The Madisonian

THE OUTRAGE UPON NEW JERSEY.

The Newark Daily Advertiser remarks that, an Angel from Heaven, or one from the dead, might have plead in vain. Law, reason, eloquence, have no power over men desperately struggling for the spoils of victory. Every thing is perverted in the ignoble strife: sophisms, subtleties, falsehood, are invented to conceal that darling object; words are perverted from their proper sense; honor is no longer honor; example is not precedent; the laws cease to be any thing but a snare, and judgment and justice are reversed at the dictate of party policy.

It was made a serious charge against James II that he designed to overturn the Constitution, because he interfered in the elections. Our administration, bolder than the British monarch, not only influences, but absolutely over-rules the elections.—Careless of true glory, destitute of patriotism, intent only upon the preservation of power, the remorseless demagogue carries out his plans at the peril of the nation, as he would risk his money at a horse race. An Oxford and a Bolingbroke must be kept in place at all hazards. A Walpole must be sustained, be the consequences what they may. 'It is necessary for me to cross the river'—said Alexander to his captains telling him that it was as much as his life was worth to attempt to pass the Granicus—'but it is not necessary for me to live!' Such is the desperate tenacity of the men who now hold the reins of government but to drive the nation into ruin.

A friend who knows, writing us from the interior of New York, says, "Harrison's nomination is well received, and will be zealously sustained. He will beat Van Buren in this State by at least 15,000 votes, if the next campaign is vigorously prosecuted—and he can beat him in the Union. Nothing is now wanting but energy and action."