The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-20
From the Harrisburg Signal.
PRESIDENT TYLER.

The intolerant and illiberal course of the Wings,
as party, towards President Tyler, and the mega
tive support given by some few Democrats, and the
unqualified hostility Of others, have excited the as.
constituent less than the disapprobation OF all
calm and rejecting men. The chagrn and dlsap-
pointment of the Wings whcn smarting under the
defeat of their long-cherished and far reaching
schemes Of ambition, was natural, and to be expect
ed but yet did afford any justification for mil
lionth part Of the abuse which poured out upon
the President from almost every Wing press and
every Wing orator, from Maine to Texas. Their
assaults not limited to the official acts by which
their favorte schemes were (happy for the country
and for Democracy thwarted and overthrow; but
every epithet expressive Of rancor and opprobrum,
were lavishcd upon the name and character Of John
Tylcr, with an unsparing hand.
But, while such the course OF the Wing party
towards President Tyler for refusing to aid them in
carving into effect their schemes of "iliweaved
bition,n what was the course pursued by the great
Democratic party--that party with which John Ty-
Ter had teen identified from early youth, and in de-
fence of whose principles he perilling reputation
and encountering obloquy and persecution-what, We
ask, was the bearing of the Democratic party to-
wards the PRESIDENT Why, with few honorable
exceptions, they held themselves alool, damned
with faint praise " and, if spectral influence
held their faculties enchanted they avoided the issue
of the contest, without evincing either sympathy
emotion. Such was the attitude OF the Democratic
party at the time these stirring events occurred
We are grai6ed to find however, as "tbe sober sec
ond thought" of the PEOPLE becomes evolved that
they are nsensble to the merits and services of
President Tyler nor unwilling to award to him the
need of gratitude Tor his noble devotion TO their in
terests and consequence, the press is becoming
more faithful interpreter Of public sentiment; and
scores of editors rally around the Tyler flag,
where less than year ago there was scarcely one
ssto do him reverence"
We look upon the public acts of President Tyler
as the best opponents of his principles. He is tie
graduate from the Official school of Thomas Jeher-
son. and throughout his whole career, maugre The
attempts Of imbittered facionists 10 brand HIM a
renegade he has ever been found faithful TO the
principles which lie imbibed from the maxms and
example of the Patriarch OF Democracy. cotem-
porary has justly remarked, that the opinions OF
President TYLER upon the various subjects before
the people, but the very echo Of the general good
sense and Judgment of the county; and that, could
The clamor Of the politician be for moment 81
Ienced the people would find that he whom they
had been ndustrously taught to despise was calm
y and consistently going on IN the PRONUNCIATION and
adyoca cy OF, as II were, thelr own doctrines and
their own opinions
This fact is undeniablc. And il the Excbequer
scheme which he recommended, and which, while it
obyiaed the constitutional difficulties which lay in
the way of National Bank, and removed alleged de-
Lects in the Sub.Treasury PLAN had been taken up
IN right spirit by Congress, and, calmly and patriot
icsily considered, its mpericcions might have been
cured and an efficient aud constitutional fiscal agent
Of the Government and Of the people framed from
the elements oil The respective ProJecs - In Nhis, AZ
in all things else" says the same writer, we want
moderate measures and more conyusive expedi-
cots so, too in regard TO the tariff. No one, save
he be mad with devotion to faction, and the indvid-
u,l interests of Mr.. Clay, contend for the pre-
sent ouerous and oppressive law, which is Gripping
our commerce and let ing out the lfe-blood OF
prosperity as surely he thumb-screw performed
those Offices for its victims. just medium in this,
too, as in all else, is what the people want"
This plain, common-scnse view Of the aspect Of
things as they are and have been, has led hereto
fore aud again impels US to utter astonishment as
well as concern, at the parsImonious commentator
and negative support given by Democrats to Pres'-
dent Tyler in his conflicts with the Cay.whgs
aiming his position against suchfesrfu odds aud
at such imminent peril to his popularity, President
TYLER was unfolding and protecting those sacred prp
ciples for which the Democracy so nobly contcnded
in 1893 and which received their contamination in
the election of Thomas Jefferson TO the chief Ma
gistrsoy; and hence every protesting Democrat who
cherished those principles and revered the memory OF
the founder of their party, ought not only to have
stood by him during the conflict, but rallied around
him al each renewal Of the battle, commencing him
for what he had achieved, and cheering aud sustain
ing him a, each renewed onset THIS could have
been done, without any compromise of principle, or
the risk Of being thrown into false position ~ re-
gard to any of the candidates for the snccesslon-
This course il is still not too late TO adopt and we,
for our part prepared TO embrace ana pursue u
We have been a careful observer OF President
Tyler's course; and having cary imoiped inc OPP
Mon that the most sublime moral spectacle IN nature
was good man struggling Win aoVefs'y' We arc
constrained to declare thai we have never me, WIN
nearer characterization to this point OF moral sub
I,mnv than that presented in the instance OF John
T,l.y con,ending single-handed, as II were, for the
integrity of Nj, own principles and the pcrmancpcy
II constitutional liberty, against such fearful odds