The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-06-25

RESIGNATION OF THE CABINET.

This matter is again on the Tapis Mr. Thomas
Ewing late Secretary Of the Treasury under the ad-
minisration of General Harrison appears in the Ma
tonal Inelligencer of the 18th inst in letter to the
people of the u States, in which he attempts to dis
prove the charge of fasehood made against him by
Mr.. Mallory of Virginia, sometime in March last.
He calls upon Messrs. Butler, Berrien, King and
Sergeant to bear him out in his charges against the
President
They afford him nothing. Their differences are
many, equivocal and indistinct They do not fur
nish the first particle of positive evidence to sustain
Ewing in his statements. They have left him in a
ridiculous light before the public, having failed
to afford the substantiation requisite to issue be-
tween men of honor.
In giving his reasons for not appearing at an earlier
date before the public, to reute the charges brought
against him, and wipe Oft the stain of infamy which,
begin to think was justly imputed to his character
he uses the following language:
''But those facts have since been in some sort de-
ned though the denial has not, till recently, come
from such source, and reached me in such form
and on such authority, enabled me to notice it,
could not reply to partisan orator who should at
tack defend the President on the stump, or to
newspaper editor who should do the like in his
columns"
And from "such a source" saysthe honorable gen.
tleman From what source would he have it come
The accusations, it is well known were made upon
the authority of the President of the United States
who, though had he not borne the character of a
gentleman, entitled from the dignity of his sta
tion the head of mighty republic, as the repre-
sentative of intelligent and honorable constituency
at whose hands his opponent can expect nothing to
the attention and respect of men much superior to
Thomas Ewing either in point of intelligence, res
probability or honor. He, Thomas Ewing, standing
before the people Of the United States in the light Of
man regardless of veracity, and convicted of de-.
sertng, without sufficient reason the interests of the
people, conhded to his trust by the venerable Harri-
son-such man refusing to defend his character
from the mputations cast upon by the President of
the United States, is pretence too ridiculous for
contemplation.
And then again, he to speak of partisan orators ="
He of the most bitter partizans now in existence,
pratDg of partisan orators ~ Ol consistency,
thou art rare bird.
And newspaper editors" forsooth. 1t is with
this portion Of his communication that our province
more properly belongs. Had it not been for that
class--'newspaper editors"-of whom he speaks
with such affected loathing and disgust he would now
instead of having acquired the assurance to intrude
his eliminating effusions upon "the people of the
United States" be spending days in that UNDECIDED
aud unobserved reiracy to which his merits SO Justly
entitle, and for which nature designed him.
Had not newspaper editors" pulled into existence
this redoubtabe parsonage, and gnorantly been
guilty Of abetting and aiding him in his unntermit-
ting schemes of offcious humbuggery the noble Har-
rlson would never, never have been guilty of the folly
of eeyatng to the Secretafy-ship of the Treasury,
being so utterly incapable and inefficient as Thomas
Ewing