The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-09

| WHICH HIS 'luNerStfleS Sought 10 SllSma-
tie him. lie was animated by the rec
objection that the slave power had pre-
vented the reelection of his father and
| of himself of the Presidential chair, and
he poured forth the boarded wrath of
half a century. Lord Morpeth, who
was then in Washington, and who occu-
pied seat on the floor of the house near
Mr.. Adams during the entire debate,
said that "he put one in mind of a fine
old game-cock, and occasionally showed
great energy and power of sarcasm"
Mr.. Wise became the prosecutor of
Mr.. Adams, and asserted that both he
and his father were in alliance with Great
Britain against the South. Mr.. Adams
replied with great severity, his shrill
voice ringing through the hall. -Four
OF five years ago. said he "there came
to this house a man with his hands and
face dripping with the blood of murder,
the blotches of which are yet hanging
upon him, and when it was proposed
that he should be tried by this house for
that crime, | opposed it." After this
allusion to the killing of Mr. Cilley in
duel, Mr.. Adams proceeded 10 casti-
gate MIR. Wise without mercy. At a
later period in the debate Mr.. Adams
replied to Mr.. Marshall, the author of
the resolution concerning him. He al
luded to the friendly intercourse that
had existed between the gentleman's
uncle, Chief Justice Marshall, and his
own father, President John Adams, and
said that ''the slave-power was now
judge, and shareholders were to sit as
jurors. They proposed to treat him with
mercy. He disdained and rejected their
mercy, and he defied them. Let them
expel him if they dared-his constitu-
ents would soon return him. When he
at last resumed his seat, Wing represen-
tatives from the free States crowded
around him to offer their congratulations,
and resolution offered by Mr.. Fillmore
to lay the whole subject on the table
was passed by vote of one hundred and
forty-fou yeas against fifty-two nays
At the spring races in, 1S42 over the
Washington course. Mr.. Stanley, of North
Carolina, accidentally rode so close to
the horse of Mr.. Wise as to .jostle that
gentleman, who gave him several blows
with cane. Mr.. Stanley at once sent
friend to Mr.. Wise, with an invitation to
meet him at Baltimore, that they might
settle their difficulty, and left for that
city. Mr.. Wise remained in Washing
ton, where he was arrested the next day
under the anti-dueling law, and placed
under bonds to keep the peace. Mr..
Stanley remained at Baltimore for sew
eral days, expecting Mr.. Wise. He was
the guest of Mr.. Reverdy johnson, I'M
der whose instruction he practiced with
duellhg pistols, firing at mark. One
morning Mr.. johnson took pistol him
self, and fired it, but the ball rebounded
and struck him in the left eye, depriving
it of sight. Mr.. Stanley returned the
next day to Washington, where mutual
friends adjusted the difficulty between
Mr. Wise and himself, but Mr. johnson
was never able to see again with his left
eye.
President Tyler was gradually impressed
by those around him, with the idea that
the people would elect him at the expira-
ton of his term. 1t became evident,
| hnx hot l,,h oI e,
and that a corporals guard - of syco-
plants was urging him to persist i'll in
juring the Wing party, while the Demo-
Gratis were not disposed to support him.
But he continued with hardened obsti-
macy in his mad course, with staggering
steps and wavering purpose, as if struck
with a providential blindness of judg
ment. Mr.. Webster endeavored to de-
fend him in Faneuil Hall, and defed the
Clay Wings, under the lead of Abbott
Lawrence. 81 am Whig," said he,
"a Fancuil Hall Wing, and if any one
undertakes to turn me out of the pale of
that communion, let him Sc. to it who
gets out first"
The President, in his endeavors to
form a Tyler party, forgot his previous
determination not to remove faithful
office holders that their places might be
given to partisans. His organ announced,
1T is not enough that the Office holders
do not oppose the administration. We
want vigorous and bold men. We want
men who are ready to put their shoulders
to the wheel, and drive along the car of
the administration through every obsta-
Gle and every opposition.
Mr.. Wise was nominated as minister
to France and rejected, and Mr.. Gushing
was rejected as Secretary of the Treasury.
| Edward Everett was confirmed as Minis
ter to China, and had he accepted the
transfer. Mr.. Webster would have been
sent in the recess to Great Britain. But
Mr.. Everett declined the new appoint
place, left at once for China, hoping that
the Senate would not reject him after he
had entered upon his duties.
Mr.. Webster remained in the Cabinet
until the spring of 1S43, when the evil
dent determination of President Tyler to
secure the annexation of the republic of
Texas made it very desirable that he
should leave, and he was "frozen out :"
by studied reserve and GOODNESS. The
Cabinet was reconstructed, but few
months later the bursting of cannon on
the war steamer PRINCETON, while return
ing from pleasure excursion down the
Potomac, killed Mr.. Cpshur, the Secre-
tary of State, Mr.. Gilmer, the Secretary
of the Navy, with six others, while Col.
Benton narrowly escaped death, and nine
seamen were injured. The President
had intended to witness the discharge of
the gun. but he was detained in the cabin
by a lady. This shocking catastrophe
cast gloom over Washington, and there
was general attendance, irrespective of
party. at the funeral of the two Cabinet
officers, who were buried from the White
House.
One of those killed by the explosion
ON the Princeton was NJ. Gardiner, a
New York gentleman, whose ancestors
were the owners of GARDENERS Island,
in Long Island Sound. His daughter,
Julia, young lady of fine presence, rare