The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-22
A BLUE-LIGHT SIGNAL.

..l Than this long editorial article IN this mornings
In..lt,encer. which is 80 eulogslic of Mexico and
Great Britain, and obuspe OF our own 1o'erh-
men Such ia the character of the articles puolshc"
ON The eve Of the election the organ Of the Federal
e.pdidatsl Should Mr.. Clay be elected, will not the
Iptsleencer say, Afterwards that The buegh' poll
ev h,, been approved by the People, Once adopt It's
policy, and ever Afterwards our politicians and our
presses may be governed by " foreign influence anu
particularly by British gold"
We will make few extracts from the lntelNgencers
anti American article:
"Whs, is to hinder all ,his7 La vail The Govern
su could do before, when disposed at least 10
keep up appea,a aces Of fairness But what 10 to be
expected Of Mr. TYLER or his Cabinet Have We
.nr need 10 ssy that the, will aid this movement as
far a they can or least far they daret Whd
they dare, we saw last spring Much as they me"
dared may they not safely 60 still greater lengths
with the popular decision then rendered. ana ieA-
a." Administration at their backs We say nothing
which We are not fully warranted in saying, when
Ne declare il to be our deliberate conviction that as
soon ~ The election of Mr. Polk shall be known TINS
Administration may be perfectly depended on Tor al
once involving Us in war. That IS always IN the
power Of an Administration"
We do not wonde, that the Intelligencer trembles
for the fate Of Mcxico-the thought that the Mex
can Treasury may be suddenly exhausted, is mel
aneholy thought bu, there is occasion for alarm
The Texas Administration" will do nothing that
Washington would not do, were he the Prerldent
The blue-lght oracle thus continues:
"WM, then, we pronounce, in the event oil MI
Polks election, thing as absolutely certain as any
political fact was before 1t occurred NOW what
10 that war probably to bei
Abroad, Il will be one in which the common SYM
pathiss Of the world will be violently against us-at
home il can hardly fail TO light up wide and strong
disaGsc,ion. II will find with sn impaired Nation
ri and no State credit"
The lntelligencer propheses truly if Great Brit
aim or any other power, shall persist in the practice
Of perpetratng outrages and insults on our dag and
our cons,ituton-and in purchasing partisans III our
midst to vindicate such aggressons.
II may DO very probable that the "sympathies" OF
nonsrchiss will DO violently sgains, us-but monar-
ehiss, which secure so much Of the admiration of
certain editors, must not be mistaken f"' "'A-
vorho w. donb, not an, wsr, INTO which onr Re-
public might be driven in resistance OF foreign insults
and injuries, would light up wide and pretty
strong" blue Iight-it may be il would cause some
disan.cton among pensioned foreigners in our midst,
but the patriotic glow in the bosoms Of the descen-
sorb al lesser lights. As TO our "credit" we think
II would be still more impaired by distributing the
land fund among the Staes the Federalsts desire
il to be done. OF course they do not wish to
in q condition TO take up arms against monarchies,
even 10 res, the rvettng of chains upon necks.
The accomplished blue-ight jipomatist, and Fed
sral-Wbig organ, continues:
It'd pr LII.
can give . color Of policy to the measure.
IT. them they have any realty, will she not embrace
with JOY q contest provoked by ourselves, in which
We shall be so hagrsnty the aggressors that all
tons will side against us We, here at the seat of
Government, upon the paipest proofs, believe her
purposes not only altogether just, but socitously
peaceful. But can she stand, would any nation eal-
Gus Of its honor stand, blow directly leveled at
her this What is the acti We have beyond CUES.
ton, moi prstr for this war which regards Mexico,
not an injury, not right, except under the suppo-
sdioo that England is party nay principal 10 fatal
seAsms against 1t Is an English uesgn which war
rants our aggression upon Mexico; are to plumber
Asr to defend ourselves from some mysterious plot oil
Eng lish ambition or enmy If England, then, keeps
the peace in the face Of this monstrous proceeding,
abborrcnt to all nations, 1t only be because her
dispositions are extremely as possible the opposite
10 all that this Texas plot attributes 10 her, and be-
cause she Is willing, through her extreme anxiety
for peace with us, not only 10 be greyously nsuted,
but TO be insuted merely that another friendly
ton may be puDderedl"
The editor threatens and e1postulates as a matter
Of course. OF he declares the purposes of
Great Britain 10 be Z" altogether Just" and solci
tously peaceful The In,eIligencer ought to know
oil sbou, il, and, we doub, not, il does know Blu,
does declare the true purposes and dispositions of
Grea, Brtsni II seems to that it is offending the
Briiish Government in advance for act not vet de-
rsioped As the champion Of Great Britain, 1t seems
to desire TO prepare the Wing party to attempt to
justify some upjusuhsble and aggressive movement
in Immediate contemplation. Has Great Britain al.
ready secured T,r@7 1t may be so. The Mexican
army Of INVASION has suddenly paused in its opera
tions. But II Great Britain has Z" done this thingn
during the tendency Of our negotiations with Texas,
the excuses Of the Intelligence, in advance will not
avail 1t cannot be permitted pass with mpuoity, un-
less all selfrcspect and honor pass at the same time
from the People of'he United States If such diabol.
cal act has been committed by Great Bitain, which
would at once PROSTATE American manufactures and
American commerce, old Hartford will send
forth her men 10 arms against the vindictve enemy
that raised her indignant ire in the early days Of the
Revolution The South and West will rise up as one
man to forbid the bans, and to sever the pollutibg
chain with which Great Britain has fastened sister
Rspublc that dared to petition to unite her destiny
with the States OF this Union
n in vain for the Intelligence to attempt to vim
diests Great Britain in advance il she has taken sd
vantage of our political struggles to blot out Of exist,
sncs one Of the Republics of our Continent
Flere in specimen of the InteIlicc ncer,s brayad
which bstr.ys the direction Of Us "symp..hie.p
For cos part we entertain not the slightest su.-
picon n any such designs rs late diplomacy has
Dot hssitated, upon the ides grounds to mpuie TO