The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-01-03
Correspondence of the Madisonian.

ST. LOUIS, Mo Dec. H. 1843
The conduct Of the majority of the Democrats of
the House Of Representatives in the resort to the
odious Causus system in the selection Of the several
officers for the House, and more especially Of the
election of Blair & Riucs as printers 10 the House
has filled the friends of the Administration in thi.
quarter, with indignation and disgust.
After what the Globe has done the last year 10 dis
tract the Democratic party having assaied Mr., Tyler
and all his friends with yulence than almost all
other presses in the Union, to see the Demcc. ATTIC
members of Congress come together, and with
scarcely struggle from any quarter, endorse all the
inf nous detrac m Of the President and bis friends
is really beyond all endurance, and if mistake not
the temper Of around me as we'll as in other
portions Of the Union the leaders Of this highland
ed movement at Washington will find it so before
the expiration Of the next year.
To endorse paper in this signal manner, that has
been assalng the best of Democrats for the last year
that has been guilty of all manner of corruption
and has already been signal instrument in the
overthrow Of this same party, is far more than the
friends Of moderation and sound government can pos
sibly tolerate.
rejoice to see, by your paper Of the 9TH instant
an e1hortaton TO the friends of the Administration
10 stand firm and look forward with confidence TO
favorable ending Of so miserable a beginning II is
highly important they should do so-and from this
time forward hope you will advocate an organiza-
ton in every State in the Union, of those " no are
determined to oppose and resist the Caucus machi-
merry of the worshippers Of the Globe and Mr. Van
Buren,.
" III Ii a. 4
the friends of Mr.. Calhoun and Col. Johnson [In-
justice has been done them--it will be found, per.
hars, that they have not submtted-ED. MAD.l AID
even now the Van Buren, members are writing
their friends here that the Calhoun men surrendered
without a struggle, announced their intention 10
abandon tho running Of Mr.. Calhoun, and sued for
the tender Of the olive branch by the Van Buren side
of the housewife they (the Van Buren, men)
boast Of not having given the Calhoun single off
Ger Of the House. and their determination to trust
them until they have been longer tried upon their
surrender Of preferences.
This is pretty picture of the chvalrous Calhoun
men Of the Southland confess that appearances
make fear most gnoble surrender on their
part, Of the claims of the great South Carolinian
And has it come to this, then, that the District
question is TO be given up, that Mr.. Van Buren,
is to be the nominee Of the Baltimore Convention,
and the Globe the organ and dictator Of the great
Democratic party Of these United Statesi God
forbid. We say amen TO the arrangement-ED.
MAD
The People have been surfeited with corruption
and the INSTRUMENTATION Of their government
and if these repudiated men of 1910 are again be
placed in power and the defalcalions and corrupons
of the late Administration again practsed upon them,
the leaders will witness an uprising among the
People and a condemnation Of the attempt-to
which the agitatioDs Of 1910 were as mere ,chiYes.
A large body of sterling Democrats voted for Gen
Harrison and Mr.. Tyler in 1910, knowing them to
be tue Republicans Of the old school and when MIR.
Tyler vetoed the Bank bills and was repudiated by
the Clay Bank portion Of the triumphant party Of
that year, they adhered to him, and, in 1912 united
again with the fallen portion of the Democratic party
and made it everywhere victorious.
During the late elections they were constrained,
from the abuse of the ultra portion of that party to
fold their arms and allow il to fall back again into
minority, when, the year before, it had been victo-
rious.
Since the endorsement Of the infamous Globe,
I feel a firm confidence that the friends Of
TYLER, who have been so out