Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-10-02

country, IN the face OF Threatened denun-
citation, has exhibited a moral courage as
high, and heroism of principle as I'M
daunted, and certainly as worthy of the
respect and applause of a moral and reli-
gious people, jealous Of their liberties and
loyal to the great charter which secures
them, as that species of latitudinarian bold
ness which sacrifices principle to expedien-
cy, and which confounds conscience, in
public affairs, with pride, Uanity, egotism,
and even crime, and which we have Just
heard so vauntingly celebrated in the heroic
strains of the Senator's eloquence as public
Ulrtuei
will venture to say farther, Mr.. Presi-
dent, that large majority of the Ameri-
can people, whether they agree with Mr.
Tyler or not in his construction of the
Constitution, have too habitual respect
for conscientious opinions and principles
of action not to honor the integrity and
firmness with which, at every hazard to
himself personally, he has sought, in faith
full discharge of his solemn obligations of
his oath of Office, to maintain the Consti-
tuition of the country inviolate.
The Senator has INDUCED his fancy in
regard TO certain ca6aI which he says it is
alleged by Rumor ian authority he seems
prone to quote of late) has been formed
for the wicked purpose of breaking up
the regular Cabinet, and dissolving the
Wing party. Though the Senator is pleased
to acquit me of being a member of this
supposed cabal, he said he should infer,
from the zeal and promptitude with which
/ hox-a IL = lac Al
and conduct of the President, that was.
at least, member of his PriCy Council
| thank God, Mr.. President, that in his
gracious goodness he has been pleased to
give me heart to repel injustice and to
defend the innocent, without being laid
under any special engagement, as privy
councillor or otherwise, to do Justice to
my fellow man; and if there be any gen.
tleman who cannot find in the conscious
ness of his own bosom a satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of so natural an impulse, for
one envy him neither his temperament nor
his philosophy. If Mr.. Tyler, instead Of
being a distinguished citizen of my own
State, and filing, at this moment, station
of the most painful responsibility, which
entities him to candid Interpretation o.
his official acts at the hands of all his coun
trymen, had been a total stranger, un
known to me in the relations of private oil
political friendship, / should yet have felt
myself irresistibly impelled, by the com
mon sympathies of humanity, to under
take his defence, to the best of my pool
ability, when have seen him this day SO
powerfully assailed, for an act, as verify
believe, of conscientious devotion to the
Constitution of his country and the sacred
obligations of his high trust.
The honorable Senator complains that
in my reply to him, unustly represented
him as censuring and arraigning the con.
duct of the Chief Magistrate. He asks il
he used such language as perfdy. | did
not say that he used the word perfidy
but that his allegations resolved themselves
substantially into the charge of perfdy
against the President. And is not this
true! | appeal to those who heard him
and would appeal to the honorable Sena,
tor himself, in his cooler moments, if two
thirds of his speech did not consist of i'm,
putations, more or less direct, on the Presi
dent for violation of his faith, express or
implied, to his party and the country
Did he not begin his speech with reading
and dwelling upon passage in the Inaug-
ural Address of the President, which he
contended amounted to an engagement to
the nation to sign such bill as had been
presented to him, If so, what is his veto
message, now before us, but violation o.
that engagement, or in other words, /;
breach of faith, an act of perfidy to the
natl on. Again, did not the honorable Sen
ator say if the course which the President
has now taken could have been anticipated
either by the Harrisburg Convention OF
by the people at the polls. he would not
have received an individual vote in the
former, or a single electoral vote from the
latter. Does not this imply disingenu'
Gus suppression, something like fraudu.
lent concealment of his opinions by the
President, which, if true, would, under tho
circumstances, have been grossly inconsst
ent with the principles Of good faith! How
| little foundation there is for any such I'M
putation, flatter myself ! must have fully
demonstrated to the satisfaction Of the
Senate, in the remarks had the honor
to make in reply to the first speech of the
Senator from Kentucky.
The honorable Senator also insisted. witt
great earnestness, that the veto of this bill
under the circumstances in which The
President stood, was so exceptionable /;
proceeding that, rather than to have re
sorted to it, it would have been better fo
him to have euaded the responsibility o
his high station by permitting the tel
days to elapse without any action on thu
measure, or otherwise TO have resigned
has office, and left the Government withou
an elective head Could any thing conve.