The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-29


institution Here are the resolutions. and the,
cannot be gainsayed.
Again, when an invitation was extended Il
theirViee Presidential candidate TO visit ih
State, Mr.. Ridgway, chairman OF the WIN!
Central Committee, and afterwards Wing re
presentatIve IN the 9th Congress, worded II II
this PLAIN aud unmlstakeabe language:
"DEAR STA The original Jackson man Of he Stat
Of Ohio who n favor Of the election OF The Whll
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
OF the United States propose TO hold convention II
the city OF COLUMBUS, on the 18th day OF the pre-
sent month, for the purpose Of organizing theil
strength and preparing for The approaching election
IL Is believed that the Government concentrating
upon this State their whole eleotoneering strength
aud that mighty effort will be made TO carry Ohio
by storm. la breaking down this last desperate en-
pedlent Of party maddened TO almost superhuman
exertion by defeat need and we ask your co-ope-
ration. Your name will command the presence OF
thousands upon thousands OF our cltizens from all
quarters OF the State and will swell ranks, We
conhdenty believe, with numbers OF those ioho ara
only oiLhOidng their support IA Ordr 10 be fully salts
fed that The success Of the Wig candidates oiu secure The
triumph Of the principles vhieh brought General Jackson
ialO pooer We trust that the portanee OF this cri.
SIS IN the campaign will induce you to comply with
the invitation which we tender you in the name OF
The Wing party Of Ohio"
And again, Mr.. Thomas Ewing, afterwards
Secretary Of the Treasury, and wuo, like Mr..
Badger, resigned because Bank bill was We
toed, ia a letter addressed by him 10 Mr.. l.. ID.
Barker, dated July 18th, 1910, said:
any DKAR Sra On my return from Columbus
this evening, received your letter, informing me
that II was asserted al public meeting, 10 Wash
lngton county, that, in speech at Philadelphia,
had sad that the true question between the parties
was Bank Of the United States, and that you, from
knowledge Of the real question and Of me- had
badicted the assertion. In this OF course you were
perfectly safe made such statement, but The pery
contrary" .|.... T...... .....#
Lastly, the National 'InteIligencer, during
August, 1910, may say in behalf of the whole
Wing party of the United States, as the Cen
trail organ of that party, in reply to the charges
Of the Richmond Enquirer, thus unequvocally
pronounced the question of Bank not in is
sue:
Though the question Of Bank is net before the
country, and IS dragged into the present discussion
only TO help the Enquirer outn weak cause, By an
appeal 10 yell understood ptudees in lis STATE we
have no objection to the discussion into which the
Enquirer leads the way II
is atoripaie circumstance that The name IF General
Harrison has NOT been mired up ruth the question of
National Bank as 10 made him obnoriots ON that
ground, 10 amy reasonable, practical man"
These, feow-ctizens, are only few of the
evidences which might be CLEANED from the re-
cords of the party. Mr.. Rives, in reply TO Mr.
Clay, at the extra session of 1871, declares that
similar pledges were made in three-fourths Of
the States of the Union. What, then, is the
inevitable and unavoidable conclusion to which
we are forced by the facts ?-thdt for a period
OF fire gears during tioo presidential elections
of the United States, and three senatorial
elections ia the State of Virginia, the Whig
party mere committed, sote,nsaiy committed 10
the People against the establishment of a
Bank ofhe United StdieS
This, then, wyuld have been their true posi-
ton, if General Harrison, their elected Presi-
dent had have lived, and the reins Of Govern
ment continued in his hands. The question
which now propose to consider is this: Did
his death, and the succession Of the Vice Pre-
dent to the Presidency, after His position?
In the examination of this questiop,gI shall
again conduct you through the records of the
party for il is necessary that you should un-
derstaRd the exact truth, in order to comprehend
the unparalleled deception they have attempted
TO practice upon the country. ..
With respect, then, to the opinions Of their
Vice Presidential candidate, ! have already
given you the letter of the Hon. Mr.. Ridgway
and stated that, in the Virginia Wing address
of 1896, he was especially recommended be
cause OF his uniform opposition to Bank of the
United States.
Strange as il may seem, he was twice the
candidate of the party for the second Office in
the gift Of the people
In the address issued at Richmond, after the
nomination at Harrisburg, it is said of him,
"John Tyler is known to the people of Virginia
as of their best tried and most faithful servants.
Party malignity in its most reckless mood has
charged him with being an abeltonist But in the
pleptude of their power, the parsans of the Presi-
dent, who make and unmake republicans by royal
touch, have pronounced him Fsderaiisi because he
is a Wing. Against that charge ace iciH not pndicaie
one ,cho you have so often pronounced Republican
If the man who has always been the advocate of re-
publican measures, and during nearly his whole life
the representative of Republican people, needs vim
dication from the charges Of Federalism we feel
satisfied that ii will be made triumphantly by the Re-
publicans of Virginia, whom he has 80 long and so
faithfully served, and to their protection we commit
him. confident that In their hands he will sustain no
wrong and that they will say to him. ,osii done, thou
good and faithful s1pant. ," a..... .u.Ia bob.
Shortly after he entered political life, as a
member of the Virginia Legislature, scarcely
twenty one years of age, he moved the resolu-
ton Of censure which was passed, upon
Messrs. Giles and Brent, the Virginia Senators
in Congress, for refusing to vote, as instructed
by the Legislature, against chdriering me
Bank of ihe United States. II was upon this
resolution that Mr.. Benjamin Watkins Leigh
drew up his celebrated, and so often quoted pa
per upon the riehl of instruction, which he af
forwards so signally violated. no t
When representative in Congress, in 1910
Mr. Tyler sustained The motion made TO issue
scire fncids against the Bank of the United
States, whereby il would have been forced L
Weld up IFS charter. In the speech which h'
made on that occasion he uses this plain Ian
guage:
"The question whether il would be proper TO is
sue scire facids against the Bank divides itself int
two heads of inquiry. First, whether the charte
has been SO yolatsd as TO ensure forieiture} And
if So is II expedent TO exact the forfeiture' Ih'
decision Of the first would preclude one from an in
| quiry into the second. For, sir, ipasmuoh as be
lieve the creation of this corporation unconstitutional
| cannot without violation Of my oath, hesitate Il
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