The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-25

for the first tns since lis formation, by te demise Oh
the constilulionaly elected President and, IN '"s
very beginning OF his Administration, be was sur
rounded BY those who did not hold one principle 10
common with him AS his constitutional advisers, and
with every office OF any note in the hands Of those
who were taught, by their leader, TO look upon Am
as ihe mere instrument TO register such edlets as
might be promulged by him in the Senate OF The
United States, without stopping TO inquire whether
they were compatible with the wishes OF the feop'e
or consistent with the letter aud spirit OF The Constr
tuition which John Tyler had sworn TO protect ana
defend aud, IL he had not maintained that psf'oue
Independence which has marked every act connect
ed with his Administration, the country would, ms
day be grooming under the operation OF every fede
raj measure brought forward at the beginning OF the
ever memorable Extra Session by MIR. Clay, which
would have porpetuated the sway OF Federal ms
rule for the neat twenty years wan these re
corded facts staring the American People AMI The
whole world in the face, he has been denounced
without measure, Tor roscuing the Constitution from
an unholy grave prepared for lis final inierment by
Mir Clay and his Federal satellites, that merely re-
vol,e in the spheres prescribed by him Every act
of has Administration has been marked by deep de-
into existence, and, by firm and dgnifed exercise
OF the Veto power he has checked legislative usur'
patton, {, bane of Republican Government, and
brought il back the legitimate exercise of those
powers conferred by the Constitution. So exasPe-
rated have Mr.. Clay and his followers become at the
exercise of this salutary power of the Conslitu-
ton, they have boldly proclaimed an unceasing hos
tity to it, and made restriction Of its exercise one
of their political creeds. Are the American People
now ready to enter into crusade upon the Constr
tuition, conceived in the wisdom and patriotism of
our Revolutionary fathers, and consecrated by the
best blood the world produced, to crafty the
mad ambition Of an expiring demagogue, whose am
bition is unboundless, and whose only hope to sue
coed to the Presidency must expire with the setting of
the next Novembers sun. If they are, have greatly
mistaken their true character This dangerous and d.
signing the only raIlying point for the Federal
party and as his shall be run, it will
dissolve into its true element, and those Republicans,
who left the precepts of Mr.. Jefferson to follow his
lead will exclam "where are we to go" This war
upon the Veto and the Constitution, viii 60 forth
to the People, sounding like the rallying notes
of the bugle, and it will be caught up and
re echoed along every hill and plain by the
cool calculating of the .Norih-by the high
toned chivalrous South and by the free and
noble hearted of the luxuriant West-until the
bosom of every American, who loves his country,
will swell with patriotic indignation, eager for the
time to arrive for him to deposite his ballot inscribed
thereon " The man of the Vetoes-'The Constitu-
ton as it is"