The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1841-09-23

q thai friendship should now Be in,errup,.
ed, q should not be my fault. WHY, sir.
what possible. what conceivable motive
can have 20 quarrel with The President.
o. % break up the Wing partyi What
earthly motive can impel me 10 wish for
any other result Than that that party shah
remain IN perfect harmony. undivided,
and shall move undismayed, boldly, and
unitedly forward 10 the Accomplishment,
OF the all-impor.ant public objects which
u has avowed 70 be is aiml What ina
ginahle interest Of feeling can have other
than the success. the triumph. the glory
OF the Wing party! But that there nav
be designs and purposes on the part Of
certain other individuals 10 place me in
Inimical relations with the President, and
70 represent me a personally opposed 10
him, ! can well Observation-Disclosures who
are beating up for recruits, and enieavor-
ing TO form a third party with materials
so scaniy as to be wholly insufficient 10
compose . decent corporal's guard. 1
Tear there are such individuals, though |
do not charge the Senator as being him
self one Of them. What a spectacle has
been presented TO this nation during this
entire session Of Congress- That Of the
cherished and confidential friends Of John
Tyler, persons who boast and claim 10 be,
par rrceiieaes, his exclusive and genu-
inc friends. being the bitter, systematic,
determined, uncompromising opponents
Of every leading measure Of John Tyler's
administration! Was there ever before
such an example presented, in this or any
other age, in this or any other country!
| have myself known the President too
long, and cherished towards him too sim
cere friendship, 10 allow my feelings to
be affected or alienated by any thing which
has passed here to-day. II the President
chooses-which | am sure he cannot, UNI
less falsehood has been whispered into
his ears, or poison poured into his heart
to detaeh himselffrom me, shall deep
" regret il, for the sake OF our common
friendship and our common country. /
now repeat, what before said, that, Of all
the measures Of relief which the Ameri-
can people have called upon us for, that
Of national bank and a sound and uni
form currency has been the most loudly
and approximately demanded. The Sc
nator says that the question Of a bank was
not the issue made before the people at
the late election. | can say, for one, my
own conviction is Numerically the con-
trary. What may have been the charac-
ter of the canvass in Virginia, will not
say; probably gentlemen on both sides
were, every where, governed in some de-
gree by considerations Of local policy.
What issues may, therefore, have been
presented TO the people Of Virginia, either
above or below tide-water, | am not pre-
pared to say. The great error, however,
Of the honorable Senator is in thinking
that the sentiments Of particular party in
Virginia are always a fair exponent Of the
sentiments of the whole Union. A
laugh. can tell that Senator that
wherever | was-in the great valley Of
the Mississippi-in Kentucky-in Ten
nessee-in Maryland--in all the circles in
which moved-every where, q" Bank or
no Bank" was the great, the leading. the
vital question. At Hanover, in Virginia,
during the last summer, at one of the most
remarkable and respectable and gratifying
assemblages that ever attended, ] dis
tinctly- announced my conviction that a
Bank of the United States was indispen-
sable. As to the opinions Of General
Harrison, | know that, like many others,
he had entertained doubts as TO the con-
stiiu,ionality of bank, but also know
that, as the election approached, his OPT
MONS turned more and more in favor Of a
national bank; and | speak from my own
personal knowledge of his opinions when
| say that have no more doubt he would
have signed that bill than that you, Mr..
President, now occupy that chair, or that
| am addressing you.
Irose not to say one word which should
wound the feelings Of President Tyler.
The Senator says that, if placed in like
circumstances, would have been the last
man to avoid putting direct veto upon
the bill. had il met my disdpprobation;
and he does me the honor to attribute to
me high qualities of stern and unbending
intrepidity. hope that in all that relates
to personal firmness-all that concerns
just appreciation of tho insignifcance of
human life-whatever may be attempted
to threaten or alarm a soul not easily
swayed by opposition, or awed or intimi-
dated by menace stout heart and stea-
dy eye that can survey, unmoved and UNI
daun,ed, any mere personal perils that as
saiI this poor transient, periohing frame,
may, without disparagement, compare
with other men. But there is sort of
courage which, frankly confess it, do
not possess--a boldness to which j dare
not aspire--a valor which cannot covet.
cannot lay myself down in the way OF
the welfare and happiness Of my country.
That cannot, have not the courage to
do I eannot internose the mower with