The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-14
From The Richmond Erq,irer.
THE GROANS OF THE BRITONS!

smallest sign OF exultation over the defeated Wings
We felt il not in our hearts to triumph over them
They had risked their every hope the election of
Mr.. Clay, the great imbodymeDt of WiigpeN"--
and when The PEorLe solemnly pronounced the doom
Of Federalism, we knew that their griels would be
keen enough, without being aggravated by the jeers
and rejoicpgs Of the Democrats To. show the state
OF mind OF the Wings Of this Metropolis, quote the
| following pathetic lamentation from Mondays Wing
Defeat Of Ma. Clay, and election Of Mr.. Pok
"Tbis result so contrary to all human expectation,
and so revolving to all sense OF prope,y, has clothed
| this community in mourning The badge is not worn
on The hat or the left arm-t is not exhibited in vain
FORMS Ii is told in the counicnances of the people
IN the gloom which oyerspreads nearly every cciDte-
nance which is lighted up by Intelligence Our Rome
mourns as old Rome did, when the battle of Cana
was lost! The womea are IN tears, as for grta ca
tamiy; as if Hannlble was at the gates; AND THE
VERY CHILDREN LOOK DEsoLATE AND FoRLoaN."
| How then coud any Democrat crow over such
| despondent, deeply mortified partyi We again pro-
| claim to the world, TO the immortal honor Of the
Sparn Band OF this City, that they have borne them
selves with the most exemplary dignity and proprety
| There has been no rejoicing, public or private
They felt joy enough having elevated to the high
est Office IN their gift two Of fine talents mig
moral tone, and thoroughly mbued with the " good
| old Jefersonian Republican" principles of 9S and
99-and IN defeating for third tune the aspiI atoms
Of Mr.. Clay, the most dangerous man in the nation,
and the full Representative of Federal principles,
which if put into thorough play, would either have
dissolved the Union into fragments, have made The
| Constitution wisp of straw TO promote the un-
worthy views OF selfish and ambitious spirits and in
utter destruction OF the rights guaranteed 10 the States
All this was ample cause Of joy among the Demo-
crats-but they have properly confined the thrilling
emotions Of pleasure to their bosom. They
have not, for one moment, obtruded themselves on
| their disheaItened brethren of "tbe Gihraltar of
| Whiggery"-and now ask our readers, both
wing and Democratic, suppose the picture had been
reversed; suppose New York had voted for Mr.. Clay
and his election had thus been secured n the opinion
| OF the Wings, Qhough do not believe it, how
would the Wings have acted Would then have
| spared our feelings, though are never would have
been so cast down and Frustrated as the Wing organ
| represents its own party to be- Would not they
have exulted over US IN the most extravagani and
| insulting forms Would we not have seen every
kind of public demonstration of joy torches illum-
nations, firing OF cannon, banners coon songs shouts
| and huzzas? We understand that the most exen-
sive preparations had been made for tremendous
Wing jubilee and yet because we have not thought
proper to follow their example, as would have
been justified in doing by fair construction of the
Ler tdtionn-because we have not danced, and sung
and hurrahed, and thrown up our caps, and shouted
| and sent oil sky-rockets, and discharged guns big
and small and Illuminated houses; because
when we meet Wing we have too much feeling
and good manners to laugh in his face and in1ame
nances of our opponents cause sympathetic feeling
IN our hearts for the cruel suferngs of the Wings
and throw into our beaming looks dgnifed pity
for their own wo-begone APPEARANCE; for all this
charity and sympathy, our only reward is to be
tainted by these liberal and fairs cling Wings
and to be told by their organ Mondays Whig) that
/" the Democrats ashamed, ue pe,iy beiere, of
the candidate they had elected, and the cause which
owed all It's success to as extended and unbushng
and Persevering scheme ofaisehood disgraced
any age of cirizationin
We have from the first determined, and shall still
perseyere IN our resolution not to exut over pros
ratc foe-Debelare suptrbos porcere subjects was the
motto OF the gallant knights in the ancient tourna-
ments, and has been and is our emblem We hare
beaten do,on the arrogant foeie as s,o treat Nth for
bearance and charity the panquished and afflicted
But 1t is one thing TO treat with respect and good
| feeling our opponents, whom we have fairly over
come-t is another thing TO submit tamely and with
craven spirit, TO the rsbid assaults from an organ
Of those opponents, upon our noble candidate and
/ our glorious cause. Would deserve success, if
we could pass by unnoticed the libel of the Wing
that we had succeeded entirely by as extended and
unblushing, and persevering scheme Of falsehood
| as ever disgraced any age CT cvilizatonn We re-
pei the charge with Indignation, and though il is far
from pleasant to us, now that the battle is over and
the victory IN our possession to rip up the exciting
scenes OF the late canvass, we feel it to be our duty
in self Defence TO refer briefly what has occurred
| IN our own State, under own eyes. Has the
Whig in so herceiy charging the Democratic Party
| forgotten the Roorbackn about Colonel Polk,s
| forty negroes being branded with j. n r. on their
bare shoulders" and about the two millions of Br
tish Gold and The British Free Trade Tracts" all
based upon forged al ticle from the London Times
and ndustriously circulated in handbls throughout
the State 7 Has the Wing forgotten the stupid hum
bug Of the black, sour ryebread which the people
would have to eat if Polk should be elected ~ or The
SANDER upon the Democratic Party propagated on
the morning of the election that thew had circula
ted spurious Electoral Tickets to take in the unwary
Whigsi" Has the Wbg blotted out from its memo
ry the disingenuous arguments of its qondo leaders
| that " a Bank and Protective Tariff were Pspt,bK
can measures J" that high duties make low prioes ~
that ga Bank would make money plenty and equal
ize exchanges )" That " II MIR. Clay should be elect
ed, Virginia would receive from haB 10 on, million
| of dollars Of the Land Fund ~ and that Mr. Van
Buren, left debt of over thirty millions ~ Ia il not
strange that the Wing can forget all these sins and
misdemeenors Of its own leaders, and at the same
time IN the modification of defeat vent it, bitter de-
nunciaions against Inc Democracy for imaginary Of
| fences The Democracy Of Virginia proudly chal
lengc The Wing to show on their part the least dew,
from truth and justice, the least encouragement
of the tricks and receptions similar TO what we have
above exposed the chief artillery of the Virginia
W hug leaders, (for we have too much justice 10 make
| sweeping charge OF this kind against the BODY of
the Wing party in our Slate)
We shall not attempt notice Of the epithets which
the Wing lavshes upon Col. Polk such as little
man, something like third rate lawyer from Ten.
nessee above medocrlty m no sense-scarcely I'D to
II IN any undlstIngushed-so unhstorical-so in.
capable Of becoming historical, /" &c, sc.
HIS best defence Is 20 be found in the bstorioalr
fact that he has received the high compliment of the
triumphant vote of Virginia, the mother Il States #
the Empire State, of the Keystone State Of the Ora
mite State, Of gallant Georgia, of cbivslrous South
Carolina, and of ho-t Of other sisters of the Con
fedeacy, Of whom any man, even the exalted"
Henry Clay, might well be proud. II Col Polk be
not now "bstor,cal," az far the United States are
concerned, he is rather more 90 than Mr. Clay whose
name yet written on their eloquent Electoral ar.
chves.
We come now to the most extraordinary and ri. |
diculous portion Of the Wigs rhodomoptades lie !