The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-27
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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS AND
PRESIDENT TYLER
WASHINGTON, February 10, lS43.

Eleven more working days will bring the twenty
seventh Congress to the period prescribed by the
Constitution for the termination of its existence
Out of the two years of its life, it has been in
sion upwards of sixteen months, at direct cost to
the people of more than ttco millions and quarter
dollars, saying nothing Of the injury resulting from
precipitate and injudicous legislation This is a
startling fact and should be perpetually borne in
mind. Trio millions and quarter and all for WHAT
Is there anything to show for this vast outlay Of
the public treasurer DO the records of the National
Legislature bear any credtable evidence of time
properly devoted money well spent' Is the coun-
try prospecting under the influence of a weldgested
system of policy, the fruit of the sixteen months Of
legislation drawing to close' or are the peo-
pie deriving benefit of any Sort from any measure
matured by the twenty Congress Have one
of the magnificent anticipations Of the Wigs been
realized or has it been bloated promise and ask
| performance throughout Let the condition of the
country respond to these interrogatories treasu-
| ry mpovershed-Sate and Federal credit paralyzsd
business prostrated-aericultural products without
market and rotslng IN the granary, and the indus
trial classes throughout large portion Of the
try folding their hands in hopeless dismay. This is
the the call for the beneficial conse iuences
resulting TO the nation from the almost year and a
half legislation OF the present Congress
| Let not the President be charged with refusing 10
cooperate with the Wing party, and thus the respon-
sibhy of their nonaction be shifted from Congress
to the Executive. On this pom, the msrcpresenta-
ton of pariisans has already misled large portion
| Of the people of the United States
Now what are the factsi President Tyler now
sustans, and has sustained the principles which
he avowed before the election in 1910. In no one
| instance has change been wrought in his senli-
ments. He has been ready and anxious TO cooperate
with the legislature IN making all laws required for
the public service but these laws have been thrust
upon him IN unnecessary connexion with provisions
repugnant TO his sense of Duty and when he has
| .cSnIu ~. ttV nfa a.
has been met with contumeous neglect or else the
measures recommended have been coupled with con-
ditions which his constitutional obligations forbade
him TO sanction.
Measures were passed under all the solemnitics Of
legislation, that if approved he might be accused Of
inconsistency and If rejected the charge Of defeat
ing favorte measure Of the people, might be fixed
upon him.
Congress was first trained into general burst of
Indignation, decide which way he would and an afii-
lated press ready to take up the cry and sound
its fendsb yells from one end of the Union TO the
other. The political annals of The country furnish
parallel to the abuse beaped President Tyler,
in point OF coarsenoss, magnity and habItual dsre-
gard OF decency and the ordinary courtesies and pro-
prieties OF society, both in Congress and by large
portion Of the Wing press. Every opprobrious epi-
the in the vocabulary Of the bald orators and wri-
tiers, has been applied TO him in the unsparng
manner. There has been, especially, a mingled
coarseness and cordially in the yituperaons Of Con-
gress that betoken the eapestness of the assailans
and the depth from which such muddy waters were
drawn. He has been ruthlessly charged with hypo-
crisy treachery, feebepess, imbecility-with aban-
donlng his party, and betraying his friends. This
avalanche Of abuse has been cast upon President Ty-
Ter, merely because he has refused his sanction TO
bills ostensibly introduced for popular and desirable
objects, but into which clauses have been purposely
thrust which are not required by their spirit, but
which directly violate the ayowed opinions upon
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fee; and the history Of these transactions, resting
almost solely with ycnal press, instructed TO give
them false coloring and the distinguished object Of
these base ISLANDERS being himself excluded BY his
position from the privilege Of self defence, the peo-
pie Of the United stes, generous TO the perse
cuted and ever true TO the right when fully under
stood, have been almost universally misled by these
misrepresentation.
Upon this statement Of facts, the question natural
w arises what adequate motive could exist for such
fragrant injustice Why should the Chief Maeis-
trate fresh from the hands of the people that made
him. the very form and pressure Of the time, the di-
rect concentrated expression Of The popular will ere
he had scarcely DOTTED the candidates robes ne thus
badgcred upon sentiments concerning which he had
right TO consider the people had decided by electng
him, and forced into an attitude Of hostility 10 mea-
sures which he we'll az his prosecutors wished TO
be carried for the good Of their country for the ey
dent purpose Of casting upon him the odium OF that
defeatl Why, after entreating them all frankly on
the score Of the old friendship and some of them
poinedly on the Of past favors, not TO imbody
In the Bank bill any of the Objectionable features
which he could not approve without Inconsistency
with the whole tenor Of his past life, and which, ha
wing been so recently submitted to the people, he
had right TO consider, By his election, had been re-
pudatcd by them why, after the most indefaigablc
efforts 10 conciliate the conflicting views Of different
individuals on the subject, and suggesting the plan OF
a bank which would have answered connfessedIy ev
cry important purpose, and which, being within the