New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-22
II HE T r b L y f.
For The Tribune
The Times and their Dangers.


with thrilling power. Is thi. surprising! Read
it, lie was repeatedly heard to say that his mind
had been deeply impressed by the following
significant yet mysterious words, found in the pro-
phccy of Ancient Seer:
He calls,h to me ou, of Scir, Watchman, wha'
of the night Watchman, what of the night
The Waichmsn sail the Morning corneth and
ai,o me Nigl; il ye will inquire, inquire ye; re-
turn, como.
What can afford more graphic and comprehen-
siye summary Of the history Of our Nation from the
fall Of 1910 to the present time
And was il some Vague preschtment ot such a
srpcudous calamity as has since clothed the and
in mourning and again ovcrshadowcd it with the
darkness Of night that caused the patriot thu, to
brood over these 6,arful words Certain iti that
hi. mind was troubled and that his end drew
Hirh he feared his successor. Certainly the anX-
iciy tina, could triumph over the very bitterness OF
DEATH and even in the agony of the final conflict
wiring out that last earnest appeal, so familiar to
every child in the land of no common intensity.
His sun went down in glory-yct while It's part
ing ray had scarcely ceased to GID the highest
points. the lesser light that we had chosen to rule
the Night, and which We had hoped would cheer
~. with n pure and constant ray, suddenly changed
"a
Iorcinc. beyond all credibility, spread blackness
of darkness over the heavens L ne Morning came
-and also the NIsuT
There figures are not extravagant. Two prin-
chile. of darkness, and of light--Dcspotism and
Liberty have struggled for predemlnanes since
the fall of Adam.
MANY bloody triumphs has Liberty achieved and
en has she turned aside the daggcrs os the trcach
erou, assassin: vet, though our broad land
vss ever her own and long ago our fathers quanch-
cd with their blood the las, spark of open hostility
10 her sway. her conflicts not over. Secret and
perhdiou, foes are ,till found lurking in her camp,
AID to preserve the stability of her throne still re-
auircs the utmost vigilance.
And now, when a band OF false at bes; mis-
taken friends, had rushed in a hradlong career
Of reckless misrule for twelve years, darkening our
fair irrespective with prophetic shadows OF alter
nate anarchy an dcspotism-iust as She Lad risen
in her might dispensing and confoundins them, and
the auspicious raw OF HARRISON, the san that re-
lected her light was fast chasing away Il osc clouds
of terror--eane also the NIGHT
The king Of night Despotism. is again revealed.
in Jobn Tyler and although sheltering Itself un'
der the very shadow Of the Constitution, warpins
the provisions of the sacred instrument to author
ze ils u.urpations and scanty yelling MS hldeous-
ness with the mask Of pstriotlsm, yet, is not Its
Temperance farfully gloomy and Portentiou'
IL i. true that tie surface OF things appears tran
auil--that the peace and security OF the nation Is
DESTROYED by no tempest ct uugovernaoie PASSION
asd the people 0yerawed and their authority dc
fed by no armed lcsions of tyranny but it must
be remembered that the course OF Republics Is
ever between these two extremes, and that very
few of all those beautiful and previously trelghted
ventures have escaped both the rock Of DesPo-
tsm and the whirlpool Of Anarchy. Let us not
ha,ter ourselves that bat t,fling harm Mas been
donc-that the assassin has aimed no deadly
thrust at the genus of oar institutions, because
there is no tangible breach of the Constitution.
When the whole spirit aud tenor OF n9 provisions
are contemned, where il lhe probability that iIs
letter will be- regarded when opportunity allures
ambition No; when the President has grown
old enough and bold enough in tyranny and tIea-
son 10 proclaim with uhbushlDg ana aisa''ouS
efIon,erv. that the Veto pewcr conferred upon
him. instead of being intcndcd as a mere check to
unconstitutional proceedings of Congress, was IN
tended to give him an acitre ami 4mPortaHt
ogeHcy IN Ieeislattou generally, nothing but
strength and opportunity car be wanting to lead
him TO tramplc ON eUery principle OF night whose
overthrow might subservc hs ambitious views.
No other man has asserted the right OF the freSl-
dent, if possible, to enforce his own Will IN al
matters of legislation or, II not, to prohloit inc
making of necessary laws and stop the wh'eis oi
Government by the exercise of the tremendous
power of the Veto.
No men save the minions of John Tyler, have
dared in an clcctioneering manifesto, an 50 many
perds. 10 denounce the Representatives oi the
People for refusing tc yield 10 and second the
President in his proposals to prOr'de lars or the
,,,,nla,ion of the Currency and the Tariff. The
P,0,Ie receive laws from the hands OF their Er-
ecnf;rs scrraut and second them ., let US not
,,,en, Who can sleep under this iron heel
Let us watch and centcnd earnestly, as becomes
,be sen,inels Of Freedcm, Let nothing nduee Us
compromise our pledge of resistance to the en-
croach nen,s of Executive power. II Is the spiIlt
of all ~Ir principles and policy-a live coal from
the ,l,ar whercon our Fathers offered up their
blo.dl The basis of the greatest political contests
that have agitated the Union since lt' formation,
has been this struggle between the Executive ana
Popular authority. All tbs agitation ot the past
twelve wears may be traced to one despotic Veto
and the resistance 10 which 1t aroused lndghah'
Freemen.
Let Wings then, never lose sight OF the bAN>hR
,ho, waves above ,hem--the BANNER eon'ccratcd
r;,b tho blood of the Revolution Let them never
forte, that they are fighting in the same long battle
only st the stage Of defence instead of aggression
lie, each individual of the grea, Wing MAJORITY
be inspired by these principle. and be 'oorthhy
their champion and in 1874 their triumph VIII be
prcclaimeS in the iterated and trebiy numbering
tone, of EIGHTIES HUNDRED AND FORTY
Az ExPSRIMESr-I once knew boy VINO WAS
employed be his father to remove all the i"oso'
small stone. which, from the peculiar nature oil 'ie
ground, had accumulated in the road before 'he
house. He was to take them up and throw 'hem
over into the pasture across the way lie soon
got tired of picking thcm up one by one ana SAT
down ON the bank to try TO devise some better
L.. ,xnrL he length