The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-03-22
Correspondence Of tie MadiSonian.

| ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 9th, 1874.
The Tyler men of this city put forth call
on yesterday for State Convention TO be hold
rn al this place on the 9th of April, to adopt
such measures as may be thought necessary for
the selection Of delegates to the Democratic
| Administration Convention to convene al Balti-
more on the All Monday of May. and they were
reoced 10 receive, while justin the act OF putting
forth their call, the intelligence of the Democra-
, tic Tyler State Convention, which had been
held at Philadelphia the twenty second Of
| February.
The spirited and just resolutions adopted by that
Convention have inspired increased zeal in our
friends this quarter, and they will press forward
with renewed vgor in the necessary preparations TO
meet the friends from other States at Baltimore on
the 9th Of May.
We are informed that our friends in Illinois pro-
| pose holding like Convention at Springfield on the
lst of April, to adopt the necessary measures to
| meet their friends in General Convention at Balt-
more.
You see therefore, that the friends of the Admin
stration at last waking up to sense of the dan
ger which the Jacobins at Washington have brought
upon the par,y-and after Buchanan, Johnson, and
Calhoun have been hued, by Benton and his allies,
from the Presidential canvass, it was conceived high
time to look to something better than certain defeat
under the lead of Mr.. Van Buren,.
The young Democrats of the West who flew to
the support of the old war-worn veteran in 1910,
whose name was identified with almost every impor.
tant interest in the great valley, will suffer
| - W,
rem. They have not forgotten the infamous and un-
precedened defaults of Mr.. Van Burens corps of Of
| iceholders-nor the frauds and populations of the
| Florida war-nor the abuses which permitted
in the IIdian Department, whereby fortunes by the
half million made by some, at the expense Of
the annuities of the poor red mannor the nkerings
upon the currency and the immense losses Of the
public treasure through the favoritism shown TO the
| Pet Banks-nor the feeble foreign policy which ell
nigh threw US into with Great Britain on ac-
count Of the unsettled condition Of the Northeastern
Boundary queston-nor have they forgotten the mise
rable abOrons which follow ed the eforts 10 extend
the National road aud improve the Lakes and Yves
tern rivers
At the very time when improvements OF the navi.
CATION Of the Western rivers should have been push
ed forward with vigor, immense sums were expend-
ed in the construction Of boats and machinery TO i'm
prove the rapids of the Mississippi and other
distractions from it, channel and that of the Ohio,
and operations were scarcely commenced, when or
dcrs were received to discontinue them and make
sale of all this expensive machinery and work Of pre-
partition, to the highest bidder at public auction
This occurred in the early part of 1910, the very
season after hundreds OF thousands Of dollars had
been los, by the ST. Louis merchants alone, from the
destruction Of steamboats,!
Look at the contrast The Administration OF
Mr. Tyler has remedied almost all Of these gross de-
fects Of Mr. Van Buren's rule and what could not
be remedied by the drtct agency Of himself he has
recommended to the attention Of Congress.
In regard to the improvement Of Western rivers
il turns out that Mr.. Thomas Richie thinks il un-
constitutional May this not be the reason why MIR
Van Buren, so hastily and recklcssly placed all the
boats and machinery for that purpose under the ham
mer in lsi0l 1t is at least generally believed on
this side Of the mountains that Mr.. Van Buren, is nc
longer an advocate for the improvement Of our great
rivers.
When il is well known that Mr.. Tyler is highly
favorable to all these Of Importance the
West such as the sale Of the mineral lands the occu
HDaSttolou
Texas, and the improvement Of our rivers-can hi,
friends think for moment Of abandoning his jus
pretensions for the Presidency in lS44 the behes
Of Col. Benton =. b Blair Thomas Richie, and tn,
{ huekders in politics whom they control'
; The Government is now in a healthy condition
and the business Of the country was never more en-
ergeticsy pressed forward than now. The PeopL
know az this, and though the old Van Burer
and Clay leaders will not give them an opportunit,
to express their opinions in the proper manner they
are throwing of the TeH Of party, and preparing tc
let the world know who is their preference. The
movements Of our friends at Norfolk, Portsmouth
Baltimore, Philadelphia and in Ohio, arc only tn,
beginning Of the glorious end that awaits, sooner OF
later those who stand firm in their support Of Presi
dent Tyler.
We are also not little encouraged at the tenor o.
your paper Of the 26th February, vherein you say
; in terms not to be misunderstood, that the cri
ais is upon US that matters are coming tc
a point" and that those who do not Intend
to apply their shoulders to the wheel, are in
formed, or will be informed, that their room !,
better than their company" This is the right Ian
guage to use towards those who have made loud pro
ssior,, while they practising deceit and throw
ing their influence in favor Of the enemy.
The country is full of these false friends, who have
in various ways KEEP, down popular demonstrations in
favor Of Mr. Tyler, and il is now high time that h
should rid himself Of these dead wegh,, and con6de
the management Of public affairs to those who will
do ju,,io. to his acts and protect his name from IN.
oblivion TO which politicians have hoped to consgn H.