Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-05-03

tirey reliable, that we feel safe in vouehing Zoe
every statement il eoatans OF course, the Senate,
in rejecting Tyson, is fully vindieated.
Correspondence Of the wing.
PHIlAprLrHIA, April %. Isi2.
see there is disposition to make good deal Of
fuss about the rejection Of G. Washington Tyson
as Commissary of Purchases for the Army, and
am somewhat surprised that portion Of tho Wing
ffess should JON in the denunciaton of the Senate
Tor refusing TO confirm the nomination; but am
entirely confident, that when oil the facts Of the |
| case come to be borne in mind, there can be but |
one voice OF commentator OF the course of the So.
nate.
II IS stated in several OF the leading public Jour
mails, that there objection to MIR Tyson save |
that his being friend of Mr. Tyler Far far from
the fact There were for his rejection Of the
nmplest kind-such as it was impossible Tor the Sc
| nate to disregard.
In the first place, there were circumstances con.
nected with the appointment OF MIR Il. which were
shocking to all moral feeling. On the day General
Irvine MIR T's predecessor, died, runners were
actually kept passing to and fro between the dying
bed OF General Irvine and the festive board of NJ,
Tyson, lat which the latter was entertaining MIR |
Robert Tyer,l in order that the earliest tidings
might be had Of tho last breath of the dy ing ncum-
bent. About 10 o'clock, on Saturday night, the |
messenger carried the (no doubt welcome intell- |
genee OF the death Of General Irvine; and in feu
moments after, Mr. Tyson, with a letter in his poke,
from Mr. Robert Tyler to his father, his way
to Washington; arrived there the following day, !
(Sundiy;) had assurances that he should have the
vacant post; at o'clock the next morning received
| his commissions and back in this place before
the funeral obseques of Gen. Irvine were over.
These are the circumstances of indecent haste I'M
der which Mr. Tyson was Observation-Disclosures
at which, it seems TO me, the moral sense Of the
country mus, revolt. lfsuch outrages upon all de.
ceney are 10 he tolerated and the example Of their
liberation to he SET byo body so disnhsd as the
Senate OF the United States, then, indeed is the pub
lie taste vitiated to degree OF depravity which,
may well alarm every friend of virtue through the
land.
Blu, there were other and yet more satisfactory
objections. The Pennsylvanrnn. q warm Demo
cratic paper of this place. openly denounced the np
pointment of Mr. Tyson "mpolitic and improper
The assigned will no doubt be recollected,
and will not repeat them.
But upon Mr. Tysr's o,cn rule, the Senate could
not but reject Mr. Tyson. Mr. Tyler had declared
in 1910, that there twas everywhere exhibited an
Gen. Harrison for the Presidency, because to this
| crying evil he would apply the corrective. In his
first address to the people Of the United States. he
assured them that he should uncetemonously dis
miss al public officers who had been guilty Of this
"letve pariisanship," or who had been promoted TO
Office for party service rendered; and since his aces.
sion to the Chief Magisracy, he has declared tina,
upon his officers, those appointed by himself,
/ h.. I'd ~.t, a.
your right OF suffrage" The said to the Office holders
of the counryl but thus far and no farther These
are his very words, and there is besides, rule of
Executive enac,ments now in force (nomina'ly, on
yJ requiring public officers 10 abstain from all in.
reference in politics. the exercise Of the right Of
suffrage.
| Now, within this rule, MIR Tyson has clearly
brought himself, and therefore, he was rghteously
rejected.
He is known here rs the mos, active politician in
all Philadelphia, and it is perfectly notorious with
us. that he was daily employing the patronage OF
his station (which is very considerably for the po-
itcal advantage Of MIR Tyler. lie was the nucleus
taround which Tyler party was forming, for no
patronage dispensed but with reference TO this
end. Nor is this all. MIR Tyson was the prime
mover, the active seiter up of the grand Tyler din
ner the 22nd OF Feb. !ary last contributed large
| ly TO the necessary expenditure; boosted publicly
that he had done it. and said ne did not care who
knew it abused MIR Clay like pick-pocket and
declared that If the Senate rejected him. every friend
OF Mr. Clay should be turned on, OF Office; and was
indeed, the very hero ofthe miserable Tyler demon.
sira,ion. by which was desecrated the birth day
anniversary of the Father of his country
These facts were all in possession Of the Senate
on satisfactory proof The Senate therefore, could
not do less than reject Mr. Tyson. Mr. Tyler cannot
complain. because his own rule, Of which MIR Ty.
son was fair subject for the application, was bu,
carried out IN practice.
The Senate, for their manly course in this and
other similar cases, entitled TO, and no doubt III
receive, the hearty commentator Of the country.
They have but vindica,ed public morality public
honour, and a principle cherished by the Wing
party, and acknowledged by MIR Tyler himself
not only ACKNOWLEDGED, but adopted n Rule Of
conduct for all holding Office under him, and actual
lY addressed, in the form of an Executive Circular
to the whole country.
If Mr. Tyler will persist in making exception, bic
appointments IN using the patronage Of his office
to buy pnriisans for himself; in bringing the pa
} uonage OF the Government in conflict with the pu-
rty Of the elective principlethe only hope OF the
country IS IN the manly exercise, by the Senate, G
its concurrent function in the business Of appoint
men,s. Ifthey do not administer the rebuke, they
will themselves well merit the severest apprehension
Of n the wise and good Of tho land.
IL is true, MIR Tyson had been confirmed for ano-
ther Office by the Senate that now rejects him
, But tho reply is-thnt no had not then made him
o self obnoxious to the objections which now cxis
- against him. And asto his rejection causing any
dissatisfaction here, entirely the is the
= No man IS more obnoxious here, to all men of al
c parties, than Mr. Tyson. lis confirmation woulC
c have excited strong indignation throughout tn,
e City. lie was once talked Of rs Collector OF ,h
Y port but it very distinctly intimatsd to thos,
, at head quarters that such a step would Ugh, nam
in Philadelphia. which It would not be easy to *
y tinguish and information was communicated L
A Mr. Tyler, from a high source, which ought TO haze
made him exceedingly cautious in nominating "
y Tyson for any post Such the facts Of this
n out Of which an effort is vigorously being made Il
manufacture for tie oppressed Mr. Tyler, litl
public sympathy. I do not marvel a cause 81
= hopeless that Of Mr. Tylsrs, will fnbricate 20
VI litica capital Of materials the most contemplate.
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