The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-12-23
RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.

RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.
Mr.. TYLER was bred Jefersonian Republ
can. He was elected to the Vice Presidency
as Jeflersonian Republican, and, on the death
of General HARRISON, he became Jeffersonian
Republican President His vetoes were in ac-
corjance with the principles which the Wings
well knew must govern his official action.
And yet the leading Wing politicians, and the
journals they could command, assailed him
furiously and savagely, precisely as if they
really supposed he had abandoned his principles
when he became candidate for the Vice Pre-
sidency
Well, what was the result? Let us take a
calm retrospective view of things He was
called traitor" and many other ugly names, by
disappointed aspirants. This was uniust-nay.
sin 10 be punished: and was il not punished ?
The day before the Wing batteries opened on
the Z" honest President" the Wing party en-
braced large majority of the People of the
United States-the day after, it was in a mino-
ri,y. Tens, and hundreds Of thousands, who
had voted for g Tip and Ty," still stood firm
around the President, knowing that he was I'M
justly assailed. Hence, in every succeeding
election, the Wings sustained defeat, until, at
length, we find their majority of forty in the
House of Representatives, sunk into a minority
OF sevenY.
So, the President and his Wing assaians
are "quits." They assaulted him, and they
have been punished for it, They are even. He
is still Jeilersonian Republican, and they knor
II now. They have no cause TO rejoice at the
wrongs heaped upon him by the Democratic
leaders. That is an affair with which they have
no concern.
! We think the Democratic party will not deny
the correctness of the statements set forth above.
Well. Now, if the Tip and Ty" Republicans,
by coming out from among the Wings, and
forming a guard" around the President, re-
duced that party TO a amentable minority, and
thus punished the enemies of their chief, is il
not natural TO suppose that they will come out
from among the Van Buren, ranks, when they
are "absoutey repel ed" by the Globe-that
print being endorsed by the party? Those who
gave the preponderance to the Democratic party,
when the Wings warred against the President,
all voted against Mr.. Van Buren, in 1910. And
since the President has suffered more injustice
and contumely from The Democratic managers
than he did from the Wings these faithful
friends every one of them, have resolved in their
hearts TO stand by their honest chief! And what
70 more, they will be found to have increased 10
numbers most miraculousIy, since they rebuked
the Presidents Wing enemies in lS4l and 2. II
] Ii l. Il r
Convention, the popular majority against him
will be quarter Of million. We have never
heard hearty cheer for him since he overthrow
the Democratic party.
Really, we see no cause for the Presidents
enemies, on either hand, to rejoice at his "bad
condition and sad fate7" We assure them that
the President is in very comfortable circum-
stances. Contrary to his expectations he has
been elevated TO the Presidency--ihe highest
position that any man on earth can occupy
and he sits there cas- calm as a summers
morning" He not only occupies the Presiden
tial chair, while his foes pretend to mock at
him, but he enjoys the satisfaction Of having
performed the greatest of services for his coun-
try, in killing the monster" Nay, he com
placently surveys his glorious country, now
prosperous and happy, throughout all its rami-
heatlors, which was quite the reverse when
Providence called him to preside over it. And
he finds every Department Of the Government
dlschargng its functions faithfully and success
fully which had not been the case previous to
his accession.
Indeed, we are much amused TO see the
mock exultations of the Presidents foes. in
some of the rabid journals. He was elected
Vice President, and is now President. lie
was assaed by the misleadcrs of The Whie
party, and the rebound Frustrated The party
which squared the account. lie has been i'll. |
treated by the peculiar organs of Mr.. Van Blu
rem, and the account will be balanced
But il is said he will not be supported for the
Presidency 10 lS4i. Has he asked any body to
support him7 We demand d" categorical an
'wer" to that When he enters the field, we