The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-10-30

limit and extent becatse this may tend 10 Abate the
discord the angry discord, which has rven our party
into fragments and Is separating those fragments
from each other by a constantly increasing distance
Moreover all Of these with the exception OF the re-
firing members Of the first Cabinet, will meet again
this winter and if they meet in the spirit and tenn
per in which they separated, there will soon be no
need to ask the question | have but at the head Oh
this communication for the Wings will be in their
turn where have said the Locos were year ago.
noi1here. Let Us then review our course, and see
whether the past will give instruction for the flu
ture.
therefore strength and hope Since them all has been
discord and therefore weakness and fear Let US be-
gin then with an examination of this point.
The buIthen ofreproach in this matter lies upon the
President; it was cast upon him by reclamation and
YOU Mr. Editor, stood almost alone at least in this
neghborhood in your defence of him. or rather in the
moderation Of your reproach; and from this extreme
disapprova OF the Presidents course the schism first
But has not time enough passed to calm men S
minds SO far as to warrant the hope of deliberate
and more just conclusion on this pont2 The sud
den death of Harrison had not only saddened but dis
turbed the minds Of those who looked to him with
confidence and hope. The extra session was itself
measure which some disapprosed and of which many
doubted But when the session came all were anx-
ious TO make the session productive of good results,
and yet short and IN this anxiety the Wings began
their laboTs with zeal and excitement unfavorable
to the calm examination of unnnticpated difficulties
These and other causes led to evaporation which
could not have occurred if the early history of the
Wing campaign had been well remembered. Let US
try to recall it now.
And, first, on what grounds was John Tyler Sc
lected and presented to the People as the Wing
dldate for the Vice Presidency what was il done for
and what did il mean? There can be but one answer
from any honest man. He was selected not because
he had occupied distinguished positions worthily and
had been placed by the People of an important State
in high places. There We're others of whom this was
true It was of him; and although no man could
with propriety be selected Of whom much as this
was not true, yet Mr. Tyler not chosen from all
others these grounds Was there no reason for the
selections This supposition is absurd. There was
reason; good reason good, because it rested upon
facts and good because proper one to influence
those charged with the duty of selection. This
son Was, that he was Virginian,-a Virginian by
birth, home, and politics. He was selected to con-
ciliate those who like him. II perfectly well
known that his construction of the Constitution was
Vrgjnian,-that it tended to restrict the national
powers and enlarge State powers that his feelings
towards Bank, for instance, were not just the
with those of the North and East but assmiIated ra-
Their with those who could consent to Bank only on
the ground of strict necessity, and who would limit
the Bank its powers and functions, by the same
cessily He was selected to concliate those who
were Southern men like himself and who sympathsed
with tie views and feelings he was known 10 have;
and the selection did conciate such for the rea-
son that it promised to them constitutional chance
Of having their man President. If proof of this be
asked it should be enough to ask in return on what
other grounds he selected before other prominent
Whigs2 But there is other proof Every thing that
was done and every thing that was omitted proves
that the basis of the whole Wing action mutual
concession, mutual Cancellation. Why did not the
their principles and purposes2 Why did Bank
Wings during the canvass, abstain generally from
pressing National Bank as a prominent and essen
tial feature of Whigism2 Was all this our OPP
ponents alleged, fraud-intentonal and deceptive
concealment2 By no manner of means. 1t was Jus,
The contrary for this course disclosed declared the
one common principle of the Wing party; it was,
hostility, determined and inveterate enmity, to the
enemies of our country
This course, so far from being dark and disguised
honest the day. and brought into the broadcast
sunshine, the great Wing purpose For this purpose
was to overthrow those who had injured and whose
objects and principles threatened with destruction
our Constitution our prosperity, our country. For
this purpose all were willing to unite with all who
sought the end. For this purpose all were willing
TO forget all MINOR and local and particular objects
Iii but few months since the cry Of "Tppecanoe
and Tyler too" rang through the land, and what
was its meaning, what was its honest meaning if not
that the Wings had entered into with the
lesser and more special objects which each might be
supposed to desire, and fight, shoulder to shoulder
against those who were accumuating irrespc nsible
powers in the hands of the Executive because those
hands dispensed their sPois; against those before
whom the dustry of the country lay PROSTATE and
prey, and who held and avowed principles which
threatened with ruin all property and all prosperity
This was its meaning, its honest meaning, and there
fore it prevailed; on this ground We stood; it
fought, and on II we conquered.
1t is plain, therefore, that when the time had come
to exercise the powers which thus acquired the
time had come to remember the covenant which had
united SO many bands into one great army The death
of Harrison may have made this more difficult, more
nI,nrro h,k,tl Ia al.
case, nor its obligations. And ifw are to determine
with any justice the measure of the fault of each
where all are supposed to be in the fault we must de-
telmne which party adhered most faithfully to the
terms ofthe original alliance. fear have occupied
as much space in your paper may be allowed me
at this time; but will anticipate the topics and con-
illusions of future number far to saw that the
Wings of Congress departed, widely and wrongfully,
from their implied agreements, in the urgency, the
memorable urgency, with which, without any refer
ence to any wishes or any motives for delay, they
pressed the Bank, at that session. upon the President;
and yet more widely and more wrongfuy in the
wrath which forgot the whole extent of his active
cooperation and menaced and assailed him as if he
had become, or was to be made, open enemy. For
this there was no good reason there no reason
why their wrath should be violent and there is none
why it should be inyeterate. And there is all the
reason for common effort and an earnest effort to
stand once more together, which men can ever have
to avoid political suicide In word the general con-
cuslon to which have come in my own mind and
which is the object of these papers to establish is
that the Wings defeated the Locos and put themselves
in position to save the country by LIBERAL conclia-
tory and practical policy and have endang cred their
position and invited back the enemy we had routed
and expelled, by adopting just opposite policy Nor
do say this with any feeling of personal hostiity-I
can have none-nor with the purpose of eliminating
any but because think it not too late to undo the
mischief we have e-lo realize the good we have
hoped for. Once more the rising hopes of our oppo-
nents may be crushed, for their hope has no alment
but our discord, and will die when that dies; our
Constitution may yet be saved from their encroach-
ments, our prosperity from their assaults and / am
willing to lift voce-however feeble it may be-
in this great cause. A BOSTON WING.
From the Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot
WHERE ARE THE WINGS mo. Q.
In my last communication, said that the Wings