The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-19
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENTS.


val OF tho steamship Treat britain yestcrony, was
by DO means Important, and failed 10 produce any
decided effect on markets, though II might have
created slight depression the rates Of cotton.
The specuaiioos of The British press, with reference
the Annex alton of Texas, and lis criticisms on Mr.
Folks Inaugural Address, arc rather amusing and
ludcrous than profound. All Of these matters have,
however arrested your eye and attention, and may
as we'll suffer them to pass without further notice.
We are somewhat quiet in this city. The excite
ment incident To the Charter election has passed
away and quietly repose upon oars, patiently
awaiting the advent Of some nine days wonder.
Excitement Of some kind, tragic, comic, or melo dra-
matte /. essential to life in New York. We cannot
exist without II.
In the absence Of local causes of excitement; we
look towards Washington for food, and not al
ways disappointed. An article that appeared in the
90 Morning Nsios, Of to-day is well calculated TO pro-
duee some feeling, # not little sensation.
Ii is stated in the article referred TO, that the Pres
| dent Of the United States has determined that no
man shall be appointed to office by him, unless he be
FIST satisfied that his moral character is free from all
bemish all reproaeh no matter how warmly or strong
ly, he may be recommended by the Democracy-by
letters from Governors senatofs and the resolutions
Of Legislatures
If the President has adopted any such determine
ton or rule he has enacted wisely, and deserves the
appreciation of his country for the forecast which he
has thus manifested. But as wise, and as just, aud
prudent the Rule may be, and certainly II can
not be carried into execution without inhicng very
great injustice on individuals Of merit and who are
entitled to the confidence and friendship Of the Pres
ide Mt.
II the President Of the United States shall at once
assume an uncompromising position, and refuse 10
award place TO all who have not escaped black
scandal and who do not stand unimpeached by the
partisan press, my word for it, he will never appoint
another etzen who has been at all prominent 10 the
politics of the day. to office.
II he had adopted this rule, on the advent Of his
present Magsteria life, he would not have been able
10 have selected Cabinet; for there is not among
his Ministry, gentleman, however free he may be,
in fact, from reproach who does not stand mpeached
by the licentious and corrupt partisan press. Not
one of them has escaped, and yet we all know that
each and ALL equally free from merted reproach
| or odum.
Those Of the Democratic party, who eminently and
honorably distinguished themselves in the late Presi-
dental campaign, as the advocates and the champions
| Of the Democratic cause have been the most emf
nently abused and libeed by the opposite and
| are they now to be told that they must be shut out
from preerment, because they have been yi6ed, and
| seen their
| LIES life laid away"
Most assuredly they will not be thus uukndly and
1
be osracised by the President because he his zeal
to promote Democratic principles, sacrificed his re-
pose, and exposed his good name to the merciless
fury of partisan detraction.
There is not now, nor will there ever be- man who
is a candidate for public Office, who will not be
opposed and traduced, not only by the party in the
opposition but by insidous and unprincipled compe
titors and ottce-seekers Of his own political house.
hold. Abuse libel, and envy are the prices which
all men pay for preiermen and the Presiden, of the
United States is too well aware of this fact to be led
astray by the falsehood and ar6ce of unprinciplsd
demagogues.
The tone of the article in the Morning Np,, "
which has provoked these remarks, justifes sus
pcioH of the purity Of its object, and indicates dis
position on its part TO point to dis tinct class of in.
dviduas as the only just recipients in expectancy of
the Government patronage. And of what material
is that class composed Who are the Catos that COM
pose it,
can best describe it by quoting from Macauey s
Review Of Courtney's Life of Sir William Temple,
and by adopting the sentiment that is deduced from
the extract "a man is not bound TO be politician,
any more than he is bound to be soldier; and there
| flo Of H..
tics and the military profession But, neither in the
one way nor the other, any entitled to take all
the sweet and leave all the sour. A man who be-
longs to the army only in time of peace-who ap.
pears at reviews in Hyde Park escorts the sovereign
with the utmost valor and fidelity to and from the
House of Lords, and retres soon as he thinks il
likely that he may be ordered on an expedition is
justly thought to have disgraced himself Some por-
| ton of the due to such holiday soldier,
may justly fall on the mere holiday politician, who
| hnches from his duties soon as those duties be-
come difficult and dsagreeable--that is to say, as
soon it becomes peculiarly important that he should
resolutey perform them"
| 1t is your holiday politician, the man who sat in
his saloon during the heat of the late campaign, or
like Sir William Temple in the hour of struggle,
''retired TO his library and his orchard, while the
nation groaned with oppression, resounded with
tumut and with the din Of civil arms, amused him
self with writing memoirs or tying up apricots," and
never once exposed himself for the good of the peo-
pe the success of his party that the article in the
".Morning .Nsps' would indicate as the only legti-
mate candidates for public favor.
| In one word, the "News" aims at that class of
people who compose the aristocraoy of associated
weath-the aristocracy of democracy--the aristoc-
| racy Of years.
1t is not material how rigid the President may be
| in ascerainiog the actual character of aspirants
for office. The more rigid the better Let him not
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