The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-23
THE SYRACUSE DECLARATION AND
THE WING PARTY.

We have already had occasion to advert to
some Of the erroneous conclusions of the De-
claration of the Syracuse Convention, and we
now resume the subject.
The Declaration assumes, that "the whole
Wing party, the President included, stood
pledged to the country, by the most sacred obi
cations, in favor of a Bank. This is not true
in any essential particular. So far from the
President being so pledged, his whole public ca
reer afforded pledge 10 the contrary. That the
Wing party was not thus pledged, is evident,
from the whole tenor of the electioneering cam
paign. In some States, the Bank was openly re-
pudiated, and in others, it was studously kept
out Of sight The Bank was in fact an issue,
from which, the Wing party shrunk, because the
more intelligent of the party knew, perfectly
well, that there was no prospect of success with
a Bank for the watch-word. How unjust then
was it, for the Convention, to declare, in So
lemn form, that the President was pledged TO
such measure.
The manner in which the Convention assumed
to talk to the President, is worthy of the imita-
ton of a country pedagogue to wayward tru-
ant or of judge in admonishing condemned
criminal about to receive sentence. They trust
he will faithfully improve the present oppor-
tunity" for reflection, and "fnding out his error,
will correct it," They "have right to hope
and expect, that the President will look again,
and with more care, and better judgment and
conclusions, into the important subject in which
he and Congress have differed" 1.-THE public
money now in his hands, must be taken out"
&c. This is in the true pedagogue vein, and
surely the President ought to be very grateful,
for so much gratuitous advice bestowed on one
who has violated so many pledges
They "lament and maruel, that he could not
repose confidence in those who had enjoyed the
special confidence of the elected President and
who possessed the unbounded confidence of the
whole family Of the Wings" 1t may be, that
the old Cabinet possessed the confidence of Gen.
Harrison: but If he had discovered that they
were leagued with his personal and political OPP
ponents, knowing him as we did, we doubt
whether he would have allowed them to hold
their places day after such discovery. Dis
guise it as we may it is essential to the success
Of any Government that perfect harmony and
entire confidence should prevail between the
head and subordnates Of the Administration.
That this mutual confidence did not exist, is evil
dent from the disclosures of the retiring Secre-
taries, and that being the case, the sooner the
connection was dissolved the better for both
parties, and for the country at large.
The CopyentIop congratnlate than,salves on
an alleged avowal heretofore made by the Presi
dent, in regard to the one term principle, that
in his time, the country will not be cursed with
the revolving spectacle of an administration con-
Quoted through one entire term, chiefly with the
view of securing the succession to the incum-
bent. In juxta position with this expression,
they significantly introduce the name of Henry