The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-09-18

connexion in which that grant should be introduced
you also spoke Of the name OF the institution desiring
that that should be changed. To this objected as
it would probably be made subject OF ridicule but
you insisted that there much in name, and this
institution ought not to be called bank. MT. WEB
srER undertookto adapt il in this particular 70 your
wishes. Mr.. BELL then observed 10 Mr.. WEBSTER
and myseftha we had time TO lose; that this We're
not Immediately attended to- another bill less accePa-
BILE, might be got up and reported We replied that we
| should lose no time. Mr. WEBSTER accordingly
called on MessIs. BERRIEN and SERGEANT Immediate
ly, and waited on them by his appointment at
o'clock on the day, and agreed upon the princi-
Piles Of the bill in accordance with your expressed
wishes: And am appraised Of the fact, though il did
not occur in my presence that after the bill was drawn
up, and before was reported, il and exam
ined by yourself that your attention was specially
| called 70 the 10th fundamental article that on full
examination you concnrred in its provisions that at
the same time its name was 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. ay @4
You asked Mr.. WEBSTER and myself each to pre-
pare and present you argument touching the con-
sttutionality Of the bill and before those arguments
could be prepared and read by you You declared as
heard and believed, 10 gentlemen, members of the
House, that you would cut off your right hand ra-
Their than approve it, After this new resolution was
TAKEN you asked and earnestly urged the members Of
your Cabinet TO postpone the bill but you would nei-
ther give YOURSELF suffer them TO give, any assuT-
Of your fuae course in case Of such postpone
| ment By some of us, and myself one, the eff
fort was made to crafty your wishes in the only way
in which could be done with propety that Is by OBJ
tanning the general concurrence Of the twoWhg mem
beers Of the Houses in the postponement IL failed,
have reason to believe, because you would give no
assurance that the delay was not sought as means
and occasion for hostile movements During this sea
son of deep feeling and earnest exertion upon our
part while zeaously deyoting our talents and
IA and at,stai he
of our Cabinet councils made their appearance in
infamous paper printed in neighboring city, the col
umns of which were daily charged with fattery OF
yourself and foul abuse of your Cabinet All this
bore for felt that my services, long as they could
avail were due to the nationto that great and mag
unanimous people, whose sufrages elevated your pre-
decessor the station which you now fill and whose
united voices approved his act, when he summoned
us around him to be his counselors; and felt that
what was due his memory, to the injunctons which
he left us in his last dying words and to the people,
whose servants we were, had not all been performed
until every means tried, and every hope had
failed of carrying out the true principles upon which
the mighty movement founded that elevated him
and you to power.
This bill framed and fashioned according to your,
own suggestions in the initiation of which and ano-
Their member of your Cabinet We're made by you the
agents and the negotiators was passed by large ma
oriies through the two houses Of Congress- and sent
to you, and you rejected il. Important as was the
part which had taken, at your request in the orlg
/
your action upon it, you never consulted me on the
subject of the Veto Message You did not even refer
to il in conversation and the first notice had Of its
contents was derived from rumor. .5, WA. .sr., -.
And to me, at least you have done nothing to wipe
away the personal indgnity arising out of the act
gathered il is true from your Conversations shortly
after the bill had passed the House, that you had
strong purpose to reject it; but nothing was said like
softenng or apology TO me- either in reference to
myself or to those with whom had communicated at
your request and who had acted themselves and IN
duced the two Houses to act upon the faith OF that
communication. And, strange as 1t may SEEM the
Veto Message attacks in an especial manner the
very provisions which were inserted at your request
and the of the corporation, which was not
only agreed 70 BY you, but especially changed TO meet
your expressed wishes is made the subject OF your
criticism. Different might view this transaction
in different points of light, but, under these crcum-
stances, matter of personal honor, it yo.ia pc DC
hard for to remain of your counsel 20 sea- my hs
and leave unexplained and ancscIossa whels us -
this transaction the departure from straightforward
ness and candor. So far indeed from admitting tho
which you gave to this bill IN ts IN
cepton, and EXPLAINING and excusng your sudden
and violent hostility towards IT, you throw into your
Veto Message an interrogaory equivalent to an as
sertion that it was such bill you had already De-
clared could not receive your sanction Such rs the
obvious effect of the first nerrogatory clause on the
second page It has all the olce of an assertion with
out its open fairness have met and refuted this,
the necessary inference from your language, in my
preceding statement, the correctness OF which you
| am will not call IN question. I" .. '.
Your veto the first bill you rested on constitution
al ground and the high convictions of conscience and
| no man, my opinion had right to question your
sincerity. so said, and SO acted, for through all
the contest and collision that arose out OF that act you
had my adherence and support But how is 1t with
this2 The subject ofa bank not new YOU
il is more than twenty years that you have made it an
object of consideration and of study especially in Its
connexion with the constitutional powers OF the IRE,
neral Government. You, therefore, could not be- and
you We're not taken unprepared on this question The
\ bill which reported TO Congress- with your rprooa-
/ ton, at the commencement of the session. had the
clause relating to agencies, and the power to deal IN
exchanges as strongly developed as the one you nave
now rejected, and equally without the assent OF the
States You referred specially and with appreciation
to that clause many days after, in conversation held
in the Department of State You sanctioned In this
particular bill detailed above And no doubt was
thrown out the subject by YOU in my hearing, or
within my knowledge until the letter of Mr.. Boris
came to your hands, Soon after the reading OF that
letter. you thew out strong limitations that you would
veto the bill if it were not postponed. That letter l
did and do most unequivocally condemn; but 1t did
not affect the constitutionality Of the BILL or justify
you in rejecting it on that ground; could affect only
the expediency of your action; and, whatever you
may now believe to the scruples existing in your
mind in this and in kindred source there Is strong
| ground to believe they have their origin.
If be right in this, and doubt not am, here Is
great public demanded BY the country passed
| upon and approved by the Representatives OF the
States and the People, rejected by you as President
on grounds having no origin in conscience, and no
reference to the public good. The rejection of this
measure too, continues the purse with the sword in
the hands Of the Executive, from which we strove to
wrest il in the which elevated Your predeces-
sor and you to power. cannot concur in this your
course Of policy In or out Of office my opinions Ie-
main unchanged | cannot abandon the principles
for which, during all my political career have strug-
gled especially cannot be of the instruments by
which the Executive yields these combined, accumu-
lated, and dangerous powers.
These sir, are the reasons for the important step
which have felt it my duty to take, and l submit
them Us its justification. ....
i am, very respectfully, yours,
To the PRESIDENT. T. EWING.
From the 81. Louis Republican, Sept l,
Steamboat Accident.-We learn from the clerk of
the Steamer Orphan Boy, that the VIM. Paris, from