The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-01-09
communications.
DIALOGUE BET WEES A WING AND
A DEMOCRAT-No. 2.
Seeae-.d Public House.
"a Wing seated reading the Globe newspaper En-
Ter Democrat

| Ter Democrat,)
Whig. | am Surprised TO hear you, Demo
erar, indicate Mr.. Tyer's bad faith TO his par
~! He was elected by the Wings, and h'
should do all that he can to uphold the Wing
| doctrines.
Democrat. am party man, and Will go la
| in sustaining party measures, but no party has
| a right TO require public officer to violate The
Constitution. If am correctly informed, MIR
Tyler has gone as far as he could go, short of q
violation of the Constitution, 10 fulfil the wishes
of your party, and il is upon this point would
converse with you. Do you not admit thai
Mr.. Tyler believes that Congress have no Con
sttulional power TO incorporate National
Bank?
Wig. admit that he has always said so
but General Washington and MIR. Madison
both of them, approved bills chartering National
Banks, and do not see why he should refuse
to do what these fathers of the Constitution
have done.
Democrat He has said sol Yes, he has
ulways said so. He said so when he was a
candidate, and your party selected him as your
candidate, knowing his opinions. You had nc
right TO expect that he would change his opin-
ions, after he came into Office, when he had re-
fused to do so before he was elected. To have
done so would very properly have made him
liable 10 the charge of deliberately violating the
Constitution, which he was bound by his oath
to protect and defend. But if am correctly
informed, he did go far, very far, 10 crafty the
Wings.
Wig. How, and in what2 Did he not veto
the Bank-the/ great measure Of the Wing
party2
Democrat am told that when he came to
Washington, and before he took the oath OF
office, he declared his opinion that, although
Congress, as the local Legislature, had the right
TO charter Bank for this District, and to autho-
rze it, by the consent of the States, TO locate
branches in the States, yet Congress had no
Constitutional right TO create corporations in the
States, or TO charter Bank with authority to
locate branches in the States without the con-
sent of the States, and that he would be COM
PEELED TO veto any bill asserting the power Of
Congress TO do so, because the branches of
such Bank would be corporations. In the
one case they would be created by the State
Legislatures, which have the right to do so in
the other, they would be created by Congress,
and therefore they would be a violation
of the Constitution. And it is further
said that, such was his desire TO ad-
just the question of the currency, be-
lieving il impossible to restore the prosperity
of the country without doing so, and foreseeing
that his Veto would be ascribed to a desire to
be candidate, that he actually indted para
graph to be inserted in his Inaugural Address,
announcing that he would not be a candidate
in 1914, hoping thereby to withdraw the ques-
ton of the currency from The vortex of party in
which, 10 the misfortune Of the country, il had
become so deeply involved
Uhig. So he told Mr.. Ewing, and so his
friends say, but if he was so patriotic, why did
he not make the declaration that he would moi
be candidate
Democrat. To answer this inquiry il is ne
ces.ary for us to examine the situation in which
he was then placed. Mr.. Tyler has been, from
his infancy, Democrat. He commenced his
political life by opposing the Bank of the United
States, but he, as well as many other consistent
Democrats, dsapproved Of the manner in which
the questions of the Bank and of the currency
had been treated. He was DESTROYS that they
should be discussed more in reference TO the
public interests, and less with regard to mere
party considerations. He was one of those
who went into the Convention at Harrisburg
believing that party drill and party management
were driving the great interests of the country
to destruction, and concurred with those who
believed that the great and controlling question
before them was to make such nominations as
would enable all those who concurred in that
opinion to unite in defeating the reelection oil
Mr.. Van Buren,, and hence the nomination oil
General Harrison, with distinct understand
ing that those who united in his support were
at perfect liberty 10 approve or condemn, as il
their judgment the public interest should die
tate, any measure that might be submitted &c
Congress.
Wig. Then you would persuade me tina
General Harrison was not chosen as the candi
date of the Wing pariy!
Democrat. What propose to say is, tina
the nomination was made upon the express
grounds OF conciliating the support of eve
American citizen who was opposed TO the re
election Of Mr. Van Buren,, and know lha
a controlling consideration with many o
those who voted for General Harrison, wa
the hope that the Government would be relieve,
from the manacles which few party leader
had forged, and would be enabled to take fres
departure. You know that a frequent recur
renee to first principles is one Of the fundamen
tai elements Of Democracy, and it was deeme,
impossible to bring back the Government TO frs
principles if Mr.. Van Buren, had been re-elect
ed, because he had placed the Government
IN subordnaiion to "heparty"