Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-04-29

removal of this class of public officers 10
IKE nomination for office, ouly provisions
ana inchoa'e. until II becomes absolute ant
dfhni'ise by the subsequent sanction OF the Sc
male 10 he given in our estab isheh and lont
pfactsed manner of proceeding upon Erecu
Tive business
As IN nominating to office, SO also in reno
wing or diSplacing from Office, in this class O
.he pobhc officers, the originating act is, and
.o' me puollc convenience ought 10 be. with
the President and in ordinary cases and time.
The ACT ofthe President receives the undispu
ted sanction of the Senate All INST eyperi
ence shows this to he the facf. either hecouss
The representatives or Senators of the person
nominated or removed knew his suitabeness
or qualification Tor Office, or the cause orhi.
removal, or because Presidents are not ordine.
flV disposed 10 abuse their powers but lnI the
security OF the public, IL there be an allegation
OF suggestion OF the nniitnesS Of the nominee
or oil The nlegalty of the removal, it becomes
| me duty OF the Senate to inquire into the mat.
ter, aud act accordingly by an active exertion
! oil Their restraining power. One design of re-
presentation IS To anvil the public Of the better
| lights from the scene vi appointment or reno
val than President pent up IN the Metropolis.
can have.
Bat let me examine the true nature and ex.
tent OF the despptism now proclaimed by the
majority the arguments by which they at
tempt To sustain themselves IN their new auto
eracy contrary to all their arguments, ,epor,.
and votes heretofore and, il possible, the eau.
ses aud practical consequences of this astonish.
ing proclamation.
The founders OF the Republic aud the people
oil the United States, when they adopted tho
Federal Constitution, were especially iealnu,
oil The powers If the President and the en-
cfoaching power of Executive will
10 that point all their principal fears were
consecrated and the history fthat dav shows
| that II WAS with some difficulty the people of
The United States could be induced 10 adopt the
Union, lest the President with the powers then
accorded TO him, should become the DESTROYER
OF their liberties.
Their fears of Executive pncroachment were
not idle chmeras ofihe fancy nor were they
affected from mere impaiience of reen.aIed
liberty and government of laws. TO them
they were devoted. The histories ofal nations
which had lost their liberties lay open before
them and they saw on their pages thai arbi-
trary Executive discretion and will avaling
themselves OF the spiri of dscord among the
people, aud the want Of drmncss among thcir
Representatives, in governments where the
Representative principle was adopted. has
been the destroyer OF national liberty through
Onl the greater part of the orld. where Wild
anarchy had not supplanted hem and thai
they had Effected their onquests by gradual
approaches and by corrupiing the sentnrs OF
liberty. and the ia hers did intend, and the
most of them have left this world IN the pa.
ternal confidence hat they had efl' c ed the
object to establish a government of law, and
OF checks and restraints upon Executive will,
IN which no case should exist in which the fate
If the humbesi citizen, whether in private or
public lie, could depend upon the arbitrary
will ola single man.
No. their Tears we're not idle aud with sucn
lights before them. aud The then receut claim
TO arbitrary power urged by the British Crown
thrilling IN their bnsums, they never would
nave adopted the federal Constitution without
the restraint ,,ower and duty Of the Senate
during the Presidential term. when. if ever, he
would be disposed to violate the rights of the
citizen
The power is now boldly asserted on hi
floor by the Majority, fr the first time since
the foundation Off Republic Of removing
this class o, Federal Officers by the President Al
di,cretion, without the si2hcs, restraint by the
5snate, ard without cven The right oil cu
prit to ask the cause of condemnation, upon
b,nd and sersile presumption on the part of
the Senate, that the cause was lawful and
good
And traversing the line Of their Whole lives
and their recent Course under the late admin
isirstion. The majority have proclaimed over
this euhiect an absolute despotism and rghr Of
d,,k and ., par,e inoui.i,iont II fell upon nv
oar til4 the anathe,na Of the minority, pro.
nouncc from the modern Vatican itsoun.
doa lilo rho L,ell of our Constitutional iber,
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= We admit the people oftns United States
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