The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-18
Correspondence Of the Madisonian.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. l6, 1874

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10, 1874
To the Editor Of the .Madisonian:
SIR Our political sea noiseless and calm
as a summers dream and why should it be other
wse since it is only the province of folly to be OBJ
$ reperousi The Wings literally asleep, with
here and there solitary somnambullst performing
his moody peregrinations. How different would
have been the scene, if the Democrats had been de-
feated at the late election Here every thing is
controlled as at the brokers board, not by realities
but by prospects. VIVA, tends to shed gloom
the future obscures the intermediate way; and sad.
ness which may never come, is converted by our
wseacres into present means and present groans.-
In the distant country, political principles are talked
over and smiled at as theories--but in our
large commercial cities they are brought into prac'
tice and their virtues and evils thoroughly realized
The rich and the poor, being Immediately dependent
upon each other Of course every thing that tends Ell
ther to widen or narrow the breach between them, is
instantly and often earfully felt. Ii would seem TO
you, no doubt that this tendency Of things would
cause the rich mans smiles to be reflected in the
cottages of his dependents, but this not the
the poor man. having nothing, he not only does not
gain by the imitation of property, but loses exact
proportion TO the increased power Of his wealthy
neghbor. When the cause of Democracy, there
fore, is looking up" all is calm passive, and
healthy, permanent hue but when the reverse is
the case the very gems of the earth obscured by
the tinsel Of mushroom arlstocracy. When Biddle-
ism in its zenith here, have seen myself Walk
ing round half dozen squares to avoid, rather to
escape, the jam Of carriages and splendid equipages
around the castle of the "Necker Of America "
These transatlantic exhibitions we're wont 10 swell
and diminish, week after eek, and night after night,
in exact proportion to The rise and fall of W hg
stock. II we have no Neckers now, we have an
abundance of rards and Rothschilds, and am rea-
dy to see repetition Of the same disgusting muta.
tons, whenever or fever, the same encouragements
shall arise. At present, however, all parties agree
hat, as far as Pennsylvania is concerned. she is
right side up" and will so continue sin, die; so
that the fears Of the Democracy, if they ever had
any, are literally submerged in the abundance of
their prospects.
We are neither startled nor surprised at the pros
poets Of coalition between certain parties in New
York city. As in Philadelphia, they will of course
do something and as in Philadelphia, that something
will receive its merited condemnation from the in
corruptibe mountains of The interior When the re-
turns Of our New York counties came in, we found
them nyigorated by even the few sparks Of fright
ness that had been waited over the line. How much
more So then, will be the returns of those counties
in New York where the fame is in full blast, and its
genial warmth common the air
We thank you here for being the messenger
of the glad tidngs from Georgia. They not only
gladden. the constant but reassure the ,mid and wa
vering. How singular it is, by the by, that Maine
and Georgia, Pennsylvania and Missouri, the four
corners of the Union, should doubt for moment
that legitimate response will be given BY most Of
the other States to their acts Of eternal fidelity TO
the cause But they do not, they cannot doubt
The American eagle shall never don coon-skin.
nor shall single feather be pucked from his
wing
Please assure the Democrats OF Georgia and of
the whole South, that their noble deeds, which are
received here now with hundreds of big guns, shall
be answered tit for tat 10 November next H.
A SHOW OF NATIVE HANDS FOR CLAY
Under this heading, the New York Expire IS gives
an account Of meeting Of Nstiveism IN the Pars -
Mr.. Miller, the Nstiyist candidate for Congress in
the Sd District made speech on the occasion in
which he frankly declared that American Republi-
canism meant nothing more than Cayism.
The NaliyIsts, then, says the Evening Post are
handed over body and soul TO the wings by their de-
signing leaders. The meeting last night proclaimed
the bans, and we shall soon bear Of the nupt ais
Now, therefore, II Is time for those democrats who
have been betrayed into this party to separate from
their betrayers Let them decide at once not 10 be