Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-10-12

O'HeE SOuECeS represent tlS EfeslusIlI Oh Li4O
United Statesl Mr.. Webster's letter to IN,
Senators from Massachl sets, (Which has beel
published by the Presidents organ 10 paIliale
acourse of duplcity and treachery, that can
neithe. be denied ror defended,) even if his in.
ference be correct, would only shew that Mr.,
Tyler allowed his personal resentment at the
act Of an individual member of the wing party
to interfere with the discharge of his duties in
the high ofice,to which he had been elevated
and to cause the defeat of the grand and mo.
mentous object, for which millions had strug-
gled, and which the peoples, representatives
had presented to him for his sanction. How
are we then to view the conduct of the Chic
Executive officer ofthis confederacy, who will
allow petty persona pique to divert him from
the fulhlment ofwhat he had solemnly proms.
ed and what his country most ardently desired!
In what terms Of reprobation can we adequate.
ly express our feelings of ind ignation and con-
tempt for the man, who, in affairs Of such mo
mentous Importance to nations interest, can
be induced, by consideration SO insignificant,
TO abandon a course which he had consented
to ipu rsue, toviolate pledges which he had
unequivOcaly given and to commit an
act marked with falsehood and treachery!
Without commenting further upon all the re.
voting Circumstances Of contemptible vacilla-
ton and unprincipled duplicity, of which Mr..
Tyler stands convicted in his intercourse with
his Cabinet, when we recur to some ofthe va
rious acts and professions by which he impos-
ed himself upon the confidence of the Wing
party,we are unable to conceive how man of
the most ordinary intelligence can expect to
reap any thing but the bitterest disappointment
from such manifest apostacy, as he has been,
guilty oftowards those, with whom he had af-
iected an identity of principle. He protested
to be warm opponent of the Administration
OF Mr. Van Buren,, advocated with great zeal
the general principles of reform which the
Wing party supported, was member of the
Harrisburg Convention. to nominate candid
ates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
q zealously urgedthe claims of Mr.. Clay to The
nomination, knowing that the establishment
ola national bank, would form the first and
most prominent feature of his administration. If
he were made President. He accepted ofthe
nomination of Vice President from a party
whose rallying point was well known TO be ga
sound and uniform currency" by the establish
ment OF United States Bank. He was pre-
sent in the convention at the time of his NOM
nation audit was nothing less than what COM
mon honesty and candor required that he
should have declined the nomination of a marty.
the leading measure of whose policy he was re-
olved to oppose, in the event of thecontineen-
cy which has given him the power. During
the Presidential canvass he acted in concert
with the wing party, and in public manner
adopted the sentiments of Gen. Harrison as
the principles by which he would be governed.
In the face ofall these circumstan which
with every honorable man would imply obi
cations of the most solemn character not to
interpose the authority that had been acquired
rather by the dispensation of Providence than
the suffragcs of the people, to prevent
the acc0mpi shment, of their purpose, -
without character as a statesman or popu-
larlty as Chief Magistrate, the creature of
accident and fortune, by the exercise of his
veto power he has thrust forward his con-
science and his viii to defeat the interests of
his country and the wishes of the nation. He
has thrown himself in the ranks ofhis violent
opponents and has treacherously surrendered
the grand object of reform for which the par
TYNE has deserted, had strenuously contended
and signally triumphed.
TreacLery may surrender the fruits of the
victory, which we so gloriously achieved, and
the battle, which we had Won, may be fought
over again, but
"What though the field be lost,
"All is not lost; the unconquerable will"
"And courage never to submit or YIELD"
will nobly sustain us through another con-
flct. The principles for which the wings have
contended are eternal and, 1t is comparatively
of but small importance under what leader we
may be arrayed, they must prevail Let us
then not be dismayed by this temporary de-
Ieat, let not individual treachery Or partial de-
lection, interrupt our party organization; but in
solid phalanx, firm and undaunted let us renew
the contest upon which our principles. are sta
ked and the prosperity of our country de-
pends.-Let it not be said of us that party,
whose majority is so overwhelming'and whose
motives are so honorable, have been, broken
into fragments and dispersed in confusion, by
the black hearted treachery of the creature
that had been fostered by our CONFIDENCE
+ At our approaching elections let the wings OIL
this State show that their union upon ques.
tons of national policy shall not be interrupted
by the introduction of a subject, which our op.
ponents have artfuIly thrown as a frebrand in
to the canvass to produce dssention in oul
ranks, without regard to either the principle
of justice or the character of our State.
! To THE EDITOR OF THE SoTHERN ARGUS:
In the Democrat of Saturday last, see tht
+ Editor of that paper in commenting on you
article of Tuesday last, in relation to the prob