The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-18
MIR. SENATOR FOSTER.

MR.. SENATOR FOSTER.
Our attention has been accidentally drawn TO a
onieatsue of speech made by Mr. Foster of Ten
nessee, in secret session on the Texas question: or
rather INTENDED doubt by its author such al
though he does not show himself TO be very PRECISE
in this respect. Although the country will attach
but little importance to any thing that may have ema-
mated from the Tennessee Senator, yet he has gra-
tutously travelled Far out of the record to vent
his petty malice the President He has, while
charging corrup, motives aud conduct the Presi
dent, been himself guilty of such gross and unpar-
donabls abuse of the Chief Magistrate that we can
not suffer him to pass entirely unnoticed. If Mr.
Foster really believes the e-thousandth part of
what he says, in speech evidently prepared in the
closet, written out and conned by heart then he is
certainly a foolish man than what is called
third rate white Charlie" Senator necessarily must
be. When man does not believe what he says, he
is generally considered unworthy the association Of
gentlemen; in short reckless and infamous defamer.
Let us anay &c this pesch little.
He charges the President with being "weak,
tickle, vain. self-glorlous, and devoedly attached
above all, TO office, and to the glitter and tinsel
of station, and unregardful Of the by which
his ruling passion may be gratied" Is this charge
true, in whole or in part' Come, appeal to the
Whigs Of the Union. We turn TO the Presidents
enemies and ask them TO decide this question. There
is no man of honor veracity in the country but
must pronounce such a charge false. According to
this Senator's own showing, Mr.. Tyler has pursued
very bad policy to succeed in his unhaiowed desires
We may be narrow in judgment and ignorant Of
the world, but rather think, when the school-boy
,aL,
John Tyler has put himself between the upper and
the neither milestone" OF great parties to be ground
into dust and ashes" yielding neither to the
the other, but resisting both that he have had
other moiire than "ust of office" to excite him
TO such course All silly SENATOR! when you and
such as you, the partisan instruments OF any "seaed
and stamped demagogue shall be rotting in your
ignoble graves, and nothing remain TO remind men
that you ever existed, except dim and dark spot on
the page Of country's history the man whom you
now froduos-the man who has made such sacrifices
Tor his country YOU could never have had an in
distinct dream Of; the man who, in his " Roman
virtue" and iron hrmness, had stood like the rock
of Gibraltar, mistaken by the attacks Of the pot-
clans at home and abroad in defence Of his nteg
rty and dignity of character Of the nvioability Of
the Constitution, aud Of the Peoples rights: Jous Tr
LrR, the author Of the Bank Ve,oes and the orgina
tor Of the Texas question the friend Of American
interests, and the lover Of Democratic institutions
the enemy Of England and the hater Of slaves and
rants equally, Wheeler they be "kn Is erfs de-
msgogue -dictators, or " Charles OF !" bloody ant
British" Congress-will be crowned with a crown
Of glory"
Al the same moment that Mr. Foster charges the
President with design and effort TO build up B,irc
party for his own ambitious purposes, he further
charges him with making "humiliating" advances "a
the Democratic party. Here IS an inconssteno,
of position which the Senator may explain, il he
The Senator from Tennessee charges the Pres.
dent with having used the patronage Of the Govern.
ment for his own selfish ends. We have heard OF
men repeating tales until they really believed that Ia
be true which all other men knew to be false. The
President must have been a very inefficient purcba
ser; for we do not believe that the high Off
ces Of the Government have been fully purchased
the titles Of their purchase certainly have never
passed into the hands Of Mr. Tyler.
But enough Of this We call on Mr. Foster If he
have any remaining respect for his character TO come
forward and retrsct his infamous abuse Of a man
who never injured him, and who has performed great
and sgnal services for his country. The President
we presume has never seen MIR Fosters speech. and
scarcely know, that such man lives bot we ask
him TO exhibi, The fact TO the people who know him
that he has some little selGrespect left
When the Senator from Tennessee comes TO re-
feet little, he will find # Mr.. Tyler has erred at
all, It has been ever with patriotic intention He
sacrificed his future prospects Of personal aggrapdze
ment with the Whigs by preserving the Consttu ION