Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-10-14

were the specific acts Of malfeasnnce he had been gull
" Of in the connection The President had been ac-
cused of perfiy was it perhdy to the Constitution,
or 10 Some party pledge, Mr. L. denied that it was
to either and then went on 10 give history Of the
Bank question: and back lis origin the diii
Gully between Congress and the President, and de
manded who struck the first blow' Who gave the first
nsut2
He referred 10 the measure that had been proposed
by Wing Harrison Cabinet, which had been present.
ed 10 Congress at their request, and demanded how II
had been treated and what ifa fate IN the bands OF
Mr. Clay That the foundation OF the quarrel
and what followed the action of the President, action,
! founded on his constitutional ohjpctI"ns-to The plan
substituted for that of his Cabinet? Volrnt nbuse
The impntations by Wing members against his
honor as man. manifesto accusing hun OF perfdy
And what produced all this, The abstract fact of
a veto-tEe thing complained of was nothing more
For what good effect could have followed from the
charter Of an IT, States Bank, Who advocates it nov:
VIVA, capitalists could have been found 10 have sub
scrbed for the tlrly-fve millions: There is no pub
lie man who dares to stand on the issue of an u.
S. Bank-no desperate as To lead such iorlorn
hone Even Mr.. Cla5, bold and frank politician us he
his statement of the Wing creed, mentions not the
name OF bank "a sound national currency is the
term And what is sound national currency: Is not
rold and silver, Will not his (alr C.'s) favorte
sure an Exchequer, give liz And IT, peradventure
Mr. CLAW after his election should die, leaving Vice
chooses to understand an u. D Bank, as meant by
the words sound national currency is he TO he
cused of eachery TO his party, and false 10 promises
| he never made!
Mr. Cushing then referred 10 the Message of Mr.
TYLER at the commencement Of the last session, and
the accompanying reports, and commended that no man
condemned either, and tina. never had there been more
able and patriotic measures proposed lie then vent
INTO the Tariff question, showed that alter spending
much time in deciding which Committee should frame
IN had
which the able Committee Manufactures had spent
so much time, and then called upon, through Their
Committee of WAYS and Means, the Administration OF
this John TYLER for BILL which, amended in some
,rifinr particulars was the same which passed Con.
gress, with political issue with John Tyler tackled
toit.
Ile then gave history of the distribution question
conte nded that when tie bill Of the Extra Session was
passed and signed, both Congress and The President
had fulfilled their pledge, and there was an end II
vas then admitted on all hands, that Tariff OF over
twenty per centum was necessary, and was viola
ton oil pledged faith TO disturb the COMPROMISE then
made, and the last thing that should have been done
was to fasien another distribution clause like an incu
bus on the Tariff bill.
MIR Gushing spoke in severe terms OF the abuse that
had been heaped the President and himself but said
newspaper obloquy aveled nothing with him. Never
had there been such coarse and vulgar abuse used ny
party presses before, had been heaped upon this ad
mnsraon by presses that had heretofore urrogated to
themselves "all the decency."
The resolutions of the Wing Convention then came
under Mr.. C.s animadversion and he went on to
speak of the reasons given by that Convention why
they should separate from this Administration. He
denied the truth Of the facts stated and demonstrated
their fasity-asked the audience whether IT true
that John Tyler compelled the Wings to repeal the
Distribution act-and answered BY cheering in the
that the President had as broad
authority to exercise the power that the Constitution
had given him, Congress had that entrusted to them
spoke Of vetocs from expediency even not being
cause Of abuse, Washington having set the example,
John Tyler the whether there should be one
regiment in the army, more or less-demanded TO what
injury had the exercise of that power led and insisted
that the last veto had only prevented the Wings from
repeating their proviso to the Distribution act.
Again, referring 10 the public lands, Mr. Gushing de-
MED that the States separately had any RICH, to
them than to the ship Columbus, any OF the public
acknowledgement wen,eths of the lands having been
purchased OF France, Spain, and the Indians, and not
ceded by the States lie then referred 10 another
sation against the President, in the Wing resolutions
that he had defeated measures by delaying sign
! ing the bills until after the adjournment As 10 the
FIRST the repeal of the Distribution clause, it was never
expected to be signed AS TO the othcr the bill regula
ing elections, it was handed to the President but a
short time before the adjournment and being BILL TOO,
so important and complex that it had been amended IN
the two Houses, over and again, was il strange the
! President should want more than twenty minutes to
examine its details and consutonality: He sgravely
charged with not considering what it was physically
impossible he should consider in the time allotted
The protest of the President on MIR. Adamss report
and resolutions then referred to another item OF
misdemeanor in the eyes of the Wing Convention but
MIR. Gushing contended it would be violation Of the
rights of humanity, to deny to the accused right to
defend HIMSELF ind asserted that the President had
other means for his defence against his enemies
Mr. Gushing then demanded whether 1t was not too
that these had been extorted for party
purposes He said, now 10 enter into another
great political warfare, for WHAT An United States
Bank? Is it for Distribution to march over the
Constitution? He prophesed majority could not be
found for these two measures, and that party which
held them out as wachwords is doomed to perpetual
defeat But the great trouble had been who was to be the
next President He (Nr. CO. was one who had begged,
warned and entreated that the succession should not
be agated in this Congress. He knew there were ma
ny great who deserved all in the power oil party
or country bes,ow but he knew that agitation Of the
question thus early injudicous, and he had re-
solved that he who should break the great and gori
GUS Wing party, by his aspiration for power, he (Mr
c. would resst-and he had no other issue with Mr..
Clay.
Why was it no, left until the meeting of National
f Convention before nomination was made: Because
Mr.. Clay's friends thought that Mr. Tyler would be
: q candidate Suppose it so: Has Mr.. Clay the
monopoly Of all the ambition Usage would allow any
one to aspire to the Presidency. But it not so
He would state undenable fact, that Mr. Tyler
proposed to Harrison Wing Cabinet TO publicly de
cline being candidate in loI1, and they advised HIM
not TO make any such public declaration.
1t was TO Mr.. Cushing the sTangest operation III po
cs he had ever known, that party in The minority
the Wings, TO Judge from the last elections, were
should begin by prescription minor questions TO en-
deavor their party. Is by conciliatory OF
r by denuncatory policy that parties increase? How
did Andrew Jackson become President: BY combi'
nation of Calhoun men, Crawford men and Jackson
e men, How did General Harrison become President:
e The only way by which minority can become mo-
ority is by raying all
r On many cardinal Wing measures many Wings
difTcred-on some, more than twenty Wings in Con
y gress voted against. And is it alone that Thomas
Marshall and Caleb Gushing are to be denounced p
! Mr.. Gushing said he partizan He looked TO
the practical interests of the people. lie could not tell
$ what the Wings quarrelilng about. lie had
carefully weighed all the questions before the people
and declared that he could adequate cause for
!. quarreng, except political aspirations.