The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-11-04
Communications
COMMUNICATED.
TO THE WINGS OF THE UNION.

nests but who like TychU brahe IN his se'
can look out not only upon the rude waves y "io
Baltic. but deep into the mild and illimi.abe EmPy
,ssn 10 whisper few words unto thee, IN all cour'e
~ and in all kindness Of spirit
Tho.e messengers of the daily chronicles OF the
outer world, as daily reach mei and were my abode
even upon the lofest summit the Pinehinea, tower
inc over Quito full 5000 toises, yet could judge Of
thee and thy doings just well as if were in the
midst Of thy own political vortex and, with this be
lief shall venture TO pass some judgment upon thee
since all philosophy and experience in life hath taught
me the truth Of that sage Italian proverb that "ogh
ursdaglio ha II rererso"-in other WORDS 'ha'
'there are two sides TO every statement.
That there is such thing as political sagachy
amounting prophecy, is not to be questioned nu'
then il comes from only in a miion-from some
shrewd political Montesquieu, snugly ensconced
amidst the enduring wisdom Of past and present
ees cooy surveying the past and present experience
Of man and in reference to the momentous future
Such oracuIar pronouneing upon the minute and
hidden embryos Of time only be looked Tor say
from some sage and venerable patriot wholly aloof
from party strife Segregated from all sinister inhu-
ences either personal in respect OF LOVING TRENDS
and from such an one when thus seated as i were,
anxiety for his countrys veal and glory, the whole
land Of the political Canaan
Not eariino would give for the political prophe
cies of those croaking and disappointed Parzans,
who dctatorially announce, as we sometimes hear
from them that
The hOle Whig party is foreru dead nersr 10 rise
again r
like not that arrogant class who reckless of conse
quences presume to despair for their country; i, is
bad enough to despair Of country; and even that
should be done only upon the cearest lights of the
present distinctly penetrating into the future but to
despair for our country generally insolent and rash
dictation--is the abuse of holy Trusts an aban-
donmen, of exertion by those haring porcer, and at
the very moment, too that the country most needs
their exertions This despairing for our country was
the great crime of the viruous and otherwise noble
PHocIos, who high in power and when his country
mos, needed his services, pronounced as II were, er
eaatedra, that Athens then in inetrevable dan
ger,-wholly lost, and shrinking away from his own
high duty, by the force Of his own example, won ma
ny over to his despair For that crime was Pho
cion condemned to the poison-cup- his bones were
sent in perpetual exile to Niagara, and he, once the
most honored and Iauded of Athenians, became a ma
tons reproach until that nation, forgivlng his poii
cal cowardice, in respect of his other known virtues
AID great services, recalled his remains and raised
bronze perpetuate his name, not his unhoy
despair Of or for his country but in tender remem
brance of his former deeds
pray of some of these modern wise acres, without
the tythe of Phocions real merit, and also of those
who may justly compare with him, to lay to their soul
Of serious consideration the deep crime OF despairng
for nation, and carefully to ask themselves whether
President Tyler did one single act that ought
Justly any to despair Of the Wing party,
much less justify those high in influences to despair
for the Wing party | aver that such cause ex
lists Mr.. Tyler has differed, with pain, from por
ton of the party regard to too matters FIRST to
the details Of fiscal institution and secondly to
the true principles Of removal from and retention in
office.
As to the first, he vetoed very Objectionable Bank
which was followed by another of stl more OBJ
ectonable Now, if the first not mex
piable political sin, the second still less SO; for
consecutive series of inefficient causes ought not to
produce positive result, any further result, than
due TO the first link in the chain. But say the
indictments the second than the first, for
three reasons .arst because done in disregard Of
ly because less in regard to an enlightened con-
science" and thirdly, because that second bill was
made in conformity to his expressed opinions. de-
ny each and all Of the facts, and all Of the principles,
involved in these three charges. Let briefly look
at each
LIST. Was there any stronger manifestation Of the
popular WISH the time of the second bill, than of
the first and if SO, where is the evidences Doubt
less the same gentlemen OF Congress who fashioned
and sustained the first BILL would not fail to maintain
the second; and hence we really gain nothing from
this but repetition Of an assurance that they were in
earnest the second, well as the first time. And,
to the Indications of the press to say the least they
probably or possibly, balanced; for it would be
difficult, now 10 say that these indications
in favor Of the Banks which rejected. But
gument gra'id, suppose every voter in the nation had
been for a Banks popular opinion TO be the
maker the destroyer, the e1pounder of the Consti
tuition Surely not. Once grant that the Bank
question is in any degree open question-once
cede that the Supreme Court has not closed It, and
rendered it adjudicatd in every aspect, that
ment the question belongs e1cttsipeiy the Presi
dent, after Congress has acted upon it, by presenting
him bill for approval or dsapprova Surely it
not mean ior approval only, even II congress were
unanimous; and equally not So even if every human
being in the land should cry cut, Pass The biAf'
Is this law, or is it not Z Every Bank is not ne
cessarily constitutional. No Bank is constitutions
says even the Supreme Court, unless the neces-
sites Of the nation then demand t-and of that
cessty there tteo consti uiona judges-no one
only,--viz: Congress and the President. If be
passed hy all, or by twothirds il becomes law -
:, because then the President has no con-
shiutionai right to object in the way of Veto but
still know of no reason that shoulJ even in such