The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-02
COMBINATION AGAINST THE PREsI-
DENT

ect of which s TO dismember the Wing party, estab-
lish Clay party ON its ruins, break down the admi-
nisralion of John TYLER, and elect Henry Clay To-
| the Presidency. From the commencement OF the ex-
ira session. these Indications have been as clear and
manifest the noon day Early in the session,
Rumor' proclaimed that the measures Of Congress
were to be regulated in caucus under the auspices oil
an irresponsible dictatorship II was Afterwards init
mated in debate, that deputation after dePuatioh
had been sent to the White House, to oyera"e the
President The prime object of the consPrators was
TO create false issue between the President and Con-
gress Knowing that the President had been opposed
to an unweldy National Bank, it was determined, in
concave, to get up institution Of the kind
which he could sanction without gross nconsis-
tency The first and second Bank bills we've framed
| for this purpose. They were urged through Con-
gress, and presented to him. with the avowed expec-
taon that be would refuse his sanction This being
accomplished their next object to denounce him
for refusing to approve of what they affected to con-
slider an essential measure of the Wing party.
The next act in the drama was for all the Heads
of Department to resign. Five of them, under this
malign influence, threw up their commissions in
day. The next memorable act was, the meeting of
minority of the Wing members of Congress, who as
| sumed to speak fer the majority, and arrogated to
themselves the authority to dictate to the whole Wing
party of the Nation The tendency of the address
was to confound all party distinctions the
Wing Congress against the Wing President--engen-
der strife between brethren of the political ai
y, and resolve parties into their original clements
The main object of all these movements was, to rule
John Tyler out of the Wing party, and raise the hue
and cry against him for his destruction. IT, however,
the Wing party should be dismembered the fault will
not be that of the President but of the factious men
VINO have raised the standard of party revolt against
the Wing Administration, and the People will hold
them responsible for the consequences.
Look at the case The President has, from the
beginning, pursued straightforward course Elect
ed with General Harrison, and succeeding this dis
tnguished individual by of Providence through
the forms of the Constitution, his first official act was
to confirm in their places, the Cabinet selected by his
predecessor His next object to appoint to office
those who had received promises of the favor of Pre-
sident Harrison. On the meeting of Congress, he
evnced an earnest disposition to cooperate with the
measures Of the Houses far he could consistently
with his well known views of the Constitution. In
30 DOING he cordially sanctioned all the measures of
Congress but one, and gave his objections to that
measure, in the most concatory manner possible, SO
as to exclude all just complaints. But because he did
not think proper to 60 the entire length with bare
majority of Congress, and sanction measure, under
the spur Of dctaton, which he could not in his con-
science approve the five members Of the Cabinet de-
sert their posts and denounce the President Under
the same malign influence portion of the Wing
members put forth their address, declaring uncompro-
missing partizan warfare against the Wing President,
and all for the aggrandizement Of Henry Clay.
Not only is this address hostile TO the President
personally but of such revolutionary character as to
aim to change the Constitution ITSELF and paralyze
the powers of the Executive branch of the Govern
ment. Its object is to abrogate the Veto power
make the Secretary of the Treasury elective by Con.
gress-and change the tenure of all the Offices of the
Government. Once concede these points, and the
next demand of faction would be, to place all the
other heads of the Executive Departments at the mer
cy of bare majority of Congress, and the President
would be stripped of the last vestge of authority Nor
is this all the dictatorship, which was estab-
shed at the Capitol at the extra session. TO overawe
the President would in caucus exercise supreme
mand over all the departments, and glorious form
of Government would be reduced from its present fair
proportions and well balanced checks to perfect oil
garchy controlled by caba of ntrigues, worse than
the Infamous Jacobn clubs in the darkest confusion
of the French revolution
1t was intended by the trainers of the Constitute ion
to make the President responsible for all the acts of
Executive branch Of the Government. The Heads
of Department were to the ears, and eyes
and hands of the President to assist him in the null
Hilarious labors of his Office while was to be held
responsible, by impeachment for the faithful discharge
of his duties. 1t therefore eminenty proper, |
and due to the dignity of his station and his response
bility, that he should all his executive minis
ters But the factious conspiraors who issued the
Address, avow the intention to deprive him of his
constitutional right to select the agents which are te
sec, and hear and speak for the President, in the
branches of his Department Chief Magistrate. AT
giving the selection of his subordinate agents to
midnight cabal of Members of Congress, they would
hold him responsible for the manner in which he and
they discharge their duties Can any thing be more
disorganizng, destructive of the plain principles
of Government, and more fatal to the fundamental
principles of the Constitution The free people of
this glorious Republic will never submit to such die
tation, come whence it may.
While these factious men are striving to strike
down the pillars Of the Constt ution-change the an
cient ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Wing party, and
destroy the Wing President, they have the erontery
to proclaim, that he has separated himself from the
party. HoW has he thus separated HIMSELF In
what instance2 We answer without fear of contra
dicton, that he has done this in essential instance
He has vetoed Bank measure. So did Mr.. Mad-
son, and so did Gen. Jackson. He and they had
right to do so, and the two former sustained by
the people, and the latter will be sustained. Beiev
ing that these measures unconstitutional or in
expedent, it their duty to negative them After
swearing support the Constitution, he could not sit
with folded and see violated in what he deemed
essential point. To pretend that Bank was a
test Of Wing principles, was to confound party dis
tinctions. To say that Mr. Tyler ever in favor
of such measure, argues gross ignorance of his
whole public career. To assert that he violated his