Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-12-22

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no base or mercenary motives but by the sol
emn conviction that the fate of the whole coun-
trv was involved in the issue of great poill-
cal struggle They were fired by the same
spirit of liberty that impelled our Revolutionary
forefathers, and like them, felt that the success
of their efforts was necessary to the welfare
and happiness of their posteriiy. They did
succeed.
Day after day the cheering tidings came in,
that State upon Stale had declared for the whig
cause. At length the voice ofihe whole Amer
lean People was collected, and HARRISON,
the Patriot, Sage, Statesman, Soldier, and,
best of all, Christian, was called 10 direct the
nation. To his voice (said MrB } yielded,
and became a member of his Cabinet. And
when. sir, saw and knew that noble old man,
and those whom he had called about him when
! | heard him, in the midst of thousands of his
countrymen, take that solemn oath which
bound him 10 redeem the pledge then given of
| faithful devotion TO his country. | felt deep
assurance that misrule was at an end-that the
orc man power was rupudiated from our sys-
tenn, and the Nation secure of true Represen-
taiive Government.
But fearful change has come over the land.
| There is a voice heard as of mourning, and
feeling of distrust seems 10 peryade every part
of the country. Why is this ? Are Wing
| principles less valuable now than they were
twelve months ago! Are Loco Foco doctrines
| less fraught with destructive anti-soclal and
anti-religious qualities than they then were?-
Are the Wings more ready now than then 10
embrace them? None will answer the ques-
tons in the affirmative. No, though there arc
many good, wise, and excellent men in the
ranks of our opponent, the tendency of their
party principles are still disorganizing and des-
tructive, and the Wings as much as ever reject
and dread them. And yet look at the present
aspect of things Of seven States Of the Union,
in which elections hare recently taken place,
and where last fall the Whig majority was told
bv thousands, five exhibii Loco Foco iriumphs.
Why is this, if the Whig strength be not di-
mnished! In my opinion, this result is TO be
attributed 10 the same causes which led 10 the
disruption of the late Cabinet. And what are
they? The Wings have raised up man TO
The Executive Chair, who, though elected as a
Wing, protesting to be Wbig, and believed
to be Whig, nevertheless either does not just
lv understand, or truly value and consistently
pursue, the great constitutional principles Of
that party.
1t is neither my purpose nor wish CONTINUED
Mr.. b. TO speak in terms Of severity -of Mr,
Tyler but The President of the United States,
though the Chief Magistrate, is bu, public
servant, and, as such, his conduct is fit sub
iect for examnatan and remark His conduc:
towards Congress and his constitutional advi-
sers was the main cause of the dissolution OF
the Cabinet and the same cause has led 10 our
recent defeats. There is no abandonment OF
4 Whig principles any where, but uncertainty and
distrust have produced, for the time, lnactlon
among the Wings.
Attempts have been made, | know, sir (uon-
tinued Mr.. b. 10 discredit the statement in
Mr.. Ewings letter of what .passed in The Cabl-
net meeting of the 18th 94kagusl; but | say
here in the presence of Fa4enllgh ghlened and
respectable company, on BsSsresponsIbllity OF
my own reputation for truth, of which none are
better able TO Judge than those address, that
r that statement is irue-in lis leading and es-
seniial facts absolutely true-in all lis details
substantially true.
The Cabinet would not have been Dissolved
| simply because the President vetoed the Bank
, bills. His scruples, if sincere however un-
, reasonable, and even absurd, would have been
entitled 10 tenderness if not respect: and no
member of his Cabinet wonId have visited with
the harshness of censure the errors of man
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, find and desire to embrace it, merely because
through fGebleness of UNDERSTANDING or early
prejudice, he was disabled to perceive II. 1t was
} ihe want of sincerity and ingenuousness--oI
direc,ness and candor-it was the disregard o
courtesy and respect-it was the manifestation
of vacIIaiing and unsteady mind-it was the
r want of that manliness which assumes and
avows lis own errors, and scorns by conceal'
ment or evasion TO visit them on olhers-ihal
compelled the Presidents confidential advisers
TO abandon their position. Consider the cir
cumstances of the case for a moment, and
Judge if this be not SO. One bill having been
, defeated, he himself proposed another and IN
duced the members of his Cabinet TO drge lis
passage The bill ,cas passed and sent to the
, President. Did he ii? Sir, after his Cab
met had induced their friends III Congress ,o
accept it as the olive branch of peace, ne no
only did not sign ii, but sent it back with scorn
as measure that every one must have known
: he could not sanction. How, then, sir, was his
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