The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-28
From tie .4merican Sentinel.
WIG PRINCIPLES.

From tie .1merican Sentinel
WING PRINCIPLES
No attempt has been made so far as we have seen
or heard, to impeach President TyIers personal cha
racter nor the consistency of his public conduct
since his elevation to the Presidency, with his previ-
Gus political professions and practice His family,
too, has been singulary fortunate They have esca,
ped the cruel and unjusable assaults by which po-
litical opponents have ignoby sought to wound the
feelings and destroy the peace Of Of his di,tn-
guished predecessors. The opposition to Mr. Tyler
bitter and unreenting it is, has thus far been made
solely with reference TO his public acts and his poll
teal sentiments; and may be regarded we would
fam hope, the commencement of an improved
state OF feeling IN the management Of our political
contests.
In their opposition to President Tyler various pre-
texts have been raised from time to time by the
Wings, as an apology for their abuse but these have
been but feeby sustained and have one by one been
abandoned as they have been successfully exposed to
the light OF truth The real ground Of the hostility
to him is his unchanged and Interchangeable opposition
10 National Bank and his refusal to become mere
instrument for the advancement of Henry Clay,
through whom alone they hope eventually to effect the
establishment OF such institution. AT present
National Bank has become odious to the people,
that even Mr. Clay has, within few months seen fit
to change his praseoiogy, il not his opinions on this
subject The charges against Mr.. Tyler have been
reduced to this, that in vetong the Bank project and
the Distribution measure which in the connexion in
which IL was introduced, regarded as subsidiary
to 1t, he abandoned the principles Of the Wings of
1910, and acted in bad faith the party by which he
was nominated and elected. This charge has been
refued by Messrs. Webster, Wise and Richard Bid
die, all of whom played important parts in the con-
test of lS40, and may be presumed 10 be as well ac-
quanted with the principles of the Wing party and
of its candidates as any other OF its members TIE
publication of Mr. Biddle, and the address Of Mr.
Wise to his constituents, published by US few weeks
ago. place the whole matter in very clear light
and Mr.. Webster, in his late speech at Faneuil Hail.
is not less explicit. He says
81 need hardly advert to the circumstances under
which it presented. 1t had the received appro-
baton of the President and the Cabinet as the best
thing that could be then devised, for, as YOU well
know, circumstances had greatly changed since the
elections 1t had pleased Providence to put into the
hrst Office OF the Government one whom we had
placed in the second, and whom considered COM
peent for that station His principles on the ques-
ton OF general Bank W ERE FIXED KNOWN, and
it was, therefore, the part of wisdom in US TO see
how to get along as well as We might
But still stronger and most decisive refutation Of
the charge of treachery and dcsertion has Just met
our eye, in a speech delivered, few weeks ago. in
Ohio, by General William Murphy, of Chiliicothe
who was an intimate personal friend of General Har-
rson, and a member of the Harrisburg Convention
at which Harrison and Tyler were nominated Could
there be really the shadow of doubt on the subject
resting the mind Of any one, this conclusive tes-
timony Of General Murphy must forever move it,
General William Murphy, of Chihcothe, took
lhe stano as per arrangement and spoke Tor several
hours. twas decidedly his happiest effort He said
he was delegate TO the Harrisburg Convention
which nominated General Harrison, and that the
Convention was composed Of three parties. First
the Clay men, who were strongly for United States
Bank secondy,- the Scott men and thirdly, the
friends of General Harrison; and half Of the latter
were decidedly opposed to an institution Of the kind
The Convention agreed not to name the Bank The
Democratic party charged the delegates with skulk-
ing the question: and asked the Wing party land my
self among the number) why did not publish an
address, imbodyng our principles To tell the truth
gentlemen, we were afraid to do so.-(Roars of
laughter and appause.)
"One fellow in the Convention who had not quite
so long head as the rest of u.s. did propose resou
ton of this kind; but Oh no. says old Watkins Leigh
(rho waS Bank man. that riH neuer do ; IRE cam OF
go before the people on that question, miH be defeat
ed. So, gentlemen, we concluded not TO make an
address, for fear We should be swampcd We agreed
IN this manner; VIC must either make an address or
we must not. If we publish address we must 20
Tor Bank or we must go against it, and if we took
ground for Bank we would be beaten; and if we
went against it, the Democrats would find we were
insincere, and the Bankmen might be made luke
warm; therefore, thought it best to make no dis
closures for the putc eye, and 10 remain silent as to
our principles cloud, long, and repeated applause