Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-06-07

eeo'Ss Meme It'd tttn piSsi1.n;--s ts.,li
winch 2aid not hare Happened of.s,g i,, though
"s'' ! 'sf'oa hid benz all the .nsrgie. ofku
h'3Ga'y mind TO prsssni iis accomplishment, /,
= mat p taise does he deserve. pray. WIN, N,
co'oi dihste branch OF the Government.
merely authorizes The application to a cerlnip
'ehoh 'sl purpose of sums of money which
have heen brought into the Treasury by III.
Also " sesnres Of his predecessors lie, HIM
mol ial' the hauerlng JUNCTION 10 his soul" tina,
ms II &c some other accidents have done. will
60 TO swell his faclitioos renoNn
we lhave seen that lhe advocates of Stat.
tights have gained not ono inch Of ground
eHul' as some of them may Such of tina nd.
Voca' es of State Rights as are not blinded nv
sae'f Infatuated devotion TO Gen. Jackson are
sr'eVed. rather than rejoiced. at the ridIcue of
their principles, and the impuiation unon the
Jndgl oents of those who have e.poused than
winch The suPposition that they are TO be bought
| orer by the fimsy argument of the Me,s,g.
inevitably carries with il. For one OF the State
Rights (not n"lHfedtion) party, we denoun &c
II, aS having no eongenAlity with our n,inc
pies.
We have extended ttfess remarks already fur
,her Than We designed ~'ten we commenced
We must, therefore, hasten 10 conclusion.
Does |, not seem strange that Gen. Jackson
should manifest so much reverence for the
constitution, and exhibit such a hSm determl-
nation 10 deny to Congress the right Of exercls-
'ng doubtful powers, when, in tho arbitrary
removals of officers whose terms of sergic.
are Fixed by law, aud in the unconsiituii ouai
creation of vacancies in Offices, that he might
exercise the constitutional poicer ofGlIing vacan
cles that occur during lhe recess of the Sc
! nate, he has been himself guilty OF such sinr.
/ ING and open inrnctions Of that instrument ,
Or are we 10 fear every thing from Ccngrsssion
al nsnrpailons, aud nothing from Ertcttire .
The time has been when tins matter was viewed
differently: when every evil wns feared from
strong and arbitrary Executive, the despolism
oil which was lelt when these States were Colo.
nies, and is felt The time has been when
Legislative bodies were regarded as the natural
safeguards of the liberties of the people, and the
,ncDrGuptibe protectors OF their tights against
Executive encroachments and aggressons But
now. it SCENE, the state of things is changed
and we are taught TO fear sbody OF men be
longing TO the great mass OF the people, L. every
other year resolvabe into that mass, Il to place
orr hopes OF refuge from the despotlc & partial
influence of their acts in The justice, wisdom
and energy of one mainland that man, too Of
ten the creature OF "A violent party, who, in the
Ggiiations of the times. viii be thrown an
Infinite degree beyond the level to which his
intellect or his virtues would have placed him.
Where, too, were those conHiiutionol scyu-
pies, when the bill was passed, and approved
by he President, authorizing an appropriation
Of $500,O0n, (hut which will, before il is endcd,
he increased to at eas, $20,000,0oO to defray
the expense Of the removal OF the Indians we
nie in favor of the measure bnt in what clause
fare CLAUSE, do We find any authority for this
actl Where |, the provision. an The bond No
where. II is oaIy by implication and conslruc-
fion-more far.ictched than that which is deem
ed to authorize tie construction of ruads and
caHIs-that we can derive the power IL is
strange, too, that the National Debt did not
" shake its cory locks at the President when
he was about to sign Mis hill But no. Gcor-
ON and J'rgVu must lao oppenSod
In short, tie Message is emphaically, as Mr..
o,anberry OF Ohio styled it. " an electioneering
docemen,," designed 10 ticki. Tie paaes of ali
parties. Blu, we are not without nope that its
writer will illustrate the adage OF the two
stools - by falling between them TO The ground.
CONGRESS. This body has adjourned, af-
ter a session Of SIX months We shall hereafter
devote column or two to reflections on what
il has done and what it has lett undo ne. Al
present, we have only room TO give a synop,i |
cal view Of the important proceedings Of the
Two last days of the session. which viii be found
On The preceding psge.
On the last day of the session. the President
returned to the Senate, with his Ueto, the hill
authorizing a subscription Of stock IN the
Washington Turnpike Company, This might
hive been expected. as the bill was OF SINH.
lar character TO the MaysyilIc TOAD bill A mo
ION to pass ii. Notwithstanding the objections
Of the President, was rejected by tho Senate
d to Il.
Two other acts of the President on the las
day Of the session, deserve special notice. One
is, lis retaining a number of bijs-among
them a bill appropriaiing money for the CON.
pletion CT the Louisville Canal, which, beng of
the same character as the Two Road bills he re-
looted, we should Like TO know why he did not
reto D.? Was it because the Louisville districr
gaze him large majority, audi wihal reprt