The Democratic Whig. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-04-20
MR. TYLER.

TIE present accidental incumbent 81 he
Presidential chair has sunk 90 Low inthe Ell
nation Of all parties and Of every man Or hon
orable sentiments, that for some time past we
have scarcely deemed it worth the trouble to /
devote any portion of our editorial attention to
an individual however exalted by Office, whose
insignifcance is SO striking that we have cea-
sed to feel any sterher emotion than contempt
for his feebleness. His prOhlgacy in attempt |
ing to buy up the Democratic party by the in-
huence of his patronage Of Office, is in perfect
accordance with his apostacy to the Wings;
they both exhibit his character in such light
that we scarcely know which is the most re-
markable, the baseness Of his motives or the
weakness of his understanding. Poor deluded
man! The accident which placed him in Office,
and which he doubtless hailed as the most for
tunate event of his life, has given him notoriety
but to Immortalize his infamy. History, on
whose pages his name would not have found
place, will now perpetuate it in connection
with his perfidy and folly.
The following just remarks upon bis peFfd.
ious and profIgate course, are from the Globe,
the leading organ Of that party, which he vain
ly hoped to seduce to his support.
"THE COMEDY ADMINS
TRATION-
The present Administration being a sort
of come by-chance"-being nlIliuS fltus as
regards constituency are driven to desperate
means to maintain the dignity and just infu-
enee which should attach to the executive
power of great country. Having mol support
among the people-none in the worth of their
personal characters, and inheriting not a parti-
Gle of the confidence which installed the au-
thority of which they have become heirs-they
can resort to nothing to support the importance
which they are sensible should Oil the stations
they hold, but the application of the means OF
| the Government to purchase followers. They
must have the countenanee of somebody, 10
be at the head ofthe first Government in the
world established by the most intelligent
and greatest people on earth-and vet know
| they have not the respect of ngle heart tina,
| pays an almost idolatrous homage to The insti
tutions over which they preside; is fate
| worse that of Tantalus. The Administration
| of apostates, utterly abiured by the honest
men OF both parties, without having a solitary
| friend returned as yet to either branch Of the
next Congress-having no principle to build ap
a party upon-no system Of measures but thai
which the country has mark, with is repro-
6ation-now addresses itself altogs Their to the
| cupldity of the mercenary, 10 enlist a body
of Swiss for followers. The wretched Bour-
bons had to resort to this mode OF obtaininp
liegemen to guard their persons, after they
had justly forfeited the respect and affection Of
the native, true-hearted Frenchmen, over
whom they reigned
AS our abjured dynasty are reduced to the
melancholy condition OF the depraved and
and woln-out old regime Of France, as it re-
CARDS public estimation, we must look for the
same sort of Government abuses vile practi-
ces, political knavery, and fraudulent combina-
tons, to supply The want of proper strength in
| those who hold the rens of power.
We have striking evidence of this tenden
cy in the corrupt intrigue to which the Admin
istration at Washington now addresses itself
in the disclosures of the Keystone; published
at Harrisburg. That print until recently,
was recognised by Governor Porter of Penn
| sylvana, as his official organ. The appojlt
msnt ofIhe Governors brother, James VI, Por
ter (the pznder of thS Bank OF the United
Sates) to the Office Of the Secretary at War
1t seems has brought the patronage OF the
Executive of Pennsylvania in aid 'oltLat Of
| Pres. dent of the United States to give efe,t
| to the maxim of former Federal Administra.
! lion--"Give US patronage, and we will make
| ourselves popular" 1t is evi lent that the
country viii now see this doctrine fully tested
The bill passed by the Pennsylvania Legisla
ture, (reducing the Safe Executives patron
age) anticipating the coalition which the IN
PRODUCTION of one Of the PENNSYLVANIA borers
oftbe Bank of the United States (closelv allied
to the Governor of the State) into the Cabin
ct at Washington, portended has been vetoed
by thesGoyernor; and ledfpurpose on his
part to draw by its means, the Democratic
press oftl e State to subserve The purposes of
the Federal Administration, has been reveal.
ed. This, with the movement upon New
Hampshire, through Isaac Hill, leaves nothing
TO conjecture in regard to the mode of oDera.
lion through which those IN power have res
olyed to make it tell Gas Mr.. Gushing promised
II should) in the next presidential election.
The whole business of the Natianal Adj
mlnistration is hence. orth to strike political
bargains with persons of the same cast Of char
acter, and to club their interests and means
10 create third party out of the very corrup-
tons and abuses OF Government. Their hope
IS to rally force enough 10 hold the balance of
the power between the parties founded on
principle, and to make the admission Of their
Infection into The future Administration the
condition OF coalescing with the party to which
they may sell their weight. The Democratic
party, we are sdre, viii keepthe venal crew
long time IN quarantine, before it will admit
any OF them into its ranks. 1t will let them
rot IN the Government, even If the process
required successive terms, rather than mingle
with them, and propagate the contagion
IN the only healthy portion of the body
polite.
WHTGSI