The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-16

who have sgni6ed their suspicious, that the ipordi
nate Indulgence of violent passions, combined with
sense of his desperate political fortunes, has shater
ed or materially weakened the intellect, once vigo
rous, though always ill-reguated.
| The hypocrIie with his smooth face and subduee
expression, may convince his audience Of the SINGER
ity of his feelings the debsucbee may moraze mos
virtuouslo and most successfully; the miser, with
some persuasive force, may commend beneyolence
the gambler, with certain assurance pirate OF homes
ty; and the bawd with vlrtuous countenance and IN
dignant eloquence, express her loahng Of lewdness
| But when Henry Clay babbles of honor he mean
| rsaehsfy.
| For he who has said to corruption, thou art IN,
father to the worm, thou art my mother aud my
sister !" who has been deed IN the slime and reekeo
with the stencil of proAgacy; who has made of h'
life moral lazar house, where all that Is unclean oil
filthy all that is putrd and rotten, all that is loath
abhorrent, all that disgusts, sckens, or dc
stroys have been gathered into one vile heap of iou
grossness filling the around with pestiential va
pors he who has systematised political baseness
marking it by its different degrees, so as to reward
it according to its different deserts; making gradu-
ated scale of corruption with diplomas for initiated
adults who has elaborated code of laws to legalize
mmoralities and to sanction debaucheries; whose
long political career has been series of gratuitous
reacheries; his talents, disasters, his life e he
who has rioed in veness and grown strong on tIea-
son Is it for such person to talk Of "base treach
cry and political turpitude ~
We intend no undue severity: wehaye no desire to
visit his political sins with the cast'gaton they
so richly deserve feeling of perlonal will dc
tates or guides our course towards the gentleman
1t is only, when with the impudent hardwood Of his
nature he attacks those 10 talent his equals in all
perors, we feel mpelled by the duty we owe the un-
Justly illuminated, as well as the cause of truth
whose cause is every mans-to repel his base asser-
tions, and to hurl back his unprovoked ePthets.
'IBase treachery-political turpitude" With such
sins Henry Clay charges John Tyler: with such sins
his servlle rout of Bacchanalian revers, of profit
gate disappointed oceseekers follow up the attack
1t i'll becomes one to talk Of political turpitude'
whose own escucheon is stained with such foul and
damning evidences of the very accusation-who be-
trayed, without scruple, the solemn and momentous
the rappings and gew-gaws of Office, the principles
of his youth and the untarnished usre OF his name
who, by adishonorable bargain, without precedent
as we trust it will be without example, defeated
paray zed the action of the popular will and diverted
its course and for the gded reward OF more con-
spicuous nfamy-who cemented most unholy union
by most unholy contamination, and with reckless
brayado, gloried in the act And il i'll becomes him
to speak of base ,reachery' who has nourished and
abandoned measures, who has originated and DESERT
ed councils, who has hatered and sacrificed friends
fahess, inconstant and unprincipled- and though
a vindictive enemy, an unsafe ally.
Our expressions may seem strong-the subject re-
quires not softened terms-our censures HARSH the
conduct we repiobate demands them. We could not
do Justice to his infamous tergiyersatons, in honed
words and pointless epithets-we could not stigma
tse the unparalleled baseness Of his political life
without corresponding vgor of language; and IL
our words are exaggerated, has been his turpude.
If by foul treachery and fraudulent Vaccinations
this man should be elevated-which God in his inf
mite mercy avert to the high station he assidu
ously seeks now to render despcsbe, there would
exist state of things which eye has witnessed,
ear has never heard and which would surpass all
imagination and confound all belief-a system of pro-
scription would be introduced, which in its ruthless
career, would spare neither honorable service, nor
aborious skill-lives Of spotess integrity, pecu
liar fitness for extraordinarily relations ties Of
blood-but would confound, in universal Marian
destruction age and condition, useful talent and pa
triotic abors qualification, just claims, and sterling
merit.
To supply stations thus forcbly vacated, the aims
house would. present its mendicants the penentiary
its recluses, the prison its convicts. Those, who
had been beggared through vicious habits. punished
for Illegal practices, convicted of crime, would
then look forward to universal saturnalia-a gen.
eral Jail devery-and positions respected would
be degraded to the situation of those selected to fill
them.