The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-09-12

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tains an account of very ev,rao uIt. Con-
conversation, said TO have hem belS ~, sn
President of the United State. at 81, .ne
1 in Virginia. while on his way toTennessna'
He thought that time and that place nroner
1t would seem, if this account is 70 he Lo'
lleved. to undertake the defence oflis EanL
Bill peto, and to calumniate those who had
supported the Bill in Congress, against bis
wishes. Both the sentiments and the lam
guage asciited to the President on this Or
caslon, are such, not only as no public man
could utter who felt a common degree of
regard for his own character, but such, al
so, as could not hare escaped any pri-
vate person, who processes to recognize, IN
his intercourse with others, the authority of
truth and the restraints of ordinary good
manners. 1t would be altogether incredi-
bic that the President OF the United States
should have been guilty of such an outrage
upon proprlety. if this case stood, alone, up
on the authority Of single witness. But
unfortunately there are other we'll attested
instances of his INDUCING in passionate
determinations against individuals which rem
der the present statement the more proba-
bic. On the occasion now referred to.
members of Congress, and Particularly,
members of the Senate, as is usual with
him, were distinguished objects of bs cal
jimmy. He is reported to have said, amnns
other things that he had no doubt it would
be discovered, if sufficient Investigations
were made, that many of the prominent adj
vocates of the Bank Bill, were bribed for
their support and particularly that the
Bank had recently loaned Mr.. Webster ten
thousand dollars, and had accepted him al
so, as endorser for Messrs. Gales & Seaton,
for a like sum. The purpose for which
these statements were made, is sufficiently
apparent
In answer to this Islander, and in addition
to the mere scorn and contempt which it
excites, and which is deepened by the high
public situation of the author, we are au-
thorlZed to say that since Mr. Webster's
residence in Boston, bills, acceptances and
other paper bearing his name, have been
discounted at the Bank of the United
States, more or less frequently, every year,
in the ordinary way of business, as at other
Banks, and never otherwise; and that no
special loan or accommodation, was ever
made TO him, at any time, by the Bank or
any OF its officers. to the amount of single
dollar. We are authorized further to state,
that Mr.. Webster is not endorser for
Messrs. Gales & Seaton, at the Bank of the
United States or elsewhere, for any sum
whatever, and that he has no pecuniary
connection with those gentlemen of any
kind. And we are athorized and requested
to add, that there exists no one single cir
cumstance, calculated. in the slightest de-
gree, TO soften the aspect of this falsehood
or to apologize for its utterance.
If the report Of the Presidents converse
ton be correct, the people of the United
States have now the justification of seeing,
that their chief magistrate, having already
made himself VIGOROUSLY an object of mirth
and scorn by his hahtual tone of converse
ton in his own house, cannot travel fifty
miles from home without degrading his Of
fec, and disgracing his country, by his ex-
hibtions of rudeness and vulgarity; sub
Jectng himself, at the same time, chief mag
istrate of the nation though be he, TO the
anlnadversion of those laws, civil or cTmi-
nal, which are desgnN1 70 maintain the
peace of societv quito protect the reputa-
tf;on of iiiIals, against the wantonness
Of .I4nuer, and the malignity Of falsehood
Boston Patriot.