The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-08-28
From the N. Y Express.
THE COURIER AND ENQUIRER, AND TIL
PROPOSED SURRENDER OF DIR ARMS.

There is no spectacle in the world more ludicrou
than that of would-be oracle like The CouriAr s
Enquirer (whose voice does not reach be yond Man
haitian Island because its circulation is limited there
attempting 10 expand and to futter loud make
II great interior of State like this hear and obey
IT, as to what 1t shall do or what it shall not do in the
matter Of its Elections. This spectacle becomes
more ludicrous yet when such paper attempts to
read old, well-tried, and faithful Journal like the
N. Y Express out Of the Wing ranks for the whole
world must cry out in aghast at such impudence,-
|" Who dle you! What gives you this right to make
and unmake Wing journals How long since you
were engaged IN bringing on these political ca
lamities, that you own 10 be such well we
renegade and traitor yourself, tc the party you
started WITH you Of treason do YOU indeed
I-Us,-who older If not better Wings than YOU
are, and can show better brlhright in that party
which was signed and sealed, while YOU were advo-
eating the election, and sustaining the policy of the
Jacksons, the kendas, the Woodburys the Martin
Van Burens the Frank p. Blars, the Isaac Hills and
The Edwin Croswes of the land. When you found
IT for your interests to join party, you rated be-
trayed your own, and came into ranks, which we
must say has derived far less advantage and respect
ability from that treason than has accrued there
from to the party that was fortunate thus easily
to rid itself Of you. Indeed, wonder that you do
not blush red and black, when you call John Tyler,
" Traitor, you, who acted with him under Jackson
in 1880, and turned your coat with him then.
This lau liable spectacle of lecture from such a
press is aggravated into the comic by an appendix
charging the Express with standing by John Tyler
and hs advertisements, until he stopped the pat
ronage with which its allegiance purchased and
iostered-" Particularly when such appendix, has
not the even the merit OF originality
The charge,
however if not original, has novel audacity in il.
com ng from press whose objection cannot be to a
purchase at has often been sold in market oyerO
to the paltry amount alleged to be given ony Go
vernment advsrtlsements.l
The difference between the Express and the Cou-
rer TO the support Of John Tyler is this-the Co-
rer asked for the Post Office il New York. and did
not get IL The Express asked for any thing of
the Government, but what it had rendered. The
Courier filled whole boxes Of the Post Office Depart
ment in Washington with recommendations from
Bishops and Governors, down, asking for the Office
aforesaid, but John I yler would not grant it, The
Express asked for Office nor place. nor emolI-
ment from Gen. Harrison, nor John Tyler,-but il
would not be considered presumption among those
who knew our position 10 say that il could have had
any reasonable place or position, it would have
asked for The Courier when disappointed in the
Post Office, boted, and bitterly denounced as il
had before extolled, Join Tyler.
There lie there now, side by side may be- the appli-
cations Of the Courier for place. and the surrender
the Express Of place. Judge you, then, how bare
faced the Courier must be, while revenging itself on
John Tyler for its disappointment, thus to the
Express OF the very disappointment it feels itself
The so-caed patronage of the government trsmmellej
"
ing. We threw it up, and cheerfully too. We,
therefore, have no revenge 10 crafty the Courier
has and If We have not denounced John Tyler with
the abuse layished upon him IN the Courier, 1t was
from no dissatisfaction with his course, but because
we had no malice TO prompt us, and because we do
not believe that iDdscrimnate and general abuse is
part Of an EDITORS duty. On parting with Mr.. Ty
Ter, we bad no personal wrongs to redress. q
We threw up all these temptations-and if the Cou-
rIer would have done as much II would belle all its
past history. Show US, then, say to the Courier,
an application from the Express for office. We can
show boxfull of petitions from The Courier. Show
US wish 10 John Tyler, ungrathed by him We
can show you the products of your whole years labor
thrown away in beseechng place from this John Ty-
ier' Indeed, so friendly were personal relations
WIN Mr.. lyiei, that we separated from him. and say
harsh things of his acts, only from high over-rung
sense OF public duty. In the Courler's case, it
revenge upon an enemy
Now, according to the Courier, its own potent self