Washington Wednesday. [25 August 1841]
"Gloomy enough" as Merrill said
in his last letter. The plot is thicken-
ing. It seems now to be generally un-
derstood that Tyler will
veto the new
bank bill. If he does, there will be a
change in the cabinet -- He (Tyler)
will be denounced & proclaimed as
a traitor to the Whigs -- & the
opposi-
tion will have the President. Unless
more desert the whig party than I
suppose will do it, he will have a
sorry time of it. What a situation
we shall be placed in, after all our
exertion and our glorious victory --
Still, it may be otherwise -- The Presidt
may return to his senses or his senses
to him, & he may sign a bill, which
was prepared in perfect good faith
to meet his views, as they were sha-
apprehension very freely, which I shd be
sorry to have circulated as my opinions.
We are approaching a crisis -- what
will be the result, I know not. Nothing
can be more unpleasant than our
situation now. The joy & the evident hopes
of our adversaries are heard to bear -- Should
there be a breaking up of the cabinet, it would
be a great misfortune to the Country -- We
never had one more able, and one which
enjoyed the confidence of the Country in a
greater degree. What a disappointment
it would be to them -- & to Society here --
for they all have very agreable families.
In a few days -- we shall know.
Mr. Bayard has engaged
Dr. Jones's
house for us. I hope the Session will be more plea-
sant than this.
This is Commencement
Day. W and I have taken a glass of cham-
paign to its honor.
And now I am
going to the Presids garden, to hear the music
of
wednesday afternoon -- Many people as-
semble there -- but I have not been there yet.
A few evenings since I met at the
Presids several Cherokees, & among them
two most interesting, lovely girls -- the
Miss Fields -- one of them one of the
most beautiful, intelligent, fascinating
young ladies, I ever saw. They have been
several years at school, in
Keene, N. H.
I was delighted -- tho' it excited my
indig-
nation to think of such persons being
driven beyond the Missisi. as
unwor-
thy to live within the limits of this wide
spread confederacy. It is the most
cruel & disgraceful injustice. John
Ross is here, & I intend to call and see
him.