New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-07
THE TRIBU NE.
SPEECH At THE TABERNACLE.
OF Hon. M. w. Thompson of 4ndiana.


to the assembly was received with hearty cheering,
and addressed the mee,iag nearly as follows:
Fellow Citizens /: Never in the course of life,
not an uneventful one, have | experienced such
emotions as now overwhelm me--neyer before
have l seen such gratitude as you have poured
on the Representatives of the People. There is
nothing more gratifying to tho publicserva when
returning from his labors than feel that tie Peo
pie Of the country who have the deepest interes,
in the legislation of the country are satisfied with
the manner in which he has performed his obliga-
tions and duties Coming as we do from all quar-
ters of this great Confederacy-from every portion
Of this Union-from the North, from the South
from the East and the far-otf West, we are greeted
here at this great Commercial Emporium, whence
the blood of our commerce flows through all the
arteries and veins of this great Nation-coming
from all quarters OF this nation we are greeted mere
in the cheering manner, Tin this great City of
this great Nation.
Feow-ctizens, You, in common with the uni
verse made of the people of this country who
have confded their destihes to our laws, have
felt the withering and blighting influence of mis-
ever all the interests Of the country, which has
faliened on your industry and labor, which has
crushed down the stout hearts, and blasted the
spirit of people devoted to the interests Of the
country, and to their institutions, con6ded by their
fathers to their hands, and we the Representatives
of the People have come to you common
constituency; are all Americans; we are all
freemsn: we all have the interest and prosperity
of this mighty city of yours at heart; we are all
SONS of common country, and coEntrymen of
HENRY CLAY. Loud cheering.
From the deepest recesses of my heart thank
you for the shouts with which you have met that
name when it has been heard in your presence as
citizens of this common confcderacy. As Wing
Member of Congress, and more than ally as
Western man, | thank you from the bottom of my
heart Renewed cheering.
We have csme before you, felow-citizens, fresh
from an arduous conflict in which we have been
long engaged but it is not a conflict Of blood
We have blood-stained trophy to lay at your
feet; we present you nothing as the evidence OF
our victory but remedy for The agonizing dis
tress with which you have SO long been afflicted.
This is all we could do. Driven back from
point to point by the cohorts of an Executive whs
has proven traitor to all the pledges he ever
made; driven back by an alliaLce as utterly
heartless as it was corrupt we could give you
no more. We have been engaged in a conflict
with the Executive power of this country-with
the strong Executive power of this free American
nation of ours. [Applause.] But, thank God,
in that contest we have been found fighting on
your side-on the side of the People of the Con-
stitution, and of the country. Hearty cheers.]
Felow-C Citizens, when the great Wing party of
this country achieved that great moral and political
revolution of ls4D, the pulse Of this mighty natoa
pf haat vii r,ns hnpc and ,re look I'D
with the utmost confidence to the result of the as
sembage at the Capitol of the first Wing Con-
gress, after that glorious era had begun. We came
flushed with victory, filled with tho same hopes
that had formed in your bosoms-fresh from the
people of this country who themselves were fresh
from the conflict. But we found not there the
man of our choice: another was in his stead.
The unerring shaft of Death had fallen him
whom you and the country had borne trumphanty
on your shoulder, through this mighty nation--pho
losed hi, country for his countrys sake eCheers.)
Another was in his stead, and there is not a
Wing now within the sound of my voicc-not
man in the nation whodoes not recollcct with what
anxiety the public mind fastened itself on the doc
trines which he proclaimed 10 the country as the
evidence of his devotion TO Wing principles and
70 the prosperity of his country. But no sooner
had we assembled together and commenced the
GLORIOUS WUTk eXpeClC0 Dy you tuc lCopiCt tioi
that man that had thus been accidentally placed
in the Presidential chair, was indeed endued
with the physical, or moral, or political power in
this country to build up great party for himself
From that hour to this have we been engaged in a
continual strife-in warfare rot only with the
cohorts of the Administration, but with their al
lies the Democrats. (Applause.)
We only recur TO these things as evidence that
there is in this country state of feeling which
will endure suffering to an extremity beyond which
there is virtue in permitting its endurance. II
it had not been for this unfortunate feeling OF ruth
less and grovelling ambition which corrupted the
mind of the President Of the United Stotes, you
this day had been in the enjoyment of a currency
good all over the nation and the world, ample tor
all purposes of individual State aud National CIR
cuation (Hearty cheers.
At the commencement of the Extra Session OF
Congress the disordercd end broken state OF the
currency rendered important to the prosperity OF
thecountry financial measure, and who was there
in the ranks of the Statesmen of the land to whom
'hetask of eAecsag it could as well be committed as
to the Statesman of the West, of the Nation, the
countryman of us all whom we all delig ght to
hcnor; (cheers} and | have always believed, and
now most relisieusly believe, that II that bill had
not been perfected BY Henry Clay 1t would have
received the signature of John Tyler. But, alter
ed, modified and amended as it was, for the pur-
rose of procuring that signature, 1t received
nothing bur the taunts of its enemies and the op-
position of the Executive. For the first time,
then, we were induced to believe that this was a
dangerous power, although placed in the sacred
instrument of the Constitution; and then 1t was
that not looking TO ohm Tyler but TO You, as
your agents, that we consulted him as to the mar
aer in which your Suffering could be relieved, and
then NE elected from oar ranks men whom the
country delights 10 honor, call on the President
for financial scheme which he would approve
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