The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-09-25
THE QUESTION.

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Bank or no Bank, is destined 10 be the great
question in the next Presidential contest. On
this subject the Presidents position is clearly
enough defined. Then why should any of those
presses which profess TO desire the ascendency
Of the anl-Bank party, devote all their time
and space ia fruitless assaults on this Admins
tration We submit the question to the editor
rlalive editor, in all candor, and we desire a
| frank response.
| We ask if it is good policy for Democratic
presses to assail this Administration and we
ask it while we assert that Mr.. Tyler and his
friends will be found, in the next Presidential
battle, contending hand to hand against the
Bank candidate, whoever he may be. We ask
| if it can be good policy for Democratic journals
TO persist in a course calculated to drive thou
sands and tens Of thousands, who avow them
selves true Republicans, and who are ready to
support any regularly nominated, capable and
honest Republican candidate for the Presiden-
CIV, into the ranks of the arch Bank Federalist-
Henry Clay? Can it be good policy, particu-
! larly at such juncture this, when there are
symptoms of disunion-nay, perhaps while we
write divisions are occurring, which may threat
en- the existence of the party, and which
certainly require the prompt and undivided at
tenton of all the leading Republican journals
in the country? Can such conduct be wise, at
a moment like this, when the Bank party is
marshaled in battle -array-in one solid pha-
lanx-a unit in motive and purpose-waiting
for the signal and ''eager Tor the fray''--n-
spred with no irrational hope of obtaining de-
cisve victory, aoittout carrying the appeal to
the House of Represe ask, in all
candor, is at such moment, anything can be
achieved, either for Mr.. Fan Buren, or any
other Democratic candidate, the anti-Bank par
ty, by the coarse vilification of Mr.. Tyler which
| teens in the columns Of the Globe?
The Globe Of this date-we write on Thurs
days absolutely crammed with the ridiculous
and absurd fabrications Of the Clay prints. 1t
asserts that some lmpostor sent Us an account
Of meeting that was never held, which, most
suspiciously, was instantly exposed by the Clay
prints, and seems to have afforded them an ex-
Iraordinary fund of amusement, and enabled
them to write vast deal in ridicule Of the Pre-
sident. Now, if Washington was at the head
of affairs, We ask if stranger in distant State
| might not easily forge the proceedings of a
meeting and procure their publication Should
not such forgery, under any circumstances,
be regarded by all just and honorable men
with scorn and indignation And yet all the
sneers and SCOTS of the Clay press which have
been going the rounds for weeks, are repeated
in the. Globe of Thursday, in its leading edio-
rial.
In the next column Of the Globe, the editor
assaults the President at length for making some
| Democratic appointments, and in the course OF
his bitterness makes the following sarcastic re-
mark:
"The Federal party have not, in any of the New
England States, as far as we have SEEM given in adj
hesion to Mr.. Tyler or to Mr.. Calhoun"
Now we do not how the appointment
Of Democrats TO Office can cause the Federal
| partyf 10 give in It's adhesion TO the Presi-
dent. And we think, nay we know, that he
does not desire any such acquisition. AS for
Mr.. Calhoun, who is coupled by the editor OF
the Globe with the President in seeking Fede-
raj support we are not authorized to speak for
him. but we presume the inslnuaton is without
justification in truth. We presume there is no
greater identity of interests and purposes exist
ing between Mr.. Tyler and Mr.. Calhoun, than
there is between Mr.. Tyler and Mr.. Van Buren,,
or any other distinguished Republican. All the
coalitions which the Globe would impute to Mr..
eho fol- Nv r,lo
President Of The United States. will. we have
every reason to know, discharge the duties Of
his Office with an eye single to the welfare and
glory of his country. And all the attempts to
make it appear that the influence of his Admin
isiraton is used TO split the party, to build up
any particular candidate to the prejudice of his
rivals, will be exposed in the sequel-rebuked
| by The facts as they exlst-and their malicious
falsitv acknowledged by all intelligent men.
! Then, we ask, if it can be wisdom in itself,
or justice to the Republican rarty, for those who
assume 10 be Democratic editors, to assail the
President in the style Of the Clay Whigs-and
to assaH him continually, without seeming to
be aware that there is an enemy, dangerous
eaemy, to combal2 And we address ourself as
young soldier in the political field, in quest of
information, to the Napoleon of the Press.
We possess the material TO crush the foe, aud
therefore we have nothing TO appreheBG as an
editor but the consequences to the party result
ing from such warfare may be worthy of grave
consideration.
From the NJ Y. Commercial Advertiser.
LATER FROM ENGLAND.
The packet ship Victoria. Capt Morgan, arrived
| last evening. The vessel left Portsmouth, August