The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-26
RICHARD p. READ, Sec'y.
From the correspondence Of The philadelphia Mercury
and Journal
w.suiSGroN

and Journal
W.sursoroN June 81, ls4t.
Private intelligence just received from Alabama
sta e. that large meeting bad been held at Games
vile, in favor Of Tyler and Texas Some 500 of the
mos, respec able and wealthy planters had collected
TO approve the Administration of the President, and
TO endorse his claims To future support TINS IN, e.
ing however is but slight index of The state of pub
lie fee ing in the South in fsvor of Mr.. Tyler How
ever politicians may refine upon and divide the mea-
sure from the man, Transferring the credit Of the for
mer to anolhef-the people can comprehend such
abstracons but invariably associate the with the
other-ifthey approve and support the one the sppro-
val and support OF III. other follows a natural CO.
rollary, both from inclination, and the deep sense of
rights and pToPne,y which ever aciuates the mass.
II Is scarcely TO be expected that the intege Mt
Democratic voters Of this country, are to transfer
their gratitude and en husiasm 10 an unknown ms n
whose name never before, has been submitted 10 their
consideration and invest him with the halo result
ing Fl ON the great acts Of another. The politicians
at Baltimore have commit ed gres, piece Of sssump
ton upon the rights and feelings of their constituents
in thus undertaking 10 choose and actually choosing
for them, without the slightest indication of their
consent and depending wholly on The force of their
position to be sustained in their acts The vast ma
orty uf delegates to the Baltimore Convention can
pledged to the support Of Mr.. Van Buren and until
upon the road to nominate him, had suspicion OF
his availability. This was amusing'y the case with
the Vermont delegation, who had heard none Of the
complaint anu onIobs against MT. Van
Buren until their arrival at Albany bur were so th
roughly convinced OF the facts while on board IN.
steamer to New York. that they voted against him on
every ballot.
Every body knows that Mr.. Van Buren, owed his
political death to the stand he had taken against an
nexaiion--,he great measure ofProsdent Tylers ad-
pnstrs,ion-tbe people, by a silent but irresistible
emotion expelled him rom their confidence for H.,
and thus endorsed in the hghe-, degree the pure J.
fersonian Democracy of the President and yet the
man whose Democracy thus preferred by the
people that OF the long and regular leaders of
the party, was coolly laid aside by the wire puers
and Juggling politicians OF the day because his dee
,ruct,on was demanded by the rotten clique he had
ovorihrovn, and who even in their corrup,ion nos.
sesscd sufficient vitality to procure his sacrifice Rpt
upon the people this cl que influence is powerless
| They consider and resolse Tor themselves: IL was
they and not the politicians who destroyed Mr. Van
Buren-who sdupseJ the question of annexation as
the les, Of Democracy-sn who always lead, not fol-
be found at the ensuing election at tn. ballot bores
for John Tyler, and the politicians will be as much
aston he'd at the result they were al the repu,s-
ton of Mr.. Van Buren,. IL is weposierous to sup.
pose that community ofintegcnt people will allow
themselves to be thus guided in = choice for their
Chief Magistrate They will choose for III themselves.
and IL the history Of The past be the prophecy o, the
future the history of the world must err, or John
Tyler will be the next President; for the b.stowal
of benefits always 10 nation, (~ha,evsr may be- II.
exceptions 10 individually provokss The return Of