Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-08-24
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The ,ody in ,ohich the Hero speaks Of his Ripu

The 'ody in ,ohich the Hero speaks Of has Riouls
amt Political ddrersares.
We repubshed a few days ago, letter from
The Alexandria Phenx dated ut Buckland in Vir
GINA, detailing the Presidents tavern convcre,
"ons' In his late progress through Virginia We
annex from tho same paper, another letter Of later
date, also treating of that subject.
Extract Of Lettor to the Editor of the Alcran.
dria Gnscttc, dated
$3.50. GREENwicH L. o. (VaD AUG 10 1920
Dear Sir: find that correspondent at Bucklund
under date OF LIST instant, has detailed to Won She
conversation" held by General Jaskson, at Ruck-
..na' n his reeept cnll ut that place, in anticipa
tion OF me. 1 had written several days ago hut
oeiayed sending IT, wishing TO obtain an accurate
statement lie did say then, to this amount, that
h the Bank OF the U. States had been re-charier
ed that the liberties of our country would no,
nave been worth preserving, would have been
soiu 10 Foreigners or monoposts; that he had no
1o"o OF IL was his opinion, that onc-third of the
meHlDers OF Congress who voted for that bill owed
the Bank from five to twenty thousand dollars or
from ten to thirty thousand dollars each; and that
DANIEL Webster had lately obta med loan in the
United States Bank for ten thousand dollars, and
nad endorsed for Joseph Gales for ten thousand
dollars more He said he thought that Member
OIL Congress or Judge ought to vote such mea
sure when he was SO interested. Indeed, l under
stand he said n good deal more, not worth noticing
here; but think he yht to have added by
way OF consistency, that 1T was his opinion that
ne Member of Congress or Printer ought to
DC appointed to important trusts by the Executive
"hat 40 you think of this dignifed conduct of
our "i.oman Patriot" i'm passing through our State
Promulgating such stuff; for surely it is virtually
saying, that the Members of Congress who voted
,or lhat Dill were bought up by the Bank to the
tune of5, TO- 20, or $4,000. will you be so good
us 10 re-Insert IN your paper tho of the Mem
Ders OF Congress who voted for the bin by States
mat may see--that the country may see, who
they are that our President has CHARGED with such
In tl,ey tIa
hgo OF the bill, Lut do not now rccollect them;
ana oy placing them by States, the whole country
VIII become familiar with their Names
For some time, (since their vote in favor of
rechattering the Bank) the Administration prints
with some honorable exceptions, who dsdained to
ADVANCE zen. jackson by slandcring the promi-
nent men opposed to him-have been engaged in
irregular and concerted attempt to iniure the repu-
tation of Messfs. Clay, Webster, Sergeant and
Writ particularly the three first, by representing
them as the purchased advocates of the Bank of
the U. States. The attempt has this basis, and
no other; that those gentlemen have formerly re-
ceived fees from the Bank to argue its cases.
We noed not tell the reader that they are all law
yers of the highest cnlinence were therefore natu
rally engaged by the Bank, and tina, they were not
even at liberty, if disposed, to decline tie pro-
fsssional duties which the Bank in the character of
Silent, required at their hands. This is the bribet
The evidence of its efficacy, is as TO Mcssrs CLAW
and Webster that they Senators of the United
states, voted to re-charter the Bank of the u
States.! This is not all as to Mr.. Webster
ehher-for 1T seems according to Gen. Jackson,
that he has borrowed $780, of the Bank cir
cumstance which that worthy related in tavern
Porches as establishing the charge of bribery and
Mr. -Websters guilt, beyond all controversy!!!
OF course do not intend to refute such
charge, although the President of the u States
has catered the ring person, to avouch it, and
TO back his editorial hrengs who first adduced it
Did we believe had a subscriber who does not
share the disgust which the Presidents conduct
and that of his abandoned partizans excites we
should think we had one subscriber too MANY and
desire to have of his patronage That
members OF Congress, acting under all the sane
lion that oaths can gve-men of the greatest en-
inence and celcbrity-shoud be accused of having
sold their votes, honour and oaths, because former
~ they had been retained counsel for the Bank
and atterly voted for it, when too the accuscrs
knew that Mr. Webster had always been for a
Bank, and Mr. Clay since the year 16I5-so grave
and heavy charge, against such men, and upon
such evidence, is unparalleled even in the black
catalogue of Jackson ISLANDERS, and so atrocious,
that it is impossible for human ingenuity to add
How the Presidents conduct in making traduc
ton of rivals the theme of his tavern conversa-
sations COMFORTS with the bearing, attributes and
characteristics of the Hero we leave it to his own
honorable Partizans and friends to say. In 10, G,
IN war, and in politics, the depreciation of rivals
has ever been held in chivarous estimation, the
mark OF little soul, and of base metal. A Bay
ard or Dessaix, real Heroes, would have been
torn by wild horses, ere they had permitted their
conquest discourse of rival in fame but in terms
of commentator and preference to self. But our
American Hero-alas! Col. Benton, a witness
lately set up worthy of all credibility by the
Hcro's friends, declared in 1913, that his vicinity
was a Hell, in which mans honor was safe
from his certificate makers. In 1926 after Mr.
Adams election, this Hero was traced from Wash
ington to Nashville by his complaints in stages
and steamboats,, of having lost his election by bar
gain and corruption between Mcssrs. Adams and
Clay-Mr. Adams the man wthal TO whom he had
been indebted for reputation and security from
the consequences Of his lawless conduct. Now,
he ediies his tavern porch audience, with insinu.
atoms Of corruption against Messrs. Clay and
Webster, because their votes have not correspond
ed with his conceptions of right.
tt is impossible that his own intelligent and re-
spectacle friends feel any personal respect FOR
such man-so destitute Of magnaumity and
generosity, fjrgctful of the dignity of his
station, and Offering at every step, the grosscst
Indignities to ordinary decorum. That they sup
port MIN notwithstanding, is the result Of a real
or supposed, urgent political necessity, which they
must deeply regret, and from which they would