The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-09

act had not left him dollar in the treasury to pay the millions of unsatisfied claims that were filed up in the treasury for payment But he was in the hands of Clay Congress, a Clay Cabinet, and Clay dictatlon; and to work he went, with good intent, l am sorry to sav,) to tread in the footsteps of his pre- decessor In this state of ruin aud disorder, inc work of prescription alone moved on'- The House of Representatives-the house of the people-stood, mute as mice, in trembling and fear. for orders from the dictator; and at last they come. They were, to force Bankrupt bill upon the President-to force Dissolution bill upon him, and force Bank bill upon him. The Distribution bill comes with clause, that whenever Congress should raise the tariff above 20 cents on the dollar, Redistribution should cease. The President, being assured by Secretary Ewing that 20 cents on the dollar would be abundant reye- nue. siqns the bill sThe next is the Bankrupt bill. He signs that. So far so good. But next comes the bitter pill, which he is ordered to swallow Here the President found that he must either degrade his department and himself, or break downthe power of the die i tator: and between his duty and submission, l did not hesitate long. He sent Mir. Clay's bill back with his veto. Mir. Clay renewed ] his orders, with scarce a modification, of his Fiscalty project The President returns this project also, with his veto.
 Here ensue riots in the Senate, and fsticuAs in the lower House; and Tyler and the eoun- try are threatened by MT. Clay's majority, with q dissolution of the Government. The Clay ministers send in their resgnations; and 1 all but Crittenden, (to his honor be 1t said, accompanied their resignations with gross and libellous letters to the President. The rabble are aroused, and the President of the United States, in the presence of Congress, of foreign Ministers, and in the face of the civilized world, is, like poor Pope. burnt in eiiigv, in front of the palace; the mob and the Claytes in Congress, demanding of the President to resign, that the Executive Depart ment might fall into the hands ol MT. Clay2s friend, Wiley P. Mangum. To all of which the President said, bum on, you only light my path of duty He surrounded himself with new ministry, composed of his own personal and political friends, stopped the work of prescription, and set himself and his Cabinet busly to work, to redeem the depart ments from the disorders and ruin which the few months of Mr. Claws dictatorship had brought upon them; and, with all the means in his power, placed the army, navy, and civil 1 departments in motion But in few short months, Mir. CIay's Congress was again on him. They are advised by the President, that 20 cents on the dollar will not sustain the current expenses of the Goyemmcnt; that the treasury cannot spare the public lands, and that its indispensable to the public credit, that the act ceding them to the States should i be repealed, and that the condition of the treasury required the speedy action-of Con- gress, by the passage of permanent revenue bill. And what does Mir. Clay7s Congress dc to relieve the pressing wants of the rea- sury? They attempt to force the President to sign a revenue bill, containing a clause, permanently ceding to the States the proceeds of the public lands, in violation of thefr faith, pledged in the act of the preceding session, that whenever the necessities of the treasury required higher tax than 20 cents on the dollar, the cession to the States should ceuse. This device found no favor with the Presi- dent He sent the bill back with his veto.
 About this period, Mir Clay, finding his 
 his partisans to skirmish with the President, and wends 10 Ashland. The next effort of his l party to snbdue the President was, instead of passing permanent revenne bill, and estab- fishing q tariff that would reinstate the fallen credit of the nation, wassto bass a temporary I appropriation bill. it this moment the credit of th9 nation had sunk to seventy cents on the dollar, and was threatened with greater depression The President foresaw that his enemies intended by this last bill, 10 disgrace him and his Cabinet; by exposing him to the most ruinous usury, to raise money to carry on the Government with And although l have reason tosbelieve, at this point, his min isters became alarmed, and advised him to yield to the overpowering influence of the Clay Congress, Tyler-likelhe glorious Eliz- abeth, when her crown and the people were threatened with destruction from the Spanish 1 Armada-tetermned to trust 10 God and his country; and while all was gloom and despair around him, was alone seen to smile. He said to those that urged him to sign the bil- pressing upon him that t was determined upon by the Clay leaders in Congress, that, ii he vetoed that bill, to adjourn Congress, and leave the government in runs-tet them 20, said he, and will soon bring them back. They may break me, but shall never bend me. If sign this bill, am thrown into the hands oT the us0TeTs; the public credit sinks, and become an accessary to it's ruin. IL is the duty of Congress to give me the means, and mine to apply them, to carry on the Government am charged with the preser- vation of the Executive department, and will never consent to degrade it to propitiate the vengeance of a party. He vetoes this bill; and the Clay leaders in Congress beat up for volunteers to follow the lead of their dictator, 10 adjourn Congress, and every man to his own tent, leaving the forlitications in ruins; the navy to rot; the sailors to disperse, or die for food; the army to perish or dsband, and the whole civil list and machinery of government to wreck and ruin.
 In this nefarious scheme to drive the Presi- dent out of office, and to bring in Mr. Mangum,