The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-02
From the Hartford Patriot and Eagle.
MIR. TYLER AS A STATESMAN.


President Tyler has been called His Accidency,
because he succeeded President Harrison, by the
death of the latter. He is called by Mr. Clay snap,
a flash in the pan. He has been traduced in every
possible mode, and no stone has been left unturned
by Infatuated faction, to backen his reputation
and destroy his official influence. How far his enc
mics have succeeded in their wicked designs let daily
experience and future history answer.
MIR. Tyler came into power under very embarras-
sing circumstances. Our relations with England
involved in great difficulties. With Mexico we
were almost at war on account of the Texas affair ;
the Florida War was at its height; the Army and
Navy were in dilapidated state; the Treasury was
empty; the whole country was grooming in conse-
quence Of financial embarrassment and the distresses
of the times, party spirit ragged with fury unknown
before and superadded to all these, the accden
cy the Provdency of the tenure by which the Pres-
dent held his office.
What then has been done under these embarras-
sing circumstances.
Every department of government mas been conduct
ed on the most judicious and economical plan. Its
enemies themselves being judges, this Administra-
ton has been working one. The Secretaries have
betaken themselves to their tasks good earnest
and with skilful adaptation of means to ends The
Secretary of State understood has brought our dill
icultiGs with England and Mexico to final and sat
sfactory close. The Secretaries of War and Of the
Navy have, all acknowledge, shown themselves most
able and industrious occupants of their respective
post The General Post Office never was in a more
fourishing condition Economy, industry, order,
pervade every department of the government and
well nigh surmount the tremendous difficulties aris
ing from the financial difficulties of the times well
the constant heading operations set on foot in Con-
gress from the first moment that the President assert
ed his constitutional prerogatives.
The President has indeed vetoed three bills passed
by Congress. But the two first, charerng Nation
al Bank, he stood pledged to veto oppose, before
his election. His constitutional objections were well
known and freely expressed long before he was cho-
sen Vice President. Indeed, it is now pretty gener-
ally conceded, that the two bank bills and even the
Provisional Tariff bill framed with express ref
erence to Veto Surely neither of the ''monsters'
framed by Congress to regulate the currency, would
have met the appreciation Of the American people
They conceded too much too little to the innova-
ting spirit of the times Their stock, every ack-
nowledges, could not have been disposed of. They
would have embraced all the evils of the old Bank
without its powers for good. The whig party do not
blame Tyler for opposition to those contemplated in
sttutions SO much as for his constitutional scruples
in regard to amy Bank They cannot therefore find
fault so much with his acts as his opinions
| We pronounce this fortunate Administration.
| The government has been most skilfully and ably
managed in spite of Congress- Congress has talked,
! while the Administration has worked. Clay has
been busy in making political capital in reference to
the next Presidency while Tyler has been most in
dustriously engaged in restoring order to every de
partment of government, in strengthening the Army
and Navy, and in settling our difficult s with foreign
nations. He has spared the government from finan-
cial embarrassment, when the country was at the
| lowe st ebb of financial adversely.
The people, well as President Tyler, are OPP
posed to a National Bank No blame therefore just
y attaches to the President, in consequence of the
difficulties arising from the want of Government
| Treasury Agent. He insists that the public lands
instead of being distributed among the States shall
be reserved pledge for the payment of the $l2-
100000 loan. This is also the wish of the people
No blame therefore be imputed to the President
if Tariff hill, hampered with the odous distribution
clause, shall meet with the fate of its "illusrious
| predecessors -