New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-11-24
THE TRIBU NE.
Speech of Hon. Geo. E. Badger,

patriots OF hon. GEORGE T. BADGER, pressed hrr
10 partake Of Public Dinner with them at Ra-
leigh on the occasion of his return to them conse-
ouent the breaking up OF the Harrison Cabinet.
Mr. Badger finally acceded to their wishes aad the
Dinner given Monday Of last week. A sem
timent expressive Of the warm admiration felt by
the Wings of the Old North State for the talents
and services Of their distinguished guest, having
been offered and received with unbounded enthu-
siasm, Mr. Badger responded in powerful and
Impressive Speech, of which the substaHceis thus
reported in the last Raleigh Register:
Mr BADGER commenced by remarNng, that he
should, inaeed be wanting in sensibilty not to be
touched by the testimonial OF undeserved appro-
baton this day offered him. and by the compliment
tary sentiment which mad Just been so kindly re-
ceived. He was fully aware that there were con-
siderations Other than personal, connected with
this mark of respect ; and it 40 doubt expect
ed. surrounded as he was BY his old friends and by
those best able to estimate his motives, that he
should say something to the dissolution of the
late Cabinet, the present posture Of our affairs,
and the course proper to be adopted by the Wing
party ef North Carolina.
1t was well known TO hi. friends that he had
aever sought Office, that he had no fondness for it.
and that he took it from considerations nowise
connected with his own personal interest and nd
yancemen.. Had he believed himself at liberty
TO consult only his own wishes and his own inter
est he would have remained in his native State,
and seen content to attract that degree of respect
and esteem to which he might be thought entitled.
Having been influenced by public considerations to
take Office, he felt deeply gratifed laying it down,
10 find his conduct approved, ard his motives Iu't-
y regarded by those who had the best opportunity
10 know him.
The events of the past year, continued Mr.. B.,
must have excited the establishment OF every OBJ
servant man. 1t seemed TO him only as yesterday,
when this Grove was filled with thousands of de-
terminei Wings, collected from every part of the
State-brought together by base mercenary
mots1s, but by the solemn conviction that the fate
Of the whole country involved in the issue OF
sgreat political struggle. They were fired by the
same spirit of liberty that impelled our Revolu-
ionary forefa,hers and like them felt, that the sue
cess of their efforts was necessary TO the welfare
and happiness OF their posterity. They Did sue
ceed Day after day, the cheering tidings came
ill., that Slute upon State had declared for the Wing
cause At length the voice of the whole Ameri-
can People was collected, and HARRISON, the Pa
triot, Sage, Statesman Soldier, and best of all,
Christian, was called to direct the nation. 10 his
I voice. SAID Mr.. b. | yielded, and became mem.
I Der of hs Cabinet And when, Sir, L saw and knew
! that noble old man. and those whom ne had called
about him-when heard him in the midst OF thou
sands of his countrymen take that solemn oath
which bound him to redeem the pledge then given
OF faithful DEVOTION TO his country, felt deep
assurance that misrule was at an end-that the
oue-snan power was lcpediated from our system,
and the Nation secure Of true Representative
Government.
But, a fearful change has come over the land
There is voice heard q, of mourning, and ieel-
ing of disrust seems TO pervade every part OF the
country Why is this7 Are Wing principles less
valuable now, than they were twelve months ago
Are Loco-Foco doctrines less traugh with destruc-
tive anti-social and ant-religious qualities than
thew then were Are the Wings more ready now,
than then to embrace them! None VIII answer
these questions in the affirmative. No, though
there are many good, wise and excellent men IN
the ranks of our opponents, the tendency OF their
parry principles is still disorganizng and destruc-
i've. and the Wings is much as ever reject and
dread them And yet look at the present aspect
Of things OF seven States OF the Union, in which
elections have recently taken place, and where, last
! fall the Wing majority was told BY thousands,
/ Eve exhibit Loco-Foco triumphs. Why Is this II
| the Wing strength be not diminished In my
cpnion this result is 10 be attributed 10 the same
causes which led 10 the disruption OF the late Cab
l met AID what are they The Wings have
raised up .ran TO the Executive Csair who though
elected as Wing, PROCESSING to be a Wing and
J believed 10 be Wing, nevertheless, either does
not Justly unde .tand, truly value and consist
emily pursue the great constitutional principles OF
that parry 1t was neither his purpose nor WISH
cOnluued Mr.. B te speak in terms OF seventy oil
Mr., TYLER; but the President OF tine United
States though the Chief Magistrate is but a pub
hc servant and such, his conduct Is nj SUBJECT
! denomination and remark. HIS conduct towards
Congress- and his Constitutional advisers was the
main cause of the dissolution of the CablIet and
he same cause hu. led TO our recent defeats
!. There is no abandonment of Wing principles any
where, but uncertainty and dstrust have produced,
for the time, naction among the Wings.
Attempts have been made, know, sir, continued
Ar. B, to dscredit the statement IN Mr. EWING
| k,,er, Il what passed in the Cabinet meeting OF
! The lSra of August but say here, in the pre-
! ,ence Of this enlightened and respectable compa-
ny, on the responsibility Of my own reputation TOR
ruth, of which none are better aole judge than
those address, that that statement is true-in It's
sading and esseatal facts, absolutely lrue-ln all
& IL deras, substantially true.
3 The Cabinet would no, have been dissolved sim
( ply because the President vetoed the Bank bills
Ms scuplos. if sincere, however unreasonable, and
even absurd. would have been entitled to tender
Ness if not respect and no member of his Cabinet
i Senld have visited with the harshness Of censure
/ he errors Of man who Fought after Truth with
/ sllnetess TO find and q desire TO embrace 1t,
merely because, through fecbleness OF understand
ag, or early prejudice, he was disabled 10 perceive
I Il was The want of sincerity and ingenious
sss--of direc,ness and candor; it was the d'sre-
n'd OF courtesy and respect; ii was the manifest