Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-08-04


nenr. with q longer term than The President ana
, .on,oaratiyely independent term of Office, they
had forever placed That body above the reach OF
raHinat influence as am lmHlOrabie barrier between
la eucroaching spirit Of executive viii, and the
occasional ohuhtions Of Popular passion But the
,reuuating spirit OF cabinet influence gained, iof
,.-., even the Senate The Senate lcqS carried
Tbe great barrier tras dissolved by that power,
which, hlvng the originating of hon0urs and OF
offices. Re always more likely TO attract than to
be attracted, by lhe p0wes which can only obstruct
/ their course.
The government was changed from republican
20 despo,ic by the detection of the Senate, until
fbs excesses Of the cabinet, by substituting the
nrsss. and gaining away from the cause Of Consti-
I ir.ioDaI liberty. by the seduCuOns OF honous and
condiments, that powerful ally which crowned
IdesDois secure by the awe Of the bayouet, became
So 1Iarming mt length that the very ficnds Of the
administration alte.ed in their career and aban-
doned their standard, IN several honorable and
even memorable instances. The Senate became
D7rtiqUy itself again. and resumed It's restraining
n0wer and dsty but even set this last hope OF
constitutional liberty is Pickering TO s extinction,
and can only be revived by he renova,Ing virtues
|of the elective franchise.
Our National Pohcg Of Internal I'm
movements and Native Industry. Here
we might exclaim at the threshold, with
/ Cardinal Woolsey--To.day our hopes
5uddod and blossomed forth. To morrow
I comes a Grost--a ripping frost, and blasts
them all-ior here gentlemen, is the. Cele-
brated Veto Message, holding up a coPyl
that child of many fathers.
Imagine, if yu please, such a prodigy
no the phrslcalgorld, as an infant, mosaic
land tasselated in ITS various hues, with
one patch ofth European or Anglo-Ame-
|rcaa white; ore of the deep red Of the abb
Original Sioux another Of the jet black
African; with ouch ofthe Asiatie, and
la dash of the Kalmuck Tartar or Lap
lander-such acalico child would not be a
( greater non desript in physics, than this
/ Veto Message = in politics. Its varloas
parts father themselves.
/ First 90 importance, though not IN order
I is the conhbuun which IS ascrIbe to the
grand magician the Premier Of the Unit
Ied States. Lista and admire, # / can
find It; g. I have as gnatsd 1t as the people
Ought TO ignatelur jarrIng cabinet with
a COMPOUNDED blac. mark Here It is;
eff it be the wish Of the people that the
% construction of pads and canals should
.. be conducted by he general government
90 It is not only highly expedlent, but ab
90 solutelv Necessary. that a previous a
g, mendment of the constitution. delegating
the necessary power, and defining and
81. restricting its exercise with reference to
I % the sovereignty Of the states, should be
% made 80
This Is distinct and complete para
/ graph If this be so the matter IS settled
/ against us, until we can pursuade three
I f0urtts 20 do what wecannot pursuade ttr0'
thirds to do, otherwise we would have o.
veuuled the unexpected and klngly veto
|If the Secretary's- reason be valid, the
message might have been closed with that
short para graph, without the long equvo-
eating train Of sophistfy which the docu-
ment exhibits. Itmigh, all have been con-
densed iu a single line "You have nc
power to do it.
When a former king Of France, visiting
/ one ofhis fortified towns, reprimanded bis
I military governor for not firing a salute on
+ the arrival Of His Maiestv, the General an
swered-"Sire, can assign you forty good
reasons for not salung your Majesty
first, had not a particle Of ammunition O.
DO it with, and second, stop there"
said the King, 'that reason alone is sufFi-
CENT
Not content with denying the power TO
construct such works, the message goes
back to the foundation ofthe government.
Oh the next paragraph, and, undoing all
that has been done for half a century, de-
mics even the power of the general govern
ment to make appropriations to aid the
States IN such works. Ifthere be no pow.
or as 70 money, there is as little as TO pub
he lard, from which part Of the money ls
raised; and iftbe thing be unconstitutional,
no compact or agreement, 10 do the IncOn-
smuuonal thing, can render It consutu.
Uoual; so that an our appropriations and
contracts, are "nulh6ed +" and al one con-
strucuve sweep. we Of the new States are
deprived of our common school and Col
Iege lands. our three per cent and two per
cent funds, the appropriations to aid o
bio, Indiana, Illinois, and Alabama, 10 the
great work of completing a circular uavi-
CATION almost around the Union-from the
bay of New York to the chain of the great
northern Lakes, and from them TO our A
mercan Mediterranean, and to avoid the
Muscle Shoals m the Tennessee.
The Cumberland Road ia arrested; and
all our preparatory engineering and sur (
veymg, were but labor and treasure thrown
away. Thus no one flourish Of the magI
can's wand, is our Union virtually dis
solved; and we restored to the weak and
distracted state Otthe poor old confederacy,
the TIT prey ofsome modern Philip of Ma
codon.
For the sake Of variety, and as a con.
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