The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-25
From the .Neto York Standard.

From the .Neto York Standard
THE HEADING REPORT AND IT'S REBUKE.
The rapid succession in which we have published
the views of the majority of the Special Commit
tee of the House of Representatives on the Veto
Message the Protest and Report of the Honorable
T. w. Gilmer on the same subject, and though last
not least, the views Of Messrs. lngersol Of Pennsyl
vania and Roosevelt, of New York, given to-day,
will enable our readers to examine and compare
these papers and judge for themselves of their nrn-
sic merits, and of the patriotism which severay per-
vades them Our own opinion shall be briefly but
plainly expressed The paper presented by Mr..
Adams, is in our judgment, compound of malignity
and demagoguesm, in proportions greater, and less
excusable, than any to which the old man eloquent
but reckless before gave the sanction of his
venerated name. The very first outbreak from the
disturbed cerebrum of the late "Hollis Professor of
Rhetoric is in poecal vein, where instead of APP
plauding Mr. Van Buren's administration for attempt
ing to check the current OF desOatiOn which from
other causes than legislation had visited our
people throughout the Union 'the descendant of the
House of Braintree" raves like one demented, and
this too against administration and its extra ses-
sion, which he above all others sustained in the use
of the ssone man potrer" and Of ssthe purse and the
sscordn and aided in clothing the President, at that
session, with more power than any man on earth
possessed with the exception of Napoleon since
| the days of the Roman Dictators
1t is not true that he sentence Of suffering peo-
pie had commanded change in the administration
in the sense by Mr.. Adams charged, though it was
true that the people were suffering, partly from their
own defect of national character in rushing into en-
gagements beyond their means, but more from the
corrupt and heady schemes of desperate pecuniary
and political adventures whose proAigacy equal
led only by their artifce-WhOse talent at amassing
riches, was surpassed only by the adroness with
which they invegled whole nation to become bank
rupt and then charged their nquities upon those
whose best exertions were used to stay the ruin.
| Having succeeded in making the nation bankrupt,
Al -
schemes by passing bankrupt law, at the expense Of
the prudent Of the land, for the relief of those whom
they had ruined sort of boon for having been their
dupes-a panacea for the wounds they had inflicted
on commercial integrity and common faith, between
man and man.
| And now, because John Tyler will not suffer the
rapacity of these men to 60 farther-when the peo-
pile sustain him in his patriotic attempt to stem the
tide into which they who act "without why or
wherefore" would sink him and his administration,
why he is to be ostracsed, and the msrule of these
men supplant his wisdom. MIR. Adams saws tthe
President who had called the meeting extra session.
Of Congress, was no longer the President when the
Congress met" True, and they who conducted and
continued the orgies by which he was to have been
sheaded" resolved that his constitutional
cessor should not be President either when Congress
met or at any time thereafter They meant to usurp
the executive functions-they meant to rule without
President in fact, they avowed there none II,
rank or title, and this and this only, and is the
cause of hostility to John Tyler and sautary legsa
ton under the preence of abuse his part Of his
constitutional perogative.
Mr.. Gilmer has given a calm, dispassionate, and
statesman-ke view of the whole ground 10 dispute,
and enforces his protest with facts and reasoning that
are unanswerable
The paper of Mr.. Ingersoll is of the best ever
penned by that great lawyer and sturdy Democrat,
and is invaluable for the novel and rrefragiabe ar
gument which it advances in favor of the ndestructi
BILE nature of our government
We cannot close these structures without pointing
to the bitter spirit of denuncation against the Presi
dent because of his first veto-that Of the Bill char
tering an U. s. Bank Denounced because he would
not give vitality and potency to corporation whose
precursor had proved to be the curse of the nation
the moving cause Of all woes. The entire report
of MIR. Adams is replete with desire to pcrpetlate
power in the hands of spectators, and for this pur
pose to seize upon the property of the people with
which to corrupt and then enslave them.