The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-11-15

+ Mr. JOHN c. SPENcER.-We had intended
not 10 make any further comments upon the
letter OF Nh John G. Spencer. The pub.ica-
ton ola large portion of that letter in the
Budget, however, calls for some comments on
our par.
Tie greater porlIon of Mr. Spencer's letter
is occupied by labored defence Of Mir TYLER
and his Administration. As an antldote To
Il Is we present our readers wi h the follow
ing sketch of Mr. Tyler and his measures BY
John Quincy Adams, in his late speech at
BIaintree:
john Tyler is Virginia Shareholder. All
the aftcciI ms Of his soul are b7und up ia the
system OF supp rting, and perpttusiing tie
peculiar institutions OF the South. The pO.
Htical division of parties with him, and with
all southern statesmen of his stamp, is mere
instrument Of power, to purchase auxiliary
suHp1rt 10 the cause of slavery, even from
the Ireemen If the North. Democracy! Why
upon what foundation can democracy find a
foot-holc TO stand. but upon the rights of man !;
upon the self-evident truths of the Declaration
oilndependcnce? ID Democracy and Slavery
The greatest number and the greatest
number the property of the smallest A gov
eminent of the ma jorites-and majority the
chattels Of the Minority! Is not tie brand of
democrat stakeholder Are not fraud and
hypocricy tie religion OF The man who calls
hmselfa democrat, and holds his fellow man
in bondage2
Yet SO it iS-that John Tyler who stole E-
To tie camp OF the Wings in 1910, in their
TT umphali Struggle 10 Put down the standard
of The Northern man with Southern priuc-
pies, under the colors of retrenchment, reform
AMI Wing resistance to Executive usurpa
Ii ns, has crept up to the summit ofpower,
and there pr. claims himself democrat dyed
in the wool-claims To be independent. co-or-
dinate department Of the legislative power
declares in so mIny words that Congress can
enact no law without his sanction, stigma
tues The LEADING members OF Congress, of the
party by WI ich he was chose as the cUadlutor
of Harrison, to achieve The great and glorious
work Of reform, as housing politcians-seis
all the trumpets of the press, paid by his dis
pensaiion of patronage with the public money,
and all the hungry and unprinciped office
holders throughout the Union 10 railing a.
sainst Congress, The real legislative power,
for failing 10 restore the public prosperity,
while he defeats by his vetnes almost every
saIutary measure devised and marI-eG by
them, and believed by ,hem TO be lndispensi-
bic Tor that pupose-turns ont of the execu-
tive offices under his control, honest and hon.
orable men. true republicans and ardent patri-
OTIS, like jonathan Roberts, and foists in their
places, sycophants and time servers-levies
money upon the people, upon authority so
questionable, that his own Secretary of the
Treasury believes it to be without and a.
gainst law; and TO crown the whole system
Of misrue, approves and signs an act of Con.
gress, and deposits 10 The Department Of
State, an argument 10 nullily The most impor-
tant, and the most wholesome of its provjs-
ions.
Fellow Citizens, it was this glariDg act
Of double. dealing, that stamped The charac-
ter of the man in my estimation. in letters
never 10 be elfaced. That duplicitv was
his uneradicable vice, had long had reason
10 suspect. but was extremely reluctant TO
believe. Long before he had been though,
of as IL candidate for the Office of Vice
President of the U. States, had read let
ter from the late Henry Lee to him, charg-
ing him with that pollution of the heart in
other transactions in life, upon testimony
which it was not easy TO withstand. | had
witnessed his wavering, inconsistent, and
yet obstinate conduct throughout the whole
OF his proceedings with his first cabinet, M
til It's dissolution-had compared his self
contradictory reasons for his first and sec.
ond bank vetoes, and had noticed the direct
issues upon his veracity, made by the sece'