The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-10-09


hands.
You asked Mr.. Webster and myself
each to prepare and present you an ar
gumcnt touching the constitutlonality of
the bill; and before those arguments
could be prepared and read by you, you
decJared, as Lheard and believe, to gen.
tlemen, members Of the House, that you
wopIF cutoff your right hand rather
thun-approvo il. After this new resolu
ton. WITS takelB you asked aud earnestly
urgcd1rhea members OF your Cabinet to
postpone the bill, but you would neither
aivs Yourself nor suffer them to give ANY
assurance Of your futurecourse,i in case OF
such liostponement. By some of US, and
! was myself one, the effort was made to
crafty ;your wishes in the only way in
which i could be done with propriety;
thatiS, by obtaining the general concur
renee of the Wing members in the two
Houeesin the postponement. 1t failed,as |
have reason to believe, because you would
giveI;no assurance that the delay was
uot s6Gght as means and occasion Tor
hostile movements. During this season
of deep feeling and earnest exertion up
on our part, while we were zealousIy
devoting our talents and influence to
servs.aAd sustain you, the very secrets
Of our Cabinet councils made their APP
peareaee in an infamous paper print
ed iaaa- neighboring city, the col
umnsof which we're daily charged with
Battery Of yourself, and foul abuse of
your, Cabinet, AL this bore, for felt
that my services, so long as they could
avail, were due-to the nation-to that
great and magnanimons People whose
SURFACES elevated your predecessor to
the station which you now fill, and whose
united voicesapproved his act when he
summoned US around him, to be his
counsellors; and ] felt that what was
due to his memory, to the injunctions
which he left US, in his last dying words,
and to the People, whose servants we
were,. bad not all been performed until
every means was tried, and every hope
had failed, of carrying out the true prin-
ciples upon which the mighty movement
was founded that elevated him and you to
power.
This bill, framed and fashioned &C
eording to your own suggestions, in the
intimations Of which and another mem
Dor of'your Cabinet were made by you
tho agents and the negotiator, was pass
ed by large majorities through the two
Houses of Congress and sent to you, and
you rejected it. important as was the part
which had taken, at your request, in
the origlnation of this bill, and deeply
az | was committed for your action pom
1t, you never consulted me on the subject
of the veto message. You did not even
refer to it in conversation, and the first
notice had of. its contents was derived
from ruimof..
And % me, at least, you have done
nothing to wipe away the personal in
dignity arising out OF the act, gather
ed, it is sure, from your conversation
shortly after the bill had passed the
House, that you had strong purpose tc
reject it; bit nothing was said like sof
tening or apology TO me, either in refer
ence to myself or to those with whom
had communicated at your request, an,
who had acted themselves and induce,
the two Houses to act upon the fait
Of that communication. And, strang
as it may seem, the veto messag
attacks in an especial manner tn
very provisions which were inserte
at your request; and even the nam
of the corporation, which was ne
only agreed to by you, but especial
changed to meet your expressed wishe
is made the subject of your criticism
Different men might view this transa,
ton in different points of light, but, vi
der these circumstances, as a matter
personal honor, it would be hard for n
to remain of your counsel, to seal m
lips and leave unexplained and undi
closed where lies in this transaction Il
departure from straightforwardness al
candor. So far indeed from admitir
the encouragement which you gave
this bill in its inception, and explainil
and excusiug your sudden and violent he
tility towardsit, you throw into your We
message an interogatory equivalent
an assertion that it was such bill as y
had already declared could not recei
your sanction. Such is the obvious
feet Of the first interrogatory clause
the second page. 1t has all the force
an assertion without its open fairness.
have met and refuted this, the neces.
ny inference from your language, in r
preceding statement, the correctness
which you | am sure will not call
question.
Your veto the first bill you rested
constitutional ground, and the high CO
viction of conscience; and no man in |
opinion, had fright to question your $
certify. ! SO said, and so acted,
fhrnnoh the contest and collision Il