Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-04-06

official punshmens, and interrupted by oficiul re-
wards noppositon to removals from office for the
crcsc of the great elective franchise, make
for the reward of partsans i'll Presidential Elec
tions, by the bestowa of public employments He
submitted that the power of removal from office by the
President high legal trust be exercised for the
public benefit, in sound discretion for cause relating
to the official conduct fitness of tho Incumbent that
the Senate of the United States had restraining
powers in he matter of displacins, well Of APP
pointing Fed ra officers; and that by the constitu
tion the Executive power could never be arbitrarily
exercised. He advocated ''tIic freedom of enquiry
into the exercise of Executive discretion and official
trust in opposition to Executive responsibility and
Observation-Disclosures, and to the suppression of free in
quiry into political affairs" The Senator from
Maine Mr.. Homes1 merely advcrted to the gencra al
prescription in New England In reply to these gen
tlen,en the Senator from New Hampshire SAYS he will
accept the invitation of the Senator from Nilsson,
ri Mr. Barton to stand on his political platform,
composed he considers it, of articles of opposition
to the present Observation-Disclosures the whole
course of that Administration democratic and
itutiona ;" and informs that, in the principle
of removal from office, for political motives,
their policy only follows up the doctrines of the
great revolution in 1900 He speaks of these reno
walls mere rotation in Office, first made by the peo
pie themselves in the highest Office i'm the land, the
Chief Executive Of the Union for political cause then
inquiries, triumphanty, if the same cause should not
affect the active deputies and subordinaes, as well
us the principal. Whatever disappointments and
srfferings by removal [says he 1 some individuals
may sustain, get they hne,o the legal tenure Of their
eses," He therefore thinks the agents of the peo-
pie cannot fnar the cry OF crei persecution be-
cause the power of removal, as exercised, only
changes one goodman that is, for political opinions
for another good man. and therefore does no injury
20 the public He then proceedsto say, these agents
need not dread the discussion of the constitutional
ty ofheir exercise OK this power, thus plainly avow
ed by him to have been levelled the right opin
ION. Sir, the honorable Senator from Tennessee
[Alr. Grundy, If rightly understood him, avowed
the same opinion; for he denied the right of the
Senate TO inquire into the causes of removal, and
insisted that the present Administration had not
gone beyond his principles on this subject. He con-
tended that the Senate would transcend their corsti
tutional power and thus violate the instrument which
is their interest to preserve by examining into and
Judging of the propriety of removals from office,
by controlling the Executive in the discharge of
this branch of his authority He entered into full
discussion of the rights of the President with great
ingenuity, and manfuly challenged ito come out
boldly and discuss this subject with his friends freely
and frankly" The honorable gentleman is a formi-
dazzle antagonist He wielis long knife wi NJ, strong
arm in defence of his friends, but when he thro ws
down bis gauntlet to what is here called tie oppo-
81 ion and defes them to contest toh these princ
pies If This administration, ne will be met freely,
frankly and boldly too.
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