The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-26
PnnApaLralA, April "a, 1916

| To the Editors Of the .uaasoniaa;
GGsrLEaEs; Tho legitimate effect Of the news by
the Caledonia, Is only and felt in our Quaker
city IN proportion to tho activity and voubiiiy which
II impsrt. TO those whose usual bsne is dearh Ia
the Of the day The incidental effect is little
more serious. have heretofore limited to you some
thing OF the influence which tho Brokers' Board
Yields over our monetary affairs Any and every
thing bearing upon the future for better for worse,
is laid hold Of and made to subserye the purposes Of
those whose attitude in existing contracts gives them
controlling weight A large portion OF marketable
stock for instance had been up to the arrival Of the
steamer, shipped of into the hands Of what arc
called "Pidgeons," and at living prices. This was
done by the knowing ones without any reference OF
course to what might be the precise nature OF the
ne VS. but with the intention TO stamp any thing
unfavorabe 10 the money market which might come.
Under these circumstances, you can readily ioresee
the ghosts Of terror which will be made To stalk
about the Exchange for week or 80, or until the
said stock reaches its original hands at little
than half It's real value. Nor these operations
either confined To this side Of the Atlantic, exeu-
syely to the commercial community. Both here and
in Eng and, and especially in the latter they
else an influence In the political world quite great
they were profitable in the brightest days OF Tai
leyrsnd. You know Of course how ministerial move
merits are brought about in England. The ministers
or their friends, from plethora in their cash ac-
counts find il to their interest to bear down secur-
ties preparatory to a proper investment. Questions
Of greater less importance being always under sd
yiscment, they arc rarely without the means
Of enecting their object. They meet in cabinet
ell, decide upon some astounding development, pre-
pare their responses, and then request or the
next evening to catechise her Majesty's Ministers
upon the question uppermost in the public mind
This consummates the panic, and leaves the original
object to be perfected at leisure.
You may think all this is farfetchcd, but il is an
old rule thai where there is good for rash
act furnished by the themselves every body is
at liberty to attribute it to bad one. Wait awhile
and if circumstances do not corroborae what have
here insinusted, why, | will knock under TO the
charge of imbeciliiy.
The speeches of Peel and Aberdeen are the same
in substance, and bear the same evidence of having
been concocted under mature advisement They
both set out with the admission that Mr.. Folks In
augural was address to the popuace before enter
ing upon his official duties, and though fair expose
of his personal opinion, could not, and should
not be looked upon as the act of President Polk
Notwithstanding this, they think proper to make
its appearance the occasion OF the most i'm
portant development. BY way of making it still more
obvious that the Inaugural did not justify their
premature expose, they admit in terms that the mes
sage of President Tyler, previously communicated to
Congress, and the only official document which had
seen the light in either country, was calculated
create false impressions everywhere and Of course
upon the mind of MIR. Polk, who was, up to the mo-
ment of his Inauguration, debarred from all know
ledge Of the state of the negotiation not common
the world at large. If the late President was too
sanguine in his hopes of final settlement of the
question: and still refused give the grounds of such
hopes, his retirement from Office, il would seem to
me, ought to have made the present the worst of all
possible times for outbreak of the British ministry
But If President Polk after being fully indicted into
Office had opened bis official career with mprudent
expose of the pending negotiation, and thatexpose had
been predicated upon correct information, instead of
what is acknowledged to have been the ground of his
Inaugural, why, then we should only have TO Join
issue upon the merits of the case, and not upon the
time of hurrying it into the public journals hope,
therefore, those immensely wise men will wait for
some official act of President Polk in connection
with his personal opinions, before Matching egg
for their Wing coadjutors this side the Atlantic.
told you, in my last, that we had no cliques or
subdivisions in the Democratic party in this State
This is substantially correct but if city gossip
to be credited ancient schismatcs either form an
exception to the rule, die hard in the arena Pass.
ing over the other principal Offices here that of Dis
,rict Attorney has been by common consent, assign
ed to the father of the young Democracy at Balti-
more, Benjamin H. Brewster, Esq This, in
ton with the paternity which he has been compelled
to acknowledge, has invited attacks, repuses onses,
and defeats which, to say the least of them, keeps
the blood of the young giant in active circulation
Mr.. Brewster is not old as MethusaIah nor in
different to injury the Godslike Daniel, yet the
GOODNESS with which he receives, and the prowcss
with which he returns political blows, is certainly
worthy of winter head. Apart from other merits,
he possesses apower of language which is liable to
cngender doubts as to the kindness of his heart
With those, however, who know him we'll and also
the thorny path in which circumstances directed his
early footsteps, there are misgivngs as to the
warmth of his friendship the courtesy of his de-
meanor This is high praise, but you have heard of
MIR. Brewster before-you shall hear of him again.
II.
A SCENE AT THE PRESIDENTS HOUSE
Yesterday morning, man, named Milton Fowler,
aued ahout thirty five ware ond