The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-12-30

rus UNITED STATES will be pleased TO receive
sueh Of his frllow-citizens as may be disposed
10 exchange salu,ations with him.
rive insert the following communication with
M cher comment than to say we adopt II, most
heartily. as editorial.
SENATE CHAMBER, Dec. 2s, lo42.
III Me Editor of the Mddisonian
SIN: propose to write an occasional commu-
njcstion for tn. Madisonian, in which II VIII be
my purpose 10 express my views freely and truly
% the subjects may discuss. will not lead
YOU into difficulty am aware that there IS a
resolution now lying on the Speakers table,
which was offered last summer, and indefinitely
poseponed,s the purport of which was to require
ron 10 disclose the name of the author OF an ar
ticle rejecting severely on the character OF
member Of this body, alleging that he had sur
pepsitiously obtained and published certain let
sess transmitted by the Executive to the Senate
in secret session, the injunction Of secrecy not
being removed.
will not cast reflections on any mans cha
ractes SO that if you should be compelled to
Disclose nv name will not have perpetrated
suy thing TO make an honorable man blush.t
Believing that President Tyler has been, and
is yet, most foully abused and unjustly peise-
cuted, I desire to assert these facts, and to give
the reasons which forced such conviction on
my mind.
am q Democrat, and Of course applaud the
Vetoes. But acknowledge that the statements
of the retiring Cabinet, left me- for short time,
not quite satisfied of the purity of the Presi-
dsat's motives. These gentlemen labored indi-
sectly, and by inference, to produce the impress
sioa that Mr.. Tyler (having ascerrained that
die Wing leaders were determined to run Mr..
Clay for the Presidency sought to throw him
seif the head Of the defeated Democratic par
~, which, by the return of original Jackson
men (then identified with the Whigs,) who
would still adhere TO him, would instantly CON-
prise q majority of the voters Of the United
States, and, in gratitude, would unite in elect
ing him in 1914. Such was the aspect his
conduct was made to assume. The whole
Wing press, without qualification, asserted that
such was his motive and object Hence they
called him s'traitor," and denounced and vilifed
him.
Knowing that Mr.. Tyler had long and uni
formly acted with the Democratic party, until
estranged by certain measure Of Gen. Jack
sons, which, though it compromised none of his
Democratic principles, he could not approve
d6eKtns robes 81 once rather than cast a vote
which his conscience did not approve-,he De-
mocratic press justified his Ve,oes, and vindi-
Gated his consistency, though it was silent as to
his motire. He had but few journals to speak
for him, and would not Il would have done it
had been in his place) publish statement ex-
planning his conduct. Thus time wore on, and
all the Wing presses, and all the Wing politi-
clans, with few noble excep,ons) were as
sailing him with unmi,igated rancor
Many of the People, however. of both
parties, not only approved the vetoes but attri-
buted good motives to the President
These all took an active part against the
Wings at the recent elections, and defeated
them everywhere-and al the same time dealt
blow on the Wing press, which will impair
its influence for years.
My doubts, or rather fears, of the purity of
the Presidents nlotires, were not of long dura-
ton. His calm and guileless brow, at a time
when torrent Of abuse, such as had never
been equaled in any country, was being poured
upon him, soon dispelled all suspicious of guilt
from my heart. / was satisfed of his inno-
cence, yet could not assert il. For more than
a year no positively authentic testimony was ad-
duced to rebut the assertions and implications
in the published letters of the retiring Cabinet.
The whole. or nearly the whole Of the Wing
party, contended that the statements of the re-
firing Cabinet were sufficiently convincing that
MIR. Tyler vetoed the Bank bills to aid him in
securing his election in 1874. The retired
Cabinet suffered these changes to be made,
predicdted as they were on their statements,
without contradiction-nay, they encouraged
them.
had become so anxious 10 see some explana
ton on the part Of the President. on the impor
tant point Of motire. that resolved, as soon as
! returned to Washington, to wait on him, and
hear from his own lips his defence. In the mean
time, however, Mr.. Wise, an his letter 10 his
constituents, threw broad ray Of light on the
subject, which exhibited the President. con
duct in a better poin, Of view than il
had yet been made to appear. He proved that
tn. Wing leaders kner, when they nominated
Mr.. Tyler, that he was hostile to a National
Bank. This opened the eyes OF thousands OF
honest Wings They began to see that their
leaders had deceived them--that they had been
betrayed by those who Were denouncinr the
President ~ a "trsiiorn
Soon followed Mr.. Cuxhing's aud Mr. spen.
GERS statements IN relation to the condnc, Of the
retiring Cabinet. II was asserted BY these gen
tIemen, "by authority" tina, so far from being
justified in creating the universal impression in