The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-23

Clay, as the future hope of the country. II Is
impossible to mistake the allusion, or its design
the object is an informal nomination OF Mr.
Clay.
Now We are not disposed to deny the right oil
the Convention, to place any candidate before
the People, at this early period But we doubt
the expediency Of the manGuvre, and we deny
their right to disfranchise any other individual.
Nor is there any reason why Mr.. Tyler should
not, at proper time, submit his administration,
on Its own merits, to the approval or disaPproVal
OF the country. He has no desire for an early
agitation of the country, by scramble for the
succession, and thus far, we have not seen 1.-THE
revolving spectacle" deprecated by the Conven-
ton. The letter to the late acting Postmaster
General is an emphatic declaration of President
Tyler on this score. 1t would have been well,
if the Convention had declared its adherence of
Dictatorships in Congress, organized for the ag-
grandizement of an individual. This would at
least have exhibited commendable degree of
lmpartiality. But we hear no complaint Of this
''revolting spectacle" As for their attempting
to draw invdious distinctions, at this time, in
tended to prejudice Wing President, it is out
Of place, in Wing Convention. Like the in
discreet Manifesto of the forty Wing members
of Congress-, the Declaration of the Syracuse
Convention was injudicious, and if the effect
tend to defeat the Wing party in New York,
the responsibility must rest with those who put
it forth.
The truth is, The nation wants tranquility,
and the Wing party has right to demand
repose, after the turmoils of the past year. But
the politicians ever restless, appear anxious to
plunge into another Presidential campaign, three
years before the election. For lack of argument,
they assail the President, -distort his senti-
ments, --misrepresent his actions,-mpugn his
motives, and cavil at every thing he does. One
charges him with mbecility, with OBJ
stlnacy: one says, that he vetoed the Bank for
popularity, says the Bank itself is pop
ular some pretend that his Cabinet abandoned
him, -others find fault because he turned them
out: the partsans of Mr.. Clay aver that he
courts the popular favor,-Mr. Clay himself de-
clares that he resisted the will of the People,
In Short the accusations against him are so in
consistent, and so utterly incompatible, as to re-
flute themselves, and show that they are manu-
featured for sheer political effect.
Meanwhile, the People want repose, are
anxious TO give the new President fair oppor-
tunity to act for himself, and to Judge his ad-
ministration by its own merits. They believe
him to be honest, capable, and faithful to the
Constitution In particular the Wing party
are DESTROYS of seeing the country rally around
the Wing President. AS for casting him of,
because he differed in opinion with majority
in Congress, in the details of Fiscal Agent,
1t would be suicidal to the party as such, and
prejudicial to thenation at large. Reckless par
tlsans-the creatures Of faction-may fret and
rage to their hearts content, but the honest por-
ton of the People can have no sympathy with
them. Thus far, John Tyler, though coming
suddenly into power, and assuming the most
responsible office in the orld,-though sur
rounded with difficulties from the outset,-thus
far he has sustained himself like man and a
statesman. His first Cabinet, though selected
by another, received his generous confidence,
and it may be presumed, that he would have
preferred to travel on with them, in harmony, to
the end of his official duties. But when they
undertook. to interfere with his constitutional
duties, and to question his right to Judge for
himself in regard to bill presented for his sig
nature, -self-respect as well as regard for the
dignity of the office, rendered it necessary for
him to have frank understanding with his Ca
binet, and if they could not cordially sustain him
and his measures, to seek those who could
This was the head and front Of his offending
The old Cabinet resigned, and he appointed
new one, which is not only equal in character
and talent to the old one, but, as body, has not
been surpassed by any Cabinet since the foun-
dation OF the Government. With such a Cabi-
net, and John Tyler at the head, the destinies
of the nation are in safe hands BY the time
they have been in Office, twelvemonth, and
become familiar with their duties, they will
prove as efficient as any Of their lustrious pre-
decessors, from the days of Washington Away
then with the foul attempts of faction, to put
down an administration in advance for the sake
of aggrandizing an ambitious successor on its
ruins.
The STATUE OF WASHINGTON was on Thurs
day removed from the NAVY Yard. and is now at