The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-11-10

manner by the choking up and stangling oil
the very source Of patronage, IN consequence oil
the over-press upon IL aud the accession Of Mr..
scenes no less demoTalizing 10 the People, than
derogatory 10 the national character. But a
renewal Of these scenes may be expected, as a
matter Of course, if either of the Presidential
candidates patronized by the National lntelli-
geneer and Globe, or from whom they expect
patronage, should be successful. The declara-
tons Of Mr.. Clay on thar point, in his speech at
Lexington, in April last, are too full and explicit
TO admit the slightest doubt of his Intentions
| He would feel II "his Imperative duty 10 do
ample justice, in the administration OF public
patronage to the great Wing party" He
Thinks that every consideration Of equality,
of equity, OF justice demands that the most tuiI
and complete reparalion Of the injuries done the
Wing party should be hereafter made p and he
pretends 10 justify this wholesale prescription,
determined upon in advance, by asking, no
is to be justly reproached with beginning pro-
scrption in this country ?" On the other hand,
the burden of the Globes daily song is the al
legged misuse of The patronage of the General
Government by President Tyler charge the
more hagrantly unjust, ungrateiul, and maleyo
lent, as the whole nation Is aware that the real
ground of the charge Of ueacheIy brought
against the present Executive by the Wing
party, is the fact of his having ested the pro-
scripton of the Democrats whom he found in
Office. Bat il is no part Of The Globes policy TO
be satisfied with any acts of the present Admin
lstration, and least of all with those which may
tend To The advantage of the Democratic party
lfa Wing should happen 10 be appointed 10 a
vacancy, the President is accused of nsinceriy
in his professions of attachment TO Democratic
prime piles if Democrat, he is endeavoring to
corrupt the Democratic party; if friend of the
Administration, he is endeavorIng IL build up
third party. Patronage is the main and mex
haustible topic of all lis declarations, dreams
and calculations and within few days pas,
we fud more than three mortal columns Of the
Imperial Globe"-formerly the organ Of the Ad-
mnistralion of the ''grealest Republic on earta"
filled with profound speculations on a supposed
intrigue 10 lhwart lis designs on the public
printing, as if the subject was one in which ii
believed that the party, the nation at large, and
indeed all mankind ought to take an intense
and absorbing interest. OF course the Repub-
lie will be ruined Freedom will shrek, and
% Hope for season bid the world fare well" un-
less Messrs. Blair & Rives have the privilege
of sailing down" 100000 more in Treasury
notes.
10, E,,t hat, H. .x,f
the Globe, the chief crime of the present Ad
minislration is its possession and not lis use, Of
the Government patronage. This is common
ground upon which the rabid and unprincipled
Of all parties assa it; and upon none other can
it be justly assaed No one can pretend that
the country is not prosperous under the present
Administration, or that offices are not faithfully
and efficiently administered. The country, in
deed, is now rapidly going through healthy
and natural recuperatlve process, from which
higL- handed political measures would only throw
it back to disorder distress and imminent peril.
1t is not the People, but ambitious party leaders
and hungry partsans, who are eager TO effect a
change, solely with view TO The possession and
corrupt of the Government patronage.
The People may well ask themselves in what
safer hands could they place the patronage of
the Government-the fierce and constantly re-
curing struggle for which bids fair speedily to
accomplish the thorough deprivation, and final
overthrow Of the Government itself-than in
those Of an Executive who has. committed hun
self by his acts, as well as by his protested
prime pies, against prescription for opinions
sake, and who has resisted the strongest posi-
bic temptation TO resort to the supper. which he
might obtain b. selfish use of The patronage
entrusted TO him. With but few exceptions,
each one admitting of the most complete justi-
fcaton, the great body Of ofce-holders Is IN
changed; among them are some Of the bitterest
reyilers and most active enemies secret or
open, of the present Executive, whose reno
val would not be prescription; while his own
friends in oflice-if either OF the favoule can.
didates Of the papers which we have mentioned
should succeed-are doomed to certain expul-
SION and very possibly upon denunciation by
some Of their associates in office, who have
proited by the present intenegnum Of the iy-
ranny Of party, aud suspension Of prescription.
GIVE US FAIR PLAY.