The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-12-28
THE VERIFY OF STATEMENTS.

Mr. Crilienden and has friend Mr.. Ewing,
alter having taken counsel together for two long
months, are at length out in the lntelligencer in
long letters upon the subject of the statements
contained in Mr. Spencer's letter-statements so
damning TO those concerned, that they have
found it necessary at last 10 make their bebul
before the public. As TO the fact of the submis-
sion by the President TO the members then pre-
sent, of the Cabinet of the policy and proprie-
~ of his announcing 10 The country, IN order 10
exonerale his motives from all suspicion, and to
rescue his character from unjust lmputatons,
his determination not TO be candidate for the
succession, it would have been, il seems, quite
sufficient for Mr.. Criltenden TO have asserted
the fact of his absence from any such Cabinet
consultations This would have fully exonerated
him from any imputation of bad motive or Inn
proper design. But this would not do This
would have left his friend Ewing 10 stand
alone, and therefore having a letter from
his friend Ewing in his possession, in
which the statement put forth by MIR.
Gushing and Mr. Spencer rs admitted to
be true, he labors like the lawyer of the Great
Retired, to prove that it wasaltogether right TO
give the advice which was given, since a Veto
Message was not the place for such declara-
tion Now can any man, in his proper senses.
see any force in all ths2 We remember that
some months ago the same ground was taken
by the Intelligencer The allies have taken it
up as the only means Of escape from the sad d.
lemma in which they are placed. Not proper
Vatn hprp couI N no uOr
proper? The President is called upon TO per-
form a high constitutional function. He has
10 sustain the Constitution, which he has sworn
TO support, by his exercise of the Teto power
What so important as that his motives in doing
that very act should be placed above impeach-
ment? What was better calculated 10 conse-
crate the constitutional principle insisted upon,
than TO separate its assertion from every I'M
worthy motive? What was better cal
culated to give force and effect to his OPT
Mons than to strip faction of all pre-
text to assa his motives? What so like
w to produce pause in the public mind, or to
arrest the torrent of invective which was ready
TO be poured out against him? Not introduce it
in Veto Message! Why, according TO our
poor comprehension, IL was tuc pace VI dh
others where it should have been found, if it
was proper to make it at all. No, Mr.. Critten-
den, your volunteer argument is fruitless, al
though your friend Eping may be much oblig-
ed to you for coming so generously TO his aid
As to Mr.. Crittenden's intention to leave the
Cabinet so netime before he did, we should like
TO know what that has to do with the truth or
IN
since Mr.. c. has thought proper to volunteer a
statement Of his intentions, we should be pleas
ed TO know, and every patriot in the land has
right to know, why Mr.. Critlenden postponed
the execution of his intention to so late day.
Congress had resolved 10 adourn on Monday at
2 O'Clock why did Mr. c. and his good friends
hold back their designations until the Saturday
preceding2 Why should the whole kith and kin of
these fugitives have placed the President under
the necessity of appointing their successors be-
tween Saturday noon aud Monday noon? Why
not have held on until Tuesday, only two days
longer, and thereby have given the President
greater and broader opportunities of calling
around him men the best qualified TO administer
the Government Did patriotism prompt such
Il
ferent IN tives? We leave it to an impartial
country to decide. 1t was at the time currently
said that no good men could be found to aid in
the public administration, and that the President
would have 10 resign. Was this the motive
with Mr. Crittenden and his good friend Ew
ing2 Take care Mr.. Crittenden, take care
You stand upon the brink of that same gulf in
Il e. hau alr al,r,, al
ed, and you may become the accused instead Of
being the accuser.
Let it be remembered that the vacancies oc-
curing during the session Of the Senate must
be filled before an adjournment ofhat body
and that the President was given but few hours
10 make a new Cabinet, work of the greatest
difficulty under the most favorable circumstances,
by these patriotic gentlemen, who would have
the country believe that in all they did they were
governed by pure motives. Fortunately for the
country the President did not falter moment,
but gathered around him the abIest Cabinet
Ministers which have been found since the days
of Washington. Thus was this game to force
resignation thwarted, and thus have these con-
spirators been rebuked.
We pass now to Mr.. Criltenden's friend, Mr..
Ewing. This person has not the efirontery TO
deny the fact of the Cabinet consultation. He
however seeks 10 break its force by adopting the
argument of his colleague about the propriety of
introducing the Presidents determination at the
time into the Veto Message. That we have
sufficiently answered. But we go further, and
give it as an opinion not likely TO be inaccurate,
indicating tina, the objection TO the course
which the President proposed TO pursue, was
founded on the improperly Of introducing it