The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-25
Hom the Ci~cinnasi Republican.
THE VETO.

John Tyler is supposed by many to be acting an
inconsistent part in regard to the public lands 1t
ought to be remembered that the President, when he
advocated the measure of distribution in his first
Message, did so upon the ground that such dstribu
ton should be made ,oithoM disturbing the Compro-
mise act-that u.s. provided could be done, and the
expenses of the Government be met, without raising
the duties above twenty per cent 1t should not be
forgotten that the BILL just vetoed raised the
tariff to point nearly high it was in the days
of notification and still distributes the proceeds of
the public lands thus enormously taxing many OF
the most common necessares of life such as sugar,
tea and cofeethe two latter not being produced at
all in our country, and the former, to any great ex-
tent only in single State.
1t should also be remembered that the distribution
BILL IN its present FORM with the twenty per cent pro-
viso therein, was measure carried IN the senate py
the vote Of Mr. Clay Let it not be forgotten by any
man who cherishes the memory of General Harri-
son, that, before the election he unequivocay de-
clared that he would nerer consent to disturb the
Compromise act Let all men, before they condemn
President Tyler inconsistent and vascillating
statesman, consider that this same Compromise bill
was the joint offspring of Henry Clay and John c.
Calhoun. Which was the father we know not; but
certain it is it was presented for its adoption into the
church of the " latter day. Wings by Mr.. Clay him
against the opinion of Mr. Webster, it became law.
: Here then we see the President denounced
traitor and loaded with every term Of reproach that
has dsgraced even the most abandoned political black
guardism because he simply stands, in relation to dis
tributon and the compromise act in the very place
where Henry Clay, by his solemn votes, on his oath,
in the United States Senate, has put him. He stands
the very ground he stood, when lauded to the
skies candidate, and afterwards most obseqousiy
approached as q President by the ultra wings them
selves. On the subject of the lands he hos not pocl
lated; his course from the starting point has been
open, undisguised and straightfoTward-no stagger-
ing--no turning aside-no consulting private inter-
ests personal aggi andizement.
ucto To- tho ovuh hin noaI Inc pA YarO
having commanding majorities in both Houses, they,
with Henry Clay at their head, eolennly passed the
land bill 1t is They seek to repeal the very
provision without which it was then we'll known that
the President would veto it. With Henry Clay at
their head their chosen leader, they passed the
promise act and couched it in such terms aimed at
binding future Congress not to repeal it, or abrogate
its terms. Gen. Harrison most unreservedly left his
opinions, matter of record with his couniIymen,
that its provisions ought to be disturbed-de
cared unequivocally that he would never consent to
its alteration repeal.
Let it be remembered that John Tyler, in regard
to these measures is not traitor but that he is
honest man, left by the ultra Wings to defend,
against them, the very position in which they them
selves deliberately placed him. and to defend which
both he and they are alike pledged to the people.
He, with heroic frmness, mistaken TRUTH and incor-
ruptible fidelity, refuses to be moved from it by
threats, or lured from it by fattery; they abandon
their o,cn ground, and are indeed the time-servng,
ambitious political knaves who ought TO be branded
Facilitating traitors to their own principles, and
forever confined to political disgrace.
Mr. Clay himself, as lately as 1889, in speech at
Buffalo, declared that, in his Judgment the Compro
mise ought not to be disturbed.
Who is the vacillatng traitor?-who the steady
minded, incorrupble, and fearless patriot Is it he
who maintains with honest sincerity and unyielding
frmness, the principles and measures of the Wing
party, as laid down and expounded by Mr. Clay him.
self? Or is it that party who abandon those princi
pies and denounce the man who cannot be driven
from them The people will ere long reply in tone
to make the g traitors" tremble. Indeed, every gale
watts its wings reply, deep-toned and decisive,
from all the States they speak by the baot-boz.