The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-24

New YoRK, October 20, 1912

with you, and the more have looked al II, III
all Its bearings, the more | am convinced that
- feslina ene" is at this junclure the maxim
which should influence the real Republicans OF
the country.
The mad zealols of party have recently re-
ceiyed a verdict which seals their doom, and
the whole people have reached the point at
which rashness is succeeded by reason.
TO one of your philosophical mind IT would
be useless TO urge how wisely Providence has
ordered all things, and how frequently good is
made TO come out Of evil.
Some of our very best men saw nothing but
darkness resting upon the future, when war
was so ruthlessly and violently waged against
President Tyler. party flushed with victo-
ry, rushing into place to which 1t had been
stranger Tor so many years, might naturally be
supposed 10 be indscreet on its first attempts 10
WELD suddenly acquired power. But when the
real secret came out; when the Bolts letter I'M
masked the battery; when it was discovered
that "vaulling ambition" was determined, at
every hazard, not only to seize upon the whole
power OF Congress, but to break down the Go
vernment and the country to accomplish its I'M
hallowed purpose, the wsest and the most cour-
ageous among us looked with fear and tremb-
ling upon this new and unnatural trial TO which
our Republican institutions were TO be sub
jected.
That popular institutions should be often Sc
verey tried by party contests, we had learned
alike from history and from our own experience
but that powerful party containing men
hitherto believed to be wise and patriotic,
should lend itself to destroy the President Of
the United States, consttutionally placed there
by its own acclamation, offered SO novel a spec
tacle, and one so portentous in its apparent con-
sequences, that the patriotic heart slckened IN
contemplation at the result to which such mad
ness might hurry the national destiny.
For myself, though claiming no spirit of pro-
phecy, nor depth OF wisdom, never feared the
result-probably, because so. well acquainted
with the parties in the contest, and the motives
which governed them.
1t was indeed a new case, and one which
nothing bat time and future developments could
explain. Time was required to dispe the So
phistry by which the real cause OF the quarrel
was attempted to be concealed from the people,
and the development Of facts now known was
most necessary to show how completely it was
war of ambition on one side, and deep moral
feeling and principle on the other.
The whole tenor Of the doings of Congress
since the appearance Of the Bolts letter, has so
fully carried out the plot which the letter dis
closed, that the veriest tyro in Wing politics
bas HE from, inHa m m, hos
which disgraced the Congressional Halls, while
the great mass of the people have, in this man
ner, been made acquainted with the diabolical
scheme, Ivy which it was intended 10 sacrifice
the President, the Constitution and the country
10 call into existence moneyed oligarchy, by
the elevation of the High Priest Of Mammon TO
But although the motives which actuated the
parlisans of MIR. Clay, and his mammoth Bank,
have been thus clearly shown in all their defor-
+ nifty, and have, Of themselves, produced upon
the great mind of the country, thorough con-
vcton of their baseness, there remains vet a
pleasing, but solemn duty, in reserve, and one
which cannot be too strongly performed, nor
too often repeated.
Ii appears nop, upon the testimony of Mr.
Gushing, (and you, | know, have other
knowledge of the important facts,) that Presi-
dent Tyler proposed, in his Veto of the second
Bank bill, TO insert clause, declaring his deter
mination not 10 suffer his name to 20 forth as
candidate for the Presidency in 1874 and
that Harrison Cabinet advised him TO make no
such declaration.
This fact deprives The enemies of President
Tyler Of the miserable and contemplate subter-
fuge by which they have attempted, in vain, 10
deceive the People, namely, that his great de-
sire to be elected President by the People in "A,
was the real motive by which he was actuated.
The only way in which such futile at
tempt, through such unworthy means to
deceive the People, can be accounted for
is upon the ground that the Federal or moneyed
party never know the People. and consequently
never believe In their intelligence. Surely the
way -faring man, howeper unshaied in finance,
or unknoping an the classics, has intuitve
feeling and instructive impulse sufficient to con-
vince him that ambition seldom takes the posi-
ton of weakness. Had the views of President
Iyer been from personally ambitious motives,
he would surely never have taken a conserva-
tive position between two powerful political par
ties. The charge is too absurd TO need reply
its palpabe inconsistency is its own refutauon
refer to these unhappy events of recent oc-
currence reluctantly but you know the habit of
my thoughts, and will yourself appreciate this
occasion, since it affords so strong proof that
the moral future may be looked to, with GER
talnty little short of that which govern the phys-
ca-,he only difference being the power to pos
sess the data upon which future events depend
| Now for the proof thus afforded President Tv