Litchfield enquirer., 1843-05-25

rent testimony of such men as Thomas Ew. ing, John Bell, John J. Crittenden, George E. Babger, Francis Granger, John McPher. son Berrien, and John Sergeant !-final. ly, when it shall have been charged upon mo by the most eminent and honorable members of the bar, and made matter of record that have obtained, by frGMd, a bond from an idiot ward, and that charge shall be sus- tained by the high Court of Chancery of Virginia, and shall be pcrpetually enjoin- ed and restrained from ever realizing the amount of the bond, thus fraudulently ob. tained from the estate of a confiding and un- fortunate friend, who had looked up to me as his friend and second father,* then it will be time enough for me to shrink from such controversy ;-but until then, (for can- not recognize any equality between the word of MT. John Tyler and myself before) let not the hand that has been tainted and stained with corruption-and let not the lips that have been polluted with falsehood, or the heart that has been damned with treach. cry as base as that of the fallen angel, or hell itself-be credited in any assault that he may make on my character or veracity. But while the conversation which am now about to give in full detail occurred. Gas l was not only natural. but certain to have happened,) in the absence of all witnesses,
 
 roborative evidence of its truth, as will not fail to remove every remnant of doubt, upon the mind of every candid and disinterested reader, no matter to what party he may be- long.
 It was on Wednesday, the third day of the Extra Session ot Congress, that visited MT. Tyler on business that had been intrus- ted to my charge, by some ofmy constituents when the following conversation took place, the substance of which he now SO emphati. cally denies and as mean to affix my afti. davit to it, shall give entirely and in full, uerbatim ct hterGtim as nearly as can recol- lect it, (and I believe eau repeat it precise ly as it occurred,) and this will plead my a. pology for the introduction of language. which confess was neither becoming to Mir. Tyler nor myself and still less proper for the public prints-however as it was used must repeat it here:
 Af:er getting through the business which carried me there, MT. Tyler said:
 "Well. Bolts, understand you have been denouncing my message :" to which replied
 "No, Mr. Tyler, have said nothing about your message that deserves to be character ized as denunciation, though am sorry to find you have already established back stair influence here, to communicate every whisper that may be made. I'll tell you cncdidly what did say of the message, when asked my opinion of it: said, it was slip sion. milk and v,cter afhir, and not such as had expected or desl,ed to see."
 Mr. Tyler, said with some animation but good humoredly ;" Well. God damn It, what did you expect or wish Fs .sA
 "Well, sir" said !, "l would have had you to recommend Bank of the Unhed States, fiat footed, and inAhe most unqualifi- ed terms"
 "Now. by God" said MT. Tyler, "that shows how damned hard you are to please. 1 have submitted to your consideration three plans the Bank of the United States, the State Bank System end the ub-Treasury and have told you to take your choice, and l would be satisfied with either."t
 But" said I,"Mr. Tyler. didn't you know that Whig Congress would take neither the State Bank System nor the Sub.T Treas. ury"
 fore you ought to have been satisfied"
 "Well," answered, "I should have pre- ferred that you should have recommended Bank of the United States outright, and let Congress have come to your aid, and stood shoulder to shoulder upon the question. in- stead of saying that each had been condem- ned in its turn and we should then have es- capped the taunt we now meet with from our opponan,s-that we have Whig President that dare not recommend Bank, Butt, continued, there was another objection had to your message: would have had you to recommend the distribution of the sales of the public lands. without qualification" "And so have," sad he.
 "Oh no," said, "you have attached proviso. that, the duties 10 be levied shouldn't exceed those contemplated by the act of lS33. which you know they are obliged to do. in or. der to raise enough revenue for the support of Government"
 "There it is again" said he, " why by God sir, you don't understand the Compromise Act," and stepping offto his table. he brought the volume of laws containing the Comprom- ise Act. and read from it the passage which declares that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the passage of any act prior to the 3Oth day of June. l94S. in the contingency either of excess or defci- ency of revenue, altering the rates of duties &c..-so as to adjust the revenue to suit either contingency.
 "Now," said he. "sir hasn't the contin- gency arisen is there not deficiency m the reventie! and what is there in this act to prevent yoti from raising the duties to 20. 30. 4O. 5O, or 100 per cent. if it shall be ie- cessarv, without violating its provision !'- a Welt" said '. "Mr. Tyler, if this be your construction ofthat act, why did you say any thing about the duties contemplated by t. in connection with he subject of Distribu- ton! "Oh," said he. "you know what certain portion of the country think of the compromise act, and t is well enongh to hu- nor them."
 And for this i. was that denounced his