The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-28

Again, when an invitation was extended L
their Vice Presidential candidate TO visit lh
State, MIR Rldgway, chairman Of the Win
Central Committee, aud afterwards Wing re
presenIstlye IN the 9Th Congress, worded II II
THIS plain aud unmistakeable language:
DaAR STA Tks original Jackson men Of The Stat
" Oh.o who Ia favor Of the election Of the VIII,
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
OIL The United States, propoas 10 hold convention IL
The eity Of Columbus, on the 25th day OF the pre-
sent moolh Ior the purpose Of organizing Iheii
strength and preparing for The approaching election
II 10 believed that the Government concentrating
upon this State their whole eectioneering strength
and that mighty effort will be made 10 carry Ohio
oy storm. La breaking down this last desperate en-
pedient OF party maddened 10 almost superhuma an
eAertio0 by defeat need aud We ask your eo-Ope-
ration. Your name wAl command the presence oil
thousands upon thousands Of our citizens from all
quarters Of The State, and will swell ranks,
confidently believe, with numbers Of those phO are
only piihloLtng thar support in order 10 be fully salts
fed thai The success Of tia Uhg candidates pA sseirt 4
triumph 0f The principles .sAieh brought General Jaeks0.
ssio pOiesr We Irust hat the importance OF TIA. cri.
SIS IN the campaign viii induce you to comply with
the Invitation which We tender you IN the name Vi
The Wing party Of Ohio"
And again, Mr. Thomas Ewing, afterwards
Secretary Of the Treasury, aud who, like Mr..
a
toed, IN a letter addressed by him 10 Mr.. l.. u.
Barker, dated July 18th, 1910, said
NV DEAR Sra On NY return from Columbus
tins evening, received your letter, informing me
that II was asserted al a public meeting, In Wash
ington county that IN a speech al Philadelphia, |
had said 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 con-
hadieisd the dssrriiOn- la this Of course you were
perfectly safe made no Hieh statement btli the rery
contrary"
Lastly, the National InlelIigencer, 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 10 the charges
OF the Richmond Enquirer, thus unequvocally
pronounced the question Of Bank not in is
sue:
Though The question Of Bank is net nO,1 before The
country and IS dragged into the present discussion
only to help the Enquirer out in weak cause, by an
appeal 10 ioeH understood prtudiee in lis Otrn State we
have no objection 10 the discussion into which the
Enquirer leads the way II
Is fortunate circumstance that the name If Gensral
Harrison has not been mired up lni the question Of a
.Nai0nal Bank as 10 maze him obnoxious, on that
ground, 10 any 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 lS4l, declares that
similar pledges were made in thTee-fourths of
the States of the Union. What. then, is the
inevitable and unavoidable conclusion to which
we are forced by the facts 2-that for period
~ fre years during tlpo presidential elections
Of the United States, and three senatorial
elections tR The State Of Tirginid, the Wig
party 1ere committed solemnly committed TO
The Peopie against The establishment of a
Bank Of the United States. ......
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 Tice Pre-
dent 10 the Presidency, alter This position2
In the examination of this question, shall
again conduct you through the records of the
party; for 1t is necessary that you oshould I'M
derstand 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.. Rdgway,
and stated that, in the Virginia Wing address
of 1886, he was especially recommended be-
cause OF his uniform opposition to Bank of the
United States.
Strange as it 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 al Harrisburg, il is said of him,
"Johp Tyler is known to the people of Virginia
as Of their best tried and most faithful servants
Party magnity, in its most reckless mood, has never
charged hm with being abolitionist. But, in the
re of their the mart n the prpe-
dent, who make and uDmake republicans by royal
touch have pronounced him Ftderulisi because he
is Wing. Against that charge ioc ,pH not ui,dcae
phom you hare 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 it will be made trumphantly by the Re-
publicans of Virginia, whom he has so long and so
faithfully served, and TO their protection commit
him. confident that in their hands he will sustain no
wrong, and that they will say TO him, ,oeH done thou
good and faithful servant )" ....
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 chariering the
resolution that Mr. Benjamin Watkins Leigh
drew up his celebrated and so often quoted pa
per upon the right of instruction, which he at
forwards so signalIy violated.
When a representative in Congress, in 1910,
Mr. Tyler sustained the motion made to issue a
scire facids against the Bank of the United
States, whereby II would have been forced to
yield up It's charter In the speech which he
made on that occasion he uses this plain Ian
guage:
The question whether it would be proper TO is
sue scre jacas against the Bank, divides itself into
two heads of inquiry. First, whether the charter
has been so violated as to ensure forfeIture' And
if so, is il expedent TO exact the iorfeiturel The
decision of the first would preclude one from an in
quiry into the second For sir, inasmoch as | be-
eve the creation Of this corporation unconstitutional
cannot without a violation Of my oath, hesitate 10
repair the breach thus made in the Constitution
when an opportunity presents itself for doing with
out violating the public faith But believing also
that it is erptdiei to put IT down, and other gentle