Litchfield enquirer., 1842-11-17
IOnN QUINCY ADAMS SPEECH.

of eeptombsr last. lt contains some interesting
 sssssmsns concerning the District Bill (which our
 OOseFnos clssSlsnd has voataFed 0 pDunco upon in
 shs Wsg of aiding nulli6caaon end hlaek AsmocrAey, aMd thsxiFaet b also interesting in other parsiculars especially in i's notice Of Mf TylsrS eOlrss. Mr. A6ams remarked ae folloWs:
 "John Tyler who stole into the camp of lhe Whigs in 1e40 in their triumphant struggle Co put down the standard of the Northern man with Southern principles, un. def the colorS of retrenchment, reform, and Whig resistance to Executive usurpation, has crept up to the summit of power, and there proclaims himself democrat dyed in the wool-claims to be an indepe sdent. CO., or: dinate department of the lsgistatipe power declares in so many words that Congress can enact no law without his sanction, Stig. matizes the leading, members of Congress, of the party by which he was chosen as the coadiutor of HArrisen, to achieve the great and glorious work of reform, as n.Ol.sing DO 1IiciGns-sets all the trumpets of the press, paid by his dispensation of patronage with She public money. and all the hungry and unprincipied fice-holders throughout the Union, to rGiling against Congress-, the real legislative power, for failing to restore the public prosperity, while he defeats by his cetoes almost every salutary measure devised and matured by them, and believed by them
 10 be indispensable for that purpose; turns
 out of the Executive offices under his con-
 trol, honest and honorable men, true repu. blicans and ardent patriots, like Jonathan
 Roberts, and fOists in their places, ,sycophants
 and time servers - levies money upon the
 people, upon authority so questionable. that
 his own Secretary of the Treasury believes
 SN Ax> hn ua,Skh kha.,a NA 1..rrn 0nA An
 crown the whole system of misrule, ap-
 posites in the Department of State, an argu-
 ment to nullify the most important, and the
 most wholesome of it's provisions.
 Fellow citizens. 1t was this glaring act of
 double dealing. that stamped the character
 of the man. in my estimation, in letters never to be efaced. That duplicity was his une- radicable vice, had long had reason to sus- pect, but was extremely reluctant to believe Long before he had been thought of as a candidate for the office of Vice President of the United States, had read letter from the late Henry Lee to him charging him with that pollution of the heart in other transactions of his life, upon testimony which it was not easy to withstand. had witnes- sed his wavering, inconsistent, and yet ob. stinate conduct throughout the whole of his proceedings with his first cabinet, until its dissolution = had compared his self contra. dictory reasons for his first and second bank vetoes, and had noticed the direct issues up- on his veracity, made by the seeding mem- bers of Harrison's cabinet knew not all indeed of the mass of irrefragible evidence on that point which has since been disclosed, but it was already exposed in such burn ing light, that could barely keep with him Nan If uapNh v,0pennoT Osu be observed with political adversaries, whose personal character remains unim- peached. The approval of the apportion- ment bill with the caveat deposited in the Department of State against far the most important section contained in it, was in my opinion fraud, which no man of honesty would have committed; which no sopistry could disguise, and no ingenuity could palli. ate. conld have no further personal inter- course with it's author, and deemed it my indispensable duty to expose its true charac. ter 10 the House and to the country.
 moved Q resolution of the House, calling on the Department of State for the paper it. self; MT. Tyler having merely informed the House that he had deposited there his rea- sons for signing the bill, withoI: stating what they wore. The House, invariably treating him with deference, amended my resolution by calling for copy instead ofthe original when the paper came, moved its reference to select committee, which reported strong reproduction of MT. Tyler's proceeding in the case, and Q resolution protesting against it as a precedent. This report of the committee could be called up for consideration only by . majority oftwo-thirds of the members pre- sent and voting. moved majority vote, but not oftwo-thirds. MT. Tyler was spared lhe modification of vote of the House. the report and the protest. because his friends in the House objected to it's being and the objection could only be overcome by Q vote oftwo-thirds.
 The reasons for approving the bill were n argument against the section requiring hat the selections for members of the House # Representative should be by single dis ricts through the Union. The effect and ntent of the reasons were to stimulate and resistance by nullification against he single district as the only way by the Con. 'titution of effecting the provision, requiring ne representative for every number of the common standard. The meeting of the next congress will disclose the full extent of he evil of this most Mischievous Executive ,
 The character of this transaction, symto- natic of a pertidious heart, can only be es. imated by analysing it's motives and pur-' poses. The legislatures of seven of the smaller states of the Union, to secure to themselves an undue proportion of influence in the popular branch of the National Le- gislature, had adopted the practice of cleo ting the whole number of members of the House, to which their numeric population entitled them, by general ticket, whereby each member was made representative of the whole state, and not of the specific number of persons entitled by the Constitu-