The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-01-21
SPEECH OF MIR. CUSHING,
ON THURSDAY LAST.


Mr.. CUSHING said that the President of the Uni
ted States had been accused here of obstructing the
Wing measures for the relief of the People, and with
uncertainty and vaclation of purpose; but the mo-
ment the question was touched of repeating the bank
r,pt law it became Mr. C.'s duty TO ask that House,
and 10 ask the country who they were that were
chargeabe with uncertainty of purpose? who now
INSTRUCTED measures of relief for the People, and
who with sacriiegous and unsparng hand, sought to
oblerate the last remaining remnant OF the egisla-
ton of the extra session Of Congress- Was it the
President of the United States, it the forty
seven Wing members of that House, who, forming a
coalition " it'll the Democratic members-doing the
very thing, the proposing of which had been imputed
10 Mr. C. as a crme-were about to destroy, to abol-
isb. to expunge all that now remained of the work
Of that far famed session During the last three
weeks the House had been occupied by the eloquent
denupciatons of various gentlemen, on both sides,
against the President and his Cabinet and against Mr.
c.; and he had listened TO these torrents of furious
accusation until, Warren Hastings said, after
Burke's attack upon him in the Commons, he almos,
began to believe that there must be some foundation
for the charges. But he now desired to look little
more closely at the real merits of these accusations
What were they
He had been charged with throwing freband OF
dSCOrd into tnt HOUSE. WIN TtckltsslS ilg
tomahawk at its members He had done no such
thing. Ii not true that he had commenced the
attack: il had been begun by the gentleman from
Tennessee, (Mr. ARSoLD) And when gentlemen
said that Mr. c. in his reply had gone on, of the true
and legitimate line Of replication, he did not admi
that they TO be the judges on that question:
One mode Of defence by a counter attack; and
Mr. c. would Judge for himself as to what and wha
sort of arguments he should in his own defence
that of others and IT, in prosecuting that Defence he
tl.. info u.
enemys camp the consequences in the sacrifice ofpub
lie time and otherwise were chargeable on the party
who had commenced the attack twas high time TIM
thing was understood-why gentlemen herr arrogatec
to themselves unlimited license TO attack the Adj
minslration at pleasure and denied to its advocates
on that floor the right to defend themselves and it
and to repel and return the assault
If ruIian should attack Mr.. G.. when armed will
loaded pistols and the assalant had only stick die
any suppose that he was gong 10 stand passive
and allow himself TO be struck in the face and no
employ his means Of deienoei lie did not so under
stand his rights; and if gentlemen would indulg,
themselves in furious, phrensed, and brutal attack
upon the President Of the United States he felt i, t.
be his right and duty to reply. lie had replied t
them in the mode that seemed to him the most fit am
expedlen, he had held up before gentlemen a magic
mirror, in which they might behold their own like
ness he had furnished to them and TO the country
means of reading their hearts In the previous de
bate they had arrayed against him a ng list o
deadly SIN, against iOuuueu on
which was not to be found in his speech and he ha
in reply challenged them TO the proof; he had de
handed Of them TO put their finger on single sen
tence in that speech which contained the least war
rant for their assumptions but they had not dom
and could not do it. When gentle came thet
and imputed TO the friends IF the Administrator
base and selfish and corrupt motives, they endeavor
ed to pass the false coin of political proiession 10
did any man in his senses believe that the two hun
dred and forty-two men Who composed that llous
were all totally ee at heart from every thing like
political motive for their course here
MIR c. repealed the charge and retorted on them
selve. their accusation. lie should show ths
they we're themselves moved by interested motives
by ambition, by love Of fame, or by attachment 4
party. What parties What had they be
come in this and in other Governments lie define
n party TO be an association of men, seeking to ge
into power. For wheo gentlemen talked about tn
principles which divided them from their opponents
what were after all, tlcse principles The gentle
man from Kentucky (Mr. MsrshalD had not deve
oped what they were but did II not appear that, "
stead Of principles dividing the two parties OF th'
House, IL was a single measure which divided then
10 wit Bank Of the United States Did not u
United States Bank on one SIDE, and the Sub-Ire'
sury on the other constitute, in fact and reality III
principles on which the two great parties IN III
House and IN the country actually stood he ge
teman from New York Mr. Mckeon) nodded a
sent. Mr.. c. said he scorned the principle involve
in the question whether the public money should
in the Keeping Of man called a cashier, or Of ms
called agent. Was there any principle, any thIr
ethical in such distinction as thsl And Il gent
man happened to be in favor Of neither cashier NJ
agent was he therefore to be accused Of a want
principle' Surely not But Mr.. G. knew very We
what was the real principle in certain quarters
was the restoration of the expelled Bourbons, I
gether with their oit-repudatod Sub-Treasury
was the return Of the Bourbons and # their fren
for revenge. For what might be the principle of 4
gent eman from Kentucky, Mr.. G. should wal, {
that gentleman developed It, When they saw u
whole, they would find that tho whole coptrover