The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-27
TO THE HON. THOMAS EWING, JOHN
BELL, FRANCIS GRANGER, GEO. E.
BADGER, AND JOHN J. CRITTEN-
DEN,
Continued from yesterday

Continued from yesterday
Is there nothing else that goes to show that
there was no selfish purposes governing the
mind Of Mr.. Tyler when he refused TO sign The
bill Let it be remembered that the day on
which these gentlemen entered the Cabne,
council, they found the President preparing his
Veto Message. And here, three quest ons pre-
sent themselves for examination. What was
the Presidents conduct on that occasion How
was that conlormab.e TO duty and propriety :?
What were the motives from which it p. oceed-
ed2 AS TO the conduct of The President II may
be stated that he communicated to Messrs. Bell
and Ewing his determination to veto the bill
That, in order TO exclude the conclusion OF all
improper impulation upon his motives, he had
also determined to announce his purpose to the
People of the United States, that he declined a
reelection. He said he took this step for the
purpose of silencing all clamor, and precluding
all suspicion Of being under the control of i'm
proper influences. Surely this course of action
was honorable to all parties, and highly marriott
i. .. ..~.~.,rn ,nc uDIIc. GU SAID you
regretted to learn that he, (Mr. Tyler, )had come
to such a determination. You assumed that he
was committed, or not TO the one term princi-
ple-and his case, coming in, as il did, into the
office of President, came within the category of
his commiltal to the one term principle, or not.
That, if committed, and his case brought him
within the committal, there was no necessity for
another committal-and another committal
would be an imputation upon the faith of his
first pledge; and, if he was not committed, or
his case did not come within the committal,
why then he aoas as free as any other citizen,
and he was under no obligation to the one term
principle.
Further-no one could foresee what was to
happen to the Wing party. He might be, in
the course of events, their only available can
diddfe-and he ought not to deprive his party
and his friends of the possibility of using his
name again. AT all events there was every
thing, in his peculiar situation, not foreseen
at the time when he committed himself to the
one term principle, which ''entied him to call
on his teliolo-citizens to pass judgment on The
present Administrator Such was the cha
racter Of the arguments which Messrs Bell and
Ewing, particularly, used at the time the Veto
Message Of the Fiscal Corporation bill was read
in the Cabinet, Notwithstanding the avowal
which Mr.. Bell has made, that he was not consult
ed about the Veto Message! Quere Wereyo
(Messrs. Bell and Ewing) sincere in this advice
that MIR. Tyler should not make declaration
that he would be candidate for the succession?
or we're you not throwing an anchor 10 wind
ward? Did you not know that you would have
TO retire from the Cabinet? Was il not your
determination 10 arraign the President at the
bar Of public opinion, if you were forced to do
sol Did you not know that there was but one
bad motive that could be ascribed 10 him about,
the Veto--that OF selfish ambition-that of de-
string TO be elected again and were you not
afraid that such declaration, disclaiming all
pretension to the succession, would strip you of
the power to attribute TO the President any i'm
proper motive in his action on the Veto2 But
perhaps you were sincere. You, at that time,
wished TO retain your places, and had some
hope of doing so for, when the attempt was
made to prevent any action on the Fiscal Cor
poration BILL and TO prevent its being sent to the
President, forcing him to veto it, did not dep
ntdtion ofyour friends go to the President, and
through Mr.. Gushing, of Massachusetts, pro-
pose that the bill should rot be sent TO him, in
case h. would permit you TO retain your
places in the Cabinet, or, in the Ian
language of Mr.. Ewing, that there should be no
hostile Increment" upon The Cabinet And
even after the President proudly disdained the
proposition, and after the Veto Message was
prepared, did any of you determine, under a
sense of wounded honor, to retire because