The Daily Madisonian

From the Harrisburg Argus.

THE GLOBE AND PRESIDENT TYLER.

We regret that the Globe has again thought proper to declare war against the President, not only because it is injudicious, but because Mr. Tyler does not deserve such treatment from the Democracy. It is now time that full justice was accorded to the present administration. The elements of discord which rendered the commencement of its career so stormy, exist no longer to any extent; being only retained by such as have allowed their thirst for personal advantage to blind them to the welfare of the great party to which they are attached. Of this number we consider the editor of the Globe to belong. His idle hostility to Mr. Tyler and his silly presumption in supposing that he could direct the Democratic party, contributed largely to the defeat of Mr. Van Buren; and we now find him in the first flush of a victory achieved through a departure from the course of policy recommended by himself, indulging again in that system of detraction which has proved so fatal to his friends.

We have never been what are called Tyler men. We have only been Democrats; but we have been the less willing, upon all suitable occasions, to render to the President that degree of praise which we believed his firmness and disinterestedness fairly entitled him to. While we did not hesitate to condemn his conduct in the Rhode Island question, we accorded to him all due praise for his manly letter of withdrawal. See our paper of August 30. In this respect we have differed from the charlatan of the Globe. It is time this system of dictation was at an end. To ordinary modesty the result of the deliberations in the Baltimore Convention would have proved amply sufficient; but to the inordinate vanity of Mr. Blair, a still greater severity of castigation was required. For himself alone, Mr. B. may speak through his paper; but for him to anticipate the acquiescence of the Democracy of the Union in his hostility to Mr. Tyler, is a hope as unfounded as it is presumptuous. The Democratic party of Pennsylvania do not, at least, participate in the feeling.

Repeatedly during the contest just closed with so glorious a triumph, have the Democracy found themselves compelled to accord their thanks to Mr. Tyler. His firmness checked the ruinous series of Whig measures commenced in 1841, which would have ended, without his interposition, in riveting a system upon the country which would have given it for years to the dominion of Federalism. Without his aid we should have had to contend against another monster Bank, freely lavishing its corrupting bonuses in favor of its champion Henry Clay; we should have had arrayed against us the influences of the Distribution scheme, perfected to complete operation, and we should have found the whole influence of the General Government in hostility against us. Instead of these, we have had the General Government on our side, and our opponents have been compelled to struggle for, not with, these manifold advantages.

For all these favorable circumstances we are indebted to John Tyler; and for far more. Did he not voluntarily withdraw from the Presidential arena, leaving the Democracy united, and harmoniously united in favor of Mr. Polk? Did he not, throughout the whole campaign, exhibit the most magnanimous disinterestedness and devotion to the Democratic cause? That he did so, is matter of history. Shall we then be expected to forget all these services, and join with the Globe in its insanely selfish assaults upon the President. We know the Democracy better. They will "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's," without forming their judgment from the empty declamation of interested mercenaries. History will do ample justice to John Tyler - her pages will not refuse their just commendation to that firmness which saved the Republic from the dominion of monetary monopoly, or to that noble disregard of self which led the friends of free government to rally without distinction, under the standard of the National candidate, James K. Polk.