The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-03
THE NEW YORK COURIER.


The Courier and Enquirer, after being
most gracefully Marshaled in the State of Del
aware, thinks there is not at heart single
TYLER man in the United States, and that tn,
conductors of presses which have supported
him shave measurally disgraced themselves
Now, as the Courier was one of the papers tina
supported 'Tippecanoe and Tyler too," it con
fesses itself TO be measurably disgraced."-
The Courier stands in a still more deplorable
light, for it came out and supported the Elk
chequer plan, until it received a small note that
il was going wrong; when suddenly II tackled
ship and stood on the other course.
How different would the case have been il
the editor of the Courier could only have re-
ceived the appointment of deputy postmasttr al
New York Or had President Tyler signed
the first Bank bill, the Courier and Enquirer
would have stood A. No. /, and despatched
him with fulsome praise until 1t had been as
certained that no one would purchase the
stock. All the abuse and SANDER that is heaped
upon Mr. Tyler, is simply because he refused TO
approve measure never claimed by the Wings
as portion of their creed until long after the
election of Harrison and Tyler to the first gifts
of the People.
II is not little singular that these ISLANDERS
should proceed from the city of New York,
where the Wings refused TO be considered as
the Bank party, previous to the canvass. IL
was in that city that MIR. Giffing published
s.The Contrast" a pamphlet of Is pages, which,
; 10
skies. The Contrast met an enormous sale,
and was scattered by the Wing committees far
and wide over the whole Union, to aid the cleo
ton Harrison and Tyler. In that little work,
among the reasons given why General Harrl-
son should be elected President of the United
States, we find the following
Because being neither artisan nor an enemy OF
Banks, but friend of a sound and uniform currency,
he is not tied down by passion or prejudice 20 any
course, other than that which shall conform TO the
principles ofhhe Constitution, and best subserve the
interests of the people"
To prove these ''because," the Contrast
immediately quotes an extract from General
Hauison's letter to Sherrod Williams, which
reads thus
AS private citizen no can be more entirely
clear of any motive, either for re-charerug the old
Bank, on CREATING NEW ONE, under the authority Of
the United States never had single share in the
former, nor indeed in any bank with one exception,
and that failed with the loss of the entire stock"
Among some hundred 'becauses," this is the
only one that says word about United States
Bank, and yet the Courier will insist upon 1t
that the creation of new bank was one Of the
cardinal principles of the Wings in the contest
of 1910.
General Harrison declared himself opposed
TO the creation of a bank, and among all the
reasons why he should be elected President,
the Contrast makes thus prominent Now, these
latter-day saints, with the Courier at their head
declare that John Tyler is a traitor, because he
refused to sign the Bank bill to which Harrison
himself was opposed during his whole life.
But this little text book of the Courier gives
as many more ''becauses," why Mr. Van Blu
rem should not be reelected and, strange to say
these Bank people, now had the following anti
Bank paragraph then:
d" Because he has been instrumental in creating
nearly four hundred banks in the Union, ant
using those in his native State the instruments o
his ambition"
here lnlS contrast nlakeS q pOlitcdl ndnulc U
Mr. Van Burens banking propensitles, and nov
the Courier cries out for the Bank. We coult
write a contrast, and if we did, it would b.
something like the following, viz: Reasons
why the Courier and Enquirer should have
leather medal presented to it for its consistency
Because it adopted heWhig Contrastin 1910
and opposed it in lS4l;
Because it was really consistent for nearly
one year at one time;
Because it opposes John Tyler for carrying
out the principles on which he was elected;
Because it Condemns the living President 10
principles held by the deceased President
Because it was most violent in praise of tn,
Exchequer plan, for about a peeh;
Because it was most violent III denouncins
it, after that aceek;
Because it abused President Tyler and railet
against the Veto power, for about three months
Because it then turned, when the Bankrup
bill was in danger, and called upon the Presi
dent to ''interpose his constitutional authority,
to save that bill
We would go on, and give as many ''be
causes as the Contrast, but we hope the Cou
rier will be satisfied with these.
MORE DICTATION.
1t is known to every body that the Tariff Dis
trbution bill, when sent to the Senate was re