Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-01-14
From The Washington Globe.
SHALL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF
THE PRESENT ADMINlSTRA.

Il1E PKESEN ADMINS IRA.
TON?
A lew Democrats Of some pretension
editors anu others) are SO enamored of the
President for what he has denied by his
ve,oes, or may grant by his commissions,
that they seem inclined TO make their par.
ty take or its back the burden of all The
acts OF the executive and Legislative power,
installed by foul means in 1910, to pros.
trale Democratic principles. Grateful us
we are to Mr.. Ty Ter for his vetoes, we are,
nevertheless, very unwilling that the De-
mocratic party should feel itself bound to
pay Tor them by the support OF measures
sui more aOhorrent than those which the
vetoes arrested. Ii the vetoed bauk char
ter had passed, we have it on whig autho-
riy-bolh of the President and his two
principal Secretaries (Messrs. Webster
and Spencer)-hat the bank could not
have been Is abl.shed Tor want of capital;
that no Capitalist would have invested mo.
ne, IN 1t, while looking back on The wreck
f the ate b nix of The United States, and
rwud to :hc inevitable repeal of the char
Ter, which the Democracy proclaimed in
advance OF tue passage Of The bank act
The same fale awauei The vetoed distri.
bulIon bill. ln"eed every vesige Of the
exlraordlna legl,at OH OF the extra SEES
sion would liza &c been extcrmInaied ~ the
decree viii h, tits n Nv perfect, apparent.
the nation was pre- AIRED To ent r t ne
polls. And II Is oniy for the p,eveH IN
of the mI,chieis wh,h Iha 'ehpora y OK
tence OF the mea ureS oil tho extra s5s-
sion would have orough Oh The country,
tat our &, ait de is due 10 Mr.. Tyler. -
Fac principle in, oil ed in this n4ttonal
oank, branching from the District, with tie
consen of the S ates; and thai of the land
nlstfiuutiun, when the duties did not eX-
ceed 20 per cent, as expressly avowed in
the vetocs, were as obnoxious to Demo
Gratis as those on which the vetoed med.
sures were founded. When the President
then presented, in lieu of Mr.. Clay's de.
feded measures, The exchegler and la
riff, (Which MIR. Webster and Mr. Gushing
proclaimed to be better measures for their
Federal and manufacturing region,) al
though we might still be thankful for the
vetoes, we could not consent TO surrender,
as price for those, all the opinions which
made the vetoed measures obnoxious, and
preclude ourselves from even an attempt
at deIiveranca from them, as we would
have done by supporting them, and identl-
flying them with the cause of Democracy
But this is not the only sacrifice which
it seems the Democracy was 10 make, II
compensation for the yetoes. Ii was ex
pecled that it would support Mr.. Tyler
Mr.. Webster, Mr.. Spencer-in woTt
the whole administration, as organize ]
without Democrat in II; 10 take all tn
men wh) surround the President, and whit
had ma !e common cause with whigger.
against the Democratic party in lS4O, an
make them our leaders, and then blcki
on our bucks all the resp visibility whlc
/ they, as managers Of public afflils, mlgs
: incur, aud stand up to fight political battle
in their behalf. All this was asked, be
cause, TO advance his own views, Mr.. Iy
!. Ter had lhbught fit TO quarrel with M
d Clay, and 10 ALLURE his measures, Will
j. he pushed his principles in another dire
tion.
J. As a part of the responsibility, The a
4 tempt is now made, MT only by Admin