The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-07
From the ~. Y Standard.
PROTEST OF MR.. TYLER.

As in his veto me, sage the Tariff ana Distribu-
ton b so III his Protest against the Unprecedented
and insulting course of the House of Representa-
lives, the Chief Magistrate n1by maintains the Dig
nifty of his station. Nor is this all he Sits the con-
duct of the iactious committee of the House who
passing the bounds of their Legislative functions as
sailed the motives of the Executive in The perform.
ance of constitutional du'y-,he exercise ola
stitutiona prerogatve Not to have returned the bill
with his avowed views OF its incongruous and injuri-
provisions, would have been q violation of his
oath of office, and yet for oboctIng its becoming
luw, in the mode of objection specially pointed by
the Constitution cited by him in ipso Hmne of the
Protest, he is arragned by committee not chosen for
any such purposes and impeached in fact before the
nation without their daring impeach him before bis
constitutional Judges. President Harrison no doubt
perceving that attempts ud be made To form par
lies in tn Legislative Halls early protested against
any Executive party there little dreaming that party
cou d be formed against the Executive, with the
openly avowed purpose OF thwaring measures, or in
the refined language of the Richmond Coffee
House let or, of heading the President Having
seized on the legislative power and carried bills 10y log
rolling terrorism, in derogallon of the rights of the
people, aud defiance Of a ordinate branch of the
government, they knew no pause and would submit
TO check in their headlong career until the omnp-
otent and salutary ueo taught them that usurpaton
not always successful, and that the misnamed zone
man power, was in fact the one branch pIad um OF
the peoples safety branch OF the Government not
committed To mob for TWO years, but TO a single man
for four that th,r hasty might be temporarily at
least, averted and subjected 10 their delbe
rate judgment, Tor revision, repeal confirmation IL
two-thrds OF their number should differ flom the Ex-
ecutiye after mature eflectiona branch of the
Government created expressly to render innocuous
precisely such mad legislation that which the Pre-
sdent nobly annulled
Aware of their inability TO persuade the requisite
wo-thirds of their own body to pass the bill in
question: they omitted to pu, the usual question its
passage after objection made preiening to continue
the exhibition of their personal antipahies to John
Tyler, rather than duly to weigh his objecous and
give the aye nay the question Of the soundness
of those objections. Travelling beyond any confines
OF duty ever before known 10 their body the House
constituted an arraigning and sentencing committee
who scoIning the narrow limits which the bill before
Them marked, and the Constitution Itself prescribed
reviewed the entire conduct of the Executive, and
dealt out to him measure of unjust censufe scarcely
less cruel than IL vndc,ise and scarcely less fc-
rocous Than II was updeserved. Whatever the error
of the Executive might have BEEN had that err
amounted TO treason its, II, Committee of the
House had power 90 beyond The preparation of an
tices of impeachment; but they only prepared the
articles, anu usurped the seat of his Jury but dared
to sentence him. judges for offences existing only
in the maginatioDs of men hwared in the aspirations
of their unchastened ambition, and suddenly halted
in their march to that very guilt which they sought to
fasien upon him.
The Protest is ably written, both as to style and
sentiment, and Will ren ain among the Executive
chlVes an enduring memeno OF the brmness honesty,
and patriotism of John Tyler. His enemies have
found him any thing but the "imhecen they have
called him, while the fre d. of the Union of all par
ties must admire his sound judgment and unblcnch-
ing courage IN protecting the prerogave of station
1t impossible thus to speak of the of the magls
trate without some alluson TO the man. Dgni6ed and
respectful in the original communication accompany
ing the returned BILL john Tyler continues sepoised
and unrufied when the "B rantree" committee for
get the comfy of the body from which they emanate,
and the ordinary decorums of private station and he
stands before the people honest man. faithful
and fearless Executive and gentleman, 10 every line
of his pungent and irrefragable Protest.