Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-04-02

National Bank and high Tariff, and in favor o
strict economy and primitive simplicity in the admin
stration of public affairs. In addition to this, in al
the States, he was pledged against removals from
Office for opinions sake; and every where the doc
'rne that TO the victors belong the spoils was
hed forth to the people hateful and odous in the
extreme. He was elected, and Mr.. Tyler, who had
recorded his opinions against National Bank, was
CHOSEN Vice President with him. He formed his
cabinet from the ranks of the old Federaliss, and
'ne work OF prescription was commenced. In the
lace the most solemn promises to the contrary the
axe Of political decapita,ion was welded day and
night; and so clamorous those viruous patriots
who contributed to his election, for Office, that they
followed the poor old into his private cham
ber and deprived him, by their petitions and suppli-
cations, of the few moments which, each day. he
would have devoted to his family and his God. 1Hey
hunted him to his grave. In one short month after
his Inauguration he died under the weight of his Ia
bors and sorrows; and Mr.. Tyler succeeded him.
Regardless of their promises the contrary in many
OF the States in the preceding election, the leaders
passed Bank bill through Congress; and Mr.. Ty-
ler true to his promises and recorded opinions the
subject, vetoed the BILL In the estimation of the lea
ders he was no longer Wing. Fierce and bitter de-
nunciations were poured upon him and in front of
all his assailants and raducers lowered the form Of
Henry Clay, himself now beginning to be the cho-
sen embod nent, - and who, with the aid of his
Partizans in and out of Congress, paving the
by these denunciations for his own nomination for
the Presidency in 1874. Mr. Tyler went through
his term, reviled by the very men who had elected
him, and that, too, for DOING in his official capacity
hat they must have known he would do in certain
contingency; while during his term, he was indebt-
ee for whatever of support and encouragement he
ceived, to the party who opposed his election, but
who showed themselves capable, nevertheless, of
merit and rmness in political adver-
say. Such Vhigism in ls4O
We have seen that, in 1886, the Wings of this
State were ultra on the question of Southern rights;
now they are tame and submissive as a party, and
ready to denounce every man who will not approve
and laud the socalled ''adjustment, as an agtator,
fanatic and traitor to the Union of the States/
We have seen that, in 1886, they were opposed to
a National Bank and high Tariff; but we know
that in ls4l they branded Mr.. Tyler as traitor be-
cause he refused to sign their Bank bi and know,
furthermore, that in 1914, they preached the doctrine
s. the higher the Tariff the cheaper the goods and
advocated and defended the Tariff of 1912 on every
stump and in all their newspapers in the State.
1t is welles,abishsd fact that from 1886 to 1874
hey opposed the Independent Treasury, declaring,
among other things, that it would unsete the
y, and destroy the heathul operations of the Bank
ng system but noc, since the system has been tes-
ted. and has succeeded in every respect its friends
predicted it would, they silent in relation to it.
They refuse to do justice to the policy of their oppo-
lens even in so plain this, fearing, should
hey do so, that they may lose influence thereby as
politicians and partizan agitators. And this, too,
rom leaders who in the habit of asseverating, most
whenever they think they can make any
political capital by it, that they not partizans but
no.party men, who wish we'll to their country and
oice to see it prosper, no matter what policy may
prevail, or who may be at the helm!
We repeat what We said in our last issue on this
subject: " The leaders Of such party are not to be
safely trusted under any circumstances. Out of pow
sr, they ally themselves with all factions and make
promises of various kinds different sections, in
Ter to get in; and once in, they disappoint all Sec
ions and all factions, more or less, taking care all
he while of their own interests and keeping both
eyes fixed constantly on .' the spoils.
We leave our readers to draw their own concu-
sions from these facts. We have stated nothing
which We cannot prove, and we challenge the Raleigh
Register, any other Federal print, to meet US in
argument on these points.
We shall continue our remarks on the subject in
our next.