The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-12
Mr. CUISINES SPEECH.

has excited within our o'S" :,
admiration. A mastery effort In itsen' II Is IKE
w;.e a most triumphant yindication OF the mea-
su,rs and policy Of the Administration ana 10
,h;. sneech with confidence we refer, as embra-
cling Just consideration OF the Presidents
course.
The first six months Of the last session OF
Congress Mr. Gushing proves, as we have
ever contended, were passed IN no consiae'a"on
of useful measures-with no endeavor 10 promote
plans for the country's advantage-but IN ciio'i-
nation and recrimnation among the members oi
The dominant party, in hot dispute about TRIES
and in laborious idIeness. Nr. Gushing, who
40 well understood the factious, dilatory spirit
with which the Wing" members were actua-
ted and acclaimed more Than once against the
motives which governed their course has por-
,rayed with his usual correctness OF outline
their dishonorable conduct Nor is he alone IN
this out of their own mouths are they con-
demaed; for Arnold, who, TO gratify personai
expectations, turned States evidence against
his party acknowledged, what all felt, that they
were alternately source OF derls'on' anu
laughing stock to the whole country.
All the !" Wing" newspapers were decaiming
against Congress, while the Wing" members
were decaimng against themselves and not
word of commentator accompanied course
which nought but folly could suggest; not sol
itary expression Of sympathy was uttered to
cheer, till the Wings" foregoing their own
petty squabbes, united in one organized band
to "headn the President. Then Tray,
Blanche, and Sweetheart" of the press opened
upon the Executive, in obedience 10 the deeper
mouthed baying of the Congressional pack.
The overwceniug ambition of one man. mad
dened by successive failures. produced state OF
things whose remote consequences no one can
divine. With his we-disciplined Pr@toran
bands, cemented by servile devotion to his inte-
rests, as involving their own, he charged with
unrelenting violence the defenders of the Prtsi-
dent, who, at the same, tine were defenders OF
the Constitution. And that very Constitution,
the boast and defence OF our country, in
prosperity its armament, and lis sure bull
wark in adversely, with ruthless hand
he would have plucked from the guard
ians in whose care it had been deposited
Mr.. Cushing's fearless and at the same time
most Just exhibition of MIR. Clay's overbearng
and arrogant, dictatorial and destructive con-
duct is to the lfe-in strong, but impartial colors
and no man can rise from the perusal of this
sreech without the conviction of the truth i'm
pressed upon its pages; most particularly IN all
that relates TO the mad career Of the Dictator
and his serfs and satellites.
The Presidents conduct in regard TO the
vetoes, Mr.. Gushing has, with peculiar ability,
sustained with the less merit, it may be, as less
intellect and less argumentative powers were
required. For who that knows or ever knew
John Tyler, can for moment suppose his
course in relation 10 those veteos required
aught like defence? Defence and against
whom7 and for what?-For the exercise of a
constitutional privilege, which gratitude TO his
country, his own oath, and his sincerest convic-
tons compelled him to make and against an
assembly of banded disorganzers, whose in
dulged fancies and unrestrained will would, long
this, have driven US into dangers and distress
as disastrous as unparalleled No! John Ty-
Ter needs no defence ofhis vetoes-he asks none
he points to them as the browning efforts of
well-spent political life and no friend of his |
can hold that these acts, which sprung from
conscientious conviction of his duty, require ex-
PLANTATION, or demand apology
In one report of Mr. Cushing's speech he
is made to say that we have now, as at the |
commencement Of the extra session, "Whign
President. We are under no subsection TO |
names-and terms we acknowledge are often
fanciiul-but principles ever govern US, and they
are one and eternal and of Mr.. Tylers princi-
pies we can with some safety speak. They are
those he has professed since his first entrance
upon the political STAGE and which he will carry,
unchanged, to his last resling-placc. A strict
construction of the Observation-Disclosures
obedience 10 the will of the People -unce easing op-
position TO chartered monopoIies-a wide and ex-
tended sufirage---an indispositon to squander
the national funds for sectional interests
determined hostility to high Tariff, of avowed
prohlbitory character-an economical admins
tratlon Of the Government in fine. all those
cherished and dearly purchased principles main
tained by the Jefiersonian Republicans of the
good "old schooln-these are John Tyler's prin-
ciples, and his ever unvarying rules of action.
As he is now, so he has ever been, and so
will he ever be, an enthusiastic admirer of the
principles of that great man, to whose teach
ings in his youth he listened with the devotion
of neophyte, and whose political course he
has followed in his maturer days with all the
ardor Of an honest disciple.