The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-30
From the Baltimore Republican q -bg''s'
MR. TYI,ER,S TREACHERY.

MR.. TYLER'S TREACHEhi'
In answer 10 the charge of 90 Treaehery" preferred
against President Tyler by the Clay wings because
he refused to sign their Bank BILL we showed inc
other day what the Wing State Convent on Oh sr-
GINA said before the election on the SUBJECT Oh us
views of both "Tip and 1y," IN regard 10 Dams Va
the United States. We quoted the very woru s. %
the Address nut forth by the Pugnia Wings IN io4U,
assuring the People that both oil these cahu'ua'oS
were opposed to u. >. Bank
Now let us look back and what the Georgia
Wings said befJe the election, the subject OF the
exercise of the Veto power In 1910, the Committee
of the State Rights and Harrison Convention OF
Georgia who drafted their Address, (and John NJ
Berrien now of Cay's tools in the U. s. Senate,
was one of that Committee exclaimed in rapture
{" What Republican read his Gen. Harrison's)
letter TO Harmer Denny, without admring the ser-
ling Republican doctrines it breathes? The following
principles will be found laid down in it, proper 10 be
adopted by the President, -
Omttng others which that Committee quoted from
the letter TO Harmer Denny, confne ourselves to
that part which related to the Veto power, IN which
the General states the in which President
ought to exercise the Veto in these words -
"A That in The exercise Of the Veto power, he
should limit his rejection of bills to, LIST, such are,
in his opinion. unconstitutional; 3D. such tend to
encfoach the hts of the STATES individuals
3d. such tnroiping deep interests may in his optn-
ion, require mature elaboration or reference to
the w the people to be ascertained at the succeeding
elections"
We ask those Wings who are constantly so pousy
regrelting the death of 'the good old General and
telling Is how differently things would have been
conducted if he had lived-and Who claim to know
exactly bow he would have acted, and 10 be the only
true opponents of his prime ples-to read the words
which we have italicized in this ex ract. These Clay
nnen, who constantly taking upon themselves the
character of The only depostanes OF the true princi-
yles of 'ths good old General have Of late been
laying great stress the circumstance Of President
"A,
being unconstitutional, and attempting 10 establish
the princple-unknown to The Constii ution-that he
President has not the right to veto any bill unless he
deems il to he in violation of the Constitution. And
those few Of hrm who not prepared to assert this
desperate iaacy yet say that he ought never to veto
except the ground of anconstitutionaHty. With
out putting them to The trouble of looking back to a
Veto of Gen. Washin ons,-exercsed on the sim
pie ground Of the inerf ediency of the measure we
Call them read this extract from letter of their
own sainIed Harrison, and then to look the People
ia the face and justify, if they can, their course to-
wards President Tyler. Here General Harrison de-
clares that the President should veto
"Such bills, as involving deep interests, may, in his
opinion, require dellberatiun reference
the will Of the people, to be asceralned at the
ceedng elections"
There is nothing here about the g Constitution"
'Such bills may in his opinion, require more mature
dehberatiOn." Ibis, among others, was a sterling
Republican doctrine of Gen Harrison, which excit-
Ell the admiration OF the w nlgS OF georgia, In lSfU
But if 'the good old General had lived to this day
and, acting on this sterling Republican doctrine, 7"
had vetoed Clay measure, and told the Clay eau
in Congress that he wished to refer it to the will
of the people, 10 be asceraned at the succeeding cleo
tons, they would have denounced the glorious old
Soldier and Statesman" as Traitor; they would
have rung in his ears the cry of "the ONE man
power" and have called him "Despo:" and a
'Usurper ?' They have acted thus towards Mr.. Ty-
er for acting out the 'steriing Republican doctrine
,ffra r,i 'kavv n,riA hoyo ceH
wards any man who thwared any favorite scheme of
Henry Clay. "R ference to the aciH Of the people "
Why, that's just exactly what Clay and his Caucus
would, above all things, avoid The will of the
people, 10 be ascertoned at the succeeding elections "
Wo,se and worse! say Clay and his Cong ressiona
Caucus. Why, the elections all going agains,
US and the next Congress will be dead against us. II
there he any true friends Of the memory of Gen. Hal-
rison any who did honestly support him on the prn-
ciples which he solennly avowed before the electnn
it bee ONES them me forward and rescue his fame
from ne keeping and the use of Clay and his Caucus
: Congress.