The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-12-28

porters to them also. He, good soul, saw that
the President was regarded by the Democra''r
party as renegade, and by the Wings with
hatred, and therefore he could not find II IN his
heart TO advise him TO declare that he would not
be a candidate for the succession. He kept this
thing most carefully TO himself in that Cabinet
consultation. But mark what soon follows IN
the version he attempts TO give OF his former
expression, viz: that ''lhe second Bank biil
would have been postponed If the President
had given an assurance Gay, that's the woru)
that no hostile movement would be made
The inquiry naturally arises, "what hostile
movement" Mr. Spencer regards II as appli-
cable TO the Cabinet-and this friend OF Mr.
Crittenden attempts TO conJure up cock
and-bull story of this renegade" carrying
on such ariful negotiations with those who
regarded him as renegade "A beauuiu'
compliment 10 the Democratic party, truly But
pray tell US, thou forlorn one, what is still your
meaning, which is still wrapped in the same
mystery with your former declaration What
negotiation, and for what object2 Could there
have been any other than seats IN the Cabinet
Speak out more boldly, sir, and let the country
know what could have been the object of your
presumed negotiation. Where is your witness
who can say, or who dare say, that any advance
was made TO any one of the Democratic party,
other than TO those Republicans, and others like
them, who are now in the Cabinet. Tell The
truth, thou most truth-loving ex-Secretary, and
admit it plainly at once, that it was because the
President would not give the assurance 10 the
members Of Congress, who, you say, told you
he would not do so, that he would make no
change in his Cabinet; that therefore the Sc
cond Bank bill could not be postponed "Tell
the truth and shame the Devil" is homely
adage but well worthy the attention Of ex-Se-
cretary Thomas Ewing
But we would fain ca,echise this honorable
ex-Secretary little farther. Why did you not
disclose, at an earlier day, this Cabinet secret,
thou great revealer of secrets 2 In your first
letter to the President, you declared that you
had not been consulted relative TO the Veto
and you regarded it so gross an insult, that you
would no longer remain in the Cabinet. Non,
by your o,rn OnfesSion, you were consulted
consulted upon a most material point. How
can you reconcile these conflicting statements
Did you choose TO mlsrepresent, did you
choose to suppress the fact now become so im-
porant to an ascertanment of motives and in
tentions?
This unhappy man, unconsciously, we have
no doubt, exposes another important fact in his
letter to his friend, Mr.. Crittenden. He states
that member, or members of Congress,
told him that President Tyler was informed
that the second Bank bill should be postponed
if he would make personal request that it
should be done. Two propositions, then, it
seems, were made TO the President in connec-
ton with the postponement of the second Bank
bill. /. That the Cabinet should not be remov-
ed, and that faiing-2dly. That the President
should ask it as personal .faror. The last
was also rejected and we doubt not with scorn.
Little did they know of the proud and lofty sp-
rit which actuated the President who could sup
pose that he would ask personal favor of those
who sought his destruction. But here is new
fact for the first time developed-and we thank
Mr.. Ewing for having disclosed it. We should
have been better pleased if he had given the
names Of the members of Congress who COM
municated the determination of the President on
both points. We doubt not the truth Of the
statement in either respect but they are alike
condemnatory of the factionists.