The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-02-27

limits 81 tbs stsctest construction VI the Constitu-
ton, would have inspired public confidence by is
pemanencc, its acquisitions and privileges, and is
adaptation 10 the exiscncies OF the tmeswhy after
all this, and many more proposals and concessions
were made, esincing The most benevolent and con
ciliatory spirit and the most sincere and ervd deyo.
ion TO the public good on the part Of President Ty
er did the ajority in Congress uniformly and per-
tnaciously refuse TO present for his approval any
Bank bill that did not contain provisions that they
knew he could not consistently sanction Why thus
stab the measures they proiessed to love Why thus
insist on powers being conferred by that bill which
they knew that President Tyler and President Harr
both had declared 10 be unconstitutional before
their election. and which the people, by electng
them, had declared to be unconstitutional also The
answer TO these startling questions IS contained in
the and unexpected relations created among he as
prsis 10 the Presidency, by The constitutional succession.
Of M. Tyler to that eralisd position. General Iar.
rison pledged to but one term of service, and
during his administration. Mr.. Clay had relied upon
| the Official patronage of the government being de.
| voted TO the promotion of his election. Whether
| the ambitious views of Mr.. Clay would have been
favored by Gen. Harrison If he had lived to the in.
jury Of his equally eminent and merltorous cOmpe.
| ttors. need not now be discussed. Suffice ii 10
say, that President Tyler, upon his accession to the
| office, did not deem il his duty to show any such
partially nor did he consider il becoming in him
being under no pledge on the subject and occupy
ing ms position oply as substitute Tor announcer 10
foresta the popular will by conserving or declining
TO be a candidate hereafter, and for the first time
in reality, for the Presidency of the United States
The moment this aspect of things was exhibited
and Mr. Clay discovered that President Tyler would
not select him, as he would not any one, from the
several distinguished asprants, his iavore can.
didate for the Presidential chair, the Senator from
Kentucky, possessing the personal devotion of a
large portion of the majority in Congress, and fright
enng the rest into his projects by bis control
measures deemed for the public interest, assumed
an absolute dictatorship in that body; forced into
the bank bill in every form in which it was pre-
sented the Objectionable features above alluded to
insiilled studiously with his own hand the fatal
poison that he knew must kill what he professed 10
love and ruthlessy prolonged the agonies of public
Distress rather than that President Tyler should be
honorably and consistently placed in q situation to
participate, in the slightest degree, in the credit Of
relieving it.
These facts are of such general notoriety that any
effort at demonstration would only be work of su-
pererogation
But this letter has already expanded beyond the
limits originally prescribed by myself, and what
had intended to say in reference to the present
dition of parties and the aspect of affairs generally
must be reserved to another occasion.