The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-23

instead Of the approval of the Bank bill, II states
by way OF consolation TO his brother Whiggies,
shut we willyel head off the Captain" The
question arses-"in what manner, Mr.. Bolts z"
BY the plan which ''we have just formed IN
Caucus, and the Bill which we are connecting,
10 accordance with that planp This is the only
answer which any man can give TO the question;
and the only Interpretation of the letter. Such
was the effect this expose had upon his associate
political Swans, that we learn this most worthy
partisan was forced to submit to reputation from
them and to deny the truth of his own declara-
tons in that letter, and this too, publicly, in the
House of Representatives, as OF late with regard
to his articles of impeachment, after the plot had
been knocked in The head by the Madisonian
which got into the caucus secrets 1t seems to
me, with this letter before him, that the Presi-
dent was bound to throw himself against the
measure, however much he may have desired
the passage of Finance bill.
But the President never, in any manner what
ever, assented to the Fiscal Corporation BILL"
Indeed we understand that there exists in
Washington the most positive proof Of the fact,
that he was not in the slightest degree commit
ted to 1t. 1t is well known thing that when
Mr.. Stewart, Of Virginia, brought this bill TO him
for his inspection, before its passage, he (he
Presidency said to him, "preserve, sir, in the
bill, the principle in the case of the Bank Of
Augusta against Earle, and then may APP
prove the BILL" and then with his own hand
interlined the paper before him in its proper
place, with the expression, Z" unless the es-
adjustment OF such agency shall be pro-
hbited by the Senate in which it is sought to
be placed" Was this not so, Mr.. Stewart
we desire to know of you if this not the
case. Speak out, sir! Did the President make
that or a similar insertion with his own hand !?
have seen myself copy OF a clause in the
Presidents own hand writing, which was hand
ed BY his Secretary to certain members OF Con-
gress, at the very time it is asserted by Mr..
Ewing set i'd onuae genus" that he had
uneuuivocally assented 10 the Fiscal Corpora
ton Bill and which runs in the following man
ner and words: 'To come in at the close of the
s16th Section. And provided further, and it is
sexpressly to be understood, that before any
| ssuch agency shall be authorized to deal or
atrade as is in this, and the ninth section of this
sibil provided, the assent of the State in which
sany such agency is established, shall be first
chad and obtained by an express resolution OF
.'the Legislature, or some other form OF usual
sIegislative proceeding" From the beginning
to the end, this principle was insisted upon by
the President, wherever the feature OF lis
count was preserved. 1t is only necessary then,
and perfdv SO loudly charged upon him in refe-
renee to this bill, and to fix that peridy and
reachery upon the heads of its authors, TO ask
the question-"why was not such clause as
either one of the above so marked by the Presl-
dent. inserted in the bill? And does not the
bill recognise discounts 2" Surely these ques-
lions admit of but one answer. The bill recog-
nises discounting in its most odlous form, and
does not contain even an approach TO the prln-
cipe contained in either clause offered It's
trainers by the President
| If indeed, these men believe the President to
be the man of inlamy they have sought to make
him in their publications, why, we ask the cues
ton. did they wait upon the President, through
Mr. Gushing, after the second veto and Before the
RESIGNATION of the cabinet with their proposition,
that ifthe President would consent to retain his
cabinet, nothing should be said concerning his
yetoes, and his motives not lmpugned! The
RESIGNATION of the Cabinet did not take place
until the day or the next after Mr.. Gushing car
ried back the Presidents answer TO this propo-
siton. to wit 'sThat he regarded it as direct
attempt at encroachment upon Executive pre-
rooative, and sooner than yield the right which
he was bound in law to defend, ne would lose
his RIGHT arm" The truth is, from what have
gathered, 'sthat instead OF resigning grauitously
as Mr.. Ewing intimates in his letter OF reslgna-
| lion. they resigned because they knew the Pre-
sident had determined TO dismiss them Tor the
,ountenance they had given to the various plots
against the administration and the county,
After all this, Mr.. Granger, as bitter as he has
been of late, did not leave until 80 hours after
the rest, and then he was forced to 1t against his
own wishes, by the Wing delegation OF New
| York Further we hesitate not to say, that In
case these gentlemen? should be driven TO THIS
predicament, they had already prepared the
manner of their resignation-as it appeared at
terwards-nanifesto and ALL. And so GER
tain were they OF the entire annlhilallon OF the
President by these political bulls, that they even
asserted he could not form new Cabinet from
the party which broughl him into power, and gave
him ony from o'clock P. M. on Saturday, when
Changers resignation was handed n until II
O'Clock on the Monday following-Sunday, the
day of rest intervenlng-to form new Cabl-
net-thus perling the Constitution and the
country, and at atime when foreign dIffcules
surrounded US on every side. 1t is true, that
the President proved himself equal to the occa-
sion found sound heads and stout hearts, who
did not regard accommodation from such
church, and formed Cabinet in this short space
of time, surpassed by none IN talents, industry,
and elevated patriotism, which ever served the
Republic.
These are facts existing here, and which eve
nv man could CLEAN for himself. They serve of
themselves, fully TO eycuIpate the Chief Magis-
tlate of our country from the slur which his po-
ltical enemies, at season when he cannot de-
fend himself without invading the sanctum
sanctorum Of the government, and exposing to
the common gaze its holy rites, which it would
be proclamation to look upon-have attempted to
cast upon his character, which, from boyhood
up to the time he entered the Presidential chair,
has ever been regarded as without reproach,
privately or politically. Even during the whole
of the canvass of 1910, he was called by his
friends "Honest John Tyler" and so admitted
to be BY his enemies. have heard it rumored
however, that at future day, when the then
present cannot be affected by the narrative, he
proposes to give to the country, correct repre-
sentation of the facts alluded 10 in Ewlng's,
Dol R,1u lnitn of nd