The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-14
New York, Feb. IL, lS43.
Yours, sc
NEcKAR IN NEW YoRH.

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John II. Pieasants on Finance Wing Morals and Hon.
| eay-Mr. Wills Hall and the Petersburg hieliigen-
cer-Ihe "Stamp .4et'' and the Pres-The Washing
ton Correspondent Of The .Nao York American,
| &c, &c.
My vanity has always led me TO believe that
am an adept in finance and that is the reason that
borrow the name of ' Neckar,n the great financial
lion OF France, in the days Of Louis XVI And, for
many months past, have considered myself as
writer on the fiscal affairs of this world decidedly
at the head Of the hole host Of modern scbemers
But find that have a successful competitor in Mr.
John III. Peasants, editor Of the Richmond Wing,
and now, in all humility and as in duty bound,
confess myself dstanced by that iIustrious indivd-
ual-by man, philosopher, and sage, who once
found himself in London when he supposed himself
to be in Gdinnaa with dispatches for the Congress
Of Panama, and who was immortalized by John RAN
dolph, Of Roanoke, by being denominated the Z" de-
generate of a noble sire"
The illustrious Mr.. Peasants in the Richmond
Wing of the 7th instant deveopes the policy Of the
Wigs, the morality Of the Wigs and the high nc >
ton Of the Wigs, in connexon with poins OF
finance and honesty, in the following manner, or rs
the lawyers say in the following words and figures
NOTICE.
/ have received a number OF applications from
persons who subscribers to the late Indepep-
dentn newspaper at Washington and had paid in adj
vance, TO send them the Richmond Wing in its lieu,
10 complete its year. A moments reflection must
satisfy the applicants Of the unreasonableness of the
demand. In the first place, had retired from that
paper before It's dissolution and the property in il
passed into other hands In the second place ha We
no access 10 the books TO ascertain who ba We Maid
or NOT In he MI / hut. .f.
era partners, and have neither their authority for re-
cognisng the validity Of such applications nor N,
pecuniary ~biiity to meet them if was individually
satisfied of their justice. Lastly majority Of The sub.
soribers 10 the Independent paid Jryflring II
those who did pay ,oa make those who did NOT refund 70
them The erces they paid, T. and do not doubt all mu
late partners, uH not only ocgtescc IN the arrangement
bm p omoe Il byf'rnishing the Evidence 81 books
Hsnof The custom Of The country 10 refund ia such
cases. fpreufmc There is no instance Of a. The sub
scrber knows that the establishment Of new paper
Is an experiment, and he must be supposed TO pay
his subscrP N in advance TO give IL the chance for
success which he wishes 1t and IL his contribution
is faithfully directed to that end he has no claim of
restitution n the experiment fails. L.wyrps nsp,y
refund, and editors plead much stronger reasons for
the sam, indulgence.
My connexion with the Wing having mutipled
these applications, which are likely still further to
increase, take this method Of giving general an
swer,
JNO. II. PEASANTS
RrouMoNp, Feb. 7.
The words and sentences which have marked in
italics, develope the morality the honesty, and the
virtue Of the Wings; and Mr. John II. Peasants the
" degenerate Of a noble sire" is the exponent Of
the legitimate Wing code OF honor
In doing this, and in furnishing such new Bridge.
water treatise on honor and morality, he fully ,u.-
ta'ns the principles of James Watson Webb, and the
rest Of the new school Of Wing 6nsncier,.
If the doctrines Of Mr.. John II. Peasants, the
degenerate son Of noble SIRE" are to be adopted
IN is country, see no necessity for the continu
snce Of the Bankrupt act, and hope Il will be forth
with repealed.
IL |" due to the editorial character and dignity of
the New York press, no matter to what party it may
DO attached, to say that Mr.. Pleas,ns' doctrine is
neither adopted deemed honorable BY tho craft Of