that emancipated us; and he who cannot see the nerve and the moral courage to brave the storm, His divine interposition thoughout this admin-but General Jackson. John Tyler did the same istration is anʼinfidel or a fool-he may have his thing, under as fearful circumstances, Why should choice. I predict that, if the same means are to be he not have the same amount of gratitude and praise? used by the federalists to secure the election of their "Render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's." candidate, I mean drunken orgies, empty and pro- Mr. Tyler has done things that I regret. I refane songs, coon-skins, hard-cider carousals, and gret that he signed the bill to repeal the independent their kindred and criminal means, perjury, treason, treasury. I regret that he signed the bankrupt bill, falsehood, corruption, bribery, swindling, and blas- by which just claims to the amount of millions were phemy; and the end to be effected by such means is repudiated, swindlers encouraged, and scoundrels to break down our free institutions, trample upon discharged from their honest obligations. I regret, the constitution, and subvert human liberty,--the above all, that he signed the bill to provide for the result will be as it has been. The workers of such distribution of the proceeds of the public lands--a iniquity will fall before the breath and vengeance measure that, in its effect and object, was designed to of a just God, as grass before the scythe. I speak plunder the people and bribe the States. But of all of the guilty, not of the innocent. But John Tyler this the democracy, as a party, have no right to com did not turn traitor; John Tyler has done nothing to plain. Mr. Tyler was not of their choice, nor is he merit such a charge. This charge is made, because indebted to them for his situation. He has done all he vetoed the bank bill. for the democracy that they could hope, and more than they had a right to expect. The whigs caught a Tartar when they elected John Tyler--that is, they elected an honest man. Permit me to take this occasion to say that no He was raised a democrat, and prior to 1832 had blame is to be attached to the President for the always been a democrat, and a member of the demo-prodigacy and extravagance of this administration cratic party; some of his last official acts, when a It was the people's representatives in the House and member of the United States Senate, were directed Senate who made the appropriations of the people's with ability and eloquence against the Bank of the money, and not the President. Let the blame rest United States. He was a warm and ardent sup- where it properly belongs. "Let justice be done, porter of General Jackson, and all the leading meas- though the heavens should fall.” ures of his administration, until what was talled the Mr. Speaker, from the very nature of our governproclamation made its appearance. To some of the ment, and from the nature of the representative chardoctrines contained in that paper, he took excep-acter, the people have a right to demand and to tions, and for a time withdrew his support and in- know the principles and the measures which shall fluence from the democratic party, under the supposi- govern and be sustained by every candidate for of tion that he had abandoned the democratic princi- fice in the event of his election; and that right to ples. The whig Harrisburg convention nominated demand carries with it the duty and the obligation, him for Vice President, with a view to unite the whig slaveholders of the South with the whig abolitionists of the North against the democracy of the North and South. Mr. Tyler was not questioned as to his political principles prior to his election; consequently, he was under no pledge as to what measures he would or would not support. President Harrison died; Mr. Tyler took his place, untrameled to any party, bound alone by motives and principles of patriotism, with a free judgment, and I believe an honest heart. Soon after the executive duties devolved on him, the extra session was called, and one of the first acts of the session was to pass a bill to incorporate a national bank. John Tyler vetoed it, and that is his great offence; for it, he has been denounced far and wide, by every hireling whig press, as a traitor, and by every whig demagogue as a scoundrel. The short of the story is, that the whigs were playing a fraudulent game when they elected John Tyler, and they got caught in their own net. I am no Tyler man, but it is due to my feelings and to justice, to say that the democracy and the country owe Mr. Tyler a debt of gratitude which will only be paid when the party strife which overshadows good and rewards evil shall have passed away, and merit and worth shall have a place in the political history of on the part of the candidate, to answer all interrogatories, made in a proper manner, and from proper motives, touching the duties, measures and principles, which shall govern him in the event of his election. That right and that duty were both vi olated in the contest of 1840, by the federal candidates for office. The candidate for the presidency was interrogated as to what measures and what principles would govern him in the event of his election? Those interrogatories were put to him from proper motives, and in a proper manner; but he refused to answer, and the people were given to understand that he would give "no opinion for the public eye." A national bank, a high protective tariff, the independent treasury, the assumption of the State debts, and the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, were all questions in which the people felt a deep interest. They were the great questions which had often agitated the country, and had divided the two great parties from the commencement of the government to that time, and still continue to do so. But it was a part of the whig organization to conceal their principles, and to substitute an honest and fearless expose of principles with log cabin parades, Tippecanoe songs, coonskin displays, and such disgraceful flummery. When the whigs were cornered, and compelled to show their hand, they denied that they were in favor of those high-toned federal measures which had always characterized the federal party, and which had always been acknowledged as federal measures. When General Jackson, in 1832, vetoed the bil to recharter the Bank of the United States, every Mr. Speaker, 1 am one of those who believe that heart and every tongue of every patriot was full the march of intellect and moral and philosophical of gratitude and praise. It was said that, under improvement has not been so great as some suppose. all circumstances then existing, (meaning the power I believe that mankind would now be what they of the bank and the strength and influence of the were many thousand years ago, if they were surbank party,) there was no other man living who had rounded by the same or similar circumstances. rally understood. I have carefully examined the internal viscera of this beast of whig pagan adoration. [Here Mr. D. held up a beautiful painting of a coon, with the entire internal viscera exposed, and each organ and part colored to life.] I find (said Mr. D.) this animal to contain within the cavity of its abdomen, all the leading princi ples of the federal party. The measures which have ever distinguished them as a party, and the names they have assumed at different times for political effect. The characters, initials and hieroglyphics, demonstrating modern whig principles, measures, and names, are Greek; from which it would appear that this same old coon lived in the days of the Grecian republics, three thousand years ago. I have deciphered and translated the Greek characters, and have supplied their place with the English translation; and, when thus translated, the following result appears, viz: In the heart of this coon-which may not only be regarded to some extent the seat of life, but also the seat of good and evil passions,-I say in the heart of this coon are found the secret principles of the whig party expressed in the word "tory," plainly and distinctly written. On the right lobe of the lungs is written "national bank," and on the left, "old federalism". all within the cavity of the thorax. Below the diaphragm, and within the cavity of the abdomen, we find the balance of the whig principles, measures, and names, distinctly marked, beginning with the pancreas, and descending through the whole line of the abdominal contents. To save the time of anatomical demonstration, I will merely name, at present, the whig principles and names as I find them disclosed in the bowels of this beast; and, for the benefit of all my readers, I will procure a cut, to accompany my speech in pamphlet form, which will give them an ocular demonstration of whig principles, which it has so long been the effort of the That we have not improved in many of the arts and sciences, both architectural and fine, the nonuments of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, that have survived the destructive hand of time for more than three thousand years, plainly demonstrate. They display, at this day, a mechanical and philosophical power, and a success in fine arts, which no wisdom of this day can imitate. The pyramids of Egypt, the temples and lofty columns (though in ruins) of Greece, and the obelisks of Rome, not only surpass our imitation, but confound our wonder. Paintings are yet to be found, that have survived half the age of the world, whose delicacy and beauty confound the most splendid artists of our day, and from which every artist must take lessons, before he can be considered accomplished. Nor, even in this Christian day, and this Christian land, have we improved in morals and religion. The Egyptians, for want of a revealed Deity, worshipped crocodiles, cats, snakes, and toads. The Grecians worshipped owls, and held their drunken feasts, in congregated thousands, in honor of Bacchus, and carried and displayed jugs of wine and baskets of grapes, and decorated themselves with vine-leaves. The Romans nourished and revered geese, and through and by them expected political blessings and domestic happiness. The whig portion of this nation, with a revealed religion, a revealed Deity, and a Divine Mediator, adore and worship coons, possums, snapping-turtles, and skunks, and through and by them expect political prosperity and domestic happiness, now and hereafter; and, Grecian likte, they hold their drunken carousals in congregated thousands, in which they display their gourds of hard cider and their baskets of parched corn and corn-dodgers, and ornament themselves with buckeye leaves. Sir, I think we have made no such advancements as we sometimes boast of I can fancy too, sir, that I can see wisdom in some of the ancient customs and usages, even in pagan countries and pagan times, which we have al-party to conceal from the "public eye." But to progress:: most lost sight of. Some of the ancients were in the habit of consulting their augurs and soothsayers as to the probable result of great national undertakings, as well as to the result of private enterprise. The augurs and soothsayers determined their judgment and their predictions by an inspection of the entrails of animals; and in certain qualities which they perceived by such inspections, they disclosed and foretold the fate of battles and the prosperity or ruin of kingdoms and downfall of nations; and even the motives and secret springs and principles of the human heart, were read in those anatomical inspections. That piece of ancient wisdom led me to à research after whig principles in the absence of any and all declaration of principle; for I perceive that the whig party are determined to conduct the coming political contest in the same manner and by the same means by which it was conducted in 1840. There is to be "no declaration of principles for the public eye." A political friend of mine sent me a drawing of a dissected coon, with a polite and respectful note, asking me to make some public use of it to the end that whig principles might be gene on one organ is marked "Hartford convention;" on another, "protective tariff;" on another, "assumption of the State debts; on another, "distribution of the proceeds of the public lands;" on another, "the rich and well-born should govern;" on another, "let the government take care of the rich, and the rich will take care of the poor." So much for whig principles. Now for the different names which the party have assumed for the purposes of political ef fect and political deception. Here they are to be found in the bowels of this same old coon:-federal party, anti-war party, bank party, Adams party, Clay party, national republican party, antimasonic party, log-cabin party, hard-cider party, Tippecanoe party, corn-dodger party, abolition party, and, in the tail-end of this coon, we find the last namewhig party:-tory at heart, and whig in the tail! I have examined the brain of this animal with great care, but I can find neither characters nor hieroglyphics, ancient or modern, which can guide me to any conclusion other than that, like most of those who make it an object of adoration, it (the brain) is of small quantity and of poor quality. But, sir, these are not all the advantages and dis- to a stable. The word of God and your revealed. coveries I have drawn from the anatomical exami- religion will be paraded through your streets on an nation I have made, and thus disclosed in "this same ass, in contemptuous ridicule, and consumed on bonold coon;" I perceive very distinctly, by the disor- fires. Your Redeemer will be postponed to a murdered state of the various organs which I have ex-derer, and your Maker to a prostitute, styled the amined, that they plainly predict the entire over- goddess of Reason. Your judiciary will be conthrow of the federal party, and, with their over-verted into a triumvirate; your seats of justice into a throw, the downfall of all their high-toned federal guillotine; and your fields will be drenched in blood. measures. Their fate seems to be as distinctly These, sir, will fill the measure of such iniquity. marked in the entrails of this animal of whig adora- such frauds, such perjury, and such treason, as tion, as was the fate of Belshazzar upon the were practised in 1840, if persisted in, unchecked wall of his palace chamber; and all the terror that and unrestrained. seized him, now shakes them. The passage of this bill will destroy the temptaI think, sir, I can perceive, with the same dis- tion and the means to perpetrate such violence. tinctness which guided the ancient oracles, in the Let the whirlwinds and tempests of party spirit and bowels of this emblem of whig principles, the very States which will cast their votes for the democratic party passion run mountain high; the safety of the nominee of the convention to be held in Baltimore.rity of our free institutions, will not be drawn into republic, the purity of the ballot-box, and the secu I predict from these signs, with oracular certainty, the vortex and wreck of ruin. Can we not lay aside that Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, all party feelings for this time, and on this occasion, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, New Jer- and come up as one man in support of this measure? sey, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Now is the time-now is the day. We are on the Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Connecticut, will tri- elicit every feeling and every corrupt passion which eve of another presidential election, which will umph in the election of their respective number of democratic electors, which will be one of the most that the same scenes of 1840 will be acted over? Is party strife can engender; and is there not danger triumphant and glorious victories which the democ- there not danger that our moral, our political, our racy of this country or any other ever gained. This free, and our religious institutions, inay receive is my prediction; and let no whig pagan so profane another shock, which may palsy them beyond rehimself and his coon religion as to repudiate it; for it is drawn from irresistible signs, displayed in the covery? vitals of the animal of his most sacred and political devotion and reverence. Then I would say, in the spirit of all candor, Go ahead, democrats--the signs are in your favor. Unfurl your banner to the breeze. Triumph will be yours. Victory will once more perch upon the democratic standard. Once more you will teach the revilers of republican government, and the enemies of free institutions, that the people are capable of self-government. Sir, my heart is fixed and set on the passage of this bill; and I feel as though I have a right to appeal to the patriotism of this House for its support; and if I had the voice of thunder, I would extend that appeal to the remotest parts of this Union. I would awaken the attention of every patriot, of every lover of human liberty, and of our free institutions and their duration, to the support of this measure. I would invoke him, in the name of human liberty, and Mr. Speaker, patriotism is the spirit by which on behalf of his free institutions, by which he exour political fabric is held together. The elec-pects to perpetuate that liberty; in the name of that tive franchise is the soul of our republic, and the freeman's boast. Let it be supported, and it will support all the rest; all will be safe. The solemnity of the legal and judicial oath is the sheet-anchor of all our moral, religious, and political institutions. I would extend that appeal, too, to every press, the Let corruption pollute the ballot-box, and perjury potent engine of human liberty, and the terror of corrupt the sacred sanctuary of truth, and all is crowned heads. I would ask them to raise the lost. Our institutions, political, moral, and religious, strong arm and the loud voice in favor of this bill. will all sink together, and the offspring will be as it I would say to them, now is the time, and this is the was in the French revolution. Your legislative occasion, which demand that influence which is halls will present but scenes of butchery. Plunder, theirs. I would ask that same influence in behalf murder, and arson, will be but legalized crimes, and in support of this measure, which has demolished And, too, as in the French revolution, your Sabbath thrones, torn crowns from the heads of despots, will be changed to a decade, and the house of God | broken crosiers, and redeemed nations. majesty which is his, by the rights of a freeman, to send forth his voice to this hall, and demand, and command his representative to support this bill-to make this bill a law of this land. |