Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-10-15

obscurity which could form his only shield, he
might have looked back to time, only year
distant, when he stood in the highest pinnacle
of the state. The Earl Of Hay, in a letter
| written at the crisis of the speculation, says
that he found Mr.. Laws antechalnber guarded
by Swiss troopers who were placed there to
keep out the crowd of suitors, who pressed
about the door. Peers Of France and princes
of the royal blood, were seen daily waiting at
the door hoping by their hollow compliments,
and their humble intentions, to win the notice
of the great fnancier.
| I" AS on the day Of his highest exhaltation,
when every circumstance had combined to
raise ham to pitch Of power unexampled in
subject, Mr. Law proceeded, after the imme-
date business Of his department was closed,
| to hold the .levee which the lateness Of his
employment required him to delay until al
most midnight, he might have seen, as the last
visiter departed, or the last suppliant was dis
missed, the first rays of morning which was
to usher in his complete degradation. There
was scarcely breathing time between his
highest elevation and his final ruin. He SEEM
ed to have reached the pinnacle of high
mountain, and then, slipping from his foothod,
TO have fallen with a violence, which carried
him below the level from which his exertions
had first been directed. A guard was neces-
sary on the day of the banks stoppage, to
preserve his person from violence. He had
expatiaied himself from his native land he
has now banished them from that which had
been the land of his prosperity. We can fol-
low him in his w"yward course from court TO
court, from capitol to capitol, until at last,
with fortune which had experienced every
vicssitude, till its substance was worn away
by its changes, and with name which was
soiled with every blemish which in those dis
soIue times could be won, he died in Venice,
on the 2.st of Marcn, 1929, in the 5Slh year
of his age. The traveller who sees the name
of John Law, of Lauristown, on stone in the
church Of st. Marks, forgets that under him
lay the remains of the Spectator who prepa-
sed for France the bankruptcy under Louis
XIV, and the revolution under his successor.
CT We copy the following review of the Address
of the Wing members of Congress to the people Of
the United States from the st. Louis Commercial
Bulletin wing paper 1t is from the pen of
correspondent of wing paper in the City of New
York, and may be considered the evidence of the
basencss Of the Clay faction of the Wing party, by
one who has too much honesty to longer continue
to act in harmony with it. AS a wing production,
we commend it to the perusal of our wing friends.
The Wing .7ddress--Ns Character and
Tendency.
WASHINGTON, Sept 90, lS4l.
Great efforts are making in all parts of the
country TO give importance and eciaf to Mr..
Claws assault upon President Tyler and his
administration, through the address which pur-
ports to come from the entire which party in
Congress. The whole matter is an lmposture
upon the people. The manifesto was sane
toned by mere fragment Of the Wings In
Congress. There were not more than forty
members and fifteen Senators present at the
caucus when it was presented. and several OF
them dissented from the doctrines of the pa
per, and denounced the whole proceedings as
injudicious, unwise and impolitic in every
point Of view.
As has before been stated, the address is
the production of Mr.. Kennedy, small au-
thor, generally known as "Swalow Barn"
Kennedy. 1t is scarcely more interesting than
his novels, if, indeed, it be not one of them.
First of all, it should be noticed that it is sign
ed by three original Jackson men, two OF
whom (Messrs. Tallmadge and Clark sup
ported the old hero up to the very close OF his
second administration, and yet these gentle
men are unblushing enough to put their names
to paper which speaks of the ''sntfering In
flc,ed during the last t,celve gears. by the NAL
administrator of the executive departments OF
| the government
Two of the eight signers of the address
sustained, with all their zeal, for eigh, years,
| the mal-adminisira,ion which they now stlg-
matize in the harshest terms, and yet have the
| front, after thus turning States evidence. to
| dencunce President Tyler because he will not
| violate the avowed principles of long and
| honorable life, and consign his memory to In
fanny! What must the people think of the
accusations of men who thus publicly testify
against themselves! Are such men to be
the Judges of President Tyler, and hold him
up to. the indignation of the American people!
| MIR. Berren, too, an exploded member of Gen.
Jackson's just administration, and, if rumor
speaks truly, was the first to record his name,
when in the Senate, against the confirmation
of Henry Clay as Secretary of State. Yet he
is now his most humble supporter, and the
| first to obey him in stigmatzng President,
who, amidst all the fluctuations OF party, has
| kept the even tenor or his way with equal
6rmness and moderation. Mr.. Tyler can APP
peal, with confidence, from such tribunal to
| that of the people, who alone are his rightful
and honest judges.
! A letter does not afford space to stigmatize
| all the absurdities and extravagancles OF THIS
MALIGNANT manifesto. This address proclaims
| ,,,.,r arainst the Constitution, because the de-