The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-25
SPEECH OF MR.. TYLER.

SPEECH OF MR.. TYLER.
FELLow-clrizEss:
II affords me pleasure to be with you this
evening, IN obedience to the call which you
| have made upon me through your Association.
| shall speak TO you, my friends !! plainly, frank
| ly, boldly, and without concealment, as becomes
an unshackled American citizen, but, hope,
| not IDLY aud without consideration. ] shall,
| however, attempt no oratorical display, for
PLAIN truth and plain sense are hest delivered IN
PLAIN language. Only as a living witness OF
those things which have seen, and a narrator
OF those things which know, do present my
self before you.
The last four years are destined TO constitute
one oil The most interesting periods recorded on
The page oil our country's history and although
l cannot exactly say that, during the time was
an actor In the events which transpired, yet !
can say that was part and parcel OF the NOV
ing scene, and so situated as to be enabled 10
mark lis shifting phases. IL is my purpose, on
this occasion, TO delineate this picture in such
manner as that you, who have been more re-
mote from the ground Of action, may form a
true conception Of the reality.
But, before proceeding 10 this, let me premise
\ by saying that, In whatever reflections shall
indulge In reference to The Wing party, no
personal imputalion will be meant upon any one
mere present, nor shall | embrace within the
scope OF my remarks the Republicans Of 1910,
who were and some of whom fear slill are,
deceived by this party. God forbid that
should cast the slightest censure or animadver-
| sion upon them; for if there be body OF men
In This country who, from the Revolution down
to the present time, amid all the changes in the
political horizon, and the mutations and convul-
slons OF party, have preserved their integrity,
and with dauntess front and unbending eye
have ever marched to the polls guided by the
true lights of the Constitution, unswerved from
their course by the aurements and baubles of
the day, these are emphaticaliy that body OF
men-the ancient trainers OF the Mecklenburg
Resolutions--the first who in the Virginia
House of Burgesses opposed British assumption
and British oppression-the authors OF the Re
solutions of 1913 and '99--the advocates and
supporters of the last war-the consistent oppo-
nents of mammoth moneyed corporation and
a protective tariff for the mere sake of protec-
tion-tte warm, ardent, jealous, and patriotic
| friends of the annexation of Texas-however
placed, wherever found their motto has ever
been, and always will be, sour country first,
our country last, our country foreper" |
feel myself incapable of abiding to them except
in terms of commendaton and could not lower
them, even if would, to the level of the Clay
| Wing party, of whose acts and principles in
tend to speak; and if my limited powers shall
permit, will endeavor, by plain and simple,
and truthful tale, to present this party to you in
suchlight and such character, standing upon so
many broken promises and violated pledges,
and attempting TO rear themselves into power
by the destruction of every principle of faith
and honor, and justice and iberaity, and all fair
| dealing, that every right-thinking man, who
hears me will not hesitate to scout them from
his side, and deny to them the right hand of po-
litcal fellowship; like the guilty one who is
always loudest in the clamor of arrest, thereby
attempting to conceal himself from suspicion,
they have been loud and unspaIing in their
charges of "perfdy and treachery" upon 9TH
ers. stand here to hurl back those charges in
| their teeth, and to prove them perfdious and
| fredcherons. With this view, propose to lay
before you the facts as they stand upon the re-
| cord, in reference to the course and conduct of
| this party, from its origin down TO the present
day, in connection, firstly, with Bank of the
| United States and if my time will allow, Sc
| condly, with regard to the Tariff !; and, thirdly,
upon the Texas question. Nor will impose
upon you, in the investigation, any other evil
dence than that furnished by themseves-ou
of their own mouths shall they be condemned.
| In the first place, them my fellow-eitizens,
they have raised hue and cry throughout the
land, and, in the Jacobin rage of the French
revolution made the very air glitter with burn
| ing efhgies, because Bank of the United States
was vetoed, and attempt to justify themselves
| for pursuing their mmoderate and violent
course through the assertion that, by The cleo
ton Of the Wing candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency in 1s40 the country deci-
ded in favor OF such an institution. | pro-
nounce here, 10 the face of this assembly, in full
view of all the responsibility which such pro-
nuncaton can bring upon me- and with the
full knowledge that speak in the presence of
honest and honorable men, who will strictly
analyse what say, that this assertion is untrue
and without foundation in fact; on the contrary
that they were firmly committed against the es-
adjustment OF Bank, and in attempting, at
the extra session Of 1871, to obtain the Execu-
tive sanction 10 The Fiscal Bank and Fiscal
| Corporation bills, they acted inconsistency and
taithlessly. Constituted as you are the proper
and high tribunal to try this issue, shall pro
coed to lay before you the facts which maintain
| me in my position.
| commence, then, with the earliest regular
document which emanated from this party. 1t
| is styled Gan Address to the People of Virginia
| by the Members of the General Assembly op-
posed TO the present Administration Of the Fed
eral oyernment'-publshed in Richmond,
1882 Il forms the basis upon which the great
| Wing superstructure was to be reared--as-
sumes in fact, for The FIRST time, officially, the
shibboleth OF Wang for the pnr,y, and as
| signs the Irue reasons for such assumption.