The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-08-21

Of the and Office without authority, we pred'c'ea
IN an article Of the Globe, that Mr. EwIsG eoa''
ony remain In Office himself after this just reouAo
mai n. might betrsy tho Chief Magistrate wn" hA'
a...rted his rights and maintained his pledges ~ pe
venting this prescription How truly we mao
of this mans character, the event SHOWS D hut
had known him Of old, aud our prediction "Ss
speaking from experiences. - na,,v
That one, who did not hesitate TO sacr'nce " p5
interest the sacred confidence 10 when ms
character we're plighted, on entering 'n' rs. ssls
Cabinet would In his &C porfe re'eiauo.'' - -, 800
testimony when fasehood was essen'ai " na"" nj
the ohieci he had In view, none could doubt auu
accordingly upon the face Of this letter OF Mr. %
nv, there are abundant traits Of what lawyers wiz
call ,oiIiag ,piiss when they mean 10 aeso'io0 ."
Interested and befraytng one. NJ pw
Contradictions appear on the face oil MT E -"
MAS epistoary deposition in essential points, when
horouely dsprove the whole scope OF its Statements
and instead of establishing the charge oil treachoi
ON Mr. TYLER fixes 1t on the front OF his ungra'o'u'
accuser.
Mr. EWING admits that the first Bank was Se.oe'
on pure and honorable motives and eo''seen.o"s
conpie.ioa hat il conaicisd uoh the constitution" Inc
grounds of the veto were, that Congress had no
to establish National Bank to operate per Sc
out the Union; that the proposed char'er uo's.
this right from Congress, IN derogalon OF inc oon
sent and rights of the States. The iur'her s'ou"'
was taken-that disco,inti,g Bank was unnecessa
nv as fiscal agent. These grounds would, III Mr.
EwlNG's opinion justify the belief that the PRESIDENT
was actuaed by conscientious regard to duty IN re-
jectng the first Bank. r,
When the second Bcnk became the subject oil dis
cussion in the Cabinet, Mr. BADGER is Represented as
opening the subject as to what Congress "oa'u w.
MIR. BADGER said:
lie believed they uere perfectly ready to take up me
bill reported by the Secretary Of the Treasury, ana pass
il at once You replied Talk not to me- Of Mr. E'cng
nj odi IA
,chich hare reptldiated in my.message then sa'a 70
uou hare no doubt sir that the House. having ascertaed
vour pe,cs ,cin pass bill in conformity to them, pro-
rided eu can be satisfied that ,oouid ansioer the Pr
poses Of the Teasury, and relieve the country
Here the PRESIDENT is represented as utterly re,
pudating Mr. EwING's bill, because i4t8R of the
odious feature Of local GSnfade and did not remind
coDsuilatIaNr that the bill was his o,cn--prepared
as Mr. EWING pretends in another part Of his letter.
by the direction of the PRESIDENT, and afterwards
approved by him.
But the President again adverls in his Cabinet con-
sultations to the nsurmountable objection which he
mad TO Bank OF discount. In Cabinet meeting,
when giving instructions to MIR. Ewing to make
EFFORT TO procure the passage of such bill as he
could s,gn' Mr.: Ewing represents the President as
asking him, What do you understand 10 be my opini-
ons? STATE them, so that may that there is misap
prehension about heun
Mr.. Ewing gives his own answer to this and the
4
'uch Bunk 10 establish Offices Of discount and deposie IL.
the sereraf States, ici the assent Of The STATES To this
you replied, Don't name discounts thy hare been The
source Of the most abominabe eorrupiions and are phoy
to enable s Bak TO discharge its duties 10
the country and the Gorer1ment''
After this explanation, with another inhibition of
all discounts by the emphatic expression, " Don't
name discounts, they have been the Of the
most abominable corruptons," ss.s are we TO think
OF secretary who would propose bill giving the
most absolute power to the corporation to discount,
bills, and to create branch establishments in all the
States to do this most odious kind of discounting
and without their CONSENT In one Of its fundamen-
al provisions, the bill was rcpugnant to the main
features OF the first veto-and in the other was in
The teeth Of The instructions by which it was propos
ed, to exclude a Bank of discount altogether. No
man knows better than Mr.. Ewing that a great por.
ion OF the suspended debt which sunk the late Bank OF
The United States like milestone, grew out of dis
counted bills of exchange. Has Mr.. Ewing forgot
len one OF those famous bills of exchange drawn by
George Pondexter while at Philadelphia, Senator,
and serving the Bank, on Gen. Towson for $40 600
which became the subject of newspaper comment
because the General denied the authority to draw
Tins famous bill was but a sample of that abomnable
corruption to which the President refers in his re-
marks And yet Mr. Ewing drew up his bill to re-
establish this whole system of odious discounts and
abomlnable corruptions"-pretends that the Presi-
lent approved, (wben hidden in the phraseology Of
,harter,) what he had denounced in Cabinet council
md charges him with reachery for putting his veto
IN The power IN the last bill, which he had condemn
ID by his veto on the first and what his instructions
lad denounced before the new bill was framed to
head him "
We DO not believe that any President was ever sur |
ouDded by more artfu perhdy more heartess treach-
Try, than Mr. Tyler has been; and the game of his
now IS TO turn their own crimes into ac-
usations against him The Indignation we feel at
he rapacity, cruelty, and treachery, which hunted /
old TipPecanoe" down into his gravc-now that
We ind It all raised to hunt down Tyler tOo",-has
rawn from us this hasty repulse. The Democratic |
arty owe Mr.: Tyler deep debt of gratitude for
estIng the Tarqun stridesn of the Bank power,
nd we should be iaithless to their cause, if we did
OF do what we C n to defend him.