The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-07-09
MIR. CLAY AND AN OLD FASHIONED
RANK

BANK
When Harrison and Tyler running in ie4O,
the Wing papers carefully excluded from their col
umns every line that looked like limiting al Nation
| al Bank and whenever a direct charge from De
noeratic editor compelled these gentlemen to name
| the animal, it always spoken Of as exploded
Phantom-a thing 10 which the People were opposed
"a machine no longer required by the necessities OF
| any branch of industry. The idea OF regulating
| the currency" was advocated by the Wbig presses,
but twas in a negative form, and generally embrac-
ed in declaI alton against The Independent Treasury
system. General Harrison declared against Bank,
and the Wings at the North and East published that
declaration far and wide, TO bring in the support OF
| the Democrats. MIR. Tyler declared that he could
| never sign charter while the Constitution remained
unaered. Here, Wing consciences were touched a
little, and they suppressed that letter, udg it best
TO say nOt.iag that point, Bank Of ihe United
States oui Of the question!
Harrison and Tyler were both elected nt-Bank
| candidates No sooner was General Harrison inau-
gurated than he beset TO call extra session OF
Congress to turn every thing into gold Before these
Congressional alchymsts convened inscruiabe
Providence had fit TO the good old Gene
raj, and Mr.. Tyler took the Executive chair under
the authority of the Constitution.
At once the Wings began to trembe for their Sc
cr,t principles aud why' Why was it that almost
Immediately on the first Bank project bei"g intro
duced, some Of the Wing presses declared that John
Tyler would not approve the bill The rumors we're
said to proceed from the White House but the real
source whence first emanated these reports the
Wing leaders, IN the preceding Congress. The sup
pressed letter Of Mr.. Tyler to Mr.. Wise was famil-
lar to all these gentlemen and hence the statement
first limited and at last declared by the Wing presses,
National Bank. They declared this long before the
bill passed; and from the day of Harrison inaugu-
the date of the veto the President had
fully avoided any expression of opinion relative TO
Bank, because he acted under the impression that
Congress ought to prepare measures without concert
from the Executive mansion They knew all about
what the President would do long before the bill was
ready, and soon it went to him they openly de-
clared it would be vetoed This was no mesmeric
conclusion, but drawn positively from that very let
ter TO Mr. Wise, il could have been procured
from no subsequent source.
Two Bank bills were vetoed at the extra session
yet the Congressional chameons started home to
rouse the very stones of their various States and
Numbered for Bank. In 1910 the Bank question
was smothered, and Harrison and Tyler, too, :"
swept The Union like avalanche. In iS4l under
the Bank, with vetoes to asss, them and to roar
against, State after State turned over and the vetot
were sustained by large aggregate majority. The
Democracy, that rallied under their tried friends
Harrison and Tyler, 10 1910, and sweed the ranks
of the Wings, because OF the well-known Democrat
&c principles of both, in ls4l, left those Wings to
fight their own battles, which resulted in dismay,
confusion, and general rout
Another session came on and Congress (instead of
profting by the lesson and listening to the advice of
some who seemed to be willing make the most out
of President Tyler for adhering to principles which
they had once avowed and now deserted) commenc-
ed series of measures to embarrass perplex, and
annoy inc rrosiovu,.
They booted at the Exchequer scheme as their
great leader had kicked at the rckety concern" Of
his friend Ewing, and thought only of how much
harm they could do. Avowed Tariff men they
would have the land clause coupled with IT, or no re-
venue law. Reformers = they spent forty DAYS more
than any former Congress TO arrest the progress Of
the President. Economists they spent thousands
of dollars more than any former peace Congress
Gentlemen they got into rows. Republic ms -
they instituted nquisitons Sworn to support the
Coustituton-they endeayored to impeach the Presi.
dent for performing Constitutional duties Honora.
bles and they debated in secret midnight caucus
how TO dePose President Tyler that his seat might be
occupied by Bank Wing
Since they adjourned, the President has been man.
fully sustained by the People, and yet these same men
rally under Mr.. Clay and an old-fashioned Bank ~
Can anything be more preposterous-more absurd
We admire consistency in all things, and beautiful
illustration Of demented policy may be seen 10 the
fac.s here collected The monster so detesed by the
PeoPle-the idol Of Aaron-s again exhibited on the
banner Of Henry Clay, the who declared that he
would wait and ascertain the opinions Of the mass
before be acted on Bank. The party possesses
strange life, or rather lives, for i, has as many as
cat, and paper pills revive its dropping health one
year, that IT may die a natural death the next