The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-04-14
cursed the country was the administration of John


cursed the country was the administration of John
Tyler
Mr.. Bayly said he regretted very much the
course of remark in which his honorable colleague
Mr.. Dromgoole had seen fit TO indulge. He
(Mr. Is } did not stand here. or mean to stand
here, as the defender of Mr.. Tyler's administra
ton. 1t is true (said Mr.. b. that am his (Mr.
lyler's) Immediate representative, bu, notwith
standing sir, have no disposition to shield him
or MS administration from any just reproach TO
which 1t may be liable. But he regretted that
his honorable colleague had seen fit to make his
remarks of condemnation So pointed as that he
conceived himself called upon to vindicate even
me wings from the errors of that administration
lie knew that it was the habit in this country
how-he knew that there were members of the re-
publican party who seek all occasions fit and unfit
to assa the administration of Mr.. Tyler 1t has
not always been so. When that administration
was IN power. it received far less assaults from
mat qnarer than it receives now. The time was,
SIR when, SD far from its being the object of un-
mitgated assault from the republican party, il
was courted and caressed, it was flattered and
Landed ; resolutions of laudatlon were passed in
republican meetings and conventions and it was
lett to the time that Mr.. Tyler retired from
once, for odlum and contempt to be heaped upon
it,
wish to be distinctly understood Mr.. Speaker.
DO not mean that my position should be mista-
Ken am not defender Of Mr. Tyer's admin
lsiratlon; L was not, To any considerable, extent
us admlrer; never was particularly its friend ;
but do y, sir, that the republican cause of this
country owes much 10 that administration. There
is not republican within the sound of nv voice
who can deny the fact there is not republican,
Sir who can say that but Mr.. Tylers admins
tratlon you would have had all the federal errors
hXed upon you, some of them for years What
would become of my friends sub treasury bill. to
which he is so much devoted but for that admin
istratlonF Sir, It's consummation would have de-
iayed twenty years, unless the questionable doc
trlne of repeal had been sanctioned by the repub
ilcan party But Mr.. Tyler's administration, if
1t did no more
Mr.. Dromgoole interposed, and asked his COL
league to permit him, in all kindness, to make an
inquiry. Was he to understand the gentleman to
maintain that President Tyler was in favor of the
PrlnclPle of the independent treasury?
MI Bay'y. | maintain no such thing.
Mr. Drom goole. Ifhe does, desire him to
conform that to Mr.. rs. " exchequer."
MIR, Bayly resuming. My friend does not un
derstand my remarks. | do not say that Mr.. Ty
Ter was IN favor of the subtreasury, but saw that
by vetoing the bank, with charter of twenty
years. he saved the country, for that length of
time, from the incubus of national bank. with
all It's corrupttons. After its charter, he would
ask of his colleague. how he could have consum.
mated his plan of divorcng the government from
the banking institutions of the country?
Had 1t not been for Mr.. Tyler's administration
mat dlihculty could not have been avoided Not
only that.b how was it with the distribution mill
cy2 How was it with many other measures of the
administration, which brought for it unmeasured
applause from the republican party Why, in
the Senate of the United States, with but one
single exception-the senator from Missouri, |
belleVe-honorable senators of the republican
party We'd with each other in heaping praise upon
him.
regret, therefore, if this assault was TO be
made upon that ad ministration, after it had gone
out OF power, after 1t had been sufficiently con-
demned, as it seemed to hm-if such an attack
was to be made, he thought it should not have
come from his honorable colleague.