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

never even produced decent humoug? lohouls
IF laughter)
(MI BentOn.) The Senator from Missouri
was not there.) N
Mr. Clay stand corrected. ! was only
imagining what you would have said you had
been there. (Renewed laughter.) Then there
stood the Senator from Georgia, Mr.. CuthbeI)
coming over in his mind on what point he
should make his next attack upon the Senator
from Kentucky. Uaughter) On yonder QUO.
man reclined the other Senator from MlssG ;In
on nv left, (Mr. Linn,) INDUCING, with smnes
on his face, in pleasing meditations on the rise,
growth, and future powers of his new colony OF
Oregon. The honorable Senator from Penn,
sylvania, (MI. Buchanan,) | presume, STOOD
forward spokesman for his whole patty, and,
although cannot pretend to initiate his we'll
known eloquence, beg leave to make an num-
Bile essay towards what presume TO have been
the kind ofspeech delivered by him on that au-
gust occasion.
"May it please your Excellency, number
of your present political friends, late your polltl
cal opponents, in company with myself, have
come to deposit at your Excellency's feet the
evidences of our loyalty and devotion; and they |
have done me the honor to make me the organ
of their sentiments and feelings. We are here
more particularly to present to your Excenency
our grateful and most cordial congratulations on
| your rescue of the country from hagrant ana
alton of Bank of the United States; and also
our profound Acknowledgements for the veto,
by which you have illustrated the wisdom OF
| your Administration, and so greatly honored
Yourself As we would dwell particularly on
the unanswerabe reasons and cogent argu-
ments with which the notification OF the act to
the legislature has been accompanied. We had
been ourselves struggling days and weeks to ar
rest the passage of the bill, and to prevent the
creation of the monster to which it G ives birth.
We had expended all our logic, exerted all our
ability, employed all our eloquence but in spite
of all our utmost efforts, the friends of your Ex
cellency in the Senate and House of Repres enta
tives proved too strong for us. And we have
now come most heartily to thank your Excel
lency that you have accomplished, for US that
against your friends which we, with our most
strenuous exerons, were unable to achieve
(Roars of laughter.)
| hope the Senator will view with indulgence
this effort TO represent him, although am but
too sensible how far it falls short of the merits
of the original AT all events, he will feel that
there is not greater error than was committed
by the stenographer of the Intelligencer the
other day, when he put into my mouth part
of the honorable Senator's speech. (Laughter.)
| | hope the honorable Senators on the other side
of the chamber will pardon me for having con-
ceived it possible that, amidst the popping of
champagne, the intoxication of their Joy, the
ecstaxy of their gori6cation, they might have
| been the parties who created disturbance, of
which they never could have been guilty, had
| they waited for their 'sober, second thoughts"
daughter loud and long, l have no doubt the
very learned ex-Secretary of the Treasury, who
conducted that Department with such distin-
guished ability, and such happy results to the
| country, and who now has such profound alb
horrence of all the taxes on tea and coffee,
though in his own official reports he so distinct
ly recommended them, would, ifappointed chair
man of the committee, have conducted the
investigation with that industry which so emf
nently distinguishes him, and would have favor
ed the Senate with report, marked with all his
| accustomed precision and ability, and with the
most perfect lucid cearness. CA laugh)
| There is one remark of the Senator from
Pennsylvania which demands some notice. My
friend from Virginia, Mr.. Archer, threw out an
intimation that very possibly the Senator from
Pennsylvania knew more of the sentiments and
purposes prevailing at the white house than he
| did. That Senator, in reply, denied that that
was the case as yet, but said that he hoped and
expected il soon might be so. Expected? Ex-
pected what? That President of the United
States, elected by the Wing party to different
station, and having arrived at the Presidency
under circumstances calculated to call forth his
most profound gratitude, should abandon the
party which elevated him-should commit an
which the Senator is a distinguished member,
but to which the President has been diametri-
cally opposed? Could that be what the Sena-
tor meant2 If it was, then / say that the sug-
gestion, the bare suppositon of such thing, is |
in the highest degree injurious to the President.
| do not pretend to know what may be his feel |
ings but sure I am that, were in his situation,
and the possibility of such an act of treachery
were affirmed of me, the reproach would fill my
heart to its inmost recesses with horror and
loathing. But the Senator chose to assign the
reason why he hoped and expected this. 1t was
that the President differed from his party on al
most every one of its great and leading points
of policy. Now, | intend, for moment, to in
stitute comparison between the differences of
the Locofoco party and his alleged differences
from the policy and principles Of the Wings.
And first and foremost, J will place the act of
sxpunging and mutilating the official records of
this body. Did the President agree with the
Locofocos in regard 10 that act? Again, on
the question Of Executive power and the extent
and increase of Executive patronage, does the
President agree with the Wings, or those
on the other side2 For myself do not
think that, In the impressive words of Mr..
Dunning, tthe power Of the Executive has
increased, is increasing, and ought to be di-
I minishedF And, then, on the term prlnci
pc what are the Presidents opinions2 Does
not all the world,know? Has he not put them
in writing; and declared, over and over, that no
President ought to serve for more than one term7
Has he not seen the effect of the opposite prac-
tice In leading Chief Magistrate so as to use
his power as TO secure his reelection to office?
| And then in regard 10 the Sub Treasury what
are the Presidents opinions on that point?
| Have gentlemen on the other side made up their
opinion2 Is there to be an accommodation on
this point2 No, sir, the hope of it is vain. The
soil of Virginia is too pure to produce traitors.
Small, indeed, is the number Of those who have
proved false to their principles and TO their par
| ty. knew the father of the President, Judge
| Tyler, Of the general court of Virginia, and a
purer patriot or more honest man never breathed
the breath Of life and am one Of those who
hold to the safety which flows from honest an
| cestors and the purtv of blood