Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-10-16

plished in all the eight preceding years of
the last two Administrations. We hat
done great things; we had manifested tn,
patriotism of Whig principles, the dignit.
and efficiency of Wing Government; ano
happen what might for the future, thu
much was secure, and nothing could de
prive the administration of John Tyler o
the glory of having effected these great
these noble things, for the honor and pros
perity of the People of the United States
Mr.. G.. said that these consideration.
were permanent introduction to the in
quiry whether the President of the Unite,
States had been guilty of treachery to HI |
party and his country. Was any man jus |
tilted in making this heinous accusation
Upon what causel For what preteXt |
Not because he and we had acted togethe
SO gloriously and so nobly in the grea
measures which Mr.. c. had enumerated;
but, forsooth, simply because Congress,
and the President had differed in opinion
upon a single question, that of Bank
and for this difference the President Is
wantonly charged with foul violation OF
faith and honor. Mr.. G. said there never
was a more groundess accusaton-one
more totally destitute of all foundation in.
truth and in fact.
In the first place, when and where was
Mr.. Tyler pledged to the Bank bills of the
present session! When and where was he
pledged to any Bank! Never, any where.
Take the proceedings of the Harrisburg
Convention as one of hundred tests in
regard to this question. Was the Bank
bill, in any of its shapes, drawn out at that
Convention, and submitted to him, TO be
made the subject of pledge on his part!
!, Was any Bank? Was any bank idea
Every man in the United States knows that
! no such thing was made the subject of
pledge at that Convention. On the con-
trary, all specific pledges of any sort were
, purp osely excluded. Mr.. Tylers own
: opinions upon that subject were matter
of notoriety, as were Gen. Harrison's; and
c in the face of those opinions they were
nominated by the Convention.
Mr. C. said he would go further: not
/ only was not Gen. Harrison, and least OF
, all Mr.. Tyler, pledged to these particular
bank bills, OF any other form of United
= States Bank, but the whole party itself was
: alike unpledged. He believed the precise
fact to be, that, although the issue of Bank
I OF no Bank was rendered to the Wings
: by the other party, and attempts were
I made by that party to represent the idea
a of Bank as the specific and discriminat
f ing characteristic of Whiggery, yet thai
= issue was refused, and the idea repudlated
o if not universally, yet very generally, by
S the organs and orators of the Wings. Anc
It if, as he, Mr.. G. believed this was the true
If and precise state of the case, then it is no
d the President of the United States who Il
s. guilty of perfdy towards us; but if W.
n, insist that bank is exclusively the essence
e of Wing principles, then it is ICE who arr
J. guilty of perfidy towards the President
is and not towards the President only, bu
# towards the entire People Of the Unite,
If States. For, if the premises upon which
If the gentleman from Tennessee and thu
y gentleman from Virginia proceed in ar
y raigning the conduct of the President arr
true, then the Wing party had foiste'
d itself into power by concealing from the
1t People of the United States the true issue
IS MIR. C. admitted that throughout the controveI
e sy, at any rate wherever he was, and he address
&C ed public assemblies in many Of the States an
X on many occasions, he admitted that the WIN
H. party did undertake to settle the currency que
We ton. They undertook 10 settle it upon principle
in consistent with the prosperity and interests OF II
il People Of the United States. They condemne
m the currency measures Of the last Administrative
nj they undertook to change its measures and
w. introduce better ones-they denounced the Su
III treasury, but in doing so they left themselves ope
" and unCommilted as 10 the precise means oil Sc
Vi r Ting that question If the thoughts Of many ge
"a llmen, perhaps Of most were turned towards Il
ne idea OF United States Bank, yet in the min
ne OF many others that was an unsettled Questio
o. and in The minds Of ALL scope was reserved as
he the time OF Introducing such measure. and as
or its precise details. That was left, by COMMIT
bic consent, for discussion aud consideration VIII
nd the time for action would arrive.
he Mr.. c. said that, in repealiug the Sub treasu
the act, Congress and the President had redeemed t
Iry only distinct and notorious pledge in this mat
the Of the currency, TO the immediate execution
md which they were held in hiA opinion, by t
;nh events Of the late canvass for the Presidency.
What should next be done was a thing for ca
~, and mature reflection.
Cav Mr.. c. said he had voted for both the bank bi
Vi that passed this House. He had done so, not
80 cause he approved entirely either Of those bill
ems but because there was nothing in his past CT pr
ldc emf oninions IN nrevent him from acouiescing
IKE that respect in the wishes of a majority oil his
lrs. litcal friends in the House. He believed,
ute himself that United States Bank, duly con
the tuted, and with proper guards, was one, but
MIS- the only, mode Of settling the currency quest
hiefI Il he had been master of the event. and had b(
iod: called upon to frame bank bill, it would hi