The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-03
From the N. Y. Union.

THE PRESIDENTS CAPACITY AND Ia
LENTS.
Of all the articles to which his uncomfortable enc
mics have resorled for depreciatng the character of
the President in the estimation Of the people, that If
detracting from his capacity and ability is among the
most dasturdly, ungeDerous and mean. 1t is bastard
ly, because it is mode of attack from which man
defend himself without mourning the alternative
imputation OF egotsm from which all minds Of high
order nstiDctvely reco 1t il ungenerous, because
few if any of our statesmen, in the ola long
political life, have displayed nObler elevation of in.
| teec, more admirable talents, greater business
ability than Mr.. Tyler has devoted TO the service of
his country, in each and all of the important public
stations which he has filled and adorned. And il is
detestaby mean, because it is n species of de-
traction which none but the lowest and narrowest
minds be induced employ, directed against
qualities of character endowed by the Creator himself
and for which all other minds feel kindred sympathy
and respect.
Taking advantage ofthe comparative inattention Of
busy masses Of the community 10 the evidences of
| intellect and talent which chiefly to be found in
the al and written productions of statesmen and
of the Obliteralng effects of time upon the most
faithful impressions of memory concerning them it is
an easy exploit for political enmity, at any time
spread sweeping detractiOn of this kind which can
only be met by specific refutations the fruits of retro
spectiOn and research. In the Of President w.
er, however, this craven effort must prove less sue
cessu than it has usually BEEN for the development
too recent and emphatic to be sincerely Questioned
even by those who are loudest in proclamlnp him a
weak and vaclating man. Indeed, il is those only
who Frustrated to the dust and scattered to the
winds by the force fhs mental and moral superiority
that rdicuously charge him with imbecty. Who
their greatest that he has not mastered in the
mighty struggle Unprecedented in our history from
which no at this moment steps forth athletic, erect
| and unharmed2 What deep and elaborate schemes
has he not detected and foiIedl What deadly ma
nj nd Al mod If
eru and resoue minds Of the present age excited by
the most reckless impulses Of nature has he Ie-
sisted and quelled by his unaided and indom,able
spirit, at the very time that these and their
miserable yeping scribbers vainly attempting to
decry the ability by which they have been leveIed to
the earth and exposed to the Kisses Of the world!
Truly they have selected most inopportune and
unfortunate period for thus, for the first time dero-
gazing John Tyler's capacity and talents Until now
when these are so signay displayed in the eyes of
all, no men of either party, ever dreamed Of ques-
tioning them. From his first entrance upon public
life, all through his career as chairman of numerous
congressional committees both in the House and the
Senate ; in all his speeches, rejoinders and reports
he twas ever Justly regarded of the ablest
speakers writers, logcians and tactcians, of which
country fertile political talent, could boast
And we shall feel both pride and pleasure in recall
ing to the recollection of an adniring people the
corded evidences OF this matured estimate of his abil
tiles in several future articles. In the meantime
counteDance to their ptiful detraction' Why, for.
sooth these barbarians in styethese Babel builders
Of language-these miserable managers of grammar
these sages in syntax, who every day prove them
selves ignorant Of the government of sentences as
of republIcsset up for the literary censors of his
public documents and pronounce them defective in
composition! We hesitate not to say that the only
instances In which the accuracy of Mr. Tyler's writ
ten productions has appeared TO us defective, have
been palpabe misprnts from the authentic copies as
o,,hl ab.I IN aah. =. Al.
Offices of the very journals which select them ind
cations of lteracy
President Tyler Is gentleman whose natural and
acquired abilities would have given him an enviable
distlnc ION IN any sphere of life, and in any commu-
nifty in which he might have been placed; and they
adorn the pre-emnent which he occ upies az
richly those Of his most ustrious predecessors.
That he possesses a clear and strong mind his con-
founded and dsorganIzed opponents bitterly feel that
his manners are elevated and polished, at the same
time that they are simple and touchingly kind, all who
have held friendly intercourse with hun must neces-
sarily admit; and that writer, of papers, at
least, he may take rank with the lucid and cas-
steal Of statesmen, indirectly admitted even by
his traduces, when they to the wretched expe
dent of alleging that the late severely pure and beau
,ifu production of his own uncorrected pen, and
which is known TO be so) that of some wri er of
eminent literary skill. Every who has had the
pleasure OF Mr. Tylers social circle or of his extend
cd correspondence, knows that while he is admirably
versatile and brilliant In conversation, he ~ elegant
intellectual and luminous, even In his rapid and
familiar epistes. In education, pursuits experience
and taste, he has become accomplished as most of
the d,stineu ished men OF the high Southern school
and is not possible that his attainmenis c. ud have
been either deprecipied questioned bot for the i'm
measurable political viluPeration which he has in
CURED by cour,e Of inde1ble integrity and patriot
lam Indeed il is but a few brief months since all We
have said or can say upon this subject reiereed
by the very journals which would now degrade him
beneath the lowest scale needless of the obvious fact
that, in so doing, they are lowering themselves to
still lower depth, in the opinion OF all just and homo
Isble men.