The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-06
From the Boston Daily Times.
POLITICAL TREASON.

Among the many accusations which the rabid par
tsans and partisan papers have brought against Pre-
sdent Tyler charges of perfdy and treachery to
the electors who raised him to Office. How utt rly
false and groundless such charges are any one who
has read the papers for couple of years back will
perceive at a glance. Mr.. Tyler's veto of the Bank
bill was the signal for this party cry of treason. He
accused Of deserving his friends and supporters,
and abiuring the principles ofGeneral Harrison. Now
Now, political men know very well that the lament
ed Harrison stood forth, during the Presidential
vass as an advocate of National Bank, he would
have been riumphantly successful. He dis
tncty expressed his dstrust OF the bank project and
his opinions were trumpeted abroad and spread be-
fore tue people for their approval by the very men
who were recently driven almost to phrenZy by the
defeat of their hopes to establish bank. In various
parts of the country people were told that General
Harrison enemy OF the bank, and for this rea-
son alone many honest man deposited his vote for
the arti-bank candidate AS for John Tyler, associa-
ted with Harrison the electoral ticket, and sharing
the glory of his triumph his principles perfectly
well known, for he had never concealed them from
scrutiny or Stunned their avowal. He always was a
true Democrat of the Jefersonian school. His opin-
ions on the great questions which had convulsed the
country thoroughly known to the electors That
he was opposed to bank and high tariff, no one
for moment doubted-no one pretended to deny
On the contrary, his opinions were bazoned abroad,
and made the watchwords by which thousands of the
waveriDg and Indifferent were secured active cam
vassers and voters The triumphant success of Har-
rison and Tyler is too recent event to detain us
moment By the sudden death of the venerable Chief
Magistrate, John Tyler is placed in the Presidential
chair. There is change Of men, but not of princi-
PIES for the opinions of Mr. Tyler IN all essential
points, exactly coincide with those of the lamented
Harrison Scarcely had the voice of public mourn
ing died away-scarcely had Mr. Tyler been installed
in office, than the leading partisans began to show
their dlplicity and daring. They began to sound
the President as to views and purposes and finding
haf hp CHI m off ocfio
pared for an attempt at eoercng him into support
of their measures, and an acknowledgment of their
supremacy. Having risen into power, they treated
with arrogance the wants Of those who had raised
them to their station.
How they made manifest that the anti bank
cry which they had raised during the election, was
mere trick to deceive the multitude! They thought
affected to think, that President Tyler also had
been deceiyng the people as grossly themselves
that his professions and avowals were only part of
that system Of electionecrng tactics which IS based
upon the maxim-''al is fair in politics. Finding
however, that he scorned deception and disguise the
partisans in Congress raised the senseless cry of
"treason !" "Treasonw echoed their tools and
treason J! re-echoed all the shameless partisan
presses in the country. No language was severe
enough for their denunciaton of the President. He
had broken his promises-his pledges-be was
traitor Now, we should be 81 to know ,pbot
pledges he has violated. We have all al ng believed
and reoiced in the belief that the country was now
into power unfettered by any pledges to party,
and therefore free to follow the dictates Of reason
conscience, and the love Of country. We think it
will puzzle the most contriving man among Mr. Ty-
ler's opponents to point out single pledge that he
has made and broken the Wing party any other
party. But though he came into power unpledged
to any party we should have placed very little rel-
ance on the President if he had acted inconsistency
with regard to his former political life and ayowed
opinions Now, the fact is, that he has not commit
ted single act which initiates against an thing he
did previous to the late Presidential election il is
the very stab iy of his opinions and the frmness
with which he maintains them, that has drawn down
upon his head tie abuse and maledctions of party
majority The manner in which this warfare has
been carried on-the length to which it has been
pushed--have been noticed and denounced by honest
men of all parties. And now, so thoroughly is the
character of the begerents und rstood that the cry
of treason is heard with contempt and indignation.
And truly it is a most unfortunate cry for those
who gave it utterance--for spirit of inquiry is
abroad and the charge of treason will DC brought
homo to the guilty Men begin 10 say that if the
waste of public money occasioned by long unproft
able session-if systematic neglect of duties for