The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-31
THE CHARGE OF PERFIDY.

800 ~" '''' hoOi vi oOhStess-dnu the iaschoou
echoed by every cross-road politician,
and through the columns of nearly eve
ny Wing newspaper In the United States-wiIh
having proved false 10 the party that elected
him.
The uniounded nature of this charge has
been exposed a thousand times but nolwith-
standing these repeated exposures, the guilty
culprits, as If hardened by the audacity OF their
crimes, persevere but the more in reiteratlng the
exploded caumny.
The President has faLsifed no pledge he
erer made TO the Wigs This fact has been
proved beyond all doubt What pledge did he
ever make that he has not redeemed None
whatever. We boldly assert it; and no man
having regard for veracity, or any character to
iose' can say TO the contrary. John Tyler TO vi
olate pledge to commit an act of disgrace
Who will believe it2 John Tyler, the son Of
proud old chivalrous Virginia, to sink The char
acter OF his State by deliberate " liei" Who
will believe it2 John Tyler, who has twice
arrested an unconstitutional National Bank, and
twice lnterposed the shield of the Constitution
OF an odlous law liar, traitor, and an enc
my to his country VINO, zoe say, wiH be
here the FOUL, ATRocloUs cALUMNY ? None
but those who themselves are capable of deeds
50 black and damnng
We have been led 10 these warm obseIva-
tons by the debates which have recently taken
place IN the House, and particularly on Friday
last, when the land distribution bill was under
consideration. Mr.. Arnold, of Tennessee, who
seems to be queer man in almost every thing,
rose TO define his posi- ton in regard to this mea-
sure, and in the doing Of he not only INDUCED the
recitation Of bitter newspaper denunclatlons
against the exercise Of the Veto and Executive
usurpaiion, which, from the awkward and con-
fused manner in which he gave them utterance,
he had committed badly to memory but he in
Weighed coarsely AID h avily against his quon-
dam coadjuto in the submission they pIac-
tsed towards the President in voting for ia
riff bill without distribution. Now, Mr.. Ar
mold, well as every on" else, knows that the
striking of the 9th sect from the vetoed Ia
Tiff bill was not an act of ''submission" TO the
who decided that the President was right, and
they were wrong.
We are at loss, then, TO comprehend the
motive Mr.. Arnold bad in view, unless il was a
pretence set on foot by the willy Wings, through
an appropriate organ, merely to entrap certain
Democrats and get them to vote for the BILL UNI
der the plea of replenishing an exhausted Trea-
sury-and otherwise doing something for the
country. Mr.. Cooper, of Pennsylvania, replied
to Mr. Arnold, and held him to a severe account
for his rashness in assaing thus bitterly the
UNIVERSAL Wing PARTY, and, for aught we
know, this may have been part OF the scheme
to draw in the aid of some few Democrats, as
by keeping up the appearance OF a family jar be-
tween themselves, they might, in truth, lay the
foundation for one in the Democratic ranks.
But enough Of this depression. 1t was tri-
umphant moment for the President when this
unprncped factIous majority solemnly revers-
ed their own irreversible act, in voting TO dis
tribute the land sales, by separate bill, after
having declared, as they did, in adopting
Adams's report, that TO do so would be dis
grace and submission 10 the Executive. Mr..
Wise, ever ready and intrepid in debate, seized
the golden opportunity with avdlty and lashed,
as with whip of scorpions" the mlscreants
who had dared to charge perfdy, vacillaton,
edly interrupted for explanation, bur, having
only few minutes in which 10 express his in
dignation, because of the gag" he would not
give way, but continued to show up most trlum-
phantly the perfdy and vacillation Of the Wings
in their manner Of Iegislating, and especially
commenting on the fact that Mr.. Arnold, who
had been foremost in accusing John Tyler OF
failing to redeem his promises, had himself
made promise to a member from New Jersey
to do a thing which he afterwards not only re-
fused to do, but actually abused others for doing
though not under the Obligations Of like promise
to abstain from it. 1t was, indeed, proud mo-
ment for the President-the picture was sub
lime-it was the picture OF a just retrlbuton Tor
past misdeeds done an innocent man by gull
ty, self-abased, and protlIgale party. A sense
of humiliation seemed to sink the Wings so
low'that one was more disposed to pity than to
despise them.
John Tyler is charged with perfdy and reach-
ery TO the party that elected him. BY whom
By John Quincy Adams-a madman and Abo-
litiopist-hmseIf traitor to the best interests
of the country, and now seeking 10 abolish the
Veto power-in fact, the Constitution OF the
country
By John Minor Botts-a man of desperate
fortunes and desperate politics hose who life
has heen piven TO violence and indiscrelon-
whose political zeal overruns his discretion and
drives him into all manner Of excess. No one
will believe any charge preferred by such
man.
IA, Edward Staply Who is he a polit-