The Madisonian

HARMONY.

We find the following in the last New York Commercial Advertiser:

TREASON IN THE CAMP.

The course of the Courier and Enquirer, ever since its affected conversion from the most bitter hostility to Mr. Clay, to the ranks of his friends, has been looked upon with distrust by the most sound and sagacious members of the Whig party. Having played the traitor, first to General Jackson, and then toward Mr. Van Buren, it is of course but an easy matter to act the same part a third time——and hereafter a fourth and a fifth, as circumstances may require. The public need not, therefore, be surprised to learn that a project has been broached in that journal this morning, which, if executed, would be equivalent to a breaking up of the Whig party in this city, and a transfer of its scattering materials to the great nullifier Mr. Calhoun. We quote the audacious proposition, in all its naked deformity.

From the Courier and Enquirer of Thursday, Sept. 21.

"We all know that if the Whigs were to nominate an Assembly ticket this fall, it would be beaten by ten thousand majority, in consequence of the conviction of the impossibility of electing it, of the little interest felt in the question, and of the desire of certain persons in our ranks to exhibit the Clay Whigs in an attitude of weakness. No possible good and much evil, would be the result of such a proceeding; and therefore it will not be adopted. The Whig party can, however, make itself advantageously and beneficially felt in the coming election. The friends of Mr. Calhoun intend to put in nomination for the Assembly, a ticket composed of men of the highest character, who if elected will of course be in a small political minority at Albany next Winter, but who will go there fully determined that, for once, the delegation from this city will attend to its suffering interests.

The success of such a ticket, pledged to look after the interests of this great commercial metropolis, and thus relieving it from the miserably selfish representation which the Van Buren party intend, as usual, to force upon us, would indeed be a great public blessing. As the Whigs will have no ticket of their own, let them vote for this; and the consequence will be that they will defeat the Van Buren ticket and secure a representation in the Legislature, which will be an honor to our city, and greatly advance its most vital interests. We speak the sentiments of our leading men when we say that if Mr. Calhoun's friends will place in nomination a ticket composed of men of character and standing it will unquestionably be elected. At all events, in such a contingency, we shall labor to insure its success, believing, as we do, that this opportunity to have New York fairly represented in the Legislature should not be permitted to escape us."

If, in the history of parties in all times past, there has been a more flagrant proposal of political treason, the record has escaped our observation.