, 1841-10-02

Y ~112 oSdi PLAS 10 COutiOl IL lids WEuU,
from the President his slow leave to a con
tingcnt distribution act, destined to be re
4 peaIed b, act OF Congress at an early day
1t has carried 4 b .nkrupt act which may havt
, some influence on the luli elections and ring
the knell vi expiring banks, but which, it i
not pretended cu be executed without funda
s mental alterations. So that loans, taxes, anc
L lew bulls, TOO Insignificant for enumeration
are the poor achievements of the hundred
d ,ys' mlsrule, frequently vaunled on the floor
oi the Senate, and certain of tile public pres
SEES, as heightened children whistle in the dark
"len courage Is oozing out al every pore,
and the sweat of trepidaiiun starting from
the forehead. thus di, Unity OF party dis.
Cord overruled party Combination, and shap-
ed Its rough Levin ends. The cloud, only as
BIZ as i mans hand in tie Tres dents mes.
sage, Increased till ii darkened the whole
iorrrzon, and III lrngtn lie Storm broke forth
with an intensity of which, tellow-ciiizenS.
newspapers and letter writer's Can give but
liant Impr' Ssions At Il dI>tance. The distin.
gulShed member OF tie ruptured majority,
who vainly attempted Ia reason with its
rage, t',ly said, that what a large portion
OF 1t did, To- VII: arrargn the President for his
h"sti iiy 10 Il Bank, The pivot of oil their
proceedings. is no better than for the Viii.
party 10 nave iolsted itself INTO power, BY
conceallng tleir designs; ard that their par.
ty differences. II not r%econcil. d, will become.
not misiortunes, but crimes, by their own
Misconduct.
They never cln be reconciled, they are
quarre's of principles. The dissensions Of
t!it par Y are mcvilatlr consequences OF! at
tempt II. Ia ere sc one out of discordant NIL
term> ;. Tie Presidents fist ms ssage wash
ed his hands "f thu retributive justice OF an
i!!-advised extr: session, designed 10 do what
human Iower cannoi elect. Yet. throu-h-
out The whole bundled days oil viceroyaliy
over him, party purposes unrclentingly pur-
sued, in c~OntumelI"us disregard Of his war
ming and views until he was left, as the
first veto wT,h much feeling declaied. with no
other option than abject submission, or tie
exercise 10 that great trihunitiln potentially,
the only safeguard against Legislative dicta.
ton, which he was obliged 10 use against
laws forced through the Legislature BY eau
Gus majorities. which were minorties of tie
legislative dodv. But for that appeal to the
PEOPLE. the people themselves would have
been rs much e~nSIaved as the President
Is 'll'Il N'NIt DC rpNtlICu w Uletll
mate regency. rulinL with upsrart irreSpun-
sibility. Both the Prrsiden, and the House
Of Rep e>cn arIves would b. nullified. Even
the Senate WIS not Il wiling party at least
10 the first Bank bill. We sh" I'D have bad
Bank government. and nothing but paper
money-a vast brokers' shop, in the metrop-
oiiian soli,rdeS of Washington, with branch
eS o.ling clch other across rivers, whose d.
visions do but multiply the means of conspir-
ing mischief, all $ cretly managed by some
old won II OF either Sex AT the seat of Gov
eminent, would be necessarily deranging the
prices "f property every where. An invisi-
Die emrir" of Bank. like the cauduS empire,
SECRETLY ruling Congress, Il power not behind
but c'or" the throne, would govern the Gov
ernmcnt of the United States. From all
these. the recoIling excuses Of the hundred
days. through the instrumentaiity OF the ve-
toes, have saved The country.
Mr. Tyler i an instrument of overruIing
Pro, idence, ofe marvellnusly snatched this
Republic from :pparent Jeopardy, TO rescue
ii from the calamities of the late over
wrou.h' extraordinary session. The chap
ter az >tran-e accidents conducting him to
the Chic: MariStracy is SAID TO nerve him
vi IA IL sort of re i.ious belief that he is des-
tin d. thr. ugh higher power, to wonderful in
ST unr n, lily. compromising champion
radical poll icSoi the Virginia platform,
lie stood erect upon ii almost al lie, evrrnned :,
ny parry adhrrent> opposed to his principles. :.
party opponents sympatllizing
with those principles. iearies.ly sustained by :
n SIN / sect al infexihlr p"iiiici,ns, u~njustIy
stlgmatized as 4 cahc.l on kitchen calumet. '
counteracring on otliri i ministry without ;
the Pre,ld, nt's prrdiierti'ns, if not their -.
.antagoni,ts. in fact the cabinet of another, :
Of whom have just dep Irted this poll ;
,ical life, after six short months of a fliul, =
existence. For some time past U
Tyler mus have been a constant veto
lpon all their views; for he did not sympa- 8.
ihize with one Of his Secretaries in attach u
men, to Banks or Abolition, in enjoyment of u
lrbitraty removals fom office, or any of the !,
Pleasures Of excessive Government. While q
or he stands fast by the people, they sup =
Measures, not men, Is the cardinal :,
uie Of republicanism. y
Never in American annals was a crisis SO :,
ull Of consol,ng Lessons rs the late abrotive ;;