Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-09-28
TIlr SECOND VETO.


1t fixes conclusvciy, we think, one most important
fact No trading corporation endowed with the public
revenues will he established within the next four years
nor confidently predict ever hereafter, and John
TYLER in being thus the fortunate instrument provden-
tally interposed to sever Government from Mr.
Claws deiestabe stock obbng fraternity, has given
impulse to the constitutional cause-pacng IT at
point in advance where we could have hoped 10
find il in years hence, had the President been the
degraded and plant tool which Clay would have lam
made him He has thus swept away mass al cnrrup
lion which the intriguing dictator had long oiled raise
as fulcrum for the lever Of his ambton-and has bro
ken the main spring Of the machinery OF fraud by which
he was TO be raised 10 power. The ladder has crash
ed beneath The climbing advenurer at the very mo-
ment he was shouting braggart exu!tatlon on the
opmost round and brandshng with the coarse glrc o.
vul gar yrant the roe Of iron which he fondly deem
ed he permanently 10 WELD over the hunbed and
subject Democracy. To compare small things with
great, there has been much in this dasling o Tie cup
Of triumph from the lips OF our staggering victor BY
the unseen hand Of OmBipotence, TO remind US OF The
downfall OF Bolingbroke, far greater 10 clio.
quence genius, learning, and business talent hut as
unsku legislator and statesman, much the slave
Of tie unhridrd passion whose mpetuosiy made HIM
an orator by temperament, and though unlike hIn IN
being true 10 his friends and fathfulo his pary aud lar
more lofty and unselish in lis ambitious aspirations,
believed by many Of his contemporaries 10 have been
less selfish trcacherous, unscrnpnous and reckless
than the American dcmagogue Alter The most ardu-
Gus contest Bcling5rokc found all his schemes OF IN
tricue concentrating and actually concentrated in the
contamination u! success. lie had gained the parlia
memt he had secured The backstair and bedchamber,
Mrs. Marsham influence, and through that had made
conquest Of the throne in other words OF the sub
servent influence ard favor OF the plant vain and
foolish Queen Tie very iormalties Of his actual IN
stament into power had been gone through with, and
at The first council board he brandshed in his right
hand the political deslines Of England, as he drove
Harley ,s rival, denounced and disgraced from the
presence Of royalty. He at the zenith when the
cloud came over HIM Of final eclipse, and with
volution Of lightning rapdity he was runed-not from
any failure in his calculations far as human agency
was concerned-by secret undermining or open
violence of his enemies, by no civil or national convul
sion, armed and equipped at all points, and riding Sc
curely after the subsiding Of the tempest il had wea-
thcred:
ellis ship wen, dovn sea,
Wien Heaven was all tranquility"
No earthquake groan, nor storm-c!ouds thnnorr-
nr nor archangel trumpet announced the fiat OF the
Omnpo,en,- the bands Of his strength were loosed
and melted at the breath Of still small voice, which
decreed one of the most ordinary IN the
course Of nature-thc death of an old woman. hat
weak old woman happened 10 wear crown queen
Ann retired and harrassed from the scene oi
her new prime ministers stormy truInph-took 10 her
bed and died His enemy, the stern Eector, succeeded
and ten days from the hour Of his assured dominion
-Bolingbroke flying to the coast in disguise,
outlawed and atainted As brightly and proudly had
the political star of Henry Clay eliminated on the 9TH
Of March last and though the personal consequences
involved in his present disappointment are less ds-
asrous than those which crushed BolingoToke, (nor
would wish them as severe, however more rchly
he may deserve them, we have every reason TO trus,
that his political prostraton is complete and over
| whelming. As he looked around him on the day OF
Harrison Inauguration upon ductlle PRESIDENT a
venal Cabinet aud serve Congress-how he Wanted
in his strengh-how lie threw away the hypocrite
mask that had served his turn-how he shook the
chain and showed the gag intended for the subdued
minority and with what prodgal munhcence he
squandered his promises to the army Of money chan
gers marshaed around him, among whom in the
prospect of arming them with the resources of the
Union, he the abundant and cumulative elements
of his continuous ascendancy! lie was not, is true
nominal President. lie had been deprived Of that by
the nrigues of Webster, and by his soil.
citude to concilae that he might betray the South
when after the battle had been fought and the respon
siblity incurred by the Democratic administration, he
perpetrated the bald dd captandum of his great anti
abolition speech. But though not nominay, he shew
ed by his promises and his threaenngs that he felt him.
selfactuay President and with the advantage of work
ing the of another 10 smooth his way to the sue
cession and establish for himself and easy rule
The providenal nerposltOn which called to the helm
man Of Mr. Tyers principle and resolution, has at
once withered the bloom of his hope, and shorn him
of his strength and instead of the successful ntriguer
chief of the money kings formidable in the evil e2er
else of i'll gotten power-we behold him crushed under
the defed Of the Bank of the United States, 10
be linked hereafter in the memory Of people with
their execraton of Infamous system Of fraud the
impudent but oiled champion OF exploded imposture
Not founded truth, not nvigorated by the earnest
enthusiasm of faith in truth-bu based upon the char
latans calculation upon the gubility of the people,
and upon combination of selfish masses by the bride
of plumber, his has no recuperative energy-no
place TO rally
Truth, crushed 10 earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years Of God are hers
Rui error. wounded, wvtlles pain,
And dies amid her worshippcrs.
Charleston .hcrcury