The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-10

brsye old man who IS the Old Man OF the Mountain,
downright ASA ssn--respectable but ioimioao'e'
me -pulveriziug, grinding TO imPaiPao,e Pp"oe, ,
blowing 10 atoms smothering IN amber, all ms assam
ais one But him he leaves The field to- IN the
following very impolent come OF 81 should never
think II other than waste Of time, cries craven,
most rcdoubtabie Of conrovei siailsts, 10 conua"e
the sGony nous liar OF a newspaper nave in'a''A
bly found that themselves capable oil every sPo
cies of ialsebood are ever foremost TO impuie inc
same propensity TO others Nor would ever violate
the common deceneies Of life by 'mpuung iaisehooa
and forgery to adversary, but in sei-deience anu
upon the most irreiragable evidence"
Upon this pbilosopy, which is unansweraoie, now
stands the upon my indictment Tor eouhteiioH-
ngl Did put him on sefdeience' Is his evidence
she most rrofIagable
The second phase Of my plea TO this charge Is
again in his words, but in verse. few years ago he
put forth heroic poem, what he would can an gpee,
not an epic that would be hardly classical enough
proceed TO cite, in trfenso the second verse oil me
first canto of John Quincy Adamss epopee, entitled
Dermot Mac Murroughi ponderous poem I'D ,he
metre of Byron's Don Juan, and no doubt intended
TO surpass il in dithramic yeisihcation IL runs thus
and runs, as will be felt well seen, with pro-
digious force
IT'S strange how often readers will indulge
Their wits mystic meaning to discover
Secrets meier dreamt Of by the bard indulge,
.4ad iohere he shoots duck toiH find piopn,
Satrlc sHaIls from every Inc pfomuiRc,
Detect tyrant where he means lover:
Nay, 50 intent his hidden thoughts to see,
CRY, Vhe paints a seoundrel-mat means me-
Mr.. Adams's inc xorabe decree, his internal JUS
tice, striking without hearing his culprit, puts lash
| in every honest hand to lash rascal lash me
Naked lash round The world. Would he be oil
this category of my casigstorsl His admirable PHI
losophica epopee teaches that scoundrels are ex-
lremely suspicious. When General Jackson wrote
to friend that he astonished at the surrender OF
Texas by the government, neither naming Mr.. Adams
or impung crime TO any one, MIR. Adams Redeemed
with SUSPICION blasted for traitor. The distinction
between rascal and scoundrel is extremely evanes-
cent. II may be doubted whether Mr.. Adams has
enough Of that learned wisdom which he denies Gen
eral Jackson to define the difference. Certainly il
would be much less than that between duck and po-
ver which, he says, are sometimes mistaken for each
other.
viii this vein be pardoned in dealing with an as
sailant who lavisbes centious abuse on me pacci-
mates Mr. Brown; accuses Mr.. Ewing Of his fathers
loyalty camnly writes of Captain Tyler, as he calls
the American chief magistrate, that he is chafierri
Of the Old Roman of the Hermitage that he IS q
hickory hero rakes up the ashes OF Governor Gil.
mer from untmely interment, and puns on other ad-
vocates of Texas, blown Che says to atoms by the
peace maker, like my argument.
Among the strange things In these Bralntree PHI
| lippcs, are introduced McCready's Hamlet, with
the farce Of Pleasant Neighbours which tempts me
to follow the statesman into his literary historical,
dramatic, NEUROLOGICAL, and other harlequlnades; aud
! do not know but, before | am done, may offer a
glimpse at his creed Ate hot from hell, the purgao
ry OF the Ronlis church, new theory OF Divine Pro-
| violence, the absurdty OF which one might laugh at,
but (, r its abuse of our Saviours name and after
trying, convictng sentencing, aud executing Mr. En-
wing, Mir Brown and me, praying 10 God, are the
blasphemOus words for this imprecaton OF the devil,
| ( could be none other) 10 send US dellverance -
These, and numerous other beauties of Mr.. Adams 5
style, may excuse few paragraphs, dedcaied to the
demonstration that his taste is, if possible worse
than bis temper, that his learned uisdo is not super
abundant; in short shall presume 10 say'-hot that
he Is an lmpostor, but very great humbug-a very
great humbug indeed.
| his bold attempt must be promised by referring
readers 10 the twenty sgners Of his manifesto pub
lished at Washington, March g. IS4l. U like to
youch documents especially with his houored name
to theui,) in which it Is declared that annexation OF
Texas and dissolution of the Union are, like the
French Republic, and ndivisible. The signers
# that paper were, most OF them the courtiers who
| admire HIM TO extravaganza. In the last Congress
! Mr. Adams's tail was longer than now. It, joints
e1oliate continually, and II would not be surprising
If at last he is left without any at all II the 25th
rule is not restored ! doubt whether it will not be
come very short very soon, and he will have to be
nicked At the last Congress, these picbideie OF pol
ioi members, whenever he spoke were and all
wropt in admiration at the pr.lundity Of his learning,
the brancy of his wit the pungency of his u,
the power of his eloquence, and the wisdom of his
sta esmanship; when he mounted the tripod, and be-
gan 10 yatlclnale-Or vaccinate perhaps he would
call lt-these admring gentlemen gaZed aud looked
gazed and looked, and gized again, upon the mas
ter, like schooboys, among whom
Still the wonder ran, and still it grew,
That one bald head could carry all he knew.
Several of these honorable gentlemen have since
become governors of New England States, or other
wise eminent | mean no offence to their dynasties
when supposing first, that they not so learned
as MIR. Adams and second, therefore regarded him
more learned than he rs third which ldoatry To-
menting his vanity, injured his style, by rendering
him careless TO cram less aud chatter more. Macrea-
dys Hamlet, with the farce Of Pleasant Neighbors
are by no means the Only farce or pantomme in
which the philosopher Of Brointree performs in the
three speeches; and his dramats persona are enough
10 startle the purtans Of New England (who figure
too, in his melo drama) from their proprety. There
are General Jackson, Tiberius, Louis the Eleventh
Ferdinand the Catholic, Captain Tyler Captain Gu-
liver, Mr. Polk, Cicero Nerres, MIR Calhoun, Cover
nor McDufie, Besumarchais, MIR. Erving Galgacus
Jugurlhs, Charles Fenton Mercer, 5 anne Jenyns
Aaron V. Brown, General Houston, DR. Johnson
Alaric, Attila. N, pot Juvenal, Marshal Diebtsch
Jrnerson, Mad Anthony, the Sailor King, Monroe
Sysphus, Madi-on, Titus with an ayiary, Perseis
Gorgon, Col. Benton, George Erying Cassus Leri
Woodbury., Macbeth with his dagger, Hamlet as be-
aforementioned, Scyla, Rachel, Jacob at his wedding
General HARRISON, Leah Don Onis, st. Clair, Har-
mer, Pnarro, Osceola, Colonel w orth, the rock Of
Plymouth Of course, the stone Of Sisyphus the birds
OF Titus, Ate from hell, hot MIR. Adams says, the
heartn II foreign missions, purgatory Of the Rou,,h
church, boa constructor which swallows a goat and
has a coat Of arms, snakes, adGers, and creeping
things nd hbium, Erying's scEenng diplomacy, Mr..
Adams says, dd nausam: and many, very many, 9th
or wonderful things, too numerous TO menton-open
sesame among them.
Such adornments Of state papers and admirable H.
lustrations OF Mr.. AdSms's innocence, display the
vast crudiion and yaregsed requirements of master
mind and taste disciplined by the c1act scien
They must necessarily Sstonsh governors and mem
bers OF Congress who NAV not have had time TO be-
STOW on sacred or profane history mythology or other
branches Of bellies lsltres in which Mr. Adams was