The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-16
THE NEW COALITION.

The uliras in Congress seen, TO be now APP
preaching the banks Of their political Beresina.
They have no hope left except in the pre- sumed
idiocy Of the People, and are compelled 10 resor
to sirsiagems which child five years old would
laugh al.
Mr.. Fillmore. when boldly charged by Mr..
Wise with ma n9uvrng to bring abuur The ne
ces-ity of an extra session, urged, among other
frivolous excuses for the inaclion Of the Com
mttee Of Ways and Means, that The conside-
ration ofthe E.rchequer project had consumed
a great deal Of their time! If this were in
tended as joke, there might be something like
dry humOv concealed in il. But MIR. Fillmore j.
not a jesting man. and the occasion was not
one for indulgng in levity. II was evidently nd
vanced seriously, for the want OF b, tier apollo
gy, and in the belief that any absurdiiy, how
ever gross, may be pamed off on the People.
No man can b. ignorant that the report of the
Committee of Ways and Means was pre-ar-
ranged affair; that il did not cost them mo-
ment's serious deliberation that it was mere
cold hash OF stale arguments against The Exche-
qner, culled from previous reports, and SO hur-
r'edly aud queerly got up, that The mino-
rity OF the committee, and half the Sub
Treasury presses in the country, pounc-
ed upon il as an argument on their
side OF the question. Yet this report, the manu-
iacture OF which could not have occupied more
than two days at most, is now gravey appealed
to as an excuse for the waste of time by the
committee.
On the other hand the Globe, raying at the
eleventh hour to the assis saDce Of its new al
lies, is calling upon the Executive to furnish
the committees with new excuses for wasting
time. 1t affects to believe that the whole action
OF Congress depends upon its receiving con-
'inual suggestions from the Administrations
The present prom ter of the Globe has his head
so full of English history and WaIpole admin
'strations-and is at heart we believe, so de-
voted to English institutions, notwithstanding
his parade of enmity to them-that he fan,es
the hction OF law, which supposes BRUSH
Parliament ignorant Of what is passing before
Its eyes. applicable in its whole extent TO the
Republican Congress of a free People. He
sp nds his days, and wastes the time of the
Senate, in calling for correspondence which he
knows does not exist, and in clamorins for pro-
'ocos: and his nights in framing calls upon The
Secretary Of s ate, whom he is pleased 10 ina
CINE the Premier Of the Administration for pro.
jects Of finance. Every negro in the land, al
this moment, knows the difference between
Congress and the Administration and vet he
hopes TO dupe the People into the belief that the
Administration is bound to legislale for the
country.
such are the gross ar,iices-such is the dar-
Ing contempt Of public opinion-displayed by
men who have reduced the nation TO a crisis
similar to that which in other lands and other
tunes has given birth to the daring projects If a
Cesar, Cromwell, or a Napoleon. Even a
brave and intelligent People, harassed and worn
out by continual excitement and suffering, might
be tempted TO welcome despotism itself, a, a
relief from the curse Of such demagoguism.
But we have no reason vet TO DESPAIR of our
Republic. The eyes Of the People are fixed
with keen and steady gaze upon these reckles.
consprators against their welfare, and against
the honor and even existence Of the Govern
ment; and we have Chief Magistrate with
courage enough 10 breast any assaults upon
himself personally, in his efforts to di. charge
his duty to the country. The grea, and glo-
nous fabric OF our Government is not destined
to fall before men whose plans are based upou
the supposed ignorance and pu,iIlanimily of the
People.