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


lies. NAV be gathered from the fact that he has
represented the highly intellectual State oil 'ir-
gina, in both branches OF the National LegislA-
lure, in the palmy days OF Randolph, oil Iaze-
well. OF Riyes, OF Archer, OF the Barbours, inc
Steyepsons, and host Of other distinguished
sons Of the ancient dominion. II i not the
custom of Virginia TO send her inferior sons 10
the national councils. Without, therefore, go
ing back 10 his gubernatarial career, we claim
for him national character, awarded 10 him oy
Virginia, most competent and impartial JUG.
of eminent men As a true son Of Virginia, and
true TO her doctrines, Mr.. Tyler returned TO her
hand his warrant TO hold seat IN the Y. o
Senate at the very momenr he could not vote a.
her legislature required. That act OF manllness
alone in our judgment, brought out IN brighter
tnts the tue coloring of John Tyler's charac-
ter. than any other passage in his eyentful life
And il was that act, in our opinion, that made
him popular enough, all over the country, TO re-
ceive, with so much unanimity, the Wing nomi-
nation for Vice President.
Every distinguished man has some striking
feature in his history, TO which the eye OF the
public turns, as If by instinct. Jefferson Il most
celebrated for the Defamation of independence I;
Franklin, for his experiments on electricity, and
Tyler for the free surrender OF three years OF his
Senatoriallerm, while many other Senators chung
TO their places like leeches with the thunders of
the legislative vote 10 retire, sounding in their
ears. II was the resignation of Mr.. Tyler, IN our
opinion, that proved him TO be man OF most reso-
lutte devotion 10 the republican doctrine Of IN
struction, and that opened up his path 10 the
Presidency.
The Wings now seem to wonder why they
selected him. His nomination grew out OF the
condition of things, they must take some man
from the South, and il was believed, and truly,
by all that he was better known through the ma
-, H. ,tbx hat
select, residing below Mason and Dixon's line.
And after he was nominated they could not stop
to question him closely about the Bank, as that
was every where kept cautiously IN the back
ground They invited all who were dissatis-
fed with Mr.. Van Buren's administration, not
caring whether they would eventually go all
lengths in support Of the Bank measure or not.
Mr.. Tyler they knew had openly and notorious
ly avowed his opposition 10 Bank. But In
weaving party together Of the shreds and REM
nanis Of dissenters to the Van Buren, admins
tration they did not venture to put them through
a searching examination. Nor was it thought
by any one that the Vice President would in
the course of his term, be called 10 the Execu-
tive char--and if he should be, they were will
ing TO run the hazard. The party had been so
long in minority that they went upon a voy-
age OF recruiting and took all who might Join the
ship, believing that after the voyage was over,
if successful, they would be able to mould
things into suitable shape. Without approx
ing ourselves of any of the Bank propositions of
Congress, we think we gathered enough inior-
nation concerning the course of the legislation
of the country as to warrant US in believing that
if bill had contained the provs ion requiring
the assent of the States to the location ofbranch-
es that it would most probably have become a
law. This view OF the case throws a large
share if not the whole Of the responsibility from
tae shoulders of President Tyler.
We think in all the aspects therefore in which
Mr.. Tyler's character comes before the nation
II is not only very striking, but also evinces a
high grade of mental power. Scarcely had his
old Cabinet resigned, with the exception of Mr.
Webster, before he Immediately calls around
him new Cabinet not in the slightest degree
inferior to the retiring Secretaries.
Ia favor of The exercise of the Veto power, it
cannot be doubted that he has the whole Repub-
lican party Of the country with him; party,
Judging from recent events, that represents
large majority Of the people of the republic be-
sides multitude of Wings who sincerely be-
lieve that some money scheme can be devised
and sanctioned by Congress, that will answer
all the purposes OF the nation
That, President Tyler was honest in his Veto,
no one will deny Had he signed the bill, his
path would have been strewed with flowers by
his party His name would have been assigned
to the shining pages of Wing history, and if he
should have been candidate, and have failed
in reelection, he would have been ranked by
them among the best and ablest men Of the
country. All this Mr.. Tyler knew, and all this
he had to forego He had for many years pro-
claimed his views in relation TO a banking insi-
tuition, and he saw before him no door of honor
left open but a straightforward one, and he re-
solved to pass through it, Had he not pursued
that course, when he returned to Virginia, he
would have been charged with the meanest spe-
cies of dupicity. Tney could and would say,
that he had two sets Of principles, one when
running Tor an office, and another set when he
obtained it, He doubtless was pleased with the
high distinction the Wings had bestowed upon
him in casting their votes for him. But while
he esteemed them all and thanked them for
their sufrages, he owed duty to his conscience,
the whispers Of which, however low they may be,
can never be heard by good man withoutproving
supreme. If President Tyler acted conscienti-
ously in sending in his Vetoes, and we have no
doubt that he did, the freemen of the country
should applaud him, in all parts of the nation
for President who would violate his conscience
In his public career, is fit object of universal
scorn.
We should not have made the few remarks
presented on this occasion, if we had not deem
ed something of the kind necessary, after read
ing the article against President Tyler, publish
ed in a neighborlng city, above referred TO.
In closing our observations, we take leave TO
add, that whatever may be the course of Mr..
Tyler, or that of his friends, in relation TO futu-
rity, he will have the consolation of knowing
that, during his Presidential career, he did not
soil his escutcheon which he brought in all pu-
rity into the white house, from his native Virgil
MIA, that ancient home of refinement, talent and
patriotism.
| From The Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot.
WHERE ARE THE WINGS mo ,.
! In my last communication, said that the Whigs
owed their success to coneiLiatorY practical and