The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-01

| ways near as tney CHOOSE 10 unueTStanu Against
such these, no one has any defence. There should
be- if there is not, sufficient defence for every
gentleman in that of honor propriety and deli
cacy, which renders every private conversation a
matter of implied confidence.
/ Very truly, your friend
! A.P, UPSHUR.
Hon. ii. A. WISE
! THE PRESIDENT AND Ills CABINET :
THE STATE OF THE COUNTRYWIDE
] DUTY OF CONGRESS--THER RIGHTS OF
THE PEOPLE.
When we contemplate the actual condition of
our country, great and fruitful as it is, in all the
elements Of power and wealth and true gran
deur, we are lost in amazement at the faulty OF
those who allow their resentful and ambitious
passions to stand in the way Of her prosperity.
| The Government consists of three branches
! The JUDICIARY, under every dynasty, pursues
the even tenor of its way, interpreting the Con-
stitution and administering the laws, without
favor and without affection, with none to make
| them afraid.
| The EXEcUTIvE.-W can regard it without
admiration, and wonder that any should desire
TO embarrass it Young as is President Tyler,
his political course has yet been most eventful.
| Thar proud and ancient Common wealth, which,
as has been well said, if asked for her jewels,
might, like the mother of the Gracchi point to
her sons, has repeatedly, when called on, point
ed to her favorite son JOHN TYLER and never
was son more taithlul-more devoted to pa
| rent. If, in some moments Of excitement he has
| been commanded TO do aught which in his judg-
ment and conscience was incompatible with her
and his own cherished principles of liberty, he
has ever been ready, magnanimously to throw
up place, power, emolument-in word, to for
felt any thing but honor !, So firm had been
his patriotism on the most trying occasions $50
brilliant his career, that body of most dstin-
guished citizens selected him from among the
aged, the good, and the wise, as second in com
nand of station to which, in the ordinary
course of nature, il was not improbable he might
soon be (and was) called, by regular promotion,
to act us commander in chief History presents
few examples of exaltation more rapid or more
regular from post TO post. Napoleon rose not
to the height OF his military fame by gradations
more marked by successive proofs of superior
judgment, than those which have illustrated the
rise of our President. 1t calls for no stretch of
fancy to extend the parallel in some particulars
that do honor TO both In taking the pen to sign
the Veto he displayed the same courage and
! forecast that prompted the Frenchman to seize
the colors and take the lead at Lodi. In both it
was a crisis in the fate OF themselves and their
country. While all others trembled for the result,
| 'they took the responsibility" with confidence
that genius, near akin to inspiration, only could
inspire. Had Napoleon hesitated, one fatal dis
aster would have closed an inglorous campaign
| SO, had Tyler yielded, the triumph of the Bank
| Wings would have ended in one great abortion
| We should have had, it is true, the skeleton of
a mammoth Bank, but who does not see that
no human power could have brea,hed into it
either life or usefulness. The Wing party
OF popular imprecation, for promises made TO
the ear and broken TO the hope. In another re-
spect, how striking the resemblance of these
remarkable men, The French General, like
the President, rising alone by the force of his
own genius, was distinguished for nothing more
than for his sagaclty in the choice Of men suited
TO The pork in hand Was it to charge with
cavalry-to storm a redoubt-to circumvent a
willy diplomatist-he always knew where to
put his finger on his man. Behold our Presl-
dent, when suddenly deserted by all but one, Of
the Cabinet not of his original selection Was
there a moments hesitation, or the slightest
i mistake, IN The course he took On the con-
trary, although each chair in the Cabinet NAV
have been at some time as well filed when were
all at once held by men so distinguished for
ability and business capacity :? And yet some
OF them had scarcely been thought of except BY
John Tyler. AT different periods we have had
II is true, Madison in the State, a Dallas in
+ the Treasury, a Calhoun in the War, Mclean
) in the Post Office Department, and Taney fol
Attorney Generals but when, in the history of
} the Republic, have we had all these places, and
: especially the Navy Department, conducted BY
men so pre-eminent in abilities, so indomtable
in their industry, and so exclusive in their devo.
tlon, not to party and paltry eectioneering, bu
each to the proper business of his own station
In the STATE DEPARTMENT he has counsellor
in all the vigor of mature Intellect, whose re.
: splendant talents have shed upon his country a
glory that shines as far abroad as the light Of
civilization can carry it, One who, in the
highest circles of Europe, needed no intro