The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-23

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impossible TO mistake the alluson, or its design
the object is an informal nomination Of MI
Clay.
Now we are not disposed TO deny the right 0
the Convention, 10 place any candidate befor
the People, at this early period. But we doub
The expedlency Of the man9uvre, and we denl
their right TO disfranchise any other individual
Nor is there any reason why Mr.. Tyler should
not, al proper time, submit his administration
on It's own merits, to the approval or dsapproya
OF the country He has no desire for an early
agitation of the country, by scramble for the
succession, and thus far, we have not seen 'the
revolving spectacle" deprecated by the Conven-
ton. The letter to the late acting Postmaster
General is an emphatic declaration of President
Tyler on this score. II would have been well,
II the Convention had declared its adherence OF
Relationships in Congress, organized for the ag-
grandizement Of an individual. This would at
least have exhibited a commendable degree of
mpartiality. But we hear no complaint of this
revolving spectacle" As for their attempting
TO draw invidious distinctions, al this time, in
tended to prejudice Wing President it is out
of place, in Wing Convention. Like the in
discreet Manifesto of the forty Wing members
Of Congress, the Declaration of the Syracuse
Convention was injudicious, and if the effect
tend 10 defeat the Wing party in New York,
the responsibility must rest with those who put
il forth.
The truth is, The nation wants tranquility,
and the Wing party has right to demand
repose, after the turmols of the past year. But
the politicians, ever restless, appear anxious to
plunge into another Presidential campaign, three
years before the election. For lack of argument,
they assail the President distort his senti-
ments, -misrepresent his actions,-impugn his
motives, and cavil at every thing he does. One
charges him with imbecility,-another with OBJ
stinacy one says, that he vetoed the Bank for
says the Bank itself is pop
ular: some pretend that his Cabinet abandoned
him,-others find fault because he turned them
out: the partisans Of Mr. Clay aver that he
courts the popular favor,-Mr. Clay himself de-
cares that he resisted the will Of the People,
In short, the accusations against him are so in
consistent, and SO utterly incompatible, as to re-
flute themselves, and show that they are manu-
featured for sheer political effect
Meanwhile. the People want repose, are
anxious TO give the new President fair oppor-
tunity to act for himself, and to Judge his ad-
by its own merits. They believe
him to be honest, capable, and faithful to the
Constitution. In particular, the Wing party
are DESTROYS of seeing the country rally around
the Wing President AS for casting him of,
because he differed in opinion with majority
in Congress, in the details of Fiscal Agent,
It would be suicidal to the party as such, and
prejudicial TO the nation at large. Reckless par
tlsans-the creatures of faction--may fret and
rage to their hearts content, but the honest por-
ton of the People can have no sympathy with
them. Thus far, John Tyler, though coming
suddenly into power, and assuming the most
responsible Office in the world, though sur
rounded with difficulties from the outset,-thus
far he has sustained himself like man and
statesman. His first Cabinet though selected
by another, received his generous confidence,
and it may be presumed, that he would have
preferred to travel on with them, in harmony, to
the end Of his official duties. But when they
undertook to interfere with his constitutional
duties, and to question his right to Judge for
himself in regard to bill presented for his sig
nature, -self-resPect, as well as regard for the
dignity OF the office rendered it necessary for
him to have frank understanding with his Ca
blnet, and if they could not cordially sustain him
and his measures, to seek those who could
This was the head and front of his offending
The old Cabinet resigned, and he appointed
new one, which is not only equal in character
and talent to the old one, but, as body, has not
been surpassed by any Cabinet since the foun-
dation OF the Government. With such a Cab-
net, and John Tyler at the head, the destines
of the nation are in safe hands BY the time
they have been in office, a twelvemonth, and
become familiar with their duties, they will
prove efficient as any of their ustrious pre-
decessors, from the days of Washington. Away
then with the foul attempts Of faction, to put
down an administration in advance for the sake
of aggrandizing an ambitious successor on its
ruins.
THE STATUE OF WASHINGTON was on Thurs