The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-10-02
THE POLICY OF PEACE.

Sion" Inc Sa9aclOus euitoI OF lnat journal
knows all its danger, The unkind feeling excl
ted by elimination and re-c,imination must pro-
duce, he dvines, disastrous results. He adjures
The belligerenls OF ilher house 10 cease their in
estne quarrels. lie laments, while he acknow-
lodges, the insensate conduct Of these political
asplrants.
For our own part we never could understand
the philosophy of Jehu's answer to the messen-
ger from the opposite party, who came OUT 10
inquire The cause of Jehu's approach in seem
ingly hostile attitude. g Is il peace Jehu 2" and
yehu answered. " What hast thou to do with
peace? Get thee behind me-" Ii appears to
US, Jehu might have conducted in more gen
tlemanly and polite manner, without co ppro-
missing either his position or his principles
The one might have been better +" Defined the
other no less vigorously asserted by more con-
ciliatory course.
Every one has something has much to do
with peace, who has not forfeited his claim to
the protection of society and It's laws. Peace is
the natural state Of man: his happiness and
choice. He who violates this primal law and in
fringes upon the repose and queude Of social
life, is an outlaw, rebel, and should so be
| treated
In politics, no less than in the social ORDER the
tendency of mems minds is TO peace. Agita
| ZION is always unnatural, and proceeds from
causes, which, on investigation, will be found TO
arise from the criminal conduct Of the govern
ors, or the credulity Of the governed, whose
otherwise sober judgment has been violated by
designing knaves. Ii the fault is chargeable
upon the Executive or Administrative powers of
the Government, some specific malteasance,
some derelclon of duty, detection Of corrupt
motive in iniquitous action, some accusation, or
some probable surmise, can easily be adduced TO
justify the agitation Of the public pulse. If no.
Thing ofthis kind can be found then the Fictitious
turmoil the unwholesome isturbance the unna-
tural excitement--must be attributed 10 those sci
fish and callous politicians, who strive first to de-
ceive the popular mind, and then TO make il sub
servient to their unhallowed ends
Ii our country is now prosperous if agricul-
ture seems encouraged; if mechanical industry
is active, trade fourishing, and commerce ex-
tended if the laws are faithfully administered,
public trusts worthily confded, and public men
held responsible; if the Executive Of the coun-
Try is of character for honesty and morality
for devotion to the public interests, unqueston
ed and unquesionable if all the public servants
strive for the preservation and the increase Of
the public wefare-why agitate the public mind
with false issues, with reproaches that such men
do not rightly belong TO such party, when it is
acknowledged they are honestly aborng for
their country's prosperity? Why talk in un
meaning jargon Of Democracy, and conceal the
true merits of the Individuals whose admnisira-
live energies fast establishing the business
of the country upon frmer platform than ever
ii before occupied? If the People find they are
prosperous, growing rch, and happy, and feel
that their prosperity, their wealth, and their hap
piness, dervable, in great degree, from
wise administration OF the laws, and a careful
attention 10 the public interests OF all the respon-
sibe agents of the Government, why should
these aglators these market place orators, these
mountebanks in the science Of politics, why
should they hope longer to enthral The sense of
the million2 viii not their Ubiquitous design
be frustrated As sure as there is an abiding
Judgment in the People.
II is not the Richmond Enquirer alone, the
People themselves are tired Of dissension -
and not only among the friends Of Mr. Van Bu-
rem or Mr.. Calhoun do they hate dissension, tut
among the population of The whole country.
What care the great mass Of the People, whe-
ther Mr.. Calhoun or Mr.. Van Buren, is the bet
ter Democrat? Whether one has had too much,
or the other not enough of public honors
The People wish good government and
with the good sense to desire, they have, and
will exercise, the power TO keep it-even though,
by their action for themselves, politicians srarve,
and the Globe newspaper itself be consigned TO
the oblivion ii has so long richly meried, and to
which il IS with such rapidly fastening