The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-03-09
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II bearing tho c'0" !" Wv '"S'' "
the universal sorrow which has pervaded our land,
\ and subdued and chss ened every generous heart
We will not suppress the indignant feelings produced
on reading Mr.. Blsirs leading article OF Tuesday
morning last, headed "The Funeral Obsequies.'-
What should have been the isngusge-the tone oil
such an article on such subject, and under such
circunstancesl Let every elevated mind--every
patriotic bosom-every noble SOUL give the response.
| It was commenced, We admit, in very appropriate
terms in an impressive and dignfed tone, viz 'On
Saturday, the last rites were paid TO the distn-
guishtd men who laid down their lives on the deck
Of the Princeton. The funeral procession presented
the most sad solemn, affecting scene ever witnessed
in this city Of the Union" But, observe the tmged
current which suddenly begins to meander through
the "sad and solemn" feelings with which the author
was at first impressed just mark the ill-copcealed
and malign lnsinuations: " The Presidents House
was again, as on the demise of General Harrison,
made the receptacle of death. Instead Of one, five
bodies were now laid out in the lately illuminated
East Room of that fair Mansion, which, before the
melancholy (aie-( What melancholy fate' From this
language, in such connection would not the distant
read r, unacq with the circumstances Of the
tx Presidents death, ask himself, General
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which there awaited General Harrison in the
first month Of the first year Of his Presidential
term, had never known pail within its precincts
The first month of the last year Of the term found
it again turned almost into charmed house" Qet the
re ,der observe how the poisoned current of these
" sad and solemn" feelings becomes more deep
Iy tnged aud turbd as the editor proceeds
{" Like the Capet's monument it became "a palace
Of dim night and gathered within its gloom the
blaskesd and bloody rsmans Of most frghtlul TRACE
dy-the bodies of five intimate friends Of the Pres
dent Two of them his Cabinet associates, all hurried
ut of existence, while he sat unconsciously with
ly plank between them, enjoying song" What
other language, we ask, would the Globe have dis
played, if some bloody tyrant had usurped the Gov
ernment and struck off the heads of five citizens Of
the Republic "The blaeksnsd and bloody reaaps Of
most frightful tragedy, gathered into palace o
dim ngh!'' And these the lamented victims of an
awful accident which but the eye of Omnis-
cience could have foreseen, and but the arm Of
Omnpotence averted
But the picture is yet TO be filled up and the Globe
editor in rourtraying his generous sympathy for the
distinguished and lamented dead, could not conceal
his heartfelt anxiety for the safety of the Chief Ma
gstrate, and his warm congratulations for the con-
tnued preservation Of his life. Take his own de-
scr ton of the danger to which the President
posed his return from the bury ground and
shall clearly whether the kind ,Oleiiude for his
welfare was fell or Jsignsd' " The mournfu
monals had just been concluded, when the city was
alarmed with the apprehension Of another fatal acct
dent 10 the Chief Magistrate himself. As he re-
turned in his carriage # state from the place of in
terment, his horses took fright and with fury
along the great thoroughfare, filled with people and
carriages. There was arrestng their Wild careeri
the reins broken in the attempt TO restrain hem
and all that could be done TO give to their
headoDg fight" Now, it is quite a mistake that
the ens either broken lost but by the clear
and firm directions Of the President, the horses ues
restrained" though not effecually controlled. As
the editors imagination often and easily takes
the reins of his pen, he doubt persuaded himself
that the President had omno,siy lost the reins of
his ear1iace Of state But let him De walked up from
his deIusion and apprzed that the President has lost
reithcr the rens of State, Of his state earri0ge"
He is not yet subject TO the drsIo,ie will Of the
Globe and its clique lie ]. still the Chief Msgis-
trs,e Of just patriotic, and enlightened people, aud
under the guidance OF an awise and overruling
Providence. And why, on such occasional
such time OF general sadness and mournng--shoud
Mr.. Blair seek TO make false impression upon the
public mind, in regard to the nsnuated /" pomp and
circumstance" in which the President ATTENDED the
funeral, by such covert and unwsrran,ed illusions
70 his carriage Of state his state equipagt" and the
like, when the carriage in which he rode was m
truth of the painest style, and the horses much in
feror TO many IN the city, Why these ranking,
corroding, undying feelings against the Chief Magis
rate Why this monster spirit Of unsaked vengeance
that will " neptr do,rn?n But we forbear.
We will now add the last and most significant SEN
t.nse, which leaves doubt the mind Of the CO.
lor and character Of the motives Of the Globe
concern. 1.-THE President was happy to escape from
his state equpags over which all guidance aud sen-
troll was lost and find himself oOt by the side Of hi.
humble deGperer" Now ask the courteous and
intelligent rcader-we ask an enlightened and moral
community, to pause one moment and recollcct the
sad solemn affecting" subject Of the Globes arti.
cle--the melancholy pton under which it was
written" the funeral obs q1ies"-and then think Of
the mind and soul that could indulge such unchsstep-
ed and grovelling feelings such malicious insinua-
tons. And had voice Of thunder we would
sound one question in the ears Of the Democra-
cy throughout the Union how is il that President
Tyler do nothing in this wide world, that will
commend him 10 the Globe Democrats II seems
that he may offer himself a devoted sacrifice upon
the altar Of bis country he may display the most
consummate msgsteria wisdom and proves he
may unite the rsrest and the brightest virtue, with
the highest intellectual endow ments nay, he may
give his body 10 be burnt, and yet, II he have not
lore for MIR. Van Buren, than for his own prin-
cpes or his country he need not hope FOR favor from
the Globe dctstors. Although, as a statesman he |
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