The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-15
Correspondence of the Madiso'iian.

PHILApELriuA March -, lS45.
s,a Having always INDUCED hope that the petty
Jssensions In the Democratic party would be healed
by the Triumphant election Of Mr.. Polk you may be
sure thai it pains to the quick, TO witness those
little phenixes Of defuncl hatred, which continue to
rise from Of our family presses Can II be pos
sible tha, any spacious Democrat can oresee IA
vorable result from a renewal OF the disoreanzing
bubbles of the psst'year7 Ii seems to tina, moth
ing hot the delusion of prejudice could eonJure up
s.ch phantssmagoria. ] had hoped, large portion
the Demoera,lc party had hoped, that the thorough
shaking hands ia favor OF IA common leader, would
also bring about thorough resignation oil all 10 'he
discretion and isdom OF the said leader IN al least
the minor business of bis Administration. To urge
now the prescription of any of the subdivisions OF
the party for the bsne, of the other, would certainly
be renewing thelwar with vengeance; aud while II
could not possibly do good, might do an rrepafaoe
injury. Why not carry out the original understand
ing and conje these things to the Presiden, aud his
constitutional advisers To steal terms from the adj
mirabe Inaugural Address, in all things touching The
patronage of The Government, my humble opinion Is
that the public service should be the object and The
officer the incident Reverse this rule and make the
officer the object aud the public service the incident
and respectfully submit, whether It would not be
resorting to weapon which the strength oil Demo-
cracy should leave to the myrmldons OF Federalism
Yes, hatter myself that this is point upon which
few of US disagree any further than as TO the terms
and phrases empoy ed in our chickering's So far, the
honor of an ndscrimnate decapitation is confined TO
~ NJ ance. nj n
lie opinion have done much correct an evil which
at that time elected many sghs and tears shall
we follow he example then set or shall we pr,fi
by the recoil which has left scarcely trace oil the
coon-skin and log-cabin behind it If there are
mere stock jobbog politicians in office, as is more
than likely why. cut of their heads and II the con-
6rmaton of public opinion be withheld, II will then
be time enough make issue - to them. In any
and all cases where Offices become vacant, no Demo-
crat certainly and but few others, will cav II the
| President fill them from the ranks of his friends.
Nor will any one am sure, otjec. to his acumen and
discretion in deciding upon the particular caste OF
each applicant.
Whatever others may say, think you are right in
supposnq that the doctrine of rcwardng men for a
| vote, which without such reward would never have
been gven had its rise in and is fostered by our
densely populated cities. You might have gone
further and said that the fostering of old party
chickering's was confined pretty much to the same
sphere know of my own knowledge, that those
able Democrats who led through the two-thrds rule
at the Baltimore Convention, and who upon their
turn, received the unmtgated prosecutions of dis
appointed clique, still objects of secret enmity
and envy and that too, in the face of the fact that
nothing else upon earth rescued the party from
lamtous defeat. The country, the unbought, hon
est, constant consistent country, not only in the
South, but in all parts of the Union, would place
laurel right upon the wound, which these impotent
shafts would fan inAict. God and liberty will in
due time, preserve all such, even in the cities, from
either the injuries of the one, the sympathies of
| the other
| Judging from the tone of the Charleston Mercury,
that gallant little State still persists in her determi-
nation TO rule ruin. She to delight in dis
| playing distrust of the whole Union If she can
not control, she to take it for granted that
like arefractory pupil at school, she is 10 he "kept inv
without meat or drink, for four years. What a mis-
take Mr.. Buchanan, in the State Department. will,
| am sure, see that she is neither Tilted nor hirted
with he will that neither her virtue her inter-
ests nor her talented sons suffer either neglect in
suit His late speech in the Senate, savoured all Of
the palmetto that the Constitution and the Union
thorzed Does the Mercury require more'
| The unanimous confirmation Of MIR. Bancroft, as
we'll on his own account, in compliment to the
preference of Mr.. Polk, meets with the appreciation
Of all men, and Of almost all parties The President
has now unit to aid him; may thousand blessings
result from his admirable selections. II.