The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-09 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

"Feeling my responsibility to the American people, 1
am willing on all occasions to explain to them the grounds
of my conduct: and I am willing upon all proper occasions
to give to either branch of the Legislature any information
in my possession that can be useful in the execution of the
appropriate duties confided to them.
" ' Knowing the constitutional rights of the Senate, I
shall be the last man, under any circumstances, to interfere
with them. Knowing those of the Executive, I shall at
all times endeavour to maintain them, agreeably to the
provisions of the constitution, and the solemn oath I have
taken to support and defend it,
" ' I sin constrained, therefore, by a proper eente of my
own self-respect, and the rights secured by the constitu-
tion to the executive branch of the government, to decline
a compliance with your request.

' ANDREW JACKSON,

" ' Washington, Dec. 12.'
" After the message had been read,
" Mr. Clay said, that a call had been made on the
President for a copy of a document which had been pub-
lished and extensively circulated by the papers in this city—
a document immediately connected with the safety of the
treasure of the country. The call for it was made under
the full conviction that the Senate ought to have that docu-
ment. It had been refused, under the pretext that the
rights of the Chief Magistrate were invaded by it. He
always would be disposed to respect the rights of every
public officer, but the President could have no more confi-
dence in his rights than I feel in the rights of the Senate.
The right of the Senate to call for• the paper was founded
on the ground that the whole world was in possession of it.
It was made because the document was set forth to the
American people upon an all-important subject, and because
it was the right of the Senate to have it. Nor was it
because the call was in violation of precedent or an esta-
blished usage. But the President has refused to give us
this document, and it is not necessary to proceed further
in the pursuit. One result happens from it; the President
does not deny the genuineness of the paper. It is before
the world, and as we have endeavoured to get it, and it
has been refused, I have a right to take the next best
evidence of the document, and that is as- it has already
been published in the official paper. In every instance,
therefore, where I have occasion to use it, I shall avail
myself of the publication of it as genuine.
" Mr. Giundy said be thought when the proposition
was made that it was a very unnecessary proceeding.
" Here the presiding officer interposed that the debate
was out of order, unless some motion was intended to be
made.
" Mr. Grundy said he intended to move before he con-
cluded, that the message be laid on the table; and then
resumed—That be thought it necessary, because we only
wanted evidence when facts bad not come to our know-
ledge, or when they were denied. Now, he believed
that both friends and enemies admitted this document to
be genuine--to he what it purported to be. He, therefore,
had thought that nothing beneficial could result from this
proposition, and this was what induced him to vote against
it. The President bad given his objection to complying
with the call, and what is it ? Why, that the Senate has
asked for a private communication from the Chief Ma-
gistrate to his Cabinet. He (Mr. Grundy) would never
questio❑ the propriety of the motives of the senator who
wanted this information ; but the President has said that
it is a matter which you have no right to interrogate him
about ; and his opinion is, too, that to comply with the
request would be setting a dangerous precedent. He (Mr.
Grundy) was not inclined to say anything on the subject
of the removal of the deposits, when that matter should
come up for consideration ; but if he did, he could not,
even if be were so disposed, speak of that paper as any
other than a genuine one, or deny its authenticity. Ile
therefore moved to lay the message on the table, which
was agreed to.

" THE DECISIVE VOTE.
" At length the strength of the Bank in the house has
been fairly and conclusively tested, and with pleasure and
pride we congratulate our countrymen on the result. Its
power is as 96 t.t 133, the majority of its oppouents being
37. The country, then, is redeemed, its liberties are
rescued, and the dominion of the odious institution is for
ever overthrown.
" It will be seen by the report, that on Friday a test
question was made on the reference of a memorial to the
house from the directors—probably a reply to the Bank
manifesto—Mr. M‘Duffie and friends desiring to send it
to the committee; of the whole with the general Bank ques-
tion; and Mr. Polk and the friends of the Administration
insisting that the Committee of Ways and Means should
have the management of the whole subject; and that it
was carried against the Bank by a very large majority.
Mr. Polk requested expressly that the House would indi-
cate on this vote how the question was to go, and it did
so, as indeed it must have done—for the real thing to
be decided was, whether the course of the Administration
in regard to the deposits, &e., should or should not
he sustained. Mr. M‘Duffie set his face against the
reference of the Bank affairs to the Committee of Ways
and Means, distinctly for the reason that such •a
reference would he an admission of the right of the Exe-
cutive to remove the deposits ; his party voted upon that
understanding, and whether it would have been such an
admission in reality or not is nothing to the result; for,
believing that it would, they brought out their whole
strength, and have now displayed it. We assume upon
their statement that the House has decided that the Presi-
dent has the right. Allowing them 4, votes more from the
absentees, their force in the House is 100 out of 2431
All the Antitna:ons and Nullifiers have voted with them,
and so has Mr. Clayton and our Mr. Stlden ; the delega-
tion from New York voted 9 for, and 31 against, the
Bank; Pennsylvania stood 15 for, 13 against; South
Carolina, 6 for, I against ; North Carolina, 5 for, 7
against; Georgia, 5 for, and 3 against.
" The Bark party, then, can carry no question in the
house, except upon its merits, and we may consider this
vote to have d-cid,d all the interesting points in the con-
troversy. They can attain none of their leading objects ;
the deposits will not he replaced ; the secretary will not
bs censured ; the President's course will he approved, anit
the United States Bank will rioter be rechartered.
" It has failed, then, in the end for which it resolved
to inflict upon the country its present unparalleled suffer-
ing ; it has not coerced Congress into yielding its demands;
and it must now change that course forthwith. It has
five years more in which to wind up its affairs, and it
must propose to do that in a manner least embarrassing to
the community. Adherence to its present course would
bring universal execration, not only upon its directors,
but its stockholders, and the latter will need rather the
sympathy of their fellow-citizens when the affairs of that
institution are settled.

" Mr. Clly is welcome now to do what he can i❑ the
Senate ;he cannot influence the result—he can only gra.
tify his hate. Let him do so—so may Mr. Calhoun.
They are both fallen beyond redemption—let them rail.
It is noticed with pleasure, but certainly not with sur-
prise, that there are daily indications that Mr. 'Webster
will not follow in this train ; the right path has stronger
inducements for his proud and powerful mind.
" FROM VALPARAISO.-The Boston Commercial
Gazette of Friday contains a letter from its correspondent
at Valparaiso. dated July 30. This is a month later than
previous advices. The letter gives a lamentable picture
of the state of society, and of the government of Peru,
which is represented to be in a very agitated state—
arrests, imprisonments, banishments, and executions, be-
coming daily more and more frequent. G Iguana, the
present chieftain, it is understood, will not be re.elected

in the legal Way, and intends to hold over, and try hi,
chance in defiance of the electoral college, relying on mill-

!ary support.

the science of government
" In Chili, says the writer,
is somewhat better understood. A new political consti-
tution bas just been formed at Santiago, and the ceremony
of swearing to it was the other day enacted in that city.
There was, according to the custom of the country, a
great civic and military display on the occasion.
" Many speculations are made by the writers, as tc f

The following are extracts from the INew York Papers
to the 20th ult.

" CONGRESS.
"IN SENATE, DEC. 12.
" A message froth the President was received by the
hands of Mr. Donehon, hls ptitate secretary, which was
read as follows:

THE
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SENATE
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Senate of the Ifth inst., requesting the President of the
United States to communicate to the Senate a cony of the
paper which has been published, and which purports to
have been read by him to the heads of the executive de-
partments, dated the 18th day of September last, relating
to the removal of the deposits of the public m:neys from
the Bank of the United States and its offices.
" The Executive ia a co-ordinate and independent
branch of the Government, equally with the Senate ; and
I have yet to learn under what constitutional authority
that branch of the Legislature has a right to require of me
an account of any communication, either verbally or in
writing, made to the heads of departments, acting ce a
cabinet council. As well might Ibe required to detail to
the Senate the free and private conversations I have held
with those officers on any subjects relating to their duties
and my own. _ -
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