New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-09-21
VOL. III. NO. 40.

was the man, OF all others, 10 whom II was expe
dent to confess his sins. He was the Chairman
| OF the Committee through whom all nomination
must find their way to the Convention. The norni
nation Of Mr.. Tyler himself when it afterward un
happily came before that body, was, in point o
| fact, announced by Gov. OWEN. Mr.. Tyler knew
therefore, that should any objection be made TO hi:
name, either in the Committee or the Convention
Gov OWEN would be there, instructed and pre-
pared, to make in his name the necessary ex.
plantations. His IecantatioI, therefore, to Gov
OWEN, was equivalent TO an open proclamation OF
1t by himself before the assembled Convention, and
was tantamount 20 his saying" Make me your
candidate gentlemen, and you shall have no cause,
in any event, to complain OF my opinions on the
subject of National Bank. What thought pre-
viously on that question, | think no longer. If
Your object is to establish Bank. elect me, and
will unite with you in that object.
The undersigned here take leave of the occur
rences at Harrisburg, and proceed witheut further
remark, TO present Mr.. Tyler TO view in the rela-
ton of a candidate before the people. The obi
cations implied in that relation, have their founda-
ton in the common sense of mankind ard resolve
themselves at last into thesimple postulae, that a
man is bound to perform his promise. The can
didate who could permit great party to put forth
their strength, in pIotracted and embittered
struggle for his elevation to power-and that not
on his own account, but the rneass and the In
strument of eifecting certain avowed political re-
suts-who could during the whole contest look
quietly on, his ear catching intervals the sound
Of bis own name coming up from the strife, as the
war-cry and the token of the great principle de-
pending upon the issue-ihe man who could Wit
ness all this, knowing that the party who had cho-
sen him for their leader were deluded by his own
professions, and must in the end be mi taken in
their man, could have nothing to boast of superior
morality over the poor loafer arragned at the bar
of criminal justice for obtaining goods by false
prctenccs. And if he could feel comfortable in
the possession of power obtained by sub means,
he would never lack the will, though he might the
courage, Of presenting pistol and demanding the
purse of the peaceful traveller on the highway.
The undersigned lament to say that this is no
sketch of the fancy. Forbidding as it may be, TO
the moral sense of virtuous community yet John
Tyler of Charles City County, in the Common
wealth of Virginia, sat for the picture.
In the memorable contest of l840-a contest
which excited the public expectation and anX-
iety to pitch far beyond any example in our
national annals he was not a mere passive
spectator, He mingled freely in the strife, and
as he traversed the country, and crossed the
mountains, and passed through the great States OF
the West, had but to open his eyes to behold float
ing from every house-top, and borne IN all the vast
professions and festivals of the day, the banners
and standards of the Wings, with his own name
in connection with GA National Bank, ga Pre-
tective Tariff" and "The Land Bill, blazoned
upon them all. The principles Of the Wing party
had becom objects of sense and he could not fail
to see them every where. He knew himself to be
the organ selected ard held forth by them, with his
own consent il not by his own procurement to Ell
fectuate their hopes and objects The terms i'm
pied IN his connection with that party as dis
tinctly known and understood on all hands, as if
they had been reduced to writing aud he had put
his name to them There was not man in the
nation who did not know this, and none knew 1t
better than John Tyler. And yet, with his own
opinions, as he nor informs u.s. long made up
agaiast all the leoding measures Of Wig
policy, he never permitted even a hint or a whis-
per TO escape his lips calculated to put them on
their guard against the perfdy he was then medit-
a,ing against them.
On the contrary he attended their estivals-and
feastcd and shouted and pledged them in many
toast and sentiment-and all the while kept his
own distractions and crochets securely locked up
in his own bosom. And on one occasion he even
took from his pockctbook bill OF the United
States Bank and exhibiting it to large assem-
blage of citizens declared that talk as men
might about gold and silver he wanted no better
currency than that Again, in letter written
during the canvass to the Wings OF Pit,sburs, hc
held this language:-
My opinions fully expressed at ST Ciarsville and
Steubcnvie. Al both places, IN regard 10 The question:
what Your opinion, as TO The taii 'Hswered 'hat
in favor OF distribution OF the proceed, OF the pub
among the states and IN avor e raising The eve-
duties imports. IN opposition 10 resort to ss
TEN OF dlrecttaXailon
And again he declared =
am tr,e aud ge,uine Hnig and in the Capitol yon-
der, have shewn my love of wing principles
VIA, party 1t NAV be asked could hesitate torust
u candidate, bound 10 them by the accumulated
pledges and promises expressed and implied, here
already detailed ssVhat human intelligence, with
out the spirit of prophecy, could toresee that this
man. when installed in the Chair of Chief Magis
tra,e should in the face of all this, be opposed to
a Bank. or tc any establishment bearing the name
of Bank That he should refuse his signature
to a tariff bill, because il failed to take from the
States their distribution Of the avas OF the pubic
lands That he should be so much enamoured OF
the veto power, that like a lad when first entrusted
with a gun, he should be e,ernaly htins IT OIL
merely to hear the noise it madel That ne should
forget the one term principle, and begin at once
10 Law his plans for its own reelection hat he
should essay to build up party OF his own, and
failing in that should propose to form partner
ship with the Loco Focos. and repulsed by them,
should then fall back in suen discomfort upon his
corporal's guard, and without an inch OF solld
ground to stand upon ridiculously set himself up
as the rival and competitor of HENRY CLAY
REvERDY JOHNSON,
NM. rRiCE,
ASHTON ALEXANDER,
GEORGE HON ARD.
ROBERT ". BOWIE,
JAMES MOORES,
JAMES n. GOLDSBOROUGH,
J. BOZMAN KERR.
18th September 1912