The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-08-12
TENNESSEE ELECTION.

the returns with those OF the last election) that
Jones will carry the State by 10000.
The Wing papers now acknowledge thai
S,anly has been defeated. If Bolts and Stan
ly had not been in The last Congress, the Wings
would have occupied many more seats IN the
next than they are likely to do Many OF the
Wing members were hurried impeiuously into
extreme measures against the President, which
they would never have sanctioned, If they had
been suffered to call cool reflection TO their aid.
No doubt many true Republican heart will
beat under Wing vest in the next Congress-
Some Of the members elect. we knop, are not
the advocates Of a National Bank.
The Globe is like a ship at sea, without spars,
compass, or undertaking about in the gull
stream of its own cross-curents, one day with
its head and the next with stern to windward,
but constantly setting towards that lee shore OF
politics, upon which it must soon be wrecked,
unless the wind freshens, jury masts are rugged,
and it can crawl into the traders.
The Globe is attached to that class of Demo
Gratis who believe that The majority should gov
ern, except when the majority are opposed to
their dogmas, and then they stoutly maintain
that the majority are either weak, or wicked, or
both.
When Granger and other members Of the late
Cabinet swept Democrats from office by thou
sands, .'proscrption, unexampled and unjustit-
able prescription" was the burden ofthe Globes
lamentations; yet, when that "reign Of terror"
ceased, and the comparatively few who were
displaced were those who had cheered on the
heading pack, who were hunting the Execu-
tive like so many bloodhounds, and seeking TO
drive him from the constitutional path of his
duty, the Globe had no word of appreciation for
the man to whom it had made 'acknowledg-
ments" for having, by the exercise of the veto
power rendered the "epoch" of that exercise
'the most glorious of his life"
We have, in several recent articles, shown
the facility with which the Globe can revolve
on its axis. and present Opaque luminous
aspect TO Democrats in or out of Office, accord
ing TO the eclipse which it suffers from day to
day, and there is no longer necessity for our
pointing to the dark spots with which it is
marked.
If we cared only for the characters Of the po-
liticans, as such, whom the Globe has assailed,
our anxiety on their account would be of short
duration, since malevolence, sooner or later,
works its own destruction, and worthy men can
live down calumny but, as if public officers and
the expectants of office were not sufficiently
numerous for the disI lay of the detractive spirit
which appears to animate the Globe, it has en-
tered on wider field, and actually holds up the
great mass of the People of this country to the
contempt of foreign nations, by proclaimiug
that the two great parties of this Republic are
essentially corrupt, and that none but few ul-
| tras in politics possess any title to honesty.
It's our boast, and boast springng from our
purest conviction, that, People, we have
tu,ions Of country indissouby, than is pos
sessed by any nation on earth; and yet public
journal, protesting 10 speak the sentiments Of
| the majority of the People-for the Gohe. as
we'll as ooroelvcs, claims that the majority are
Democrats-proclaims to the world, that the
great body of the People unfit for the
freedom they enjoy, and are mere place hun
ters-loaves and fishes meanwhile the few mad
cap ultras, who always have disgraced and al
the eyes Of other nations, are the only vrtuous
| and honest men among US.
1t might be tolerated in one of those rhapso-
disis who look upon every expression of the
| popular will, as an evidence OF our tendency 10
anarchy, that he should make the welkin ring
when the fit is on him, but that journal, once
the organ of mighty party, and aspiring again
to that distinction, should denounce all those
connected with the government Of the Republic,
as SO many corruptand proaigale spoilers of her
fame, cannot be borne.
Sooner or later the man, the journal, and the
factions, daring thus to hold US up TO the scorn
and contempt Of christendom, must find level
| far beneath that to which any such atrocty car
hope to sink the only Government in which the
people rule. Soon, if the time has not already
arrived to the Globe, the day will come, when
the wholesale defamers of our public men, and
Of the institutions of the country, will be ranked
below those pensioned hacks, which the jealous
and dreading monarchis,s OF Europe have sent
among us, TO libel and caricature whatever we
have that tends TO render harmonious and dura-
BILE the union Of these States. There may be
traitors in peace, as those who deliver up fleets,
armies, and fortresses in war, and he is as dan
gerous TO public liberty who endeavors 10 sap
its foundations as he who attempts TO esla-
bsh an open despotism.
| UFThe Presiden; was assailed yesterday
by the Globe for a number of appointments made
by the Clay cabinet. Most ofihe persons named
| Chose appointed by the retired cabincD are as
much the Presidents enemies as they are Mr.
Van Buren's. When they shall be superseded,