Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-07-07
RICH MONDE.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING. JULY.
SIGNS IN WASHINGTON.

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dom which may cause some to exclam, "how i'm
u''''-and utIers some sentiments to which
"euo not subscribe. But the frankness and spiri
OF Tho letter would redeem many faults, if they ex
i''ed-ond the freedom and frequency of the ullu.
SONS to President Tyler will find apology in IN,
'ae'' 'has they are made by one, who has proved hi
friendship moro by deeds than words.
Extract OF a letter from
WASHINGTON, July 4rp. N.
iou arc anxious, NO doubt, to learn what i,
gong on here, when there are so many idle co,;.,
lures "iloat IN every circle. Serious apprehension.
are entertained by all our friends as to the fat. q,
the Bank Bill: many think the Senate will no, ur;,.
upon either plan now before them and many NOR.
indulge the fear, that the President will sign no
other ihan the one understood here TO be his own.
Now you shall have my views, though il is RICH,
should say, there are not many believe, who con-
cur with me-for the more general beliefs, tina, the
president is shaping his TO please the Loco
'oeo'' with The expectation Of carrying off enough
VI Tue wing party TO sc. up in trade for himself
In ms am satisfied they do Tyler gross injustice
he Is too honorable man to prove ,reocherous 10
'hose 10 whom he is under many obligations ::
ana II we can get through our bank d ffcultics The
way before is clear enough.
kives' amendment is yet pending before the Sc.
nate, and will be rejected. The great body of the
Wings, all except about s or 9-most of whom
prefer Clay's bill, individually, will vote asains,
1t; and the other party, | conjecture, will do tie
same thing, for two reasons the FIRST is that if we
are to have Bank, they will prefer one ,ba, will
be efhcient and useful, TO that TO use Archers
language, "wi have all the odiou.ness, without the
ttSa all Of In
prefer a iul blooded to monsrel Bank and Sc.
eondly' they will take the Senate's bill and trust
to the chance of Ve;o: So that think the Senate
bill wiIlutmately pass that body-and its fate will
no; be doubtful in the House
Now, then, for the President: will he exercis. the
Veto powerl Its confidently asserted he willard
many gentlemen seem to feel themselves authoriz
cd, from his own conversations, TO say he will
don't believe ii! My reasons nro as follows:
Know he is willing, if not anxious, H. at the impress
SION should prevail that he would not sign the bill
because he does not want it presented to him-pre-
ieFrlns his own plan, | say his own plan, because
every body knows that there is not a member oS
his cabinet that has the least partic of constitution
a. uiheuIty on the subject OF Bank. But | am
sure he has not said he would veto il; because he
ought not TO have said so No President could so
'r forget his station to declare his determination
10 veto proposition that was the time subject
Of legislation. Certainly We have never had but
one and he would do any thing that his own vile
passions and the serpents around him would PROMPT,
But IN the next place, has not Mr.. Tyler Welded
the whole Constitutional question, when he propo
ses TO establish National Bank in the District Of
Columbia, with the power OF locating branches
with the assent OF the States7 The question has
never before turned on the location but the ereation
mas been the incorporation heretofore objected To-;
and has he not too much respect to come before
tue WORD IN this enlightened age, and say Con.
gre's has no Constitutional power TO incorporate n
Bank with branches, hut if this State or that will
consent, the power will be conferred, or, in other
words, that the Constitution will expand or COM
tract with the assent and dissent Of the S,ates3 Il
expands IN New York and contracts in South Car.
DINA; Tor ito this complexion it must come a, las, >
But there IS another consideration To whom,
does MIR. Tyler owe his presen, eleva,ion7 Bv
whom has he been sggrandized? To whom doe.
he owe debt Of gratitude, such as mortal mar
never owed before2 PROSTATE as a politician in his
own SAie-deieated by his own party for an office
TO winch hehad peculiar claims-sacrlfced for on,
WHO mad stepped into his shoes, and had been made
the beneficiary of the ETpunging resolution, which
had driven himif from the Senate, he goes TO the
Harsburg Contention, supports with ardor and
yea the nomlneiibn Of Mr.. Clay, known to be a
Bank man; Is himself taken up by the great Whig
party OF me nation for the second office in the Gov
ernmenti with full knowledge tina, the establish.
ment ola Bank will constitute the great leadin, ,.,-
sure Of the party, he accepts the nomination which no
m hot ftrI
nave obtained, II known TO be hostile TO that mea.
sure, and which no honorable man should baye re-
cepted unless he was prepared to carry out the
views Of his party, is elevated by a triumphant ma.
Jony-is, by the act Of God, thrown into the situa-
ton of him, who II is known would have carried
out this great measure OF public policy; who had az
semhed around him Cabinet Of distinguished man
all favorable TO his views; who had called the renrs
sentatTes Of the people together, chiefly with this
view; and MIR. Tyler, in less than four mon n,
from the time he assumes the robes Of Office throw,
himself in the path Of his friends, obstrucls the pns
sage Of the most wholesome laws calls down ipon
him the whitening and dhmnng curses of those who
elevated him, throws himself into tho arms of his
political ndversaries damns his own name and that
OF his poserlIy, dmgs out lingering existence of
iniamy and reproach, as the "Great Betrayerp OF
high trusts, crushes his party into fragments, and
leaves his country where he found tin the hands
OF the worst men Of the worst party that ever dis.
graced the annals ofhislory. Now who that knows
John Tyler will believe all thisl And yet / sub.
nit TO you il oil this would not he the consequence7
NOt My knowledge Of Tyler leads me to believe he
YOU'D soonot resign hs place than make himself the
Gambling block to the high hopes Of his country
Naa4". -
has pointed gut the mode by which il may became
tie sw without his signature, seemingly designed
" relieve The President from the difficulties Of the
kiual'on in which he is p.aced-for what cleo was !,
provided that "lf any bill shall not be returned by
the President within ten days Sundays e1cepted)
after Il shall have been presented to hrn, the same
shall be law in like munncras If he had signed 7'
was It not to relieve the President Of the necessity
of enforcing his own doubtful construction Of IN,
Constitution against tho expressed will and autho
riiy Of the nationl These are my views, take then
for what they oro worth"
We copied in a Postscript to Mondays Whig th,
remarks Of Mr. Clay conradicting the mass o
aIsehood and perversion put forth 10y the Globe re
'psetns what passed between MIR Clsy md NJ
Choote. Mr. CIsy's remarks nro repuJlshed TO .da,
IN the regular proceedings Of Congress. Kendall
account may DO we'll ndduced-to exhibit man
indefinite capacity for lying. That account pre-