The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1845-03-18
Correspondence of the Madisoni0n.
PHILADELPHIA. March l3, lS45.

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Sra Having always INDUCED hope that the petty
discussions in the Democratic party would be healed
by the triumphant election of Mr.. Polk you may be
sure tina. it pains to the quick, witness those
little phenxes OF defunc hatred, which continue to
rice from of our family presses. Can it be pos
sible that any sagacous Democrat can foresee "a.
vorable result from renewal Of the disorganiziDg
bubbles of the pastyear? 1t 10 me that moth
ing but the deusion of prejudice could conjure up
such phantasmagoIia ] had hoped, large portion
the Democratic party had hoped that the thorough
| shaking hands in favor Off common leader, would
also bring about thorough resignation of all to the
discretion and wisdom of the said leader, in at least
the minor business of bis Administration. To urge
now the prescription of any of the subdivisions Of
the party for the benefit Of the other, would certainly
be renewing the war with vengeance and while it
could not possibly do good, it might do irreparabe
injury. Why not carry out the original understand
ing, and confde these things the President and his
constitutional advisers? To steal terms from the adj
mirabe Inaugural Address in all thing. touching The
patronage Of The Government, my humble opinion is,
tina, the public service should be the object and he
officer the incident Reverse this rule and make the
officer the object and the public service the incident
and respectfully submit, whetheI it would not be
resorling to weapon which the strength Of Demo-
crazy should leave TO tho uyrndonss of FcdsRalsma
Yes, fatler myself thai this is point upon which
few of US disagree any further than the terms
and phrases emploj ed in chickering's. So far the
honor Of ndiscrirlinate decapstion is confined 10
the yictors of 1910. Circumstances and sober pub
lie opinion have done much to correct an evil which
at that time elected many signs and tears. Shall
we follow The exarope then set Us shall profit
by tie recoil which has left scarcely trace Of the
coon-skin and log-cabin behind h2 If there
mere sock. jobbing politicians in office, is more
than likely, why, cot off their heads and if the
6naiion of public opinion be withheld it will then
be time enough TO make an issue ss to them. In any
and all cases where Offices become vacant Demo-
crat certainly and but few others, will cav if the
President fill them from the ranks of his friends
Nor will any one am sure, object to his scumen and
discretion in deciding upon The particular caste of
each applicant.
Whatever others may say, | think you are right in
supposing that the doctrine of rewardng men for
VOTE which without such reward would never have
been given, bad its rise in and is fostered by
densely populated cities. You might have gone
further and said, that the fostering of our 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-tbirds rule
at the Baltimore Convention, and who upon their re-
turn received the unmtigated prosecutions of dis
appointed clique, still objects of a secret enmity
and envy and that too, in the face Of the fact that
nothing else upon earth rescued the party from
amitous defeat. The country, the unboupht, hon
est constant, consistent country, not only in the
South, but in all parts Of the Union, would place
laurel righ, upon the wound, which these impo,ent
shafts would fain nhict 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 detcrm-
nation 10 rule ruin. She to delight in dis
playing distrust of the whole Union If she can
not control, she seems to take it for granted that
like arefrscory pupil at DOL, she is TO he "kcpt i'm
without meat drink, for four years. What a mis-
take hlr. Buchanan, in the State Department, will,
am sure that sbo is neither Tilted nor Birted
with be will that neither her virtue, her inter-
ess, nor her talented sons suffer either neglect or in
suit His late speech in the Senate, savoured all of
the palmetto that the Constitution and the Union au.
tborzed. Does the Mercury require more'
The unanimous confirmation Of Mr. Bancroft as
we'll on his o~n account, as in compliment to the
preference OF Mr. Polk, meets with the appreciation
Of all men, and Of almost al parties The President
has now a uni to aid him may thousand blessings
result from his admirable selections. ".