The Daily Madisonian

It is our judgment that John Tyler ought to be the democratic candidate in 1844.

Without stopping to comment on the difficulties in the way of the other candidates, by the democracy, it seems to us as if it would be an act of justice to be done by the present incumbent, who so recently lifted the democracy up from its present prosperous condition.

The party owes it to the voters of President Tyler, who was sunk beneath the juggernaut wheels of the Whigs; he however raised it, as if by magic wand.

He acted the part of the true man, and it is proposed that he should head the party in the coming contest for the Presidency.

Surely one who raised it from the mire and clay in which it was stalled ought in all justice, to be permitted to lead on to victory.

What other mode is there of doing Mr. Tyler justice? We know of none.

Distinguished as the other candidates are, there is not one who can claim to have done so much, by bravery and heroism for the party, as President Tyler.

Not one of the other candidates vetoed the United States Bank. In this particular, General Jackson and President Tyler, stand on the same level.

And as the democracy awarded a re-election to General Jackson for his veto, ought they not now to make the same award in the shape of renomination to President Tyler?

There is another reason why the nomination should not be given to any other candidate, and that is, that the nominee of the Democratic National Convention will run upon "the Bank question." President Tyler is just the man who should run on this momentous issue.

He raised it, and the whigs denounced him for it. Why should he not be put before the people on this, his own, question? Justice demands that he who sows should gather in the harvest.

No one should be permitted to wear Mr. Tyler's robes of triumph, when Mr. Tyler is able to wear them so victoriously through the coming Presidential contest, himself.

His distinguished competitors are all known, and well esteemed in their immediate neighborhood, but none of them have that universal popularity among the people that President Tyler has.

Nor is this a matter of mere assertion, for the proof is at hand. We all remember, that when the present Chief Magistrate of the nation, sent his objections against the Clay Bank bills to Congress, with what hearty applause his vetoes were greeted by the democracy all over the country.

It was not here and there that the huzzas of the party were heard, but every where, on high ways and by ways, on the lakes and rivers, in the cities, towns, and hamlets. In every nook and corner of the republic, cheers to Tyler and his vetoes were heard.

Thus we see his popularity with the party has been every where tested.

His nomination it will thus be seen, would meet with the enthusiastic approbation of the people.

In selecting a candidate for the Presidency, it is a matter of the deepest concern, that we should name one that is well known to the people, and about whom there can be no doubt as to his popularity with the democratic family of the republic.

In our judgment, President Tyler is that man, and we base our opinion upon the universal thanks sent up to him by the democracy in every part of the confederacy, when he destroyed the Bank schemes of the whigs by annihilating them with his veto thunderbolt which the Constitution so judiciously vested in the Chief Magistrate of the nation.

A man runs best for a public station with the people whose deeds are so eminently conspicuous, that they stand out in bold relief upon the popular mind.

Thus, if it be asked, what has President Tyler done to entitle him to a nomination to the Presidency, we have the same ready answer that was given when General Jackson run a second time, viz: "He vetoed the United States Bank" and this deed is not known to a few, but to every man, woman and child in the nation.

General Jackson was re-elected triumphantly upon his veto, and the democratic rank and file, are anxiously waiting to render the same justice to John Tyler.