Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1842-08-20
THE GAZETTE.
BURLINGTON, AUG. 20, ls42.
PRESIDENT TYLER AND THE
WHlGS,


cider slouters throughout the country are
put in full cry at the heels of President
Tyler. Among others, the fedora! "By
print Of this place keeps up y
loud and incessAnt barking .1gws
81 lily ,hj,lnds hostAi.y { y llosd
4 = p gistrate ;of radon With
asiii III opprobriuil tOo cruel Tor the
'ltlooS Why these un.neasured and i'm
measurable dcnunciations1 Why this
uncomfortable and fiend like ferocity!
Simply, THE HONESTY OF JOHN
TYLER!
His heart would not permit him hourly
to drench the guillotine in a bloody pro-
scription,-he could not and would not
play the part Of a p,nderer TO a hundred
thousand Office seekers,--and for this he
is, according to- scFupulous whiggery,
TRAlroR, not only to the country in gen.
eral, but, worst Of all, to the wing party
in particular.
Had President Tyler gone on as his
predecessor commercially an indiscrimin-
ate and tornado-sweep against oil men
found in office-he, too, might have been
killed by opportunities, and been trund!ed
10 an untinely grave by a sympathizing
pack Of federal la=aroni. But President
Tyler was man Of too much good sense
to rush to such destiny when he could
avoid i,-so he changed the game from
beheading TO heading.
This however is departure from
the point, which, if said ut all,
might better have been said by way Of
parenthesis. What we started out to say
was this-Had President Tyler carried
out the proscriptive system in the reck-
lessness Of spirit which characterized il
during the first thirty days and nights Of
federal rule, he would not now be called
traitor. No, no! Had lie KEEP: the
guillotine wreaking and smoking with vic
tims-had he removed faithful and compe
tent public officers and filled their places
with party hacks and all sorts Of politi
cal mountebanks, such as dirty ballad
sin aad ragged and lousy lazaroni
who went to make up the crew Of wing
nfEhad he driven from Office the tried
and soldiers ofthe last war and
ted in their stead the soap-lock
yters and cock-sparrows Of the feder.
III mushroom aristocracy-had he done
this, he would not be upbraided with his
treachery by the little vagabond starv.
llngs Of party, who, unable to impose up
on his credulity or to wheedle him out Of
an appointment, now suddenly turn round
and partly through revenge and party
from a hope Of future benefits, join in a
war Of vulgar abuse and unprincipled
persecution against him.
II will be useless for these whig lead
ers TO pretend that Mr.. Tyler has betray-
ed them in the matter Of principles. II
will be useless for them to pretend to any
principle when We have before us every
evidence Of their willingness to sell even
their birth right for three cents worth of
pottage. Give one Of them an office
worth three bits year and he will give
YOU all his principles, to have and to
hold them forever if you like.
If the wings have principles, what are
they? Where are they? When were
they proclaimeda Certainly not before
the last election-for ii was rule with
them and their candidates in those days
no, to make any declarations for the
public eye"
We were told by Gen. Harrison and
his friends 10 look to his former acts for
his then present opinioas-and that those
opinions had undergone no change"
We were told the same thing Of Mr..
Tyler. Both these gentlemen had been
distinguished for their hostility to- U $
!iank-and as we were assured that their
opinions had ssundergone no changes" the
public had right to infer that they were
both still opposed to such an institution.
And we know that many, very many,
thousands, who voted for them did deducc
his inference and voted accordingly.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
question turned principally upon the
I:ank and The Tarifl:-and it was publish
I'd through wing papers and proclaimed
Nv wing orators from the stump that Gen
Harrison and Mr.. Tyler were both op.
posed 10 Bank--that Gen. Harrison
~as opposed todisturbing the compromise
tariff act, and that Mr.. Tyler was oppos'
ed to . tariff in almost any shape but most
especially TO high protective tariff. In
lAct Mr.. Tyler was taken up in the Con
yention because it was thought that hi
known opinions on these Two leading
questions would unite upon him, more full