Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-09-04
n VETO MESSAGE.

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created more general and profound sep
sutions in this country than the message
Of the President, vetoing the bank bill.
The measure is viewed by few except in
a party light; and, consequently, is yiew.
ed by the majority through a cloud of pre-
JUDGES extremely unfavorable to a proper
Investigation Of the facts interested. The
professedly democratic party exult with an
exuberancc OF JOY that 10 rarely SO widely
participated while the wings mingle ex-
pressions Of sorrow, indignation and despair,
in their every a~llusion to The. present
Chief Magistrate. We must do the wings
justice, however they, OF at least a ipa-
,jprity Of them, bear their disappointment
With exemplary patience. The first burst
Of feeling has ebbed, and sober second
thoughts have taken the place Of impulse
and anger. w heard two or three We.
terans discussing, last Saturday morning,
In, front Of our office, the bank bill as pas
sed by Congress: and wien its merits
and defects had been well considered, .pne
of them told the story Of the fellow who,
when refused by Noah admission into the
ark, cursed "the rickety old thing and
thought there would be "buta small shower
after all !" and they laughed, and took
each one His own way. This is true phi
losophy men who thus shake off disap-
pointments, although beaten. to-day, will
be found ready to renew the fight to-
morrow
We. propose a few reflections On the
message. ~
In the first place we regard this veto
as a just visitation upon the wings for their
manifold sins against their long professed,
long -honored and honorable principles.
While what party, adhereing closely TO
the admirable maxims of the Federalist,
professed its doctrines boldly and broadly,
and exempli6ed by its, actions a sarced
for those enlightened expoupd-
ers of the Constitution, t was regarded as a
party united FOR principle, rather than
bound together BY interest; but when we
saw the whig leaders abandon that dighi-
ty which had. SO long rendered, them re.
markable, and, as they. formally acknow.
lodged, ".stoop to conquer" adopting the
vulgar triskeryand temporizingexpedieney
for which their opponents were notorious,
we felt our respect for them give way-our
confidence in human ,tirmness, in the .ul-
innate triumph of reason over chicane
and suh..erfuge, falter and grow weak.
When the degrading spectacle. of our m
ticnal elections spectacle .#hich should
,snnoble and not abase the moral senti-
lhents-was passed, and the members Of
Congress met at Washington, we ventur.
I'D a forlorn hope, that the wings world
Eedeem a portion Of that self-repect which
they had so wantoply discarded. In this,
too. we were disappointed, for their acts
carly revealed the notifying fact, that
ExriED1ENcy and not .~rRiNcIpIE, was to
be IN future their gi1iding law. "Let us,
do,n' said they and if we cannot do what
we SHOULD, let us do vhat we CANE" and
as a consequence Of This humiliating'
course, the abortion now, elevated 10 an
upenuab1e Immortality by the veto Of the
President, made its appearance; The.
wings should not censure John Tyler for
his course ; he has been more righteous
than they !; they took him as he was, know
ing, him to be different from themselves,
vainly imagining that a sham sancetiimopy,
would make " the twain one, desh.'' The
ordinance was without JUNCTION, and Tyler,
after eneountering the perils of Calypso
has returned to Ithica of his affections.
He was no Federalist when they tc ok
hirn-he never promised them that he
would become one, nor did they exact
Of him such a pledge If they base been
betrayed, il is by Their hopes only and
their disappointment is meritea,, for it, was
by corrnpfting Tyler with lhe bIanidissh.
ments Of power that thev hoped to vim
from his conservative texts. True, he
was elected TO office by a party winch he
knew to pc a bark party but he did
not tell them he. r,as'a bank man, or that
he intended to secome a bank man. The
knew Fac contrary, and the charge
Of treason. would now come with as, good
q grace. from Tyler against. the wings ias
from. the wings against Tylsr. 4 little
tacit trickery has been practised by both
and no open rsecsriimiina,tiion is now justidi.
able in either. :,
But LEI u notice a few detactc,d sen.
fences in MI, Tyler's message. His first
objection to the bank bill, Is its power to
discount. local paper, and is worded as
follows:
"What cap the local discounts of the
bank have t. do with the collecting, safe
keeling and discussing the revenue? So
f.r as tho pere disro,ntinr ne naper is con.