, TO a.