The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-26

| the mendiclty oil helf own EuStdhu' ~ W.
willing, severe moral apprehension attaches II
not able, why not have charity for evils not 30
great among their transatlantic descendants I'D
| America This election is now set down III
their books as another proof OF the incapaci'y
Of man for self-goyernment-oi the inundsuns
evils Of democratic misrule. Oh course ihey
are furnished, according 10 their own view
with a new argument why India should continue
TO be governed by the sword, and taxed 70 'is
extent of the means Of payment why one
hundred and twenty millions Of people IN The
British empire should be without single repre-
sentative in Parliament! Oppression is very
good in Great Britain, but would be very naugh-
~ in this North American republic OF the new
world. These aristocrats would dsiranchise
this great and free People, if they could, on The
ground Of alleged incapaciy and misuser oil the
right of suffrage, AS they do in India and IN their
colonies. Cgum non anmum mutant qui trans
mare currunl.' The same law Tor US, the same
deprivation Of suffrage, had they the poaoer, as
they have the aoiH
| When, therefore, the Wings shall tell us, as
some of their organs undoubtedly WILL OF The
solicitous friendliness of Great Britain towards
US, we shall do well to pause, in suspicious wa
riness, and demand the certain proof before we
confde in the profession. We are as much
disposed TO cultivate friendship with her, on the
only terms on which enduring friendship be-
| tween the two great nations is practicable, as
the Wings themselves can be. But the next
time that they shall tell us England is in favor
of a President who goes for the rights and IN
teresls of our country on this North Amer
can contnen--uness there be mighty
change in her views-we shall remind them Of
the fiction on that subject they so widely and
zealously circulated during the late canvass a
fiction then manifest TO all men of good common
sense, well nformed-but which may now be
placed in the same category with such fables as
those once fully accredited, that Eric, king OF
| the Cloths, was surnamed Windy Hat, because
he beckoned to the winds with his hat and made
them shift as he pleased Paracelsus had
an army of devils under his command-that
| Simultaneous showed 10 Basil, the emperor,
his son alive after his death-that Mi
chae the Scot forelold the death of The En-
peror Frederick I'd, and that Pythagoras killed
a serpent in Italy by virtue of some magical
words.
| Not the illustrous Columbus-cidrum ct re-
| nerabiie nomen-had more just reason to exult
| 10 the correctness of his judgment-wh after
long perils, he at length deserted the land of
| America, than these United States have cause
| N raj Ihcv haya fp1 If Mr.
| Folks principles and character Not a still
| holder adventurer, Vasco di Garna, had greater
cause of felicitaton, when, after encounlering
| the storms of the Cape, which he named the
| Cape Of the Tempests, from being long tost
amid its bilIows-he at length cleared the dan
gers and found himself gliding on a smooth sea
| and with cheering breeZes in his canvass TO-
wards The haven which he sought We shall
have pilot at the helm, in the person of Mr.
| Polk whose resolution in the cause of his coun-
uys rights and interests will be as firm as that
| of this most resolute of navigator who will
be guided by the chart of the principles which
he has announced, and thus safely conduct the
| ship of Stale into a commodious port.
ENGLISH OPINION OF POLK's ELECTION.
The following are the remarks of the London
Time, in announcing the intelligence:
This nomination of the Presidential electors has
just been completed, aud 1t appears to leave no doubt
| as to the inumph of the Democratic party and of
their candidate Mr.. Polk. The surprise and we
must add, the apprehensions and roget which this
event will produce in Europe, are increased by the
fact that II IS the great States of New York Penn.
sylvania, and Virginia, which have turned the scale
Far from exercising that undertaking power and If we
may so speak of anything in America, that Conser-
vative influence which might to belong to their
POSITION their wealth. their mercantile intel ets and
| th.ir exemption from slavery Pennsylvania has IN
this instance obeyed the same influences which have
already connected her with bankruptcy and
anarchy, and New York has followed her examine
| OF Mr.. Polk we know nothing except that he has
achieved triumph over the most able and respected
man in the Union, although he was scarcely more
known IN that Union a few months ago than he now
is in Europe. He has not been chosen for his past
services, or his political experience, or for civil eo-
quence, or for military fame for these qualities would
doubtless long ago have brought him within our no.
tee, II he had possessed them or any of them Blu,
the less OF personal greatness influence he could
boast Of the bet'r was he fitted answer the erpec-
tstlons Of his oJherents. Whatever he may turn out
to be hereafter, we can only judge of him at present
the delegate instrument ofthe passions by which
he has been thus strangely raised into this consticu
Gus position. As such, then, we must remark with
no ordinary concern, that with the single exception of
the tariff question, on which he IS pledged TO more
liberal commercial policy than his opponent his cleo
lion TO this important Office is the triumph of every
thing that worst over everything that is best in IN.
United States Of America. IL is victory gaineJ nv
the South over the North-by the slave States over
the freely the repudialing States over the homes,
ones-by the partisons of the annexation of Texa,
over it. opponents-but the advent utous and un.cru
puous Democracy Of the new States and the foreign
opulaoD IN those States, over the more austefe and
dIgnfed RepublIcansm of New England
No one in Europe has failed to observe the rand
decline Of the United States IN public morality and
in public estimation, IN their policy and their prn-
cIples as nation, and IN all tina, renders people
permanently strong and prosperous, during the las,
lew years, and more especially during the scciden