New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-25

! derry for his own good Congress
/ and what did we see John Tyler hostile TO the
Land Distribution. vetoing the Provisional and
ers, ,sc,,lar Tariff. stabbing by back-stroke the
SINGLE D..ric, Apporlionment bill (the most neces-
sarv. lust and Republican measure OF The last ten
,aa,.., consorting with the bitcerest enemies of
( rho wings. and submitting to their counses; and
6raIIv turning out Of Office hund reds of those
who had labored night and day to elect him and
putting in their places men who had DETAINED and
opposed his election with unbounded feroclty. HIS
| immediate organ not only abused and revived the
Wings on every occasion and with the deepest
magnity, but s,outly proclaimed that he. John
Tyler, never uos Wing! If all this does not
constitute treachery, then there is such thing.
and Judas Iscariot was a saint and Bene dict Ar
mold consistent patriot.
And what has become of our Wig Secretary,
John C. Spencer He is Secretary still, but the
Wing comes up missing The mouRtain would
not come to Mahomct, SO Mallomet HIS gene to
the mountain, and into it. He has celsed to de-
sire the success of any distinctive Whis; measure.
He is $3.50 ON the Tariff, but on every other qnes-
ton he talks like genuine Loco-Foco of the
Pewter Mug order. Bank is a horrible affair,
and the Presidential Veto delicious. though he did
call a State Convention to denounce Tyler for We
toipg the only Bank bills he had any thing to dc
with He berated the Captai for appointing sne
Loco Eoco to office, land that mistake y yet
HOW he sees Wing heads fall by the basket-tull,
and Locos cody hanging up their hats in their
places and he has nothing to say, unless TO cry
II IL. 6 md 9rep
sentcd' when he wrote the Circular has proved
real, with ten times more and worse; but Mr.
Spencer is no longer Wing Secretary at Albany
but a Tyler one at Washington, and the case Is
vastly altered with the circumstances
|, Mr. Spencer even congratulates himself that
between him and Capt. Tyler there were {" strong
political affuities," which he explains by showing
that they have each shifted from one party to the
| other an equal number of times. They had been
for and against jackson; bitterly against and then
cooperating with John G. Adams: against Bank,
and yet deserted jackson during the Bank convuI-
sion in 1884; for and now against the Wings
Thus there were not merely ga general congeni
ality of sentiments and similarity of views be-
tween them, but they have have both been the
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licans throughout, as this of politicians are
taking their own word for it. Let them so.
There are two passages in the Secretary's long
letter which we think unworthy of his reputation
for talent. In the first place, ne seeks to prove
the disinterested conscientiousness of the ether
John in vetoing the Bank bills by the statement
that he offered TO hts Cabinet to decline reelec-
ton to the Presidency! What had the Cabinet
70 do with this Did he not morally know that
they must answer him as they did, that such
resolution need not be taken in that connection
For all practical purposes, he might as we'll have
made the offe, to Robert and John, Jr. If he had
made the offer to the country it would have been
of some account; as it is, it only shows what his
mind was intent upon when he decided to break
up or break down the Wing party.
The other Aatulent passage in the Manifesto is
this:
anu not for Distribution of the proceeds OF the Land
Sales when ha, Distribution will the imposition cf
taxes beyond the of the Government merely sup
ply the very deficiency II causes
As we presume this declaration is made for
both johns, we have tried hard to discover its
meaning. but with Indifferent success. We know
tina, the one spoken for, and we supposed the
sxokesn had once and long been very jealous
for the Land Distribution, the former making
Speeches aad Reports in lis favor; and we should
Gk. we'll TO know achen Distribution could take
n2ace under the limitations here prescribed. The
Secretary evidently means to say that, under GER
rain circunsta,hces he is not for Land Distribu-
lion leaving the implication that under other cir
cumstauces he light be-but aohat circumstances
How in the world can the Land Distribution fail
to require like amount TO that distributed to be
raised in some either way that is, by the Tariff,
or "ta.res, as the Secretary has it. How can
the imposition of ' taxes to supplya deficiency"
in the Treasury go beyond the wants of the Go
yernmentl' If he is not in favor of distributing
the Land Proceeds until money is -raincd down
from heaven to fill their place in the Treasury,
| WHY need he resort 20 such circumlocutory way
| of avowing i'll
But enough of the Secretary and his Mani
festo. Let US thank him that he does not call
himself Fancu Hall or any other sort Of
| Wing, but walks boldly 10 the camp of the
enemy. We wish them JOY Of their acquisition.
| 90 The Albany Argus publishes with great
guslo political vote taken last Friday the
| canal packet boat Oneida, with the following re-
suit: Democratic %; Wing 10. But it omits
the fact which we happen to know, that vote for
| President was Immediately taken by the same
passengers, when HENRY CLAY had q decided
majority of the whole number, though there
one vote for Webster. Did the officers of the
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