The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-06

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PRESIDENT TYLER AND MR.. CLAY.
The persevering and relentless malice, as
well as the gross injustice, displayed by Mr..
Clay in his attacks on Mr.. T yler, is enough in
itself to show his an6snsss for the station which
heis seeking. A man AZ so much unchastened
malignity Of temper. spass ~ wholly unqualified
for an office requiring Abe highest degfee Of
self-coptrol
According 10 Mr. Clay's own showing, these
assaults, renewed with increased bitterness on
every occasion which he finds or makes TO APP
pear before the public, are entirely wanton and
unnecessary. In his last appeal to the public,
he says" against Mr.. Tyler no exertion is ne
cessary." Then why make any exertion ?
Why not at least maintain an outward and
tact respect TO the Chief Magistrate Of the ma
ton, instead of seeking every opportunity to
overwhelm him with scurrility?
"Mr. Tyler" he says, "will soon retire with
the contempt and amidst the SCOTS of all hon
orable men," Why not wait patiently for what
is so soon to happen? A generous spirit would
cease warning against, even if it could no: pity
or forgive, dying adversary it would not re-
double its blows, and hew and hack away, at a
PROSTATE foe. 1t would lament the fall of once
esteemed friend and maintain compassionate
and decorous silence
Mr.. Clay is evidently very far from believing
himself, what he endeavors so earnestly to i'm
press on others. He we'll knows the strength
OF Mr.. Tyler's claims TO popular confidence, and
that they require only to be examined by the
People themselves, apart from the CLOSES of de-
PRAYED party leaders or presses, TO be universal
ly acknowledged. He knows that a dispassion-
ate inquiry by the People would result in con-
vincing them that Mr.. Tyler, if not more honest
than any other pretender TO their support, has at
least had the p culiar good fortune of being
able to give more signal and indisputable proofs
OF political integrity. They would be apt to
examine closely into the grounds upon which
the charge of corruption and treachery is. now
brought, by disappointed party leader, against
a man whose whole previous life, public and
privaie, was irTeproachabIe; who had twice pre-
ferred TO abandon or be abandoned by a party
IN the fulness Of lis strength and triumph, ra-
Their than compromise his principles and who
had exhibited in his course one of the very few
and rare examples which haye occurred of men
willing to renounce place and high station ra-
Their than oppose the wishes of their constitu
ents.
No man Is so thoroughly convinced, or has
had such means of convincing himself, of the
gross iojustice and fasehood of this accusation.
as Mr. Clay. II is the sense of his own inius-
tice which irrilates and disputes him. he ad-
vanced the cha &c, at first, to serve parry and
personal purposes, and unable 10 forgive the
man, and the friend, that he has injured, he
seeks to cover him with popular odum, in order
that he may appeal 10 the verdict of The People
in answer 10 the reproaches of his conscience.
Let US recapltuiate few ndisputable, his,o-
rical facts, which Mr.. Clay himself dare not
deny in the face OF the pubIic
/. The whole career of Mr. TYLER in Con-
gress was marked by peculiar, unvarying, and
perseverlng hostility to Bank of the United
States. No public man in the nation was more
strongly committed against that institution. He
had publicly pledged himself, in the National
Legislature, to seize the first opportunity that
lawfully presented itself, for abolishing it.
2. These opinions Of Mr.. Tyler were well
known TO the Wing party. They were bound
to know them, when they selected him as the
candidate for the Vice Presidency They did.
in fact, select him on account of his well known
political opinions and for the purpose of conci-
hating the support of those who entertained the
same or similar opinions-ihe State rights partv
and Conservatives.
3. The Wing party, during the last canvass
for the Presidency, repeatedly, and in mapy
places, waived the question of National Bank.
The proof on this point is overwhelming We
need now allude only to the well known public
declarations of Messrs. Ewing and Badger. two
of General Harrison's Cabinet
a. 1t was solely on account Of the Bank ve,oes
that Mr.. Tyler was first denounced as a trni,or
by the Wing leaders in Congress, in their ceie-
bra.ed Manifesto. They then expelled him
from the party; denied all responsibility for any
OF his acts, loaded him with vituperation, and
vilI6ed and accommodated all who adhered
TO him. The intention was avowed of com
pelling him 10 resign, by depriving him of the
support of any party.
These are the undeniable and unvarnisbsd
facts, upon which Mr.. Cay's Indictment agains,
MI Tyler Tor TT achery and dishonor, is 10 be
tried oy the People and by posterity. If uoon
such evidence, sustained by the peadinos IF
such demagogues as Messrs Clay and Ren,on
now united by the ties of interest as weu =. r.
blood, the People can be induced TO brine :,
verdict of gully, that verdict will determine ma,
Mr.. Tyler's fate alone 1t will pronounce tho
doom of every man who may dare, hereafter.
TO prefer his principles, the dictates of his con.
science, his sense of the public interests, to the
commands of party. 1t will decide that. in
future, contending parties, in the bosom of the