The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-28

II is not our Intention to offer any common place apo
lory for the few observations shall submit to you in
relation to the charges against the President as we ind
them imbodled in the Manifesto Of the Wing party.
Such is the character, and such the consequences of
these allegations that who has at hearthe ho
nor and harmony the Wing party, ought TO continue
SILENT so long any topic of illustration is unex-
hausted, or any important point of view unoccuped
In reviewing this Address, we have singular spec
tacle before u.s. We have the astounding fact, that
the representatives of the American People the depo-
STORY of their power and in constitutional point Of
view, the image of their wisdom, descending from the
dignity of their legislative duties, to the task Of utter
ing az anst the ordinate department of the Govern
ment the mingled language of Indignation and re-
proach Not satisfied with promugating to the world
an Address couched ia terms selected to convey
opprobrium and nix stigma, but the authors of this
production invite the Wing party to withdraw their
confidence from the Chief Magistrate. They say,
that he has not been governed by proper considera-
tons in dscharging the Executive funcons-that he
is DESTROYS to overthrow the party that elevated him to
power--and that he vetoed the Bank bills, not from
conscientious constitutional scruptes but under other
influences than these, which of the public
good required These the stains they have thrown
the action of the President these the wounds
they have inflicted. II Is scarcely possible to COM
PRISE within the compass, of the spirit of
whatever is bitter in Invectlve and humlliang in as
persiun This heaped up measure of caucus contume-
iy is prepared for whom For private, insulated,
individua-a vioent political opponent.2 No; for
the President OF the United Stntes the representative
of great and powerful pary-a member of our poll
tical association whose confidence he shares Eleva-
ted to power by the sufrages Of the Wing party, are
not bound by strong political considerations to up
hold him in his sphere of usefulness and honor
bound say by the most impressive obligations TO vim
dictate his character.
But in charges of so important nature, urged by
so high authority simple denial is not sufficient. 1t
behooves u.s. toi the justification of the conduct OF the
President and for the vndicaton of his hitherto pure
and unsulIied reputation, TO meet each charge with a
full and particular answer; TO explain and reutc at
length every principle urged against him. to state the
evidence by which expect to dsprove every fact re-
lied in support Of the accusatons and to detail all
| the facts and arguments on which intend to rest
his defence. The necessity Of our embracing
all these objects, in of this kind, must be obs
Gus to all minds, honestly seeking the truth.
The frigid exordum OF the Manifesto gives place TO
a series of opinions in relation to Mr. Tylers motres
in refusing sign the bills creating fiscal agencies.
Ii is graduated from scale of modest objection to the
forid glow of bitter denunciaon. With few fair
and welldgested sentiments the Address proceeds to