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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-30

the principal Departments at the bidding of Cav the
great dictator of Whiggery. The Federal Wing
Leaders finding that the guilotine was stayed and the
bloody Granger, Ewing and Bell, the executionerss
cast out 10 disgrace by the patriot at the head of the
Government, fell pelI-mell upon him, and with the
whole kennel of office-seekers that sprung up like
mushrooms, after the Wing victory of l846, have
kePt up constant yelping ever since. But like the
noble mastif, with head erect, he moves among the
barking dogs and fears no harm
Yes, the Wing members of Congress, because Pre-
sldent Tyler would not do the bidding of Clay their
dictator, sanction that abomnation of all abomina-
lions, United States bank, and suffer Granger
whose head is as empty as band-box-to turn out
5OOO more posmasters-they, in their rage in ne
greet OF the duty they owed their country and all her
varied interests, straightway opened in advance the
PRESIDENTIAL campaign of 1874, and we see nor hear
nothing In or out of Congress, so far as the Wings
are concerned, but fruitless attempts to "beadn Mr.
Tyler and make Clay President. Mr.. Tyler won't be
headed, and the Wings now know it but they had
passed the Rubicon before they found it out Clay is
IN od broken down horse, and has too often been dis
lahced by Jefferson colts to enter the lists with any
prospect OF success for the Presidency His name
VIII be withdrawn from the list of candidates mme-
diately after the fall elections.
II Is we'll known to readers that the Wings
nave an overwhelming majority in both branches Of
the National Legislature, and can pass a protective
tariff any hour they please, and could have done SO
eight months ago. The President has repeatedly
urged Congress to pass tariff for the relief of the
country ne begged them TO do in his message of
last March, and he assured them that he would most
cordially approve any tariff they would send him,
emitting the land distribution clause. The Wings are
egregousIy mistaken if they think they can deceive
the people. The people know that the Wings have
the power-they know the Northern Democrats are
all tor tariff distribution clause excepted and that
the President stands ready to sign any tariff they will
pass, Invested, as it should be, Of all extraneous
matter.
These things are SO, feow-citizens, are SOL
or ha L..
know it.
These matters should be looked to- and the correct
i've to be found only in the ballot boxes One day
at the polls will put every thing to rights. Turn out,
then, to man. and set your faces as flint against
The tricks ofthe song-snging coontes of 1910, who
VIII be suIet conure up some new device sch me,
l840
The day dawns! Whggery is used up! Demo-
cracy Is IN the ascendant; and after the fourth Of
March next, the country will gradually Use from the
notwithstanding and runous condition to which it
has been sunk by the present Wing Administration
!
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From the Plattsb,rg (N Y. Republican.
WHTG PRICES

The following comparative statement Of cash pri-
ces in 1889, the third year of Mr.. Van Burens adj
minstration; and in 1912, the second year of Whig
administration, is submitted to the sober considera-
ton of our readers:
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TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD-MO
NEY LOST

( IN the evening of Thursday, the 25th instant,
~ somewhere between Rosenthals Hotel Wash
ingon city, and four miles on the new cut road lead
ing from the Eastern branch bridge to Prince George,
and the lower counties of Maryland red morocco
pocket book purse, containing $3.50, or $3.50 In
bank notes. among which were two $40 notes on the
Merchants Bank of Baltimore, and the residue in
70 notes of the Bank of Virginia. In said book was
one or two pieces of paper, which written
memorandum of medicines. The above reward will
be given for said money if left with the editor or with
Mr.. Rosenthal, in Washington city.
d. F. Hell
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
p ANYWAY, the second time, from the subscriber
IL on the 29th August, between two O'Clock and
sunrise, muatto man named PETER MATHEWS,
aged about 81 years. about FIVE feet ten inches high
of good form and looks good house servant and
carriage driver in which latter capacity he has been
employed for the last five years.
Peter is very civil in his department, with mild
voice. His teeth quite defective, and he chews
tobacco. His hair black and bushy on the sides of
his head.
He took with him light-coored summer Clothes a
green cloth frock coat with yellow buttons dark
colored fur cap and black hat
Twill give $50 if said Peter is taken in the State of
Mary land, and secured thai, get him again 800
II taken and thus secured in any other State and $50
if secured in the District of Columbia
JAMES HARMED
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THE ONE MAN POWER.

After all the clamors about the one man pow
er, as exercised by the President, who is elect
ed by the whole People, we find the noisy oppo-
nents of the power in theory, the most Jealous
advocates of it in practice, and using it in the
most studied capriciousness of manner on
subject deeply affecting important interests OF
the nation. We find member reserving his
vote till the list of the members voting by the
ayes and noes had been gone through-he and
his friends keeping tally lin order to ascertain
on which side his one man power should be ex-
erted. The one man power was thus exercis-
ed We again find the Speaker first exercising
the power in producing negative, and then
exercising tt to allow certain members to vote
when their right was doubtful
WewllI not pretend to enumerate all the instan-
ces of the exercise of that power which occurred
on that one day when the Tariffbill was lastpass-
ed, but we think that the votes and the maneuvres
to fix the result, demonstrat the necessity,
without farther argument, of vesting negative
power in the President, to be exercised not on
" in cases of constitutional objections, but
aphen deep and vital interests are involved.-
A single member of Congress, no matter what
his intellect, may influence the action of the
House on question ofvital interest. We must
remember specially that, on all such questions,
the majority is generally very small, and that
majority, however small, produced sometimes
by log-roIling or trickery. Is any farther proof
necessary Of the foresight of the trainers of the
Constitution, who gave modified negative
q l. L. Ill De- IL
instead of leaving an absolute negative to
member of Congress chosen for single district?
Notwithstanding the newborn zeal against the
Presidential negative, facts daily occurring
prove the wisdom of the Institution.
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tnystsry--psIess We Al once sqA ~ Gosdin Knst,
and believe that wa. eos Up c purpose . y vGsosd
whom the Treasury is empty a-sive away money Tor
the pleasure Of Borrowing 2-ailow niiliOn and
half Of protested papers ~ lay hanaand send OF
$780, 900 where il IL not wantsd-a tenth Of mill dis
tributed 10 every citizen Marvellous wisdom What
Potent grave and reverend seigniors' there are At
Washington
What can the wings say of Tyler now !? "A fash
In the PAM iYresolute weak and vacillating. Eh
Our sapent friend, Harry Of the West, will hnd that
the "snap," now in the Presidential chair y quite
enough for him to manage. Methinks thus tooTlh
Veto is something more than fash-it seems mar
vellously like loud report
There area few efigy burners who could no moro
understand OF feel argument unless 1t operated Ia
yorabe on their pockets than they could feel the an
hueDce OF the sun when their skin was puckered up
all over, by cold fit Of intermittent We shall not
undertake to reason with them, but shall turn them
over the tender mercies Of those who Jogging
them 80 ntoleFably in Indiana and North Carolina
They can feel, it they cannot hear The better por-
ton Of the wings are more than half convinced that
the President right in his Veto Message. They
will need but to read and over again that adn
rable document in order TO confirm them IN the truth
There are many liberal men among them, who can
not he driven by the crack of the party whip to de-
nounce the President for doing right
The democrats every where, delighted with the
Veto Message They unaectedy rejoice that the acci-
dental wing majority in Congress which has to'led 80
long and caught nOthlngl 10 reDuKeu anu nuhpiea. LIE
majority most fagranty misrepresents its constituents
nd the people are even now setting seal OF con-
deunation which must make the Bottees Stanlys and
Arnods feel most painfully their native nothingness
President Tyler is at this moment, as popular as
Andrew Jackson in the pamiest days Of his pow
err After all his troubles trials and perplexies It
be delightful to him, to find the unbought, UNI
terrified people rayng around him. with cordial APP
probation of his manly, noble course. This Fourth
Veto has set the seal to all his acts, and given his
character statesman and as a man, its GROWING
touch.
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From the Detroit Free Press.

John Tyler has again firmly met and nobly and
and periodically discharged the high and responsible
duties of his station. He has promptly vetoed the
Tariff and Distribution bill which the Clay Wings in
Congress, under the dctation of the C One Man
Power" at Ashland, passed and sent to him in snch
shape as to compel him to withhold his signature
or dshonor himself and his Office by the tame surreh
der of his avowed and we-known principles, at the
shrine of President-makng Congress to the great
detriment Of the public interests. The Clay papers
may and will rail at this independent and manly
course of President Tyler but it will meet with the
hearty applause of large majority of the American
people, who as fast as the elections occur, are,
through the ballot-boxes placing their seal of con-
demnation upon the Wing caba in Congress ,who for
twelve MONTHS have been squandering the peoples
money, at the tune of eight dollars per day, in un-
awaiting attempts to "h head Capt. Tyler, and pro-
mote the aspirations of Henry Clay for next Pres-
dent
The reasons given by the President are perfectly
conclusive of the business and proprety of his exer
else of the veto power and they ought put the whole
wing party to the blush II is the President who has
been consistent and the wings who have been ncon-
sistent, on this subject of the Tariff and Distribution
a, the extra session, these same wings in Congress
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joyed the exclusive privilege of announcing inn
portant facts in advance of all others, its course
must surely be approved by the applauded
party
These and other considerations caused us 10
speak impulsively on the subject. Our conscl-
Ience tells us it was an honest impulse. AS an
independent journalist, approving heartily from
convictions Of duty the principles and policy OF
the Chief Magistrate of our country, and ac-
tuated with the more determined ardor to defend
him, because we saw him assaulted by false
friends in concert with open enemies-we have
not hesitated to occupy perilious position, re-
CARELESS Of consequences, purposing to arrest, If
possible, the fearful progress of evil designing in
triguers. Exposed to the fire of friends, sur
rounded by open enemies, and standing on the
magazine prepared for the destruction OF the one
we advocated, we resolved to share his fate !
Such, in our estimation, were the circumstan-
ces-such, undoubtedly, were our motives. If
we erred when we are convinced OF it, we will
acknowledge our error.
OF one thing we feel satisfied We are GER
tain that the Treaty, as ratified, is honorable
and advantageous. 1t would neither have been
agreed to, signed nor ratified, had it been
otherwise. Yet, we are anxious for the debates
on it to be published.
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THE POLICY AT DETROIT.

MANY of our friends at Detroit complain
most bitterly of the bestowal of the Govern
ment advertising on the Daily Advertiser, pa
per that denounces and calumniates the Chief
Magistrate We know nothing of the facts
further than what we see--the long advertise
ments to furnish provisions for the troops, and
the Post Office advertisements and the laws, on
one page, and the calumnies referred to on an
other. We have been requested to copy the
following choice extracts:
From the Detroit Adocrtiser August 16.
We care little for the reasons pretended to be set
forth in the Executive message. All the wordy agu-
mentation about the distribution bill the compromise
act, increased taxation, and Executive consistency
sound well enough; but knowing the real motips, we
are not to be deceived by any false pretences. Least
of ALL are we to be deluded by hollow professions of
conciatory spirit and desire to meet the wishes Of
Congress and the people.
August II.
The President by an adro artifce not credable
to the chief magistrate, has sought to conceal his hos
tty to protective tariff and to base his Deto solely
on his opposition to the land bill.
August 10.
Mr. Tyler, early after his accession, formed the de-
sign of securing his own reelection. The wing par
~ fully committed to the oneterm principle and
could not consistently support him. He then looked
elsewhere for aid. The loco focos, broken by their
recent defeat were anxious to produce divisions in
the wing ranks, and promised Mr.. Tyler the desired
support. Hence the two bank vetoes and the break
ing up the first cabinet.
We appeal to any honest political opponent
to say whether it is just and proper for any Of
icer under the President, to build up and sus-
ta in the journals that defame and calumnate
the Chief Magistrate in this manner?
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MR.. ARNOLD's POPULARITY.

Our friend Mr.. Arnold has shown much anxi-
ETY. to bring up his retrenchment bill. On every
occasion he has alluded to it, in one form or an
other On every motion to go into Committee
Of the Whole, he has given notice that he
would move TO take up his bill. He has even
offered resolution, on the gag principle, fixing
the time when debate on his bill in Committee
of the Whole should cease. His efforts at noto-
riety are earnest and unceasing. But we fear
he does not act in such a manner as to prove
that his exertions in the cause of retrenchment
are sincere. We say this in kindness.
In the first place, as we have already noted,
he voted for the resolution to supply himself
with large lot of fine books, The price of which
would be more than equivalent to the loss he
would incur at the next session under his own
bill
Secondly, he voted against the extra allow
ance to the clerks, messengers and pages, or
lodged the vote. Now, we have formed no
opinion on the propriety Of granting these al
lowances; but we think Mr.. Arnold selfshy
inconsistent in voting an extra allowance to
himself and refusing il to those who have been
subjected by the extraordinary length OF the
session, to extra work.
We have but to add as our thirdly, juxta
usum, something on another subject. We will
trouble Mr.. Arnold no more from this date
henceforward, unless, per impossible, he should,
by some act now unhoped for, prove himself
worthy Of notice. We cannot befriend him
when his own peculiar friends refuse to lend
him helping hand and even assail him. A
few days since, Mr. Fessenden gave him a
courteous lecture on his offciousness--by which
lecture we had charitably opined he would have
been bettered. But he seems too obtuse for
lessons of reformation, and has sunk entirely
beneath the respect of his own party, as was
evinced yesterday while the House was in
committee of the whole.
Mr.. Arnold was very restif, bat his friends
would not join him-so fallen was he if
fall were possible. He called for tellers, and
voted in minority of one to 1870. He appealed
from the decision of the chairman, when Mr..
Payne, of Alabama, suggested that the appeal
could not be entertained by the Chair unless
there was secunta. A second uuuld be
found, even among his friends, for poor for
saken Arnold !
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From the Augusta Ne Age.
VETO NO. 4.

We publish to-day the latest and best of Mr.. Ty
er's vcloes the veto upon that compound of frauds
and denominations, Me- Tariff and Distribution bill.
1t is every where hailed with delight, and read with
appreciation. Able, frank and patriotic it presents
most irresistible appeal to the candor and good sense
of an enlightened constituency 1t shows up in the
most vivid cOsrs the mschiefs of uniting in single
bill, distinct and different subjects IL points out,
with the clearest cogency OF argument the folly OF
persisng in the policy of distribution, in the present
state of finances, and places its authors unfiinch-
ing hostility to that policy upon the most impIegnable
grounds. Never did President justify himself bet
ter the Of this the greatest power of his Office.
W. speak the general sentiment of the Democracy in
saying that, State paper, this Veto deserves to
rank with the BANK VETO, which crushed Bidde
anu Federalism ten yeals ago.
We trust that our friends will be every where ac-
in circulating this document 1t should be read
by every voter in the State, of all parties Cover Mr.
Tyler with as much abuse they may, The Federal
orators and street haranguers cannot evade or impair
the force of the facts and arguments which he pre-
sents Nor can they successfully charge him with
inconsistency with HIMSELF with treachcry to them.
Elected under avowed and notorious pledge of ad-
herence to the Compromise and as friend OF Distri-
button only so far might be consistent with the
COMPROMISE; the President, who has already sane
toned Distribution to that extent now simply refuses
to 90 farther. He stands upon the principles upon
which he was elected and, in fact, upon the same
principles which are recognized in the Distribution
act passed last September by this very Congress- His
consistency, and his good faith with his friends,
both unimpeachable.
The Presidents Veto is directed entirely against
the Distribution part of the bill. An increase of du
ties, ample for revenues and discriminating for protec-
ton he is ready to sign and entTeas Congress to en-
act. If such increase of duties, now 50 manifest
y and imperatvcly required shall fail to be obtained
he stands fully acquitted of the responsibility ana the
blame. Upon Congress alone must fall the crushing
weight of the Indignation and excavations OF the
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passed distribution bill which provided that the act
should be suspended and imperative whenever the ne
cesslties OF the Treasury should require the tariff to
be raised above 20 per CENT but they have sed
tariff bill raising the duties above 20 per cent, in
which they have inserted provision that the distrbu-
ton bill shall not be suspended and imperative, ac-
coding to its terms it passed and became law at
the extra session The President therefore, has pre-
served his consistency by the veto and brought the
wings back the policy they established al the extra
session in regard to the Tariff and Distribution. Let
him hold the wings there, he doubtless WILL and ne
will receive the cheering weli done" Of the people.
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thrilling minstrelsy, and breathsd its atmosphere OF
purity and love- shall they encounter as my insepara-
Die companions, guilt and pollution2 Shall hey
meet my angry passions, my unruly DESIRES my de-
based and groveling affections 2 No! Let them
have more meet reception let them be met with joy
and entertained with the best and purest affections OF
my heart let me commune with them now, as
shall hope to commune with them in Heaven.
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From The Hartford Patriot and Eagle.
THE VETO.

We do not deem it necessary to go into elaborate
defence of the Veto. None but those stricken with
party blindness, worse than that of Eymus the sor-
ceror can hesitate say that the of the Pre-
sident are perfectly conclusive. Why such man as
Fimsre, who enjoys the of five senses, and is
wthaI, clever fellow, should have assisted in getting
up such bill the Revenue BILL is unfathOmable
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r Owe, MADNESS AND IMPRISONMENT
IL OF TASSO; by Richard Henry Wide OF
Georgia An additional supply just received ny r.
TAYLOR; 3 volumes, price Sl TO- aug ~
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GENERAL SCOTT AND THE TREATY.

From the note appended, we are graliied TO
find that we were wrong in imputing hos
tilily on the part of General Scott to the treaty
just ratified by the Senate. We were led into
error by the assertions OF exchange papers on
our table, and the assurance of one or two
friends occupying such positions as to entitle
their statements respecting the Generals sentl-
ments in this matter to unhesitating belief; but
they too, must by some means have been led
into error
1t is hardly necessary to say that we do take
pleasure in being thus enabled to do the General
Justice. We will add that we are panied 10
think we did him injustice, however uninten-
tionaliy:
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WAR OFFICE, Aug. 90, 1842.

To the Editor of the JMadsonian
SIR perceive, in the Madisonsian of this morning,
that am charged with being opposed to the treaty
between the United States and Great Britain, to
which the Senate is understood to have given its adj
vice and consent few days ago.
Of the terms of that treaty, l am entirely igno-
rant except through contradictory rumors have
neither the influence nor the desire to interfere with
the action of the Senate upon railways contentng
myself with saying that l preferred an honorable
peace, even to successful war.
Hoping that you will take pleasure in correcting
the injustice you have done me,
remain, sir, your obedent servant
WINFIELD SCOTT.