The Daily Madisonian

Correspondence of the Madisonian.

New Orleans, July 11, 1842.

To the Editor of the Madisonian:

Dear Sir: There can now be no doubt of the fact that Louisiana has recorded her vote against Clay, tyranny, and misrule. She has spoken in a voice of thunder, too, that will carry dismay and terror into the ranks of his gang in Congress. Louisiana has deserted Henry Clay! How incredible it seems, and at the most critical juncture in his life—when all his hopes and his prospects for the Presidency depended upon this State! Why, sir, even Kentucky will next forswear her allegiance to him, and he will be left without a single State in the Union. What a solemn mockery it is to be nominating this man for the highest office in the gift of a free people, when they have already condemned him to the obscurity of the private shades of Ashland. His war on the Constitution and Mr. Tyler would make an admirable groundwork for an epic poem—something similar to Paradise Lost. His fate will be quite as memorable in the annals of the history of our country as the hero of that immortal poem in sacred history. But I am digressing from my original intention, which was simply to announce to you the glorious result of our elections. I doubt not that it will have a beneficial effect on our country. People here already breathe freer in anticipation of a change of policy and rulers. As a staunch friend of my country, and supporter of the Administration of the honest and fearless John Tyler, I confess myself highly gratified at the result. What, if the Democratic party are the victors! I believe the mass of that party to be honest, and I look upon our worthy Chief Magistrate as one of the best Democrats that ever lived. What is to hinder that party from giving his Administration a cordial and honest support, while he administers the Government according to Democratic principles? What honest man will say that he has not done so? Politicians, for selfish purposes, may hood-wink the People for a time, but the scales of party delusion are falling from their eyes, and I don't care under what banner of political faith they have been marching, they will come to the support of our much abused and persecuted President.

The ultras of both parties, that divide the country, will, no doubt, stand aloof, but we don't want them. Thank heaven, they compose but an atom of the People, and their power to do mischief is nearly at an end. It is pleasing, every day, to witness men breaking the chains of party spirit and discipline and expressing the sentiments of their honest judgment. I assure you, sir, the tone of public sentiment is becoming more and more, every day, in favor of the Administration. The President's last veto is a source of congratulation with everybody—of course excepting the Clay politicians. Arriving, as it did, simultaneously with the news of their defeat in the State, their rage knew no bounds. They fairly gnashed their teeth and foamed at the mouth with fury. In conclusion, the friends of the Administration are in high spirits: we have an abiding confidence in the virtue and integrity of our Chief Magistrate, and we look forward, with confidence, to his complete triumph over the enemies of our Republic.

Yours, &c.