The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-03-20
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THE WING PLAN OF MAKING MR. CLAY
PRESIDENT

arrest the attention of every one who desires 10
perpetuate our Republican institutions Outoi
the fullness Of the heart the mouth speaketh.-
We have no doubt of the truthful sincerity In
which the Wing makes the declaration. And
why do the Wings in Congress refuse to per-
nit any measure for the relief of the country to
be adopted They 'prefer to suffer on" and
find relief al last from other hands!!!
And what is the plain English of this ? Is it
not an open avowal that the proceedings of the
Whigimajority in Congress were predicaled on a
belief that If the measures recommended by the
President had been adopted they would have
given relief to the country 4? And that they are
convinced that the only means of electing the
Wing candidate (Mr. Clay) is to compel the
people to suffer on" under belief that con
tinued suffering will induce the People to take
MIR. Clay?
What say you People of the United States ?
Are you prepared to endorse party who bear
upon their banner such language as this
PARTY VS.. THE PEOPLE.
Mr.. Marshall, la his efforts to define himself
back into Mr.. Clay's ranks, said that this Ad-
ministra'ion was like parenthesis, meaning
thereby that 1t had secured The support of nei-
ther of the great parties into which Congress is
divided; and that, therefore, the measures in
change Of administration.
Selling upon this idea the Richmond Wing
and other affiliated presses, (that is Mr.. j. c.
Adams's phrase) respond, "aoe aoiU not be re-
hered by hena," 1.-THE Administrator Why
do they not abdicate the Government Let
them give way and all will be right And why
will all be right then Because, says the Wing,
" one or the other party will succeed to power
and the voice of the People, now slifed by the
interposition of uirtual inteyregnuaa, be again
heard"
Here is the single idea, that nothing must be
done now because, to relieve the People, may
defeat the end and aim of party leaders. The
present Administration must be treated as
"parenlhesis" an " interregnum," because, if
Con, ress shall faithfully. discharge its duty the
parties in Congress who desire to substitute
some other administration may be disappoint-
ed!!!
Well may it be said that these are degenerate
times. That men should entertain such pur-
poses is most lamentable. That influential men
should dare openly avow them is most alarm
ing!! Does the Executive desire a proper ad-
jusment Of the Tarff-no it must not be done
And why not? We will not be relieved by you,
says the Wing. We will not be relieved BY
you, responds the Baltimore Patriot. We will
not be relieved by you, repeat the majority in
Congress, because if we modify the Tariff pro-
perly noao, we cannot elect Mr.. Clay President !!
Does the President call upon the majority in
Congress to provide for an exhausted Treasu-
ry-to revive the fallen credit of the country
no, they will not do it. They are deaf to every
other motive but the desire to elect Mr.. Clay !!
II is thus that every regard for the honor and in
rerests of the People-for the character and Gre
dit of the country, is sacrificed to advance the
political interests of Mr.. Clay |!
Mr.. Clay himself has been so long a candi-
date-he has so long identified his own personal
feelings and personal interests with his eeva-
ton to the Presidency, that no one who knows
him well, can be surprised that he should en-
terrain such feelings and sentiments but is not
the fact that majority in both Houses of Con-
gress should so far forget what is due to their
suffering constituents, to act, professedly act,
upon them; and that their leading newspaper
organs should openly avow them-we ask, is
not the fact, that these things are so, a proof
that the deg neracy of the public morals is such
as to alarm the fears and to arouse the dormant
energies of every patriotic Is it not a proof of a
ord ,pfo RI
comprehensive contempt for the public opinion
the most blind and wIllul self-delusion. that
ever was recorded in the annals Of faction?
Have these deluded parisans forgotten, that
this Government was created by the PEOPLE,
and for the PEOPLE? Have they forgotten the
lessons taught by the elections of 1928 and
1870? Who was it that elected Gen. Jackson
in 1887 Was it party, as contadstin-
guished from the People? Did not the Demo
cratic party, in conformity with the usage of
the party, nominate Mr.. Crawford, in 1924, and
did not the People refuse to obey the party man
date? Did not the party, as party, nominate
Mr.. Van Buren, in 1910, in contempt of the 'Log
cabins" and the People7 And did not the
People Indignantly hur Mr.. Van Buren, from
power, with an unanimity unparalleled in the
history of this country2 Is it not lamentabIe
party nfatuation, which, in the face of these
facts, can stimulate the majority in the present
Congress, put in TO office for the express pur-
pose Of indicating the power of the People,
yea to assert their determination to choose for
themselves their own President, not only re-
CARELESS OF, but in opposition to, the party Domi-
naton-we repeat, is 1t not most lamentable
party infatuation, which, in the face Of these
recent and known truths, can stimulate these
men to turn upon the People who put them into
Office, and say TO them, "we will not be re-
lieved" by the Admin stration, whom Won put