The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-07
ron THE MADlsosiAs,
LEVI d. sLAMM's LAST EDIcT.

| LEVI ID. SLAMMS LAST EDlCT.
| IL is much to be regretted that among the man,
bene VIOLENT institutions which shed lusire the az,
We live in, human philanthropy has never yet con
ceived plan for the especial relief of certain
class of politicians, who, having staked their al
upon the success Of some daring scheme and been
distanced ia the race for seli-aggrandizemeni
become so frantic with despair as TO be scarcely re-
sponsble for any outrage they may commit. This
particular sesses of the year is generally productive
Of incalcusbe suffering 10 this distracted portion OF
the human family specially to disappointed Office
seekers. Hence tho frothy and inilammatory arti'
ces which disgrace the columns Of some of your ex
change papers hence the frequency Of low aud vul-
gar abuse Of best and most enlightened states
men hence the ribad attacks upon the character Of
our Chief Magistrate, and the infamous attempts to
detract from that halo of moral sublimy which dig
nGes and eIalis his name. Were these poor raying
maniaos to be provided for in moderate way, and
confined in shady retreat far from the hustle
and turmoil Of the world the progress of Demo
cratic principles would be less impeded, and the
peace of society less frequently disturbed. Constant
bathing exercise, and spare Diet might do much to-
wards restoring them 10 sphere of usefulness
where, If less conspcuousiy employed, humble re-
specabllity might yet be within their reach.
We have been led into these reflections by the pc
rusal Of an infamols article in the "Pcbeian," OF
the Sd inst which, taken in the abstract, presents
perhaps the most striking combination Of vulgarity,
ignorance, mendacious assertions, and groveng
malice, that an irsalted public was ever yet called
upon to peruse. Prepared were for every
torous for political somersetting as Levi ID. Slamm,
confess ourselves fairly asonished at the amount
of mpudence and atrocty exhibited in the article
under consideration. Had the editor been innocu-
lated in the Shiny purlieus of the "Courer and En-
quirer," he could hardly have expectorated his
spleen with more redundancy Of vulgar expression.
Had he graduated at the political college with
the redoubtable Charles King he could hardly have
administered bathos with more becoming grace.
One thing, however, we are very sure of-that
whatever object the contemplate mountebank may
have had in by indtng so disgusting TRADE
against estimable President whose fame, to
the language of the Globe sis sancifed by the bes
sings # patriots. Of democrats, Of the good men Of
all parties" very few men, even among those of his
own peculiar creed in politics, will be disposed to
sanction the invcctive, much less approve of the
anti republican spirit which dictated it. That some
presses should entertain preferences for Mr.
Polk, and that account wish John Tyler "to
retire TO private life 4" is if not rational at least
cusable; but to say that nature never qualified
John Tyler to fill the exalted station which he a.
present occupies with honor to himself or advan
tage to the country it is TO say rat which no othe
Democratic press in the countryGh6wever prostitu-
ted to base purposes, will be mNSReaDt enough to
endorse. 1t is to say that which the shalowest OBJ
server of passing events knows to be LIE, and
which the vilest wretch that crawls the eauh would
be ashamed to utter. II is insult TO those eminent
Democrats in both Houses of Congress, including
Messrs. Calhoun, Benton, Buchanan, King, Wright,
and fifty others who from their seats, have repeated
ly applauded his conduct for having preserved the
national vessel from the shoals, quicksands and the
Maelstroms which have beset its during three
of the most even,iul Years in American history
1t is slur upon Messrs Blair y Rives-
who, when John Tyler camc TO our deliye'
rance in l6il, and blasted the fell hopes of Fed
eralism-rejoiced aloud in h,nor OF the man
who had displayed the virtue which money cannot
date Such an ston, in short, could only have
emanated from whose mind IS thoroughly de-
based and beso,,ed by centious indugences, and
who, at the very moment tina, the bessty article in
question was written, was perhaps still staggering
under the effects Of late debauch, and utterly un
conscious whether he was advocating the cause OF
Federalism Of Democracy.
The first thing that attracted our attention while
perusng this precious specimen Of low rbaldry, wat
the facetous announcement that the Plebeian would
support the regularly nominate candidates Of the
regular Conventionl" Heaven bless the mark, 90,
save US from such regularity now and forever VIII,
that witnessed the contrast between the two Conven
lions, can hesitate to say which was the Peoples,
which the mos, regular Who that beheld the i'm
posing spectacle of the two thousand thinking being
assembled in the Tyler National Convention, an'
watched their deliberations marked by so muc
lropriety, decorum, and unanimty can doub. 70
one moment but that John Tyler is the fayorte o
the People, aud the only candidate who can bea
Henry Clay at the polls
! But further deponeth Levi d. slamn, the oracle
/ of ale houses "Mr. Tylers only hope to be re-
specied hereafter, depends upon the manner in whct
he conducts the Administrator Respected b,
whom BY the vitiated editor Of the Plebeian, anC
the base herd who have faitened on the spoils O
Office under every Administration except that o
" honest John Tyler" Heaven forbid that our re
pected President should ever be visited by so terri
bic a calamity No, no. master Slamm, we remem
Der well your des crate efforts not long ago to obts
some crumbs Of comfort during your sojoun in Wash
| ng ion the complete Illustration Of your unhslIove
holes and how, like fol coin you nailed to tb
I counter you had 80 unblushngly deceived Wehav
not forgotten the well merled eastgation your sl,e
reign lord and master Of The @ obc administered q
you in cons, quenee Of your backs idings although
even then It was not generally known, that you wer,