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SPEECH OF HON. ). C. CLARKJ . OF N. Y.
IN CONGRESS, rEgnitA nY 22,4843.
The speeds of Ron. John C. Clark, of N. Y
aelivered in the U. S. House of Representatives,
on the billitrestablish Commercial relations with
~, China, gives the President,. and Messrs. Webster
and Spencer of the Cabinet, the severest handling
which their base recrenncy to the Whig party
has yet received. We are sorry that our liniits
do not admit the entire speech. Mr. Clark - says
the hill . under consideration proposes to give the
administration a large discretionary power in the
expenditure of "$40,600, and places his. opposi
tion to this on the ground, very justly, of a want
•of Sonfidenco in the administration 6 'After a
lengthy exordium, in which he thinks the 0 great=
'news" of the subjects of his remarkfi does not fai;:-
• ly give them an exemption from the merited re_
•prosch of those they have injured, Mr. Clark pro.
• ceeds to show Mr. Webster to the country as the
• chief plotter in a scheme which was, intended to
ruin the great Whig party of the Union. lie
proceds : • • -
I have no doubt that John Tyler came
to Washington on the demise of. Genera!
Harrison with hotiestintetions to
ter The Government on Whig principles.
His 'inaugural address bears on its face ev
idence of such intentions. The.-declara
tion that he should take'as his model the
" fathers of the .Republican school"sootli-
ed the. alarms 'of many Whigs who dis- -
rtrust Virginia politiciansL,l . mean those of
the modern abstraction school. The in
angural, taken in connexion with his par
tiality for Mr. Clay, and his •tears'sked ut
the Harrisburg Convention over . his.defeat,
were hailed by thini as harbingers of pros
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parity to the country and of safety to the .
Whig
. party. •The sentiments -of Mr.,
'Clay in regard to the currency - and to a
National Bank were well known to Mr.
—Tyler and - tir : . the COI/ wry,. Far years
they had hien emblazoned
„on the pillars
of the Capitol in characters of Irving light,
--and--had -illumined every-hill-top in the .
country. did' not believe it within
the range of possibility that Mr. ~Tyler,
kno - wingos-he did know, the epinions of
Mr. Clay on all subjects of national con, ,
comment, and w ho, at that Convention and
• elsewhere, had manifested such an ardent
zeal fur his nomination to the
,Presidency,
could.turn his - back upon - his" principles
and his friend. What. ; said they, is it pos
sible that he can he guilty of the glaring
inconsistency of advocating the claims of
a man to the Chief Magiitracy whose
' , whole life and conduct stands pledged to
give to the nation a sound,curreney through
the instrumentality of a National Bank.
and not himself be 'the friend of such an
institution ? Surely, said they, Mr.. Tyler
cannot Relieve a bank unconstitutional, else
he could•not,,with any appearance of hon
esty or consistency, aid in placing is the
Presidential chair a man 'whose , first offi
cial act would be a strong recommendation
of that very Measured Though it -might
have been known to them' that, at certain
periods of his life, Mr. 'l'cler hau enter
tained opinions hostile to a %banic, they be
lieved, and they• had a right to believe,
that his presence as a'‘Vhig delegate at a
National Whig, ConVention, avowing his
predilictions in favor of a bank candidate,
and himself accepting a rMurination from
that Cenvention for the second office in
the Republic, furnished' cunclusiia evi
dence of a change Of opinion. better
men than John Tyler had Chango their
opinions - in regard to a bank, and i:ihY
May fie not have seen iii the' necessities ii
ills times, and the afflithion4 of his 'coon:
trymen; abundant reason to change his
pinions also?
But the fend hopes iiiipired by the in- .
augural,iii the bosoms of the Whigs—of
the pure end patriotic nien who had taken
Mr. Tylef front obscucl4 and .pltteed him
on the pintiaclo donated
to sad and bitter diSappoiniment..
' The gocidTesolveirwltlrwhich e carne
here armed were soon Smothered in the
impure embrace of a fcirbidden • ambition:
The fatal words second term were whis
pered into his too willing ear, and " all
was lost." These have been the "open
sesame" to all tile woes and afflictions of
the Whig party. -
H6' found himself suddenly„unexpectedly
in the,possession Of powerond soon, very
soon, tasked his ingenuity, to devise plans
for its perpetuation In himself and hitretVc-,
cessor. Suriounded by flatterers, he gree
dily inhaled' heir incense, fibely offered,
tp,grictify at once , his vanity and to minis
ter, to = theirrown' advancement: Pleased.
with the rattles with which his maiden am..
''bitiokwiteltichled; new visions of fury
flitted his bswildered fancy, and
nevi he'pes'swelled ,his tiny heart to the
very viirge!or : borsting. ,, With piquipkt
tipiptOns*iiii - with ,the
,energy of
hi. character and- Oa, alpigiljtpdo. of his
"tvering .genktis,!ho issued:, to the, adinir-,
jai hip; coitqe: the' Vic vole
Of his delibSiAioht, sn'd; in the stern an
fluageAtta,secontl, Cato, Ouin4o4.fi , ,rlh
-the' stilAptlenda-f*-priraisger
Tiedecnie '.lf4 the dieniembe meat -of
lho iniTAtao!:trOti: the
et , e• vissaltr‘Riricdharg
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came necessary to effect his' object. The
." one term". principle 7 —a principle which
I trust is now permanently.. incorporated
into the Whig creed , —presented an insup
erable barrier to his' re-election. That re;
election - could be effected only by a new ; 'a
third, a Tyler party, to be composed of - a
portion of the Whig party and the " odds
and ends' of all parties. • •
award to them their unqtialifie
approbation, so' far at least as motive la
concerned. • . •
• I trust, sir, that by this , good time the
eyes of
,the Widget:4 .- th° country are fully
open to a just appreCiation of the ipotives
and the management of those who have
betrayed them and made the vain effort to
sell them to the support of the President.
Up to the' period of the Faneuil Hall
speech, there were no doubt some, perhaps
mank, -, Whigs who cherished the hOpe that
Mr. Webster would return to the fold from
which ambition in a fatal moment had
tempted •him to wander. They thought of
his herculean intellect and of his indomit
able Spirit when.fighting in the Senate the
battles of constitutional liberty, and they
were slow to believe that he had . left the
camp of ,the faithful to' form a lasting
ance wit ti a crooked, perverse, and,encir
..
curneisedgerleXation. But, sir,•that speech
extinguisld,thb last• hope of his, few,re..
maining friends..
These who believed that his efforts to
defeat a National. Bank Were prompted by
" Bhould
. considerations of anxiety for the peace and
.
moth theii• firm base as soon as I?" 1 harmony of the wbjg party - , of the
posi-
Sir, like the courage, of Bob :Acres, when lion in which a veto would place the Pre
the hour of trial came, all his firmness sident towards that party; end the effect•of
and all his patriotism " oozed out at the 1 -that position on that peace ,and harmony—
ends of his fingers." • It seems that the; those who believe that his continuance M .
fear of the loss of plae, like'a • spectre, the Cabinet resulted froin a conviction that
has haunted him in all . out-goings and he could there - best - serve the country by
incomings. Sir, had he.assumed towards conducting to a successful termination our
the President the port and bearing of a•mattinegotiations ‘f:ith England—were compell
'resolved to go for the country atoll hazards, ed then to admit that-they. had extended to
otaugreall personal and private considera- him a charity , which he did not merit.—
tiOns,..l believe in my • , heart that at this _ Then it' was, that the painful reality of his ,
moment the Whig' banner would be prond-- tergiversation was fully realized. Thereit
ly floating (0 the breeze in every - direction.' was, reviewing the "tout ensemble"
But the, closet scene had been enacted,nd the P.,ecretary'e •• course, that they diseover.
ir was no longer any Part of his purpose 'to 'ed that ambition and the love of place,more
act the honest, faithful, and fearleas,conn /than•love of country,diad counselled him
sellrie of the President. -The dignified-and -to- remain in a Cabinet - from -which his
lofty Minister of State had dwindled down highminded, pure, and honOred-colleaguesl
into the mere syeopliant and parasite. had retired in disgust. And the honorable
• I have said that the record of the corn- Secretary was not contenfto remain - in his
pact has not been - promulged. But I will : degraded position in sileree:._:To evince '
hazard The- conjecture that the high Conk his subserviency to the President, as a vol-,
tracting patties, for good and sufficient conk unteer he appears in the public prints 'and
siderkitions thenrthereunto moving, resoly unbhislitrgly herniate the world not only
ed that, so far as they had the power, John his want of sensibility to insult "and of
Tyler should -be. elected PreSident of the manhood to resent and repel it het.his fix
United States ; that the pnlitieal world ed determination to remain in power; riot
should be turned upside down ; •that quiet withstanding all the contumely which, the
ehbuld be thrown into confusion, harmony President had heaped upon him and his
into (14cortl, and order into chaos. The late associates.
IVhigs remph,„ with its — stately pillars and In his letter to the editors of the Natiott
splendid capitals, reared with so mach toil a! Intelligencer, under date of i 3th Sep
anti:care,. and standing firth a model of teinber, 1841, he informs us, "that- he had ,
political beauty and of strength, eras to be seen . no sufficient reason for the dissolution
razed to the, earth,- and from its eisjohaed of the late Cabinet by the iteluntary act of
:Materials, aided by cross-,ties dug boat the i ts own members."
a:),•Mi.: Clark thinks the President was made
the dupe of. Mr. Webster and others, who.in
their Jealous hatred-ot Mr. Clay, were willing to
saeritiee even their darn reputation together with,
the interests of the entire Whig party, if they.
could crush the,asptrations of the great Western
Statesman who had obtained so strong a hold up;'"
on the affections Of
: the people. • Mr. Clark again '
proccedi ,
- I
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Instead of standing by prlnciples
with the firmness of a patriot,
,and with'a,
self-sacrificing devotiOn to :the great - mar
paramount' interots ,the country, the',
Secretary became the humble apologist of
John Tyler's delinquency,: sy,cnd of his
imbecility too. What had „become ,of his
vaunted boast that the pillars of the Capi
tol
ruins of the Locofoeti Herculaneum delug- Sir, the
,St•cretary's optics were not usu..
ed by the molten lava Of the i'ec;,•lution Of, jilly_sharp: His eyes were dazzled by the
184 Q, was to be constructed a ife+., edilice, glare of the prenitershiPin present posses
and dedicate to the use of John tip.! Third, Sion and of the Presidential Coronet in the
President in his • own right in I ;ils, and distance. He is a Yankee,—belonging to
then to pass to his successor, 1) .niel the that tribe famed for iti.coolness of caleula•
First
Sir, it is my firm and honest I:: lief that
considerations other than those rnonected
with the imptirtance and delicacy of our
relations with England had overpowering
weight with the President in retaining Mr.
Webster in the . Cabinet. He
. saw that a
storm was in preparation, and although at .
that time the cloud in the political horizon
was no bigger than - a man's hand, he' felt
that it would rapidly increase, and that erg}
long the little speck would become a de
solating tempest. Ile wished for strength.
for support, - • for allies; to enable him to
‘'ireatherthestorm. And who at the North
could give him more efficient aid.thadthe
Man iiiho". to.taletto of the very highest or;
der, umTha t in,-an eniiiiitit degree res
pect and , confidence of the Whig party ?
His means of mischief.were,in a
,ratio com
pounded Of those talents, 'of that respect,
and confidence. Leaning nu the pillars of
his mighty reptitation, which had cost him
Years of unremitted. toil to erect, the Se
amaty, vainly fancied that his fall Was be=
yond the feach di' human poWer. Vain
ifte . honest and sturdy
Whig Simi tit the lietth, so'fatas my'ac
.
quaintance extends, he itands altriost de
solate snd alone, still majestic in the ruins
of his oWn ereation. Like the strong man,
he has Madly seized , hold of the granite
columns of his own &Warne, brit, unlike
hiin,-he has bntied with himself neither
friends nor Mee beneath the-ruins:
I have spoken •of Executive inkente.
This influence May . bsben'eficeObr
Thus far the comluti rot ate honorable gen
demon of the GOard map: be
_, attributed to
: the former. Up to the Period I haie neith
er,the right nor tlispositioii to impdgn their
Motives. Thom may be doubter's and
skeptics.on the subject; from such let me
invokelor the,. gentlemen of the
the charity of . their silence. Wait for. the
deVelopmenta of , time---tho great,-trioi: of
Ahingti and of 'men. '.' 4 Wait till the , 4th of
:marati, 164'5: ,If thattlaY,shall4nd them
in.tbie tibiae; representing, with their
interests of their aonati !
penis; or,, haringbeen diemlsied the pub-
Ire iiervico hero ,'it; aball find thanii mingilak
among the r or if that dapihall.
;find thou should rs Uneoilect robes
0( . 0 f40,(4 1 0 1 7 1 047y 1 h0 8 ,F whs?!., fralinb*
,
;iiriiitiWoon•tont•
uwWw:*awsi`ispEzz)
! tion, especially in all matters of pecuniary
and; personal thrift. Sir, I dill not inn
,
mate that the Yankees are hot as sensitive
to attacks upon their honor as others; such
an intimation would dishonor my own
father and all my'kindred ; but the Secre
tary seims, to be an , exception to theien - -
eral rule of his citste. The alligator is not
devoid of sensitiveness ; but it is impervi
ous to assault, and the hunter's. attempts
to reach it in vain : the reboundingpalls of
his enemy demonstrate the 'impenetrable
nature of the coat of mail with which
yia
tore has protected him.
The influence of the Se'cietary over the
President is said to be second that of no
other
_entleman ; but he remains here,calm:
as a summer's morning,the quiet and pleas
ed spectator of the persecutions .for
sake which the fatuous rage of the
President inflicts upon his ci decant
brethren. .
What,cares he that Jonathan- Roberts,
and thousands of others,--good - •n, pen
esl, faitlifnl, and capable pulili
are rudely ejected from office.fcx no i Use
ether than . that of an attachment to Mr.
Clay, to make room for the hypocritical
neophytes terylerism, so long as he con
tinues qUietly to gnaw the bone.of office.
Sir, the President exacts from his de;
endettS'a strict execution'of the condition
of the bond,- though it may consist in the
perforn3anceof services front which a well
ieguieted and Patiiotip spirit would revolt:
The Searetary was 'becoming enervated in'
the enjoyment of inglorious'ease at Wash
ington : an important election was about to ,
take ,place in Massachusetts; he was there : .
fork:Ordered tail:Maker to.' gird on
the arirtour,in.which, like,anothereichard
Ceur :de L ion, he'had so often .tnet and
vanquished the stalwart knights of j th .
tra .Democracyte couch his uncon quered
lance.againet his oncecOnfi'ding and
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Wits same John Tyler, who? in hi
% e in
,
.atidyeee,pFeclaimed, , that•;lk)
, would iremove .no i
neuntkieof : poet office
vt;11!:? has faithfully .and honestly acquitted
hieteelf of the duties of hie:Office, Oreepi
he heti been' guilty of:ai .
.eldp; oi by ieCtef meant), :the rninlY,
'ind‘thereferit'the-tit t eitf.'olitteiti6Aible,
giver It rt ifii tYetihe4oiheSl
ihe r e b v b,tin the e Orthe ;
ValleZESltx lthle's , UWE= ato &NAL
ernment'• in 'eanflic't wi If' the' freedork of
election's ;" this same polifical Pope,2 who'
on 'the 28thof Se;Wernher, issued from the
VaticanapompcMs bull, threatening decap
itation, to executive. officers who- 'thad vio
lated the 'obligations which they impliedly
assumed on taking office under . (my) . hi 4
administrationi.'or abstaining from any ac
live. partisanship, or in any way conant
ing their offices with patty politics,.or .
Mg them for party purposes ;" this same
Joint Tyler unblushingly commissioned his
Piime Minister to desecrate the "Cradle
of. Liberty," insult the' Whigs of the old
Bay State, and aid in . the achievement of
a Locofoco -triamPli in that venerable and
pateiotmConimonwealth ! Who can corn
pare this ukase of the President to the:of
fice holders with the qlectioneering tour of
Secretary, and not feel contempt alike for
master and for man ? • I knOw not which
most to abhor, the 'base hypocrisy i,f the
President, or the' mean servility of . the
Minister., . -
And thus l in this green morning of our
national existence,for the first time has been
exhibited to,the astonished view of the
American people, the revolting spectacle
a political crusade of a Secretary of
State „against The; peace and integrity of the
party which elevated himkto office, attend—
ed with the pomp and parade of official
pageantry, and with the . delinery of a par
tisan speech by this same Secretary, as des
titute of taste and •of power as it w.as:rin
suhing to the "good men and true " who
were doomed to witness. the- degredation of
their once belo'ved Orator,
Sir, the time is not disfant, when - the
Secretary would give all the wealth of the
Indies to have every trace of that speech,
blotted from the recollection of his country -
men. Would
.to God I could throw peer
it the thick mantle oloblivion, and replace
its unhappy ., author on the- proid pinnacle
he occupied• on the 4th of March, 1841!
Vein wish ! The recording angel has per=
formed his office-: lur ocean of penitenthil
tears cannot efface the record. There will
it stand, through all time, a monument of
the frailty and folly of litnnan greatness.
What must . have . been the anguish of
feeling of men like Abbotti g a wrencei'w ben
the-:'inendicant orator, after referring to
Many offlees in the customs filled with
whigs, and to the mission to England so
ably filled by an accomplished scholar and
statesinfin—all' of which opposition to the
Administration of Mr. ,Tyler might place ,
in jeopardypitlously ingtiires, " Where
do the whigs intend to place me ? where
am I to go ?"
Ilere again the rear of the loss of office,
the.necesseary result in this reign of terror
of a faithful adherence to' prineiPle, is most
plainly developed. Sir,. had there been in
that assemblage one true, honest, and fran k '
friend of the inquiring Secretary, he would
have cited to him the sth verse of the 27th
chapter of St'. Mathew, and in the spirit of
pity and of Incrcy, would have recommend
ed to him an imitation of the examPle ,of
his great prototype, recorded in the verse
referred to by the faitiiful evangelist:.
A great man guilty of ingratitude to his
&hinds, of the abandonment of his, princi
ples for the sake, of office, and of treach
ery to his party, can Linda resting place
only hithe grave. There may his bones
and faults repose together, in the uncertain
hope that the hand of friendship May place
on the tide page of his biography the
charitable maxima "De'Arteis nil nisi
bonum," But, living, in vain may ho in
yoke the charity of the world. Ile can-1
not escape the daily reproaches of friend
ship betrayed, of faith violated, and pa-
triotism outraged. In the :language . . of
Scripture, should he take the wings of the
morning and flyto did uttermost parts of
the .east, even there will the voice of viola
ted obligation reach him, and nightly dis
turb the - repose of his bed chamber. The
.
- wry; "where
_am I to go?" seems to
ye been made in the spirit of depreca
tory anticipations. .The 4th of March,
1845,. will soon arrive. Then; in anguish
and bitterness of soul, will he make the
same inquiry. And the spirit of prophecy
need not be invoked to indite the answer.
TheO.will rush upon him, whh afflic
tive anti soul-rending force, the frightful
recollections of the past, and the .peitiful
forebodings of the future. Though now,
glittering in the pride of place, the subject:
of heartless "flattery and of hollow respect,
then he will find "none so pOor as to do
him reverence." -
And uow, the Secretary, having fulfilled
his political embassy, no 'doubt enjoys
with infinite gout the fruits• of hie trealh
ery in witnessing the chair of the qan
cocks defiled by an . oultra Democrat, --,the
abettqr of revolutions, the hero 'of clam-
bakes,tlie , lnatigetor of ."a rebellion
which threatened' ,to wrap
.a neighbouring
&Rif in Itainen; and deluge, it_ with blood.
But' II must, part vridi the honorable
Seeretery; . We Criald . heve . better spared "
a better mem -But he has gone, :aad, peace
to his political lieloogs„: not : to
,
. his epitsphv An ininea.
botriyed , patly, arid 'a:Flees?.
ietr-iinui; proper
A few. words, More l. however, before
final leave-talting..,,,Sir-the • impudence of
the Faneuil Hall speech is in keeping with
all the eircumstattees. under which it was
delivered. Men of high !tending and ex
alted worth—Mason s , Russel, Quincy,
Otis, Saltonstall, LaWrence,
.and others,
had assembled to greet theirold friend, and
to hear from his lips the words, of consola:..
tion and of: hope:. And whatdid they
,
hear.? Was their drooping. courage a
roused;to engage to fresh vigor in the battle
'then about to be fought Massachusetts'
between the whigs and their old restless
and implacable enemies. I Were .they. urged
to the contest•by•that voice which sit 'often
had cheered theM on to . victory ? 14o s 'air;
tiolhing like this. 't'he'y were compelled
to listen to a speech made up of self-glo
rificetion of the orator, of his apprehensions
of loss,of officeif he zontinuedfirm to his
Whig principles,'and insolent arid unmerit
ed. rebuke of his . heafers. • In the person
of A. Lawrence,then- before him, was the
chair-man of the Massachutietts Whig con
vention, their lately convened . to nominate
candidates for Governor & Lieutenant Gov
ernor,of the State. • He and his asocietes in
the Convention were denounced for their
virtue and independance in' declaring to
the world a final sepetation between'
.whigd of the old Bo; State and their re
creant' President. 'Theirright to utter
these.sentitnents was challenged and
nied, and they were insultingly, told that
they were
s serrt to the Convention for no
suck purpose. • , '
In imitation of all similar conventions,
they had adopted resolutions' expressive
of Their opinions cif public men and public
measures; and for this expreSsion they'
received at the hands of the arrogant Secre
tary the castigation of his censure.
[Here Mr OLARIes hour expired. He
gave-notice• that he - would - write out the
balance of. his remarks. He 'intended, if
time had permitted, to have said-something
like the following :71 -
And sir, it was not-sufficient that the
excellent gentlemen referied to were thus
grossly insulted in public by an impudent,
itinerant Secretky, bin two of them(Abbot
Lawrence and my friend, the : IWMorable
"gentlemen who so • ably represents the
Essex district, Mr. SALTONSTALL, and
who by hiS ge — noine moral and politic!
firrimess, has endeared himself to" every
‘"vhig in the Union)were—selecteit
Secretary as the peculiar subjects of ridi
cule and lampoon. They were caricatured
in.the coluMns of the Court Journal under
the control of Tyler, Webster &Co. in the
following article; under" the date October
13, 1842:
"Messrs. Webster arid Cushing, It seem., Imre
been guilty of the gross, the enormous offeneb of
censuring the proceedings or a Cuevention where,
Abbot Lawrence presided, and which L evoett,
Saltonstall,addressed.
"The Secretary of State finding limit with the
decisions of an owner of spinning jennies and a
retailer of tapes and 'cottmis! Ye gods, it does
amaze mr. Is there no law in Boston for scan-
daltummagnutum ? No consideration of the de.
celieies of station ? Hosion can be correct Dos.
tea no ,longer if she allows ad individual of mere
intellectual notoriety and some slight political
stundiog, to publicly edmoni•th, nay, censure—
'berate rind belahoi:,' those are the very •words—a
man whose vast mind has boon deeply engaged in
the coloring of cloths, and whose arithmetical
science is• so profoundly available. And Caleb
Cushing belabors Leverett Sdltonstall jeu
ne . vent pas la chandelle; i. c. the man who can
hunt down amender of ten belittles his reputation
by knocking over a poor Lcverett."
Whether the same number. of the paper
contained .the assertion that the Faneuil
Hall speech and Gen. ScOtt'sAetter had
• put an end to Clay's prospects,',' or
whether it contained the annunciation of
the whlg defeat in Geogria in 'capitals,
" The work goes bravely on !" " Great
slestr_ncti_cn 'coons in Georgia !" Ido
not at this moment remember. •
Aod thus.it is that an expression of a dif
ference of opinion with Mr. WebSter sub
jects the most pure and, intelligent mer
chants and statesmen of the country to the'
ribald scoffs and sneers of a man who is,
unworthy, to Unloose Ole latchets of their
shoen.
%Vere there not in the Convention those
whose hearts throbbed with indignant eat.
option at the insolent assumMion of Ministe
rial prerogative? If there were not, then
indeed has the blood of their . Revolutiona
ry sires, of their Hancock and 'of their
Adams, ceased to flow in the veins .of their
descendents: : , '
tyir, l l will nit impute to these excellent
men the slightest insensibility to insult,
and I haiard little in saying, that could
the Secretary , have lo oked into the recess
es of their tortured bosoms, while lis:en
ing to this outpouring of vanit3;,.egotisM,
nod
~venont,, h e would have disdeveretra
couilict.of e motions in which contempt and
indignatiOn Were struggling for the Mastery,
,‘• .41:nd here I. must take leave- of the hon.
orahle Secretary; and in so doing,let me
commend
. 16 his attention the' Able of the.
kind' hearted :hu s sbandman . and'the , .frosen,
'adder, I leave him te'pondet. on its
nora..atid,Arow rou , ; AO at cogso.at •
in
ne
.111.11,Y!
the ItOnotabOr Seetetary, though
pro-eminent. istaTinot aloe!) in the defor. i
unity. m which .ogratitinie and
_treachery
hate clothed the pel:son .. pf the
SediPtqY of WOr 61,06.1 I) : B l'Olicer4,hvi
tt xiiW
fohning, if not Oti'.ofilci*‘4ll
ly compete withhiniin intellectual strength,
heimay - aspire, , with
,no humble pretensions,
to a fair pOrtiori of the honors with which
insensibility; coldheartedness, sordid ambi
tion, and Iscariotism adorn their possessors.
To a head of no inconsiderable strength
and clearness, he joins a' heart cased in
triple steel,. and responsive alone to the
galls ot.ielf-aggrariditemern. Uh.tiring in
:application,:and prompt irtmanosuyre, he
watches, with cat-like..intensity, the revo
lutions of_the political wheel, and careless
of the power which propels it, obtains a
quiet lodgment in its topmast bucket:
Though an Isa Cher in 'polities, " crouch
ing down between two - byrdens " to effect
his objects - , his grest,arclietypaundoubted 7
l'y is, Dan,' who, in' the prOilietic language
of. the dying pitriarch,- ; was th.be. "..a ser
pent in the way, an .adder in the path, bit
ing the horse's heel's, -act_ that his rider
should fall baeliward."- , • ,
Although the honorable the Secretary of
War has enacted Many astounding politi
col summersets, lie has exhibited in his re
cent demonstration of ground and lofty
tumbling, a rapidity-arid boldness.of move
ment, a suppleness, of conformation,- an ap
titude for juxtaposition, and a flipflappish
ness. of hatlequinry, which may well ex
cite the unbounded admiration and applause
of the most, accomplished' performers
the ring. • . 1.,
In September, 1841, the Secietaily-,'in;-
dignant at the outrages, committed by the
President upon the honoi and .principles
of the Whig party in New, York, and act
ing upon that occasion as its champion, is
sued an address to the party; appealing to
theirinjuted patriotism and wounded-pride
to meet in Convention at Syracuse to ex
pros their feelings of abhorrence at the
usurpation and treachery of the President.
In pursuance of this appeal the Conven-:
thin met. — .But - where was - the - burn - Eng and .
indignant John C. Spencer, whose voice'
was to have aroused the 'dormant Whigs
from their lethargy, infused new life and
'energy into their cliilled veins, and rallied
them to the polls at the election then fast
approaching `I Sir, -he was among the
missing. To the summons himself had
issued there. was endorsed a return of " non
'est ,intentus." While, ig . obedience to
that call, his-faithful brethren were in con
sultation in regard to the adoption.of'inea
mires best calculated to advatice-the best
interests of the party and the country, Mr.
"Spencer, like a cowering and skulking
culprit, afraid that the honest sun should
peer out' upon" lila treason, was crouching
in a duk corner ot a dingy room at Brown's,
in this-city, taking lessons from his fug,le
man in the art and mystery. 'of making
.bows, grimaces; arid congees which might
be'acceptable to the tenant of the palace.
Sir, the Secretaryship •of which he is
the incumbent was offered to, and finally
conferred upon him, for the sole purpose
of defeating the iVhigs in the election re
ferred to.
,The wire-workers at Washing
ington knew _ their man, and the price to be
paid for' is apostacy. They knew, him to
be the author of the address,. and they
calculated that his appointment would lull
the Whigs to repose. It was intended as a
vet blanket fo'r . the Syracuse Convention,.
Wild as an opiate to drug that
. portion of the
whig party who yet fpndly . (i..e:foolishly)
hoped that John Tyier was true to his
principles and twills party, into a fatal se...
eurity. It was an artful game, most foul
ly, wickedly,..and 1 regret to add, success
fully played. The whig party in the State
was mice more prostrated at the feet of the
Locofoco Dagon, not by the power of open,
generous enemies, but by the coldness and
apathy 61 - Its friends, produced - in t great
degree by the defection of Spencer.
Well do I remember, sir, on-ray return
-home, -when speaking to some of my
Whig constituents of the recusancy of Mr.
Tyler, that I was rebuked, and the ap
pointment of theßecretarywas refereed to
iii proof at the President's fidelity to his
party. Mr. Spencer, by a long ecnirsia
of hypocritical- profession; had become a
pronainent and leading member of" the
Whig party In the State, arid -many, unac
quainted with.the histOey find pairsions of
the man, _wets incredulous to the Suggeat-
Gn thi;t he was to be the instrument of the
President for the prostration of their party ,
in the Empire State. But the delusion,
has vanished—the scales have fallen from
tlitieYes of the-dotribers,—and he- is, now
pieitiji\ititiAn=th r n_bald and naked itirpirtitle
of hischaraeter. lie haillierformedthe T '
dirty worit'lf 'his ° employers, and is nOw °
here receiving hia : reWard, thii-wages
litical iniquity. But; sir,l am ltappy il •lto
say thSt he no Binger PosseaOsAlte priwer
of mischief to the'Whigs !If New . 'York.
The. Hoit'S 'bee been iota 'from hii re
creantehonlders4 and ho•slande
. forth a by-1
ena,:fattening,on,the • mutilated : corpses of ,
''his :tecent friends, The impotence of, his
las"),, cent etiort,.in the service of ..bie.mas
tet.io.itio State- of New -York- was equall
ed Onlyby s :its . rnindacity and 'impudence:
In My,,,jodgettienf, mi'etiliettitte
,Was right
- Wiiiitfieto)d . ns the. oter , day, iliat;7s',fai
from bttylog.Sided, it,. actually,..inktred,bis
04 6 1i 1 4•1040 6 )li/artYfl
•
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VIVINABIZar QUE.&
impositions. • A fetv more such efforts
would hive aroused the Whigs, throughout
the State to a-general and triumphant relit: -
, ~,
• To the , close • observing po rtion of the
Whig,party no, evidence of Mr.,Spcncer's
defectioriwas wanted other than thit fur !
nished ..by his acceptance; of -li place.in a
Cabinet from which had been elected Cri to ,
teudenr telL granger, and. Ewing,--4zien
Whom'theAhig party delighted to honor •
--:rrieu in Whose persons the entire Whig
I ,_
party throughou the country had been in- .
Bulted by . a tick e, . vacillating, and imbe
cile Executive, .expelled because- ,, they •
weidtl not compromise their. principles,
and; like the' Secretary 'of. War, play the
l apnetate.- . ----1- sa-y-expelin d; for — the - ugh' -"the':
members 'of the, Cabinet, with one nota;;-..
blettnil dishonorable -exception, resigned,
Yet a furthereontinuance in it lad, become
1 incompatible ; with
. self-respect and with
!their duty to their parlyind±the country...
Nos true Whig, having the slightest reaped
for himself or for.
, Whig principles, weuldr
have occupied a place from which the pa
triotic arid talented Bell had beeii - driven .
for his eteadfaet devotion to those princi
ples.
Sir, the labors of love of fir. Spencer
I were as useless as they were • gratuitous
[and inaulting,•and, he 1139 . : no just right to
oin his colle4gue in Mike and in guilt,
(who had aided in"the overthrow of the
whigs in Mastiachesetts, in shouting imam(
to the triumphs of Locofocoism in the State
of New Yorlichieved by his agency.
It is said, hoWever, that he has contriv
ed to_ impose on the soft and plastic mind
1 , of his confiding txcellency the belief that •
'New York writhes _in the revolting •
hr. co of the, ultra democracy through tho •
efforts of his faithful Minister. I doubt
if not. And I doubt not that in the .was- •
sale of the. Niece some insulated - recess •
has often been vocal with the voices of the
.merry trio chanting hosannas to the edit
querors of the vhig ,itarty..and the despoil
ers_of their Country. • ; _
Sir, let them
,quaff - omand sing on. The
day of fearful retribution will.soon - come._
Though OW high in power, sparkling in •
its sunshine and revelling in its'enjoymertts,
rest assured, sir, that their. political "darn
nation slumbereth ndt. On the 4th day of
March 1845„.by- the common consent of
parties,.they will be consigned to a politi
cal pandemonium, where in the bosom of .
a restless and disappointed ambition •" tho
worm, dieth not and-the-fire-is-not quench
ed."
Sir, amid all the gloom which treachery -
has thrown around the whig party, I do
not permit myself to doubt that its recupe
rative energies will marshal it to the field .
in 1840, and 4hon' as . 1840, vietory,.
will again perch upon its standard, Le;
not the Locofoco legions "lay the flattering
unction to their, souls" that they are to
have a bloodless field. - No, sir; they shall
have a war, tenus copula, in all its honor- •
able forms, and with all its consuming
fiercenest,. and waged too 'with a . spitit
which would (to honor tb the most chivai-.
Vic campaign of 1840.
. .
Under the banner of patriotism, inscrib
ed with the name of the honest, rrank,'fear
less' and patriotic 'llarry of the West" ,
as
sociated, as 1 confidently trust it will 'be,
with the name of a Nort i hern gentleman
well known to the co.untry ‘ fr his fearless-,
ness, integrity, and undotnitalde spirit, and
under which all opposed' to the nobespier-
roan Dernoeraey,be they old \Vhigs or new
Conservatives, may rally, the Wliig patty
will again take the field and wage the war
with the spirit and enthusisith which Char
zieteriznii-the triAmpiis in Nu—York-in
1838 and 1839, and the general triumph
th igh the .country in 1840. Undei
such a bann , 'and with such .a,ipirit'We"
will reconquer the laurels of which treaeh..
ery has robbed US, anti aiain utteni[4,
under the an:likes of a faithful PritiVientt
successfully attempt, to raise the country.
rein the hoirible pit of I.4corocoism; and
dace it' on the rock of solid and enduring
prosperity.
PRETTY The Memories
l of childhood, the longiat.awaydaye of
boyhood,the mother's love and prayer, the
voice of . a departed playfollai, the - an:
cient church and sollool.house, all with
their green and hallowed asineiations, come
upon the heart in the dark hear orei*atiO
sorrow, as iniliijoayous 1 . 1101
the .passages of ,a p , aase Iy—rernOheitid .
dream and cast a ray of their own hall Owed
sweetness And:put:4:l)l4i,
"Mai n ( o ooi'll'ung "wberea*
boots eh& I OM! the siatd 9r 'I/404;94m
"Oh !" replied the mother, :•"you "ty!ll.ftmi
that to . be otto of the . ,Uitititi 'Sates::
,
" Tooh,lp noll !",.sdid alumnus, ladyt'.;
impatiently :to bar expiring' husband as:llk
strove to 4iliater a tow lust
,tvords.`, 4 . ' don't'
stop to, talk; - i;ui g 6; on :with yoar dying 1,1!,',
Dips', CASE: . -", Vlr bat gall. a wan Jar': •
naked a. green:one yeaterdsy,:ti whgn the:.;
afierift is seen Ciimiaglo 11i0V4ittr a .writ • '
ti t
in 4 6' 4 1 ,0i , ' ; y7` Ij,lo til'ii'' ) . l o:t! * °i6 / '' --'';''".:
404 t o n t ,; " • r t:: ;‘i P4 4 Ci ll tk til l i lt' . l.
4 6 0' Pi'' . : 4l , 5itt#54 1 ,7j404 . - 4 0004.1 4 ,:'
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