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

boa constructor which not only gulps down goat,
Ia he-gost, II may be pTesumed) bat The animal has
ese,dehson? More awful still, when POKE my
head from under my shell, what do | but hiss
What a strange creature must be ! Whether snake
or swapping tortoise, | am quite at a loss to say
Once more Mr. Erying il seems, according 10 Mr..
Adams, worshpped foreign missions. They are his
h'aUsn MIR. Adams says. IL foreign missions
heaven as Mr. Adams insists, with, submit, rather
poor pun on Paradise Regainsd) what a heather
idolaler and dreadful sinner he has bee himse II -
IL IN ikes shudder TO think Of H. One hundred
and twenty thousand dollars, by means Of eonslruc-
tive heavenly journeys and other ct ceteras Of his
dolatry, does II appear, in single public document
has he had for that wicked worship lie should be-
put In Magdalen asylum and purified, If possible,
before he dies impeniient.
The poor Romans suffer terribly at BIZ; hands be
lays about among them numerically. still, he Is
jus, for he lashes their enemies, too particularly
the Huns and Goths, ond all other Don Cossacks Of
the old regime. Aaric and Attila, who punished
the Romans severely, they severely handled IN
u-though one would think MIR Adams should have
thanked them for conquering those sbominable ko.
mans admired by our old Roman. Not he, however.
One is the scourge OF God the other is the pest Of
nations. The concet is pretty but the argument is
not good. If Mr. Adams should come TO be called
the pest of Congress, how would that do
Ate hot from hell; that must sound well at Brain
tree But is II truei My impression is, that Ate
was a naughty woman Of the earth-earthy and did
not reside m hell. defer OF once, however, to Mr..
Adams's superior familiarity in those parts. After
Ate hot from hell, ext bis grinding nvectiye
grinding TO impalpable powder, (happily not gun
powder, though with very sulphurous smell,) pull
veriZing, blowing TO atoms with one Of his tremen.
dous whifs, magnetic stroke, another bad place TO
which he seems TO have no good will, II he does
bear II downright spite, the purgaory OF the Romh
church. From this expression may we not all be
sure that John Quincy Adams, whatever he may be,
is al any rate no Puseyite.
1t by means so clear that he IS not Mormon,
perhaps Mllerte. lie says in one Of these Brain
| tree phppics, in the bomlIy part of it, that ever
since he read what our Savior said in the Synagogue
of the prophecies Of Isaiah, he (Mr Adams has had
no doubt that both wars and slavery will The
| earth Now that would be great economy,
though might not put stop to the slave trade, and
other pracies by sea Still, can we believe ii If
Mr. Adams sincerely does, let him repair 10 Nauvoo,
or put ascension robes Certainly the widest per
version Of Scripture by these fanatics more alb
surdy misinterpreted enc of the most pleasing doc
| trnes of the Christians hope.
ErvIng's attack Is no worse than.every day impu
| tation on every man. General Jacksons letter 10
Brown a model for Mr.. Adams of gentleman like
imitation OF unia voIabe impression. And not only
utter not word of censure, but sentence of e2ten
uation. For all this Mr. Adams returns torrents Of
| vulgar and foolish maledction. Can be be offended
at being, rudey charged with aversion TO certain
parts Of the Union, whose three speeches teen with
It whose cou. in Congress is nothing else 7 lie
ought TO be proud Of il. Massachusetts blood shed
in expeng the Indians by Harmer ST. Clair, and
Wayne, from ground where now Cincinnati stands,
| is nvidiously mentioned as protection ,xacted for
| the Wes. The pacIfcation of Florda--the province
| OF his own acquisiion--n like manner flung at
| eastern protection of the South. What would lie
have' Will anything content him He has under
gone Notifications trying any temper, during The
last twenty years; but assuredy, his manner OF
tending with them is in very bad feeling and very bad
taste.
Confusion must needs be prevailing element IN
the mind conduct, and arguments, whether oral
written, OF so passionate an old man; old age
which, like maternity, it has been said a sort of
priesthood, sacred from assault. Never have as
saulted him. Never have defended myself I'LL ad-
vsed by ludcious friends, as well as moved by not
undisciplined instincts. No can th nix that his
aggressons are manly, since they the blows OF
one shielded by years; but who, if gentleman,
would not himself continually assall with almost
irr esponsible provocation There is some confusion
IN the dates OF the three publications of his late
speeches, which induced me suppose, I'LL very
Gently, that his attack was to be in the House
Of Representatives. He said IN the Boston speech
that he had rod for me, to be applied in another
place, which supposed would be Congress. He
has preferred the newspapers and, BY that, puts
too TO the unexpected trouble of writing just he
pleases.
c. J. INGERSOLL.
Washington, December !, 1874.