Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-09-22

no time. Mr.. Webster accordingly called on
Messrs. Berrien and Sergeant Immediately; and
waited on them by his appointment at 5 o'clock
on the same dav, and agreed upon the princi-
plies of the bill in accordance with your express
ed wishes.-And | am apprised of the fact,
though it did not occur in my presence that at
ter the bill was drawn up, and before it was re-
ported, it was seen and examined by yourself;
that your attention was specially called TO the
10th fundamental article; that on full examlna-
ton you concurred in It's provisions; that at the
same time its name was so modified as to meet
your appreciation, and the bill was reported and
passed, in all essential particulars, as it was
when it came through your hands,
You asked Mr. Webster and myself each to
prepare and present you an argument touching
the constitutionaliiy of the bill, and before those
arguments could be prepared and read by you,
YOU declared, as heard and believe, to gentle
men, Members of the House, that you would
cut off your right hand rather than approve it.
After this new resolution was taken, you asked
aud earnestly urged the members of your Cabi-
net 10 postpone The bill; bu: you would neither
give Yourself, nor suffer them to give, any assu-
rance of your future course, in case of such
posiponement. By some of us, and was my
self one, the effort was made TO crafty your
wishes, in The only way in which 1t could be
done with proprlety; that is, by obtaining the
general concurrence of the Wing Members of
the two Houses in the posiponement. 1t fail
ed, as ] have reason TO believe, because you
would Give no assurance that The delay was not
sought as a means and occasion for hostile
movements. During this season of deep feeling
Al orf w wa
were zeaously devoiing our talents and inhu-
ence 10 serve and 10 sustain you, the very Sc.
crets of our Cabinet councils made their appear
ance in an Infamous paper printed In neigh
boring CITY, the columns OF which were daily
charged with flauery of yourself and foul abuse
of your Cabinet All this bore; for felt that
my services, so long as they could avail, were
due TO the naiion-to that great and magnanl-
nous People whose suffrages elevated your
predecessor to the station which you now fill,
and whose united voices approved the act when
he summoned us around him, 10 be his counsel
lors; and felt that was due to his memory, TO
the iniunctions which he left US in his last dy-
ing words, and TO the People, whose servants
we were, had not all been performed until eve
" means was tried, and every hope had failed
of carrying out the true principles upon which
the mighty movement was founded that elevated
him and you TO power.
This bill, framed and fashioned according 10
Your own suggestions, in the imitation OF which
/ and another member of your Cabinet were
made by you the agents and the negotiators,
was passed by large majorites through the two
Houses of Congress, and sent to you, and you
rejected it. Important as was that part which
had taken, al your request, in the originalon
of this bill, aud deeply as | was committed Tor
your action upon 1t, you never consulted me on
the subject of the veto message. You did not
even refer TO il in conversation, and the first no.
tice had of It's contents was derived from ru-
NOR.
And to me, at least. YOU have done nothing
TO wipe away the personal indigRity arising out
of the act. gathered, il is true, from your
conversation, shortly after the bill had passed
the House that you had strong purpose 10 re-
ieci il; but nothing was said like sOftening or
apology to me, either in reference TO myself or
10 those with whom had communicated atyour
request and who had acted themselves and in
duced the two Houses to act upon the faith of
that communication.-An strange as 1t may
seem, The Veto Message attacks in a special
manner lhe very PIoESlohS WHICH "elc lIlseIl-
ed at your request; and even the name of the
corporation, which was not only agreed TO by
you, but especially changed to meet your ex-
pressed wishes, is made the subject Of your
criticism Different men might view this trans
action in different points of light, but, under
these circumstances, as mailer OF personal
honor il would be hard for me TO remain of
your counsel, and TO seal my lips and leaTe un-
explained and undsclosed where lies in this
transaction the departure from straightforward
ness and candor SO far indeed from admitting
the encouragement which you gave TO this bill
in inception. and explaining and excusing your
sudden and violent hostility towards it, you
ibTow into your Veto Message an interrogatory
equivalent to an assertion that it was such as
you had already declared could not receive your
sanction. Such is the obvious effect Of the first
inierrogatory clause on the second page IL
has all the force of an assertion without lis open
fairness have met and reluted this, the me-
cessary inference from your language, IN my
preceding statement, the correctness OF which
YOU am sure will not call in question.
Vonr yeto Ia the first hill Won rested on con-