Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-04-24

,,,,o b,,,,.ad ,,,u N"S l0't wv Az slavery ior
| And if tho children Of Africa should doub, Tho
pfac,eablty of inducing the masters impeach and
condemn themselves when made jndvcs in their o,yn
Cause, lot him explain himself intcihyiblv-. RI
turn the tables on your masters; ensiave them for
| Two hunuted years IN your turn, aud make them
raise corn, cotton and rice, indigo, tobacco and
I"sugar-canc, for YOU"
But suppose the miracle performed of majority,
~ inc 2ennh OF power, impeaching themselves in the
house OF Representatives, for the uses they have
Top u .c RESIDENTS popularity and military eclat.
Is " ul'e sure we could persuade two thirds in the
senate 10 condemn and punish him for cause, even
~ will, -
Mr Hamilton, in writing his seventy. seventh num-
ner oi the federaiist, was prophet. In treating
OF the supposed danger Ct the Senate overriding the
resident, anu assuming the government, he said,
BESIDES TINS, II Is evident that the POWER that
can originate the disposition Of honors and cmolu-
ments Is more likely to attract than to be attracted
by the POWER which merely obs,ruct their
"Course."
/ And Mr.. Hamilton like another Elijah, seems TO
nave shed his mantle upon his Elisha.
a foreigner, supposed TO be Mr.. Poctca, the late
MISTER from Russia to this government, in writing
the United States, says the frs, term OF an Amer
lean President is ALWAYS spent IN sccprinr hi. r.
election to n second; and as to the restraininy now
ets OF the Senate, little manag cement in the dspo-
si'oh OF ofhces can always secure a majority of that
oouy: Ihere was too much ,rutlfin that book, whe-
Their 1t be polatabc or not,
| NO, Sir, instead Of a domnent party such az the
present triumphant combination, Impending their
resident, the astonishing this moment ex-
nlol'ed IN this body shews the mpossbii,y of that
oeng 'e appropriate preventive against the abuse of
power BY the Executive.
In the recess, rash administration, surrounded
ana pressed by merccnary host Of oflice-huuters
claiming the reward of their prosttuted influence
anu vo,es contrary to the known original design of
tie President, rushed into course of prescription
and rewards, that led them into all inextricable d.
lemma.
Of In 4 ,J,o
oi the citizen, demanded the cause of the removals
III the administration should come out with the
true Causes, like conscious innocence unveinp her
SELF and acknowledge they had used tho offices OF the
country as their own private property, as means OF
rewards and punshmcnts, for the exercise of th.
right oil election, the honest yeomanry Of the United
states who had no sinister views in the late election
would condemn them.
If the Administration shoud shrink from, rho ,,u,b
tear to tell the people that their pablo officers had
been used as brides TO buy popularity or weapons of
war upon opponents and make false return to our
call, we could and would expose the fasehood of The
return, and the caJoed public would give verdict
agains, Them, and damn them for tho double crime
- Let the Atrn,@::; ration choose either horn of the
Sicmma, and public condemnation will be inevitable
There IS no alternative bu. for the majority to refuse
TO allow the nquiry--the high and hitherto inaiena
bic right OF inquiry into the exercise of Executive
discretion end 5iiirIai iT:st, which stands in Rspub
lies in opposition to the maxim that "the King can
do no wrong in monarchcs And, with all the pre-
cept and practice of the lives staring them in the
face, the majority has now resolved TO exclude every
ray OF light from the causes OF removal.
The Administration cannot bear the responsibility;
but II it be distributed among some twenty-five or
SIX Senator's il may be less felt and we need not be
surprised If the most lucrative Offices and splendid
appointments should be thrown their feet by the
grateful Administration as the King would reward
his parasite for saving the royal reputation at the ha
card OF his OWN Alexander, whose madness
mad rushed him into nextricable ambuscade or
dilemma, would reward old Parmenio Philips Gen
htyr -iurr
his own life, and sacrificing the veteran phalanx!
appeal from the interested arguments of the do
ninnnt party, who accused by the minority of
this violation OF orr constitutional rights to the ven
cradle and d;cntcrcsed authority Of the illstrous
dead, who founded the Govcrnment and set it in mo-
ton; and in due time will appeal to the past acts of
the majority, as good authority against Themselves
and no more.
In the concluding paragraph OF the same No. II,
Of the Federast, upon this very subject of appoint
ment and removal, aitcr showing the constant re-
straining power Of the Senate to be the preventive
remedy 10 save the Republic from harm, by the en-
sroachment of Executive will, Mr.. Hamilton points
out shis IN. ity at oil times TO impeachment trial
''dismisson from office. incapocty to serve in any
"othe, and to the forfeiture OF life and estate, hy
subsequent prosecution in the common course o.
'law. But these precautions, great us they are arc
"not the only ones which tho plan of the Convention
has provided in favor Of the public security. In the
"ony instances in which the abuse Of the Executive
authority was materially to be feared, the Chief
Magistrate OF the United States would By that plan
be subjected TO the control Of branch of the legs-
"lative body What more can IN enlightened and
reasonable people desirc?"
Such the exposition upon which the people
adopted the constitu ion Of government presented
by its trainers.
Thus that the high power of impeaeh-
ment was intended only for punishment and dis
qualification, III extraordinary Of corruption
and crime; and in party times never be used
until after the dominant purity - down, if At all.
II never intended tho common preventive
remedy of restraint upon the cncroachmont Of Ex-
ecutive will pending the Presidential term whenAif
ever, the mischief will be done.
So in an Attorney, Receiver, Collector, Marshall
and the like, the mischief they do is not in the
moment of transit from the end of one term to the
beginning of another Pending the term, MS wen
with the President as with the inferior officers of
the government issthe mischicf-dong season; and
hence the restraint ofthc Senate on the President
highest and lowest may he subiected 60 irnpnach-