The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-07
Correspondence Of The ". Y. Herald.
WAsHINGToN Nav 1. lS4
THE WINGS AND THE PRESlDEN RE.
PORT OF GOV. POINDEXTER, &c.

THE WINGS AND THE PRESlDEN IRE.
PORT OF GOV. POINDEXTER, &c.
At no period since the commencement Of the extra
session has the breach between the Clay Wings in
Congress and President Tyler been wide at the
present time 1t is gulf, broad deep, and impassa-
BILE Not only has he nothing to hope from the wings
party but he is certain TO encounter their bitter
est enmly, their most uDrelentng opposition No act
of his admns ration, however patriotic, no measure,
however correct in principle, however popular with the
people necessary to the country will receive their
appreciation support Their opposition is alike ILL
bera unfair, and indscriminate. They assail the
character Of the President without justification OF
cause of any sort-they mlsrepresent his conduct
they garble and diston his correspondence, and then
charge him with perdy because he refuses to appoint
his enemies to office.
L, is time for the friends Of the administration TO
speak out boldly and p ainly There can be no great
folly than entertain the idea OF ralying any con-
siderable portion of the whg party to its support
Those who not for the administration are against
it, You concur in the movement OF the
whig tary, sustain its present organization or pro
mote its immediate uelor purposes and be a friend
of the administration, than you can at the same time
serve God and mammon The protested wing papers,
which playing fast and loose between the two,
and giving timid useless, and vena support for the
sake of the patronage enemies IN DIS
guise, and only waiting the proper time to display
their real colors.
Measures desired by the people, and demanded by
the exigences of the country, will be rejected or
postponed by the Wings in Congress under the appre-
hension that the Administration might derive credit
or advantage from them There is neither purpose
thought of adopting the Exchequer, establishing
any other scheme of finance. The currency question
is to be kept open in the deusve hope that a Ma
tional Bank will eventually be popular and they
carry Gen, Scott, not Mr. Clay, into the Presidential
chair on that hobby. Mr., Clay has been nominated
to be sure, but the object to have flag aoat ind
to take advantage Of the present machinery and or
ganizaon of the Wing party. He will be thrust
aside on grounds of eXpedency, he was in 1889,
and Scott will be the candidate
! The course adopted by the House committee on
Public Expenditures in obtaining possession of Coy.
Poindexter's report has excited very general amin
adversion here. A full history of the affair, en-
bracng all the ntrigues and sinister management IN
dispensable to the accomplishment of so shabby a
trick, will be given hereafter. 1t will then be SEEM
that the Conduct of the President has been most hon
orabe, discreet and patriotic throughout lie has
neither sought nor desired conceament or suppress
sion of any sort. He anxious only to do his duty
in the premises, to protect his subordnates from ma
lignant combinations, and to assert and yndicae the
rights and dignity of the Executive Department OF
the Government The object of the Clay men in
Congress- acting through the Committee on Public
Expenditures, was two iold-frst, to embarrass the
President and second, to give Gales and Seaton a
profitable Job Of printing to the exclusion of Allen or
the Madsonian In the latter they will succeed, but
it remains to be seen whether they will not dlsgace
themselves rather than injure the Executive
In the present aspect of the affair, the conduct OF
Gov Poindexter is highly censurable. Perhaps it is
susceptible of explanation, and we hope he may be
able to exculpae himself. But what is its appear
ance nowl He designated by the Executive,
under authority of law of Congress- to perform a
specific duty He is an Executive officer appoint ed
by the Executive, responsible to the Executive, and
to no other branch of the Government. Congress
has no control over hm--no right to interfere with
his duties--no concern with his report until it had
been considered by the Executive and sent by him to
the Legislative branch. But committee of the
House with indecent haste-if the thing could have
been proper at any lime-before the President had
had an opportunity to examine it, surreptltiousy got
possession of the report, and smugl led 1t into the
House as one Of their 1t was gross violation
of official decorum on the part of the committee-a
palpable breach of proprletya disregard of the cour
tesy which should be observed in all intercourse be-
tween different branches of the Government. On
the part of Gov Poindexter there have been
want Of proper respect to the Executive, from whom
he derived his authority. What obligation rested up
on him deliver his report upon the of the
committee 1t is precedent full of pernicous con-
sequences. Suppose a committee of Congress should
take it into their heads that there might be found in
the proceedings of martial, the correspon-
dence connected with ii, something capable Of being
used for political purposes, and call upon the Judge
Advocate for the record while the Count sittii &,
would the call be complied with
But as there is be full history Of this matt er
hereafter, enough for the present! ..