The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-04
THE NEW YORK COURIER

THE NEW YORK COURIER.
The Courier and Enquirer, after being
most gracefully Marshalled in the State Of Del
aware, thinks there is not at heart single
Tyler man in the United States, and that the
conductors of presses which have supported
him shave measurally disgraced themselves"
Now, as the Courier was one of the papers that
supported "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" II con-
fesses itself to be measurably disgraced."-
The Courier stands in still more deplorable
light, for it came out and supported the Elk
chequer plan, until it received small note that
it was going wrong; when suddenly it tackled
ship and stood on the other course.
How different would the case have been if
the editor of the Courier could only have re-
ceived the appointment of deputy postmaster at
New York. Or had President Tyler signed
the first Bank bill, the Courier and Enquirer
would have stood A. No. 1, and despatched
him with fulsome praise until it had been as
certained that no one would purchase the
stock All the abuse and SANDER that is heaped
upon Mr. Tyler, is simply because he refused to
approve measure never claimed by the Wings
as portion of their creed until long after the
election of Harrison and Tyler to the first gifts
of the People.
1t is not little singular that these ISLANDERS
should proceed from the city Of New York,
where the Wings refused to be considered as
the Bank party previous to the canvass. 1t
was in that city that Mr.. Citing published
"The Contrast" pamphlet Of l6 pages, which,
if we mistake not, the Courier lauded to the
skies. The Contrast" met enormous sale,
and was scattered by the Wing committees far
and wide over the whole Union, to aid the cleo
ton o. Harrison and Tyler. In that little work,
among the reasons given why General Harri-
son should be elected President of the United
States, we find the following:
Because, being neither PARTISAN nor an enemy of
Banks, but friend of sound and uniform currency,
he is not tied down by passion or prejudice 20 any
course, other than that which shall conform to the
principles ofhe Constitution and best subserve the
interests of the people"
To prove these ''because," the "Contrast"
Immediately quotes an extract from General
Harrisons letter to Sherrod Williams, which
reads thus:
GAS private citizen no can be more entirely
clear of any motive either for re-charer11g the 0td
Bank or CREATING NEW ONE, under the authority Of
the United States never had single share in the
former, nor, indeed in any bank with one exception
and that failed with the loss of the entire stock"
Among some hundred "becauses," this is the
only one that says word about United States
Bank, and yet the Courier will insist upon it
that the creation Of new bank was one OF the
cardinal principles of the Wings in the contest
of 1910.
General Harrison declared himself opposed
TO the creation of a bank, and among all the
reasons why he should be elected President,
the Contrast makes tins prominent. Now, these
latter-day saints with the Courier at their head,
declare that John Tyler is traitor, because he
refused to sign the Bank bill to which Harrison
himself was opposed during his whole life.
But tn is little text book Of the Courier gives
as many more "becauses," why Mr.. Van Bu-
rem should not be reelected, and, strange to say,
these Bank people, now had the following anti
Bank paragraph then:
because he has been instrumental in creating
nearly four hundred banks in the Union, and
using those in his native State as the instruments OF
his ambition"
Here this Contrast makes political handle of
Mr.. Van Buren's banking propensties, and now
the Courier cries out for the Bank We could
write contrast and if we did, it would be
something like the following, viz Reasons
why the Courier and Enquirer should have a
leather medal presented to it for its consistency:
Because it adopted the Wing Contrastn 1910,
and opposed it in 1915
Because it was really consistent for nearly
one year at one time;
Because it opposes John Tyler for carrying
out the principles on which he was elected;
Because it Condemns the living President for
principles held by the deceased President;
Because it was most violent in praise OF the
Exchequer plan, for about a aoeek;
Because it was most violent iu denouncing
it, after that peek;
Because it abused President Tyler and rallied
against the Veto power, for about three months;
Because it then turned, when the Bankrupt
bill was in danger, and called upon the Presi-
dent to :sinterpose his Institutional authority"
to save that bill.
We would go on, and give as many "be-
causes" as the Contrast, but we hope the Cou-
rier will be satisfied with these.
The sea serpent has been seen by Captain Hatch
in Penobscot bay He approached it within thirty
feet and thus had fair view of the part out OF water
He says that the head elevated about two feet,
was flat on the top like snakes and the neck bent
like snakes when crawling on the ground the eyes
were of the size of half dollar, and pery snakish
the body was of the size of half barrel and thirty
Sc; If wat, fer a.