The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-04-17


these extracts have been made delivered twenty
1--WE years ago. long before the multiplied evils of the
system were developed, and which II has been left
for our day TO realize cannot bat admire the sp-
rit of prophecy which seems TO have aetuated hims
or fail TO perceive the perfect and admirable eonss
ency OF lis sentiments and conduct at that remote
period with his late yetoes and messages to Congress
Ii truth Justice and consistency, have not lost their
value in the view Of politicians, we commend 10
their attention the whole course Of hr Tyler IN re-
lation 10 National Bank, and the banking system
generally, one alike worthy OF iheir study, aP
Dause and emulation. They will ind no one link ia
The chain broken twisted They VIII ail 10 disco
yer the slightest deviation from the one straight line
an early Uniform, unqualified hostility 10 the system
under all circumstances, al all umes, ana IN all pa-
ces As member OF the Legislature OF Virginia on
| various occasions-as a member oil Congress and Of
the United States Senate-as State Counsellor OF Nr-
gin,a and as Governor Of the same venerable Com
monw ealth-as a candidate for Vice fresident-and
| as President Of the United States-amdst all the
changes of parties and the tortuoses OF statesmen
his principles his sentiments, and has conduct have
| been the same--alikc unchanged and Interchangeable
Entering the Senate Of the United States as warm
aduirer and attached friend Of the heroic and ntre
| mid Jackson while others lalered In their duty
Torso ok the anBank standard by the veteran soldier
and patriot he was found absent from his post
| or recreant TO his obligation
| On the Ilh of June 1892 when the bill TO modify
| and continue the act To incorporate the subscribers
to the Bank Of the United States was taken up IN the
| Senate, the question being on It's passage and the
| v, y al
| YEAs-Messrs Bell Buckner, Chambers, Clay,
CLAYTON, Dallas, Ewing, Foot, Frelinghuysen Hen
bricks Holiness Johnston, Knight Naudain, Pom
dexter, Prentiss, Robbins, Robinson, Ruggles, Sey-
mour siIsbee, Smith, SPrague, Upton, Tomlinson
| Waggaman, Webster, Wilkns-2o.
NAYs-M essrs Benton, Bib, Brown Dickenon,
Dudley, Ellis, Forsyth Grundy Hayne, HILL Kane,
King, NIangum Marcy, Miller, Moore, Tazewell,
Trsup, Tyler, White-20.
1t is with no nvidious design that we thus recall to
| ,Gx n.,n at,c lou itizeus al
wanna the fact that this vote OF MIR. Tyler
painst the bill chartering the United States Bank
which was vetoed by Gen. Jackson was recorded
against both of our Senators, and at time when the
Legislature of State unanimously adopted resolu
tons, offered by the Hon. Charles J. lngersol in fa-
+ yor OF the continuance of that institution.
We have been thus explicit this subject, with
two-fod view. LIST. To illustrate an instance Of poll
teal consistency in the of Mr.. Tyler, which
we need hardly add is almost unprecedented in refer
ence TO The Bank and 3D. To establish the fact that
| there could have been srch ignorance, is al
legged in regard 10 his views by the Harrison Conyen
ton of 1899 which nominated him for the Vice Pre-
sidency. 1t is rcey necessary to go into history
of the proceedings of the body in question: to prove
what all Of to wit that il was because of
r his well known hostility to Bank, and his devotion
to the State rights doctrines of the Jeesonan school,
that he placed in nomination as to conciliae The
support Of large body Of the people who were alike
hostile Mr. Clay and his principles and to Mr. Van
Buren, and several the measures of his adminstra.
f ton.
The annals Of the political parties and factions Of
which system Of government has been so prolific,
/ embracing in their scope and purpose from time to
time almost every imaginable diversity Of tenet and
scheme in the circle of political theory and enterprise
e may be searched in vain for an instance of greater
turptude than that exhibited by the leaders Of the
!, big party in tie stupendous fraud upon the people
!, medated the Harrisburg Convention of 1889, and
. attempted to be executed by their instruments the
extra session Of Congress in the summer of ls4l
" We will not insult the common sense Of our fellow
. citizens by logical parade of the evidences which
% were hourly presented throughout the canvass open
ed Immediately after the adjournment of the Conyen
ton of 1885, and which established conclusivey the
n conviction in the popular mind of final abandon
:, ment by the Wing party, of all intention TO charter
: National Bank. This not evinced alone by the
=, refusal Of the Convention to issue formal address
r exposing the grounds Of their appeal to popular sui
tragedy the adoption of this example on the part of
every Wing Stats Convention subsequently assem-
n bed--by the seduous abstinence of any affirmative
= auson TO the subject IN the recognized party jour
nails by the OMISSION rather careful exclusion OF
V from all enumerations of the leading measure
ID of mass conventions and country meetings and
If addresses from the stump The yet more pointed
J. proof, and which places assumption beyond all
controversy, was the express and emphatic disclaim
err by the public journals local candidates and lead
ing members OF that party, of the issue OF Bank or
no BANK rendered them on innumerable occasions
h by tbelr democratic antagonists When 10 this was
n added the temper manifested in every reference 10
the subject by General Harrison and Mr. TYLER, and
the not unrequent denunciations of a Bank by Whlr
orators and Wing meetings. in some sections of The
Union there no longer fingered doubt in the minds
OF the cobhding thousands who left the standard Of
Mr. van buren, on that occasion, and rallied beneath
the banner of Harrison and Tyler. Whether Gen
Harrison would, IN any event. have lent his sanction
to the measure had he lived TO administer the Gov.
ernment though point to which much force is as
chbed by MIR. Cays adhercnts, is hardly pertinent
inquiry
We have too much respect for the memory Of that
from recn Iod 4
opinions, to entertain doubt that he would have
negaiived any proposition of the kind presented to
NM His supporters pay him but a sorry complr
ment by an imputaiion of an opposite intention 49,
Tins investigation however interesting to The clr
Gus, or important to the political historian does NOT
concern the fame Of Mr. Tyler. We cannot. hover.
'heiess, dismiss this branch Of our subject without
remarking, that in view of all the circumstance t
admit that General Harrison through the n6rmi,ies
OF age the wiles and stratagems of designing and
crafty counselors, or from any other cause would
have signed bill TO charter a National Bank is 10
pronounce a panegyrc upon the frmness of Mr. T,.
Ter, and at the expense Of Gen H,rrison,s Game
which not the less gratifying TO the friends of the
PRESIDENT because IL is an involuntary homage TO hi,
virtues. "
| We cannot but pause here for a moment 70 cnn.
template the spectacle Of moral sublimty nresercJ
by the exciting incidents of that fearful sruggIe he
tween one man and powerful pary-poweJf,I IN
numbers, TALENT and resources Of every knd-nush-
ed with victory, and desperate in lis revenge nc il
was arrogant in its DEGREES. Sinele-handed and
without any thing to sustain him but an homes, he m
ana The exalted emotions Of conscious rectitde with
ou' even press to defend him, and with the certa
" OF meeting IN The faces Of his former friends in
stead OF the smiles Of encouragement and conedencc
me hazard expression of furious hatred and satanic
malice; yet he dared 1t ALL in his mistaken 6dcity
" principles, IN his uncalculating devotion 10 the
welfare OF the eople, and thus proved that oven ms
lie would have been willingly renousb Il NJ , A,
cfihce on the altar Of his country Witbersg s,r
e's, apo ,ne o't,eres' invective directed agan. him