The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-05

At this day, that even if such things could have
received Executive assent, one dollar of the
stock would have been taken. Bills so shame
fully defective, that even Mr.. Clay himself ha;
admitted in speech in the Senate this winter
that it would have been necessary TO pass laws
explanatory and amendatory But this is not all
Did not Mr. Clay know that Mr.. Tyler could
not sanction Bank without the incorporation
of a principle which should avoid the constitu
tional question of the right to create? WIN he
answer in his next letter to Wings, any where Z
Will he put his hand upon his heart (and no man
uses that gesture otener or better and say before
his country and his God, whether he did not
thoroughly know the Presidents opinion on
this question, before the election and after the
election? Nay further, we ask him whether he
had not cause to know it, both before and after
the introduction of his bill into Congress
Speak out, Mr.. Clay, speak out; let the affili-
ated press, for once, in the last six months, be
permitted to tell the truth. Or if you would
prefer, as heretofore, to speak by the lips OF
others, let your great ally, satellite and friend,
the late Secretary of the Treasury, speak
out for you Unkennel, sir, unkennel.-
Give the country all that you know
and have heretofore concealed The country
would like to have the full history of your cele-
brated amendment compromise you called it,
to your precious bill. Who concocted that
amendment? Was ii not submitted to the Pre-
hofor off rhotu nc
language in regard to it? There are some
around you who can speak for you, if you are
90 modest to speak for yourself.
A Bank Wing principle! secuted in the
election and condemned by the People every
where-denied as the issue upon the hustings,
and even in the Hanover speech postponed un-
til the People should call for it-and yet, impu-
IDENTITY pressed as Wing principle, and
heaven, air and earth thrown into commotion,
because Mr. Tyler would not, because he could
not, sanction it.
But again. Who told you, Mr. Clay, that
"Ihe President denounced his friends and
courted his political opponents ?" and if any
body had told you 80, we are only surprised that
you should have been silly enough to believe it.
The thing is ridiculous enough in itself, to sup
pose that any man would denounce has friends
Who are his friends? Will Mr.. Clay tell US 2
Are you and your Manifesto members, and re-
firing Cabinet ministers has friends? Are
your editors dispersed over the Union, whose
business it is, from the rising to the setting of
the sun, to sound forth your praises, and to
abuse the President, are they has friends? or
are you and they his bitterest opponents And
when you tell the country that the President
courts has opponents, do you mean to be under
stood that he courts you and yours? Alas to
what a sad condition you would reduce the
President of the United States But you know
full well that he will not stoop to court the favor
ofyourself, or any other of any party. He puts
himself upon the country, and defes the malice
of his revilers and traducers. You place him
in situation to be envied. You declare him
to be free from party, and plant him, unwilling
ly it is true, upon the country, and the whole
country. There he is proud to stand, and there
he will maintain the interests of that country,
in despite of the rawlings Of faction.