Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-12-19
EXTRACTS from tie GioJc Of December Is.
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v-iorc Tai thIs rs an eVidtNCF IT WFIhFVS5i "J
mt - Inc adversaries they feel inability to encounter
in n far md honorable contest, the abuse 'ney pi" ..
t;se and which is iha,r only refuge. Such VIII '"u :.
a secnrs retreat fnr the future from u.s. Aver . "
and final expl1na ion, VIZ stall leave me
tion ard lis organ 10 The fate awarded by puolc OPP
MON. =. c,,,;ly ve
To.ards Mr.. Tyler personally, and his iami'y, we
entertain no uukind feelings. In our Puonc journal
we have again and again expressed a laVorao| "p,h'o"
Ior ,La crimes Of Mr.. TYLER as an individual we hiVt
dnna ;,s. &c TO his kind, urbane, friendly disposition'
and have never questioned his honesty 10 private vi
Germs Ii his social relations, we have Always cohs'-
dered him a good man; and have attributed hs > ~
a station for which he ~ incapable, 10 those NM" ma
onaG,i4s that fiji him 10 win the favor OF these VINO FORM
,he;r es.;motes of men from the little courtesies "h,ch
make them agreeable in private intercourse ~ mas
never entered into our thoughts to "abuse VII. yer.
So fo- as the individual is concerned, II mas g''e" -
,,a.s,,e 10 soeak his praise. As President, bo"eVs''
it has been our duty to make his public course n ~ =.
iect of lust, and, il may be, severe animauVete,o"'
was nevertheless, regretfully and painfully per'ormeo.
The President held n hostage in his po~er-a son. lof
whose sake we would have sacrihced the stfonsest1"'
mos;,ies. if We had entertained them, ralhel .nan nave
,;ahas hin ,;ou down official vengeance on his head 10
eYn;o,e a fathers offences. TINS young man, seeking
his fo.tnne and a professional reputation IN the far
West. was recommended by the people among whom
he Ever. n a former administration, as district attorney
of the United States. Although The salary was ho.h-
ing, the place, as q pedestal 10 stand upon, gave nun m
Distinction, and drew to him a lucrative pract'ce- 10
a new beginner, the frown CT tic Government anu e
privation of Office might have imported a want 0 ! con
6dence. which would have thrown a burden upon nus
vo,nc eyer,ions. We were not inclined to provoke
the power which could wound Us in that quarter. we
would Gladly have avoided enhancing our obligations
by increasing the merit OF lis iorbearance.
Besides, the Globe and It's editor, narkeo ny .e
prescription of the victors of si0-procia'meo mia
nous by Mr.. Chy,-in its appeal to the country Tor a
reversal of the at.ainder, could not wish to galher
AGAINST it, and On IL again with the opposition from
which Mr.. Tyler and his Cabinet were severed, 'ne vast
power winch they welded through Inc Government.
WHY should we desire 20 expose ourselt TO the attacks OIL
many of our former friends, conducting Democratic pres
ses. who, grateful to Mr.. r. for the Executive patronage
showered upon their Establishments, repaid him las he
most desired) by denouncing the Globe: Souiu we
have wished, when our private character ana pnoilc
usefulness were both staked upon the issue OF the vote
in the House-to have had oil the prominent lylerized
Democrats in the Union assembled al Washington, 10
use their personal e%xestions, and bring their political
weight with The Administration 10 bear on members oil
Congress, to ALLEVIATE them from US:
Bn, We depy that. in The prosecution OF this honest
purpose, al the hazard OF all our personal interests,
we have ever stopped TO Willy, personally, Mr.. Tyler,
or those associated with him. The "vhe abuse, OF
which the Administration organ speaks, has been pour
ed upon US personally in unniItIgated rancor from all
the palronized papers Of the Administration, for the
most part u%nnotced, and never retal.atsd IN KIND. In
one brief editorial article Of the Madlsonian OF No
vpmber ~, (writ,en, as we think, from It's texture, ny
I MIR. HenShaw-c certainly not by the ieebie pen oi 9oHH
Jones0 We are mathematical 10 the ga'hering-in mem
hers of Congress in terms sufficiently strong 10 s.artle
the nerves Of the hrmest friends. They are told that,
"from the Secretary OF State, under Mr.. Van buren, $
administration, 10 the most humble supporter OF Inc ao-
minis,raiion, the fact that the Globe had to be re-
oarded as the organ Of The party, vas considered Tho
creates, of misrortunes;' that "Gor ten or twelve long
years, it had hung Ike a p%ampered incubus about the
partv;' that ats sole occupation was 10 run down and
worry to death every high-ininded and honorable De-
--- 49, a,,taf ~ tha n0II1r q 4 some
particular leader Nicholas Biddle and the Bank,
Clay, Webster, and such-Iike Democrats, we sup
pose;) that " it was the well-fed bloodhound of n Ger
tain clique, whose business it was 10 watch the party
organization, and to tear in pieces any man who dared
to kick out OF the traces that "those who merely ial.
tered or devia,ed in the slightest degree from the pre-
scribed line marked out for them, were only sacrilced
and bruised by the teeth of the tormentor; thar, "as
long as General Jackson's mighty name brought re-
c,n,ts 10 the pn,ty. to Eli the places of those torn in
p:.e--sy tho bloodhoond, the party hne~ no diminu-
ton that "the name Of his successor did not possess
a sufficient charm 10 supply the vacuum occasloned by
the enormous consumption OF his %ban-dog;' that "the
party were remembered by the bloodhound,a and, ina
rininp every indls,inct sound was the distant baying OF
the sangrinary executioner on their trail, fastened to
the standard of Harrison and Tyler" that "all the Re.
publicans who refused to wear the Globes collar, and
supported Harrison and Tyler in 1910, will certainly
oppose any candidate who will make the Globe his
organ. They know too well the bloodhounds ability
to scent an old track, and that the animal never forgets
or fcrgives"
And this gentle and courteous Administration intro
duction Of US to the new members of Congress, con-
cludes with this montory notice to such members as
looked to It's 'hep' in the future:
awe are not disposed TO attach any excessive value
10 Tyler help TO induce the Republican party TO seek
it. Mr.. Tyler and his friends are Republicans-inde
Dendent Repubiicans-an will be found where their
duty calls them. Nor will we dwell upon the magni,
tude and Importance of the help they have already
rendered. We are content to know that they are
strong enough, and resolute enough, TO chain the
bloodhound oil party sooner or later"
Can any one believe that the Chief Magistrate o.
this great country, and the ministers by whom he Is
surrounded, would make an issue OF character with
person thus depicted before the Representatives OF the
na,ion2 And yet, on the Saturday before the meeting
of Congress, this direct appeal is made, in the name o
the Executive, TO the House 10 pass judgment on hi
character IN an election of the printer. Here is the
proclamation:
"~lnasmuch as his Che Editor of the Globe) election
by the Democratic Party-to which we all belong
would be regarded by the who'll country as an endorse
ment OF the vile abuse OF the Globe for the last twelve
months, it assumes an Importance which undoubtedly
merits the grave consideration Of such members Of
+ Congress as believe that The President is an honest ant
consistent Republican, and that his public acts deserve
the praise and gratitude of the party, instead of con
domination and abuse. But we will not dwell on thi
topic. The Republican Members Of Congress know
as well as we can tell them, the position of the Presi
{ dent, and the treatment he has received from thu
Globe"
The House understood this attempt to make n FALSE
issue stalking up the character of the head Of the Go
vernment against a very humble, untitled individual
The result Of the election involved no impeachment o
the personal merits Of the Executive. The Hous.
we'll knew tina. it was a mere affectation of persona
distressed suffering under the political animadversior
of an EDITOR which evoked his condemnation az
candidate for the Office Of printer for an Interior pur
pose; and that it was mean, to cover the real ohjec
aimed at in his defpa.. That object was the coDsum
NATION of the design, TO accomplish which the ADM
n~is.rstion directed all its policy, viz: a combination o
a third party, made up Of those who did not prefer tht
candidate likely 10 be chosen by the majority of the
Democratic party, to bear its standard in The approach
ing co~ntest-Tyier recruits from his old party. All thi
was as we'll understood before MIR. Robert Tyler made
his cabinet speech 10 members of the Pennsylvania
delegation, as afterwards. Tha. speech, however, lait
down the plan, and based il, on statistics. lie showed
that a particular competito. for TIE Presidency ha'
twenty-four friends in the House who preferred him
that another had some ten or twelve that so many
(some sixteen, We believe,) might be counted on u
detrac,ed from The party strength in New York, II