The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-31
From the NJ England Reporter and Catholic diary
PRESIDENT TYLER.

IL must be extremely disgusting to every rejecting
mind, TO periso the fusome ISLANDERS Astounding 10
the columns of the Wing press against this truly DIS
interested and uafacti0us lie has dared 10 di-
vest himself of partisan shackies, proudly eeyatng
himself above all minor influences and legislatlng
the universal national good, not for the veal oil
mere party although that party have raised him to
Office Tyler's conduct. while Chief Magistrate OF
this nation has been noby independent. II was not
usuypsd independence il was not an arrogation oil
power which Constitution or law would not permit
The power assumed by the President was 'nstiiu-
toDal in every sense, and the manner IN which he
rendered that power subseryent to the general good
of this Republic, reflects the highest honor upon his
Judgment.
Mr. Tyler has been scorniully termed, by some
prominent Wings, " aoeldenial President" ms
epithet, of supposed opprobrium, was not applied
until the veto had checked the dangerous ambition oil
ntriguers, who would crush the interests OF three-
fourths of the people, that one.torh might De oene
flied. Previous To this, the Wing press-ahd inc
Alias in particuar-had been Landings most crnging-
ly the accidental President-excaiming, like the Jew
in the Merchant Of Venice, A most upright Judge
" A Daniel to judgment! J" But when they dis
covered that the hatterers art would not avai, ana
when their naughty crests were stricken to The dust
then was Tyler a recfeant-an accidental rres-
dent" &c.
former incumbent Of the Presidency, John G
Adams,) has descended TO the meanness of viliying
Mr. Tyler and has deemed il fitting for an old man
"a man laying claim 10 talents and sense-to echo
the asperslons OIL scurTllous press anu cohemPtu-
ousy apply to the President the term "accldental"
Does the old gentleman forget that he Is applying the
lance to an old of his own? Does he recollect
the year of his Inauguration, when he was opposed
by Jackson, Calhoun and Clay, the former of whom
had the largest number of whom had the largest num-
Der Of votes; yet constitutional choice being
made the election devolyed upon the House OF he
representatives. whose ''accidenta!" vote MIR. Adams
may thank for the privilege of governing with pitia
BILE imbecty, this Republic for the period of four
years. This Hon. J. q. Adams is an individual most
uncongenal to our ideas. We conceive him to be
either half idiot sem-madman, for he is ever, in
his public addresses, at with the most on
common sense. Since we have marked his public
actions have found him leagued with bigotry des-
potsm and nonsense AT time utterng the grosest
calumnes against Catholics, at another time countc-
nancng the unjust invasion of China by Great Britain,
and again entering, by invitation, among audience
of Temperance men, disappearing God by his impl-
Gus attempts to prove that Holy Writ favored human
brutality Such is our view of the character Of q
Adams, Nj. c.
Mr.. Tyler is not only enlightened ruler, but a
whose opinions upon abstract subjects evince a
mind infused with the nobest liberality. DR.. tise,
a Catholic clergyman, honored 10y him, with let
tiers Of introduction to gentlemen in Ireland Would
Mr. Adams Henry Clay other prominent gentle
men have done this; No! they would have feared
too much the rebuke Of fanaticism, and would have
frowned upon the ''Popish' individual who would
have dared to ask the unimportant favor. Thus in
all things have we found the President man wor-
thy of the exalted station which he has attained, and
one who reflects lustre upon the Presdency,-bc it
accidental or otherwise