The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-01

very reverse reasoa--as was General Harrison You
say right when you say that you-asked Mr. Tyler no
questions, required no explanations, demanded no
pledges. You knew his position and II was because
you knew it, that you, and the men who yot'd Tor
him, put him on the ticket.
The manner in which, gentlemen, you evade your
own inquiry 10 the person who first suggested the
name of Mr.. Tyler for the Vice Presidency, you viii
permit 10 say, IS IN keeping with your whole dis
ingenious course throughout this letter. Were you
10 tell the truth, it would condem Mr.. Clay and
Yourselves as the real traitors the victorious Wing
party. You well know who il was that first brought
Mr. Tyler forward. You will know that IT was
deemed advisable not 10 present either the name Oh
Barbour, Sergeant, Talmadge, DAVIS, Southard,
Mangum OF any other Magnts Apollo OF The now
Clay party for the Vice Presidency. You kRow that
il was no accident that Mr.. Tyler was selected IL
was design--studied design. No other man stood so
pre-eminent before the convention as Mr. lyier-
He was regarded as the only man who could carry
Virginia--coud appease the South. The country
has yet learn that the adoption Of this wise deter
mnation will prove other than national blessing
In your wicked hearts, (you will pardon the eN-
preston gentlemen you ascribe his selection to the
king of evil Judging from this display OF malignant
feeling il is highly probable that, while you seemed
10 Weld to the choice of Harrison and Tyler you and
your coinpatriots, who denounce the President,
medtated in secret the develish plan of forcing the
successful chiefs into a compliance with the present
ultra doctrines of Mr. Clay. If this be so, you
were the perfdious, not Mr.. Tyler, nor his real
friends the straightouis that formed ms mayo
rity.
On the subject of the public lands, Congress pass
ed BILL at the session Of the hundred days, which
Mr.. Tyler signed The majority oil the wing sen
ate made distribution dependent on the scale OF tax
alton, and Mr.. Clay voted for the bill thus framed
Is Mr.. Tyler to be blamed for refusing to change his
mind when Mr. Clay changed his few months there
after; If Mr. Clay could change without blame,
surely MI Tyler ought to be allowed the same priv
ege particularly when Mr.. Clay had no cause for
his change Of policy; whereas Mr. Tyler had, OWING
TO the exhausted condition OF the treasury
You grow angry, gentlemen, at the frequent exer-
else by the President, Of his constitutional right to
return to Congress bills that may not meet his views
This is wrong. The President is much entitled TO
the benefit of his Judgment as Congress Is TO ihe Den
eft of theirs That his judgment was not incorrect,
in his estimate of the effects to flow from the bills
which he refused to sign PLAIN, from the fact that
constitutional majority could not be found to pass
the rejected measures over his head The Object oil
Congress in sending to the President so many opec-
onabe bills, plain as the MONDAY sun In ciear
sky. When they found that they could not PAIN
upon the country series of measures never conteui-
plated in the contest of lS40 Mr.. CT and his dough-
faced majority declared open war upon the PRESIDENT
and resolved to prostrate the executive department OIL
the government To effect this latter purpose, IL was
decided TO attack the constitutional power of the Pre-
sident return bill to the Legislature TO- reconsid-
Grafton The frequent exercise OF this power, II was
thought would make it odious IN the popular eye
Mr. Tyler the purposes and aim OF his opponents,
but hinched not He did his duty to the country,
and that country has sustained, ana VIII sustain
him.
You complain of the qualified veto power OF the
President, and denounce ii as monarchcal feature
You and your leader would pluck II from the Constr
tuition. What would you gain by this step You
would make Congress omnipotent and supreme, and
ba prasi lent mere
Congressional supremacy and tyranny are not more
desirable than presidential despotlsm and both eX-
tromes guarded against by our wlsely-balanced
Constitution. Mr. Tyler deserves the thanks OF every
American citizen for arresting successfully the bold
attempt of the present Congress to make themselves
a supreme body.
Ii is very amusing, gentlemen, to hear you COM
planning breath that Mr. Tyler is guilty of pro-
scrpton for opinions sake and, in another, that he
refused when he into power, to eXpel from OIL
flee the Democratic incumbents, and put in Wings.
50 No prescription for opinions sake" was preached
by every apostle of Whggery in lS4O with ardent
zeal and yet, no sooner does General Harrison
mount the chair OF state, than an mdlscrmlnate
slaughter of public officers commences The guo-
tine is active for thirty days and in that time more
removals are made than during the whole time of
Jacksons and Van Burens administration. Mr.. ~
Ter succeeds to the Presidency He stays the icro-
cous hand OF prescription and me is assaulted as
traitor to Wing principles. OH shame, where Is
thy blush? And now, when he is engaged in undong
prescription, not only under the short month of Har
rison's term, but under the administrations preced-
ing, he is abused without stint. Thanks be to his
irmness for not needing the cutlery of the inter-
ested
In pretending at this late day, gentlemen, that the
Harrisburg Convention composed of men who
held the very same opinions which Mr.. Clay now pro-
claims TO be Whigery you attempt to palm OFT upon
the readers of your letter shameful fraud. Not
even Mr.. Clay entertained the opinions them which
he has declared a he the genuine Whip creed
At least if he did, or if any members of the Conven
ton did, neither he nor they acted upon them. Mr.
Tyler concealed his opinions any point; and
has, since his accession to power faithfully sustained
them. Instead, therefore, Of Mr.. Tyler being a
black-eg for telling the Convention that he was
Clay-whg of 1912, | would submit to your calm
consideration whether Mr.. Clay is not obnoxious to
the charge so unwlttingy put forth by you, his
friends against the President Whether he be or
not take the liberty OF suggesting that tie admirers
of Mr. Clay ought to be very cautious how they at
tack private character, when their ustrious chief
tain is vulnerable.
Great stress is laid by you, gentlemen upon Mr.
Tyler's advocacy of Mr.. Clay's pretensions in the
Convention. You but do Mr. Tyler Justice in saving
that Mr. Clay his first choice but you do him
rank injustice in ascribng that preference for Mr.
Clay to the fact that Mr. Tyler knew Mr. Clay's
principles were the same then they are now set
forth. On the contrary, Mr. Clay led the whole ma
ton to suppose, by his profusely patriotic profess
sions that he would administer the Government if
made President, upon the most moderate basis,
yielding all his ultra notions to just and middle
policy. And it was matter of regret to thousands
of Wings, who preferred Mr. Clay their first
choice, that he not a candidate, when they saw
him engaging in the contest for Harrison and Ty-
er upon the compromise prncipe-when they
found hun preaching broad and general not special
and narrow measures Of policy for they believed
that he could have been elected. If, them there be
aught that is blameworhy in Mr. Tyler's sustain
ment of Mr.. Clay TO- seven successive ballots it is
because that he deceived in Mr.. Clay, not that
he deceived the Convention into belief that he was
for Mr. Clay, as he stands before the country
he advocate of every possible ultra measure which
the violence of party can beget There was not a
man in the Convention who believed in Mr. Claws
success, because it seen that he would have TO