The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-29
PAYING UP.

Wing Elector, and editor Of the Jonesboro( Ten
has very quaint way of discharging his obi
cations Some time last spring this Reverend
Wing editor in the boastful confidence of sue
cess which characterized the entire party, from
Mr.. Clay himself, down TO his humblest advo-
cafes, proposed to send his paper TO as many
Democrats as should be disposed TO have it for
nothing provided Mr.. Clay should not be elect
ed but when MIR. Clay was elected, they were
to pay for it,
But we will let the Rev. gentleman tell the
tale in his own way
"a RECEIPT IN FULL.
Some 200 men calling Themselves Democrats,
and acting with the Locofoco party, at suggestion,
became temporary subscribers of ours last Spring,
agreeing each, to pay US dollar when Mr. Clay
was elected to The Presidency. They will receive
this week their last number that score, with this
receipt in full, for their payments, which have
been made through the baliot-bor with INTEREST,"
The payment has been wholesale, continuous, Iecip-
rocal pay doom .Nesmerised as we Accumulated,
lacerated deiormed in every possible way, and with
every variety Of torture and defeat, feel this pay
ment And, indeed our feelings are such
deceived any man-they are IN our pockets They
crush ones nerves into maddening pain they blood
shot the eyes produce fever and thirst !-goad with
revenge frenzy the wrath !-aggrayate to riot!-
engender thousand evil notions produce bank
ruptcy and priyation land end in universal eIhaus
ton ~
If the poor man was not Rev. gentleman,
we could find it in our heart to pity his sad con-
dition, and beseech our democratic friends TO
pay him the 'one dollar each. But being a
Rev. gentleman, and having (besides betting on
an elec,ivn!) for the oopooiol bene6, of his De-
mocrauc readers. kopt MS sheet constantly filed
with Antl-Annexation documents, such as Mr..
Benton's speeches, and the Globes denuncia-
tons of the Treaty, &C., we are inclined to
think there was "method in his Madness and
must restrain our sympathy. Those 200 De-
mocralic subscribers may have become infected
and perhaps they gave the State to Mr.. Clay /!
Who knows? II is notorious that this Wing
print kept Mr.. Benton's rabd speeches standing
in its columns during the campaign, and that
MIR. Clay's majority will be less than 200.
We give the balance of the Rev. gentle
mans article as political curiosity:
"We place this loss side'by side with many others
we have sustained in the glorious cause.-the
cause Of American freedom and the Christian Reli-
gon And without pausing TO mourn with agoniznp
grief over the past we alleviate our horrors by the
moral selfcontrol of refined Whiggery and its elori
GUS uiteior aim, which the overthrow of ali the
agents OF begerent diplomacy, from the ambassador.
extraordinary to the spy-the retailers of fasehoods
the purchasers of men-the spectators in the plum
dering expeditions of privateers-thieves of age and
experience, and rogues Of youthful appearance
Here IS up and at the enemy again We prefer
unceasing buchery, and unnumbered defeats, to an
ignomlnious peace-such as Nspoleons Generals oh.
tanned by selling him TO the Allied Sovereigns and
their country with him. We henceforth 20 into the
vortex Of hostilities with the NATIVE AMERICAN
PARTY, and aim, assisted by them, and all true
lovers Of their country-ther oion their nap, land
TO put down the pillsge, intrigue, foreign alliances
and moral blight, which Locofocos, Foreigners
Catholics, Mormons, Dorrtes Owenites Infdels
Nullihers, Disunonists, Polkites, Texan Crusaders
Barn burners, Plunderers of Corn crts Inmates of
Penitentaries, Companions Of Whipping posts Ne
gro stealers, Convicted liars, Er-parsons, Woods
colts, Keepers of Doggeries, Grog shop bues Pur.
jured Williams iisters Of God, Lovers Of SIM Idoa-
tors, Whoremoogers, Sorcerers, Wizards, Dems
gogues, Hyenas, Hob-goblins, Loafers Hod-men.
Bsckguards, Buoons and the various Other tripg, of
" THE rARrr," have difused through all ranks OF So
cieiy, in this once prosperous and virtuous country
IL the same uoefaisuppoft s eNleDdcd 10 US, which
we have enjoyed, with some additional paying sub
scribers, we will, at the expiration of this volume
make some very desirable Improvements. In add.
ton to doing justice to the Locofoco party we pur-
pose hereafter to pay particular attention to the |
money and produce markets, and from all parts Of
the Union give news which will make the "'WuIen
OF additional interest as well profit to the Farmer
and business man.
Our patrons Of Washington county, will confer n
singular favor upon us at this time, by sending us
hour, corn-meal, oats, any thing else that man or
beast can eat
Mesnw hile after sending out this number we shall
be compelled to discontinue the paper the address
OF many who have been receiving 1t, as a present.
In the long catalogue of names by which we
are called, we do not perceive that we are de-
nominated Huns Perhaps ATrlL. was too
near