The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-19

Two thirds Of the Wing papers 10 our great clues
are in the interest Of England Her policy is often
praised BY them as the perfection of human wisdom
The policy of a National Bank they not only COM
mend, but insist upon England has had a. Nation
al Bank therefore should We. Their great leader
has himself assigned the example Of the nations oil
the old world a reason why We should have Ma
,ions Bank. But with the single exception of sola-
ted Switzerland they all monarchies and most
Of them hereditary monarches and one half Of them
hereditary monarehes, with AN hereditary nobility
Of three or four or a dozen orders Of rank vi
course they have hereditary wisdom, If Wing theory
be sound, aud this necessarily implies hereditary
succession Of good and great qualities in their rulers
All this very palpabe to their senses, and nothing
be more eedain. These hereditary characters
men who trace back their pedigree not to Wat
Tyler, Democratic blacksmith, or John Winthrop,
Democratic puritan, or John Hampton, Iepuoii-
can pariame ntaran and puritan, but to William The
Norman, the Duke Of Normandy, an iilegilimaie son
Of Robert, another Duke Of Normsndy-that Wi.
liam who Glove down English Independence aud Sax
liberty by an unjust invasion. They can trace
their blood through series Of ancestors whose coat
Of arms gltters with armorial bearings. They can
60 back TO Richard Piantagenet the hearted the
hero of forty fights in the crusades TO his brother
John, who was not the hero Of forty fights, but OF
Runny n,ede. Or they 60 back to the Stuarts
who oppres sed and harrassed England, or TO Louis
XVI who kept Europe in state Of war for fifty
years, and annhlated what little liberty before ex-
lsted in France. Tax not to the Wing journals of
cities, Of any hereditary good and great qualities
in de,v IL he 4 diugt IN he "A
nor Of the Baltimore American, conceded point in
general; but democrats are exceptions. They may
inherit the qualities Of their ancestors, but it is much
more likely to be the cracked sku' of ancestor,
who fell nobly daring in the cause Of harassed lib
eriy than any Of his great and good qualities, if II
were possible for such man to have any. Talk
not to one Of these Wing editors of any good and
great qualities that appear hereditary in plebeian
race /; none such can pass muster unless they have
been sanctioned by elevations and degrees from the
hand Of royalty. a whole House Of Peers may
have illustrated its hereditary wisdom by than
three generations of support to National Bank -to
tariff, in many things prohlbtory (or This last, too,
has been cited example,) but mention not such
idea in coDnexon with the Of a man Of
plebeian ancestry "Od profanum vulgus ct arceon
will be the exclamation Of every Wing editor OF our
cities hose hereditary jasmine stupidity and haueur
have "broached" and counenans ed the interesting
theory" in his fabrcations about the grandfather of
James h. Polk, but who as to good qualities can see
lis applicability only TO the scions Of nobility,
dors,d by royalty. What was the ground on which
to base an attack upon James n. Polk for alleged
offences Of his ancestor-an attack in which these
gentry joined like leash Of hounds in pursuit OF
their preyif it be not well known truth that the
evil as well as good and great qualities Of ancestor
frequently transmitted to their posteriy p
Was there could there be any personal ijen-
tiy between James H. Polk and his ancestor
but that which this idea implies' Surprising the
truth Of their accusation, its whole force rest
ed on this fact; but it a malignant lie, every
whit Of it. They snaiched at it with esgeroess !;
their creed made 1t more plausible in their eyes;
i'll qualities would be much more likely of transmi.
sion from plebeian ancestor according to that creed
than from Duke of Norfolk or William OF Nor
mandy-"a cracked skull" a much more probable
item Of inheritance from such one Than the noble
courage and high qualities which nnovated upon the
iron bondage Of an age Of feudslity and universal
royalty. This hereditary succession Of distinctive
traits" having been most approvngly recognised in
the recent conduct of Wing editors in the matter of
James n. Pok's grandfather we are Of course not
surprised TO hear the editor say il is ga theory we
shall not venture 10 call in question: if the high
nam,s Of the Lentut, the Cathegi, the Dolabellas,
and Others" illustrate it, Of in the eyes Of
Wing editors the name OF James X Polk could af
ford another proof especially as the subject
abounds with proofs every hand - and the editor
Of the American being familiar with "the ass
that fawned upon its master in the days OF Esop,"
may be readily supposed to have a more intimate ac-
quantance with one or more existing in his own
days. whose auricular sppendages," well 9th
er" distinctive traits IN ght furnish theme for pre-
sent dissertation they likely to furnish to pos
terty renewed example of the doctrine.
AS some may think that so ungentlem, My and
unpublished an insnuation could hardly come IRON an
etre Of arstocrscy such the editor Of the Balt-
more American, we give his own words m prof:
4" Perhaps some might imagine that the cracked skull
Of the ancestor would designate another item Illus
tratiye of the hereditary succession Of qualities"
DEMOCRATS ARE YOU ORGANIZED
In little more than two weeks from to-day the
great battle Of Liberty is to be fought. DEMocRAr.
are you ready The enemy is jealousy and srdently
engsged-eycry man belonging to the Wing party
has been seen and his duty told him. Democrats!
are you ready While our opponents are riding,
reasoning with, and urging their friends to bestir
themselves, you al pork to avert the mischief Of