The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-01-05
MESSRS. CLAY AND BENTON.

The reading public will remember the charge
preferred by Mr. Clay in his Alexandria letter,
against the President, of being "weak, vacilla
ting and faithless" The Globe under the d.
reclion of the Senator from Missouri, has cho-
sen, several weeks ago, to pronounce the Presi-
dent an "apostate, a trimmer" &C.
&c. On Saturday last in an editorial article
written most probably by the humbugger"
himself, the distinction is drawn between Mr..
Tyler and M. w sbstor, Mr. Tyler being made to
"possess an American heart" but "weak
head" and Mr. Webster "strong head"
but "crimina heart" "Of course" says the
Globe, the weak head is made to vacillate."-
So here we have a maintenance of position be-
tween the allied powers of ultra Locofocosm
and Federalism, in which the Chief Magis-
trate Of the country is pronounced TO be "wesk,
faithless and vacaing." What will the Demo
crazy, whose hearts thrilled with the electric
fire Of they etoes--who met in public assemblages
and expressed gratitude "to a firm and pari-
otto President for relief, Cat a time when these
very men, by their folly, had Frustrated the
party to which they belonged from a Bank,
G.
will the rank and file of the Democracy say Do
Benton and Blair believe the People, who
form the Democracy of the country, to be as
ambitious, as selfish, as remorseless in the pro-
secution of unhalowed schemes of aggrandize-
ment, as they are2 Do they believe that the
People of the United States will not repel SO
gross an insult equally TO the President and
themselves And why do these men, who
have crawled up from the mire in which they
were born, and in which it is their nature TO
live, by the force of patronage and cunning,
and party machinery, take occasion every day
OF their lives 10 insult the President, the larger
portion OF the Democracy, and all whom they be-
lieye TO be in the way of their selfish purposes
Shall The public printing, and the far off idea
Of repersionary Presidency, be sufficient in
ducement TO make men forget honor, honesty,
decency, and attempt to prosecute and revile
man towards whom many men in whose very
breath they live have expressed confidence Ind
gratitude No wonder the effort of Blair and
Benton is such dead failure no wonder thai
the one is sinking as an editor. while the
other is hated and condemned by the very PEG.
pie who compose the Democratic party.
IL appears to us that Messrs Blair and Ben.
ton are the last men 10 the world 10 place them
selves IN prominent attitude of hostility 10 the
President-lhe very last men who should prefer
charges against others, Of weakness, incompe.
'ency, or apostacy They say the TREATY is a
bad one. In this judgment they differ from the
opinion OF nine-tenths Of their countrymeo.-
But, although 1t is a bad treaty, they admit the
fresiden, has an American heau.n Where.
then, The shadow OF an excuse, or the shadow of
n reason for grossly insulting the Chief Ma.
gis'ratc every day of their liyes7 These men
should recollect their own history before they
think OF prefeuing charges against any one.
In ls4o their stupidity and self.hness broke
even the Democratic party
In ls45 they wish revolution that thew NAV
prescribe and visit their malignty upon every
man who has dared, in these days, TO utter an
iodepend,n nj sentiment Every man is marked
who has dared to express the least adherence
Of their designs, and wo betde the Democra,
who is thus marked, If they should succeed in
their hellsb purposes. 1t night be better for them
tbata Wing Of the most violent character should
succeed to the Presidency. They rouid be
less liable depreciation.
We Will not dwell on tie dark history of
either OF these persons. Their career is known
10 all, and they well know land Weaver and .
others know that he less said about the mat