The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-05-20
TO THE FRIENDS OF TEXAS.

II there is in the wide world proAigate and
Aagitous press than the Globe newspaper edited by
Francis p Blair, in the city Of Washington, VIC
know not where il is to be found. To make misr~-
presentations occasionally Of the of conduct of
others, may, and is ofttmes, set down to unin,en-
tonal mistake bu, to misreprcsent by ruie-to do
daiy--to bear false witness agains, thy neighbor"
increasingly, and to make ], the study of ones life to
do sodenoes mind perverted, and heart positive
Iy and irrecaimably corrupt Such il, and has been
for eighteen months the course of the Globe in re-
gard to the President Immediately upon the ve,oes
the editor in the oudest praises Of the Pre-
sident. He eI,ollel MIR. Tyler to the echo, which
eIiollsd again. This WAS esteemed by Mr.. Blair TO
be necessary to carry the then approaching elections
The elections came A Wing majority of abopt
sixty in the House reversed and Democratic
majority Of some seventy eighty was returned
The Ysfoes swept over the country like storm--Mr
Blair took the alarm IL things not arrested
Mr.. Tyler would become altogether too popular and
endanger the prospects Of Mesrs. Van Buren, and
Clay. Joint attack upon him became necessary
and Mr.. Blair, aided by The lnlelligence without n.y.
the least sssgnable cause, led il or The most vio-
lent abuse was poured GU, UPON him daily. His
name was never mentioned in the Globe except
in terms Of reprosch. 1.-The appointed Democrat 10
Office, he was guilty Of gross improperly, and no
Democrat should accept office at his hands
MIR. Porter, MIR. Henshaw, and Mr. Nelson, were
furioosy sssaied for takiog places in the Cabinet
They were charged with being bribcd when the
President had looked only TO their ability TO admins
ter their several places and had not dreamed of in
quiring into their preferences for individuals To all
this we Sustained from retorting on Mr. Van Buren,
as we might have been justified in doing seeing the
course that his leading presses we're pursuing nor
was u until outrage was piled upon outrage that we
felt ourselves called upon, and that al very late day
TO utter Mr.. Van Burcn's name and then only in self
defence. What we now told by MIR Blair In
comforting Offices, Mr.. Blair says that "Mr Van Blu
ren's friends have been considered out Of the aue.
ton-thc Offices being given to every shade Of De.
mocracy but his friends they now have the door
opened TO them, and indeed preferred Now.
we say, without tie fear Of contradiction. that the
majority, and large majority, OF the Offices of IN,
country are now, and always have been in the hand.
Of Mr. Van Burcns and Mr.. Clays friends Tbi.
article IL written by Blair, with the knowledge fine
Tact under his very nose, that enemies to the Prcsi
dent are at the head Of almost every Bureau in
Warrington; that out Of six hundred clerks in IN.
Department., not more than fifty real Tyler men
are TO be found that almost every important otrr.
IN the great State Of New York is in The hands Of
friend of'hese anti-Texas gentlemen-hov lopr 10 r.
main 10, wsshall sooner or later sec--snd that g,n.
more always has had, and still has, more than her f
quota and SO with every other State in the Union Mr.