The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-06-11
MR.. EWING AGAIN.


or not we leave others to determine-to have
remained in that retirement to which all homo
rabe men had consigned him as the betrayer of
Cabinet councils. But not So The President,
it seems, authorizes Mr.. Mallory to deny, en-
phatically, all and every ascription of dishon-
esty in regard to his course as to the second
Bank bill of the extra session; and, although
Mr.. Mallory quotes the President as his author
ity for such denial nearly nine months ago, and
his statement has gone the rounds of all the
newspapers until it has almost been forgotten,
yet this redoubtable champion of the basest
conspiracy, as we honestly believe, ever con-
cocted to destroy the reputation of an individ-
ual, lies perfectly still until he can come on to
Washington in February, when, no doubt, upon
earnest consultation with his brothers1n crime,
he is set upon ascertaining from Mr.. Mallory an
annuncialion of the Presidents name as his au-
thority, first by Mr.. Stanly in the House, and
then by letter, which General Mason, who
seems to have acted the part Of his internuncio,
delivers month after. Deep must have been
the deliberations which preceded this great
move, and which seems to have been entered
upon Will uUuUI duO AcSltottOu. 11uu uOW
comes the formidable disclosure. MIR. Berrien,
who seems regularly and long ago to have con-
cocted his statement, which he has too much
modesty to have made complete unless request
ed By the President, and who seems to have
doubted whether his statement would be believ-
ed unless endorsed by Mr.. Sergeant, springs to
the side of his noble ally and seeks to implicate
Mr.. Webster in the dlsgraceful controversy.
How far Mr.. Sergeant endorses his statement
may be seen by reference to his letter. AS we
read it, he states that Mr.. Berrien told him that
Mr. Webster told Mr. Berrien that Mr.. Tyler
told him, &c. &c. &c. Mr.. King, of Georgia,
of whom we had hoped better things than to
find him in such company, and who was
spoken of currently as the Secretary of the Ma
wy after Mr.. Badgers retirement, and which, if
it had been rendered, he might or might not
have declined, steps forward with his stale
ment relative to some plan OF Bank
which he and the President talked over,
but which the Wing party would not take,
and these are the mighty proofs which
the great retired under orders from his master,
now parades before the public. From the bot
tom OF our heart while we despise the conspira-
tors, we pity the malice of their supple agent.
Take every word which these People say to be
true, and what does it amount to more than to
this? That the President, in his anxiety to
compromise the question of Bank, yielded at
one moment what his sober reflection taught
him at the next to be wrong; and this is the
heinous offence with which he is said to be
guilty. Whether he be so or not, we neither
admit or deny. We believe that much has been
suppressed by Mr.. Ewing of Cabinet Confer
ences which would clearly show the notifies of
the President, and which, if known, would ex-
pose the true character of the attacks made up
on him. But werecur to his proofs. If the pro-
position spoken of by Mr.. King was the same as
that incorporated in ssthe Fiscal corporation bill,
how came the Wing party to reject it? Why
did they pursue the ''weak and vacilating" pol
icy of rejecting measure at one time which
they so cordially and unanimously adopted at
another? Why are not the denunciarions of
Mr.. Clay invoked against the whole Wing
party, as "weak and vacillating 2" Let it be
again remarked that Mr.. Tyler's offence is said
to consist in having for moment expressed the
hope that he might be able to sanction bill
and that he authorized his Cabinet to feel the
pulse of Congress upon the subject, but that he
changed his opinion after few hours reflection.
And for this he has been stigmatsed as trail
tor-burnt in effigy-and the whole Hing gate
Of abuse poured out upon him, from the highest
to the lowest of desperate clique. And yet it
is all right, not at all inconsistent in those very
men to oppose measure at one time and to adj
vocate it at another. They truly are above sus-
picion. They may change as often as they
please-"wheel about and jump Jim Grow"
twenty times in month, and yet they are
the Simon Pures of all that is correct if
they will only take care to jump in obedi-
ence to the orders of their great leader
But if any one else, and esp ecially the Presi-
dent, shall intimate an opinion to his Cabinet,
he is bound by such intimation, however tho
roughly he may afterwards be convinced of his
error But why did they reject Mr.. Kings pro-
position at the time ? Mr.. King furnishes the
solution. The first Bank bill was pending in
the hands of the President. No compromise
could then be listened to. The Imperial Dicta-
tor could no more be appeased than by Ewlng's
bill, which he rejected in contumeous terms
insulting to the Cabinet generally, and Mr..
Ewing particularly, but which like lashed
hound only produced whine, and augmented
his affection Mr. Tyler must then be shown
no quarters The Veto-the VETo-nothing
short of it would appease. Or perhaps they
specialized on his weakness of nerve, and
thought that he would yield his assent to the
bill then in his hands under the terrors by which
he was surrounded, and the influences brought