The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-07

exercising tho power with which the Constitution had
invested him, the Executive Magistrate of the ma
| ton l appeal 10 every candid and unprecedented
mind il it was just to place him in position in which
he must either abandon his preconeeived opinions,
which he believed TO be well founded, and thus do
violence TO his judgment and conscience, or sanction
measure that he firmly believed to be impoliiic, I'M
constitutional, and mex pedient and offend large por-
ton Of the party whom he owed his elevation As
an original Wing was willing to allow him time
for deliberaton, and am sure, had this been done,
from my knowledge Of the sound judgment and good
feeling Of the President the party and the country
would alike have been gratifed with the result. |
think il was not only njudicious, but somewhat un-
fair, to drive him To SO painful alternative; and
have no doubt many of my Wing friends are now Of
the same opinion, and, like myself sincerely regret It,
All who know Mr. Tyler must be satisfied that he
is guided in all his public acts by the sincerest patriot
ISM and in his private conduct by the most noble and
generous impulses and feelings lie yields, perhaps,
too much to the latter, foi strictly party man. I'm
like Of his predecessors, he cannot look upon
scenes Of bloodshed and carnage with composure, but
is rather inclined to weep spectacle of misery,
and to sympathzc perhaps too deeply, in scenes of
fictitious distress and suffering, which often pre-
scented to him by those who have been his political
emes, and who, knowing his generous nature, avail
themselves of il to advance their interests. His
is emphatically the sibi conseia recti. His
heart is in the right place, and he always yields to
its Dictates though in doing so he may sometimes
render himself obnoxious to censure His constant
aim is to do good TO his fellow men, and to promote
the welfare and happiness of his country; though
he may sometimes err in adopting the best mode of a
ectng it. He never has BEEN from his peculiar ma
ture, be, devoted partisan. He cannot,
like Burke, give up to party what was meant for
mankind" and though his attachments are strong,
his philanthropy and patriotism stronger, and he
will sacrifice what he believes to be the public
good to subserve the views or promote the interests
Of any political sect is true and certainly to be
GREETED, that he has in one important point differed
from the party to whom. under Heaven he owes the
high office he fills, but he has done 50 from deep
conviction of its propriety and an overwhelming
OF duty and he should not, that account, be
too hastily rashy condemned The amable and
excellent Madison, also, differed from his party on
similar question, by vetoing National Bank bill
which, at the succeeding session. ard after it had re-
ceived some notifications he willingly approved His
party in that day, did not dream Of condemning or
abandoning him for this excusable exercise of judg
ment They knew his patriotism and sincerity, and
that what he did was done from the purest motives
and the deepest convictions of right. Why should
not similar indulgence be extended to President Ty
ler-a man not less patriotic, benevolent, and pure :?
Why should he be denounced and treated as an enc
my, who has, in one particular only, differed from his
political friends and who is still willing crafty
their wishes and the wants of the country by the
adoption of plan of finance that may answer the
same, and he equally salutary, the which
was pressed upon him, and which his constitutional
opinions would not allow him to sanction.
An old National Republican,