The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-03-15
JOHN TYLER AND THE UNITED
STATES SENATE.

STATES SENATE.
Hardly had accident enthroned John Ty-
Ter in the Presidential chair, before Ger
tain clique ofsecond rate politicians, who a.
midst the mighty minds of the wing party
conld not otherwise hope for elevation, re-
solved TO make him the ladder of their am
bition. These worthless soon began to wind
around the executive mansion. They gain
ed the ear of the weak and susceptible occu-
pant, and by their batteries easily satisfied
him that he was the identical great man who
should be the next President, and themselves
the fttest instruments of his ambition, and
sharers of his power. Inflated with these
noble aspirations his accidency has gone a.
head. The interests of II millions of free
men have been crushed under the tread of
his ridiculous pretenslons. The wing par
~ in Congress and out has been spurned,
their measures defeated, their motives will
fed, and their Offices taken from them and
conferred upon those who traduced and OPP
posed John Tyler to the very teeth in the
contest of 1910.
But unfortunately, his abuse of the wings
has gained him no political capital with the
locofocos. Alas none so poor as to do rev.
erence to this unhappy aposlate. Our oppo
nents have scornfully repealed the alliance
of man who was striving insiduously to
creep into their camp, and seduce their CO.
horts into the instruments of his own eleva-
ton. In the mean time so strangely infatu-
ated has he been by the Illusions Of bis ri
diculous ambition as never to have espled
tho weakness of his position, and his utter
inslgnificance. But a mortifying certainty
in these respects has suddenly been present.
ed to his as1onished vision. The time had
arrived when the brief rewards of President
TYLER which every days delay was redu-
cling in value must be bestowed. Henry A.
Wise, the darling of his master: is first to
receive the 30 peices of silver, and his name
is transmitted to the Senate as Ambassador
TO France and rejected. Again is this hair
Drained, selfconceited favorite pressed upon
the Senate who are assured that he is 'whol-
" unsurpassed in exalted patriotism, and
well fitted to represent this country abroad"
Agaa is ac rejected by a still more over
whelming negative, and upon a third nomi
nation only two Senators could be found
who could be induced to accede to the wish
es of one who had betrayed his party, TO re-
ward the undeserving hatterer by whose arts
he had been allured from the path of duty.
The name of Caleb Gushing for Secretary
Ofthe Treasury goes through the same or
deal and meets the same destiny. Never
has public functionary so unblushingly set
up the spoils of Office for sale and exchange
for subservient tools, and so pros.ituted the
executive power TO advance his ambitious
aspirations as John Tyler. But his frantic
efforts to wend his way TO the Presidency by
enlisting renegades from both political par
ties of the day haze been most signally rebu-
ked. All decent politicians spurn the unho-
ly alliance and, discard all partnership with
its offending members. Busy as the guard
have been in taking the measures which are
suitable to their'morality in making cony erts,
the original half dozen in Congress make up
their whole numerical strength in that body,
while in the Nation, those who avow them
selves ] yler men are the rarest of all birds,
and are no where recognized except in GER
tain obscene office seekers who are so gree
dy for spoils, that they are unwilling 10 wait
for better pay. All honor then TO the men
of all parties in the Senate of the Union a
mong whom we are gratified to see our own.
who would not be accessory to the purposes
ofthe white-house. We are rejoiced that
John Tyler has there found a constitutional
fact against which the combined powers of
veto and patronage have been dashed into
fragments.