The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-02-01
SPEECH OF Mr.. RAYNER
OF N. CAROLINA.

Of N. CAhOLlNA'
On Thursday last Mr.. Rayner of N. C.
addressed the House Oh the Repeal Of the
Bankrupt Law, and in the course of his re-
marks gave Caleb Gushing the severest
castigaton which he has yet received. 1t
will be seen by the following extract that
that miserable tool of miserable admins.
tration was cut to the very quick by the
lash SO vigorously applied by the fearlsss
; Rayner.
| 1t has been said, tauntingly by our enc
mics that this is the last Wing measure LETT
on our records of the labors OF the Extra
Session. And who, sir. is to blame Tor
thisl Certainly not the Wing party. Most
grievously have we erred, sir. in elevating
John Tyler to power, and most grievousiy
have we suffered for it. The gentleman
from Kentucky (Mr MarshalD has said
that the history of this administration
could be written in paienthesis. Sir, II
the maxim of Shakespeare be true that the
leyil men DO lives after them, whilst the
good they do is inferred with their bones
liz this maxim be true, volumes upon vol.
umes will not suffice TO chronicle the prof.
legacy and corruption of this admnistra.
ton and its shameless scenes of depravity
of which the hawking the spoils in this
house is but very small sample. And if
the good only that men do be buried with
them, in my opinion John Tyler will be bu-
red solus. Sir, if ever | beheld specta-
Gle of moral grandeur, it was on Tuesday
last in this house when my friend from
Virginia rose and presented charges for the
impeachment of John Tyler for his mis-
conduct-charges which he specified and
which he declared on his honor as gentle
man he was prepared to prove; and yet,sir
SO degenerate is the age we live in, that he
could not find men with firmness and inde-
pendence enough here to sustain him, and
have those charges investigated. L; might
/ be said, why take so much notice OF, and
bestow so much indignation upon so insig-
nificant creature as John Tyler! As
Berryer said of the bloody Louvais, why
! spend so much time upon men who will
have no page in history!Sir,I am not sorry to
see this discussion and the course it hes ia
ken in this house. 1t has plainly marked
the lines of demarcation-ands shown clear
ly that there are but two great parties in
this country, and that the miserable Tyler
faction, sir, belongs TO the locofoco party
after all. And TO know. sir, that from the
boiIings and settings in the great political
cauIdron. The scum will rise TO the top and
be thrown off to the winds to be scattered.
whilst from that seething the Wing party
will rise up with renewed and redoubied en-
ergies. (much laughter') Sir, we have
seen the marks of affection displayed here
between the Tyler faction and the locofo-
cos, although some attempts have been
made to hide them, but not a 1.-THE so much
as ought to have been employed to conceal
this corrupt and meretricious embrace from
The public eye. The gentleman from Mas
sachusetts (Cushing) dared his new allies
to oppose the administration. In reply, the
gentleman from Indiana (Kennedy) said he
would push no measures at the president
that the latter disliked. The gentleman
from Ohio (Mr. WeIler) after delivering a
fulsome eulogy on John Tyler, seems in his
orerweening vanity, to think that ne can
act as counselor to John Tyler, and tell
him that he must remove D7nl Webster
and Jollr C. Spencer, and that then the To-
cofocos might take him cordially TO their
embrace. The gentleman from n, York
(Browne) was a little moro Catholic in his
remarks, and consented to receive Dan'l
Webster with open arms, when he embrac'
ed the democratic creed. The gentleman
from South Carolina (Pickens) with more
sense and talent, and manliDess. than all of
them, comes out boldly, and halls his friend
from Mass. (Cushing) as one whom he had
long believed 10 be good democrat, now
Was sure of. Sir, what most Illuminating |
spectacle it is to see the Wing party that
came into power with tremendous ma
jority, with the prayers of thousands and
the hopes of the whole country-whose ac-
cession was hailed as the harbinger of bet
ter days-to see all their best interests and
and exertions, and those of the country be. !
trayed and destroyed by him in whom they |
trusted, and who, IS not content with be-
trayiDg. deceiving, tauntiDg, and insulting !
those to whom he owes his elevation, but |
sends one of his agents into this Hall to |
hold up the government for sale and bar
ter.
Gushing (dsing, with warmth)-Mr.
Speaker. will the gentleman
Rayner, (coolly, and without stopping q,
alD-Sir. Eve 10 time for explanaiIon-l /
understood the whole matter Sir, since |
The DAYS of Judas Iscariol, the world has
never witnessed such case of profigate
and abandoned treachery. Sir, in my re-
Elections upon the further history of my
country have thought i, most probable that
in the course of time we should have our
days of degeneracy, decline, ruin. But | |
had fondly hoped that those days would De
far, far away in the long vista years, and
that our children, and children's children. |
and generations after them would be dead
and forgotten before these events should &C.
cur But, sir, let me ask if the recent spec
;acle we have witnessed do no, lead US TO
believe tina, these days are close al hand
Sir, the gentleman from massachusetts, Ad-
y L.. ., ,b1 colo # 4 no