Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-11-17
A PORTRAIT OF JOHN TYLER.
nv A MASTER HAND.


The Boston Atlas has published in full the ad-
dress Of Hon. John Quincy Adams TO his CONSTR !
tuen,s, delivered on the 9Th Septeaber. II is
general review Of the great political questions
which have for years engaged the attention Of The |
people OF this country. Every portion Of 1t dis
plays that eminent ability which marks all the cf-
forts of this distinguished statesman. We copy
his portrait of the President of the U. States,
which, though exceedingly accurate, cannot be
regarded as at all hat,cring:
'John Tyler, who stole into the camp Of the
Wings in 1910, in their triumphant struggle to pu,
down the standard of the Northern man With
Southern principles, under the colors of retrcnch-
ment, reform, and Wing resistance to Executive
usurpailons, has crept up to the summit of power,
and there proclaims himself democrat dyed i'm
the wool-claims to be AN independent coordinate
department oil the esisiaiirs power-declares i'm
so many words that Congress can enact no law
without his sanction, stgmatiZes the leading
meuibers oil Congress, of the party nv which he
was chosen as the coad utor of HARRISON TO achieve
the great and glorious work of reform, as n.o,.siDY
poiticdns-sets all the trumpe,s Of the press paid
by his dispensation OF patronage with the public
money, anu ali the hungry and unprinciplcd office
hunters throughout the Union, 10 railing against
Congress- the real Legislative power for failing to
restore the public prosperity, while he defeats by
his refoes almost every saluiary measure de vised
ana ma'urcd by them as Indispensable for that
purpose; turns out OF the Executive offices under
his control, honest and honorable men, true re-
pubiicans and ardent patriots, like Jonathan Ro.
berts, and tolsts into their places sycophants and
ume-servers-evies money upon the people, up
on authority so questionable, that his own Secre-
tQrv OF the Treasury hsi;nxoS.it .s.l. s,,rrr, oil
miSruie, approves and signs an act of COMPRESS
and deposites In the Department of State an aryu-
! ment 10 nulliiy the most important, and the mos,
wholesome, of its provisions.
| III, H,,;,
douoie-deallng, that stamped the character of the
man In my estimation in letters never TO be eta
ccd. That duplcity was his uneradicable vice
had long mad reason TO suspect, but was extreme
iy reluctant TO believe. Long before he had been
thought OF as candidate for the office OF Vice
President OF tho United States, l had read letter
from the late Henry Lee to him, charrinr him
with that pollution of the heart in other ,rSnsac
lions OF his life, upon testimony which il was not
easy TO withstand. had Witnessed his wayer.
ing, inconsistent, and yet obstinate conduct
throughout the whole Of his proceedings with his
first cabinet, until its dissolu,ion-had COMPARED
his sei-ccntradictory for his first and Sc
cond bank vetocs, and had noticed the direc, is
sues upon his veracity, made by the sece,inu
members OF the Harrison cabinet. knew not all
indeed OF the mass of irreirsgable evidence on
that point, which has since been disclosed but il
was already exposed in such burning lght, that
could barely Keep with him upon terms of such
personal civIiity as may be observed with politi-
Cal adversaries, whose personal integrity is unim-
peached. The approval of the appor,ionmcnt bill.
with the caveat deposited in The Department of
State against far the most important section con-
tanned III 1t, was, in my opinisn, fraud, which no
man OF moral honesty could have committed
which no so2histry could disguise, and 10 inge-
nuiiy could palliate. i could have no further
voluntary friendly personal intercourse with it's
author, and deemed it ny Indispensable duty to
expose It's true character 10 the House and to the
country"