The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-01-29

| The exchanges we're market Specie Is .
unequal and runous, va drug even MS currency.
| ying from y to IA per Federal taxes are about
cent, according to the the that they we're
places between which in 1888, but manuiactur-
they were made. ed goods are cheaper
| The exchanges are
| equalized, and limo part
| OF the country do they
exceed per cent, ex-
| cepting with Alabama,
| where the banks Ii
quidating
| Whatever dispute there may be about the actual
| influence of administrative policy, there can be
none as To these results. II cannot be denied
that they make vast sum total in favor of Mr..
Tyler's period. They bear, prima Jdcie, atleasi,
heavily against Mr.. Van Buren's time. No one
will hesitate to prefer the effects we witness I'M
der Mr.. Tyler's Administration, however much
they may prefer one of the men above the other.
No one will deny the disasters Of the country
during Mr. Van Buren's Administration; no
body can deny its prosperity under that OF Mr.
Tyler. History will enable mankind TO Judge
according TO the acts and facts OF these periods,
and not by the empty professions and preten-
sions which will have passed away with The
breath that bore them. Let them say what
they please Of the devoted NAN, who sits IN the
White House of the People, they will not be
able 10 show any Presidential term, before or
after lhis, which shall be more illustrated by
real success in the Government, and substan-
lial prosperity in the country, than the sober
judgment of the world, will solemnIy accord TO
that Of John Tyler.
Wewould ask the friends of Mr.. Van Buren,,
who would, for his sake, push aside Mr.. Tyler,
what great good did Mr.. Van Buren, accom-
plsh while he was President? We will not
travel over the desert of his years beyond, TO
search for any great or good act that he erer orI-
gDaed or accomplished, because, we fear, we
should be obliged to ravel out of the record TO
find ii. But in the heigh,h of power, and in
the midst of opportunities which were tempting
and even importunae, what did he achieve ?
Did he bring the Boundary Question any nearer
settlement than ii had been for quarter of
centuiy2 Did he put down the Indian rebel
lion, or redress foreign invasion or interference
Did he any thing to lessen the evils Of Gov
eminent, or promote the happiness Of the race,
or the glory of the country? We fear not
We fear his Administration did not make a
single step of progress. What but the inglo-
rious Sub Treasury, illustrates his Administra-
ton ? That, uuly, stands as monument of
an attempted relrogradalion in the l0lh cen,u
ry--an attempt TO transport free and happy
America back 10 the poor, people starving, hard
money despotisms of Europe, from which our
glorious forefathers fed more Than 200 years be-
fore. God forbid, that it should have succeeded
The People, true TO their illustrious history,
and we hope still more illustrous destiny, saw
il but TO condemn it, and touched it but TO ami
hilate it. 1t went down, and down went lis
authors with it. Mr.. Tyler's was The envious
privilege Of executing upon it the Peoples sen
tence of condemnation.
Its epoch will be remembered by the ala rmng
embezzlements of the public money, which took
place under the system 10 the extent of $780,
900. The time has not yet come when de-
faulter shall be known TO have existed under
Mr.. Tvler's Administration. Ii is TO be hoped
which seemed to have brought them into life.
From a history, thus barren, we turn TO acts
of positive effect and blessed influence. We find
it was reserved for Mr.. Tyler's Administration
to conclude negotiation which had occupied
and bsfiied diplomacy for more than quarter
of century. The Treaty of Nashington will
be remembered, not as one Of the least impor
tant of the Treaties in our history, but as one
which settled great principles, questions OF
tire atening import, and saved US perhaps, from
the horrors of a war. Ii defined the boundary
between this country aud the British Dominlons
in America as far west as the Rocky mountains
it established rules for the mutual delivery OF lu
gtives from justice-and its negotiation brought
with it, an apology for the destruction of the
steamboat Caroline within our borders-a with
drawal on the part of Britain of the obnoxious
claim TO a right of search of American vessels up
on the high seas-and a provision Of satisfaction
for the attempted confscation Of the property Of
American citizens driven on board the Creole
into British colony.
Another subject connected with those involv-
ed in that negotiation, was the action of the
State of New York in its trial of a foreign sub
ject for the commission Of an offence, committed
under the orders of his Government, against the
nation. The tendency Of such action was TO
cause war. The offence was one properly Of
Federal cognizincc, and Of f, drraI jurisdiction.
Here was one of the mot delicate and grave
questions that had arisen between the Federal
and State jurisdictions. Mr. Tyler suggested
a remedy, and Congress applied it, That rene
dy is TO bring all such questions, involving in
ternatona r, lations uoder the federal jurisdic-
ton in the Courts of the United States, where
they properly belong. This act put it out OF