Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-08-18

cies in the recess of the Senate, nomin-
ated to that body persons for high oihces
ofnotoriously vicious characters, appoint
ed others, in the recess, who had been
Justly rejected; aud, taking advantage
of the absence of members, has renomi-
mated those whom fuller Senate had,
upon previous nomination, determined
unworthy Of the trust.
/ He has upon the most frivolous pre-
text waged war against the Vice Presi-
dent, and thus is the public mind agita-
ted and the country degraded by per-
sonal conflict between the two first exc
cutive officers of the government
He has refused his assent to laws the
most necessary and satisfactory, for the
most frivolous reasons, and has approved
others in defiance Of the same rea-.
sons.
He is in favor of internal improve
ments for national objects, reservlng 1t to
his unlimited discretion to determine
what those objects are-thus making his
constitutional scruples the instruments OF
party purposes.
lie has practised palpablc duplicity
in regard to tariff, for protection OF a.
merican manufactures, and consequently
left "home industry" and enterprise in
perplexing suspense. Processing to be
frank, he is always equivocal affecting
candor, he is partial and vindictlve; and
disc claiming and reprobaiing all party
distinctions, it has been his whole policy
to build up party devoted to himself,
and he has enforced it by system OF
"rewards and punishments' unknown To
free governments, and even dlsclaImed
in the most dcspotic.
His "reiorm" is rewarding his sup
porters and furnishing others, regardless
of their respective merits; and his "re-
trenchmcnt" is prodigal waste of the
public money to sustain himself and his
friends. His rule of rotation in Office is
to remove his opposers and retain his
! friends, without the least regard to the
time they may have held their offices.
/ Notwithstanding he was INDUCED in
selecting a cabinet ofhis own par'isans or
personal friends, yet he very soon be-
| came involved with them in dome site
controversy of very delicate charac-
ter, and. because he could not succeed
to his mind in establishing or creating a
reputation for his protoge, he has dlsmis-
sed the whole concern, and for such a
! cause has thrown the government in ut
ter confusion, and left the public in agi-
tation and disgust.
| He has threatened to send home the
! Minister of foreign government, with
| whom our relations were exceedingly
critical, because the lady of this Minis
ter had declined to associate with one
whom the moral sense of the community
had excluded from respectable society.
/ Wherefore, it is the opinion of this
Convention that the President is destitute
Of the requisite qualifications, and is ut
terly unfit for Chief Magistrate Of the
United States.
II RssoIred, That while we are ready tc
J unite upon any man or measure calcula-
ted to retrieve lis from the present thral-
dom and disgrace, we look to HENRY
CLAY, of Kentucky, as the one who is
to lead the way in restoring harmony, re-
vivng national honor, re-establishing re-
! publican principles, encouraging Ameri-
can industry, and thus sustaining anc
perpetuating our liberty and indepen
dence.
Resolred, That the doctrine that "a
State has right to resist or annul ;
, law Of Congress-" is pernicious, faction
, and dangerous; and that it will be on
duty at all times pointedly and mphati
4 cally to reprobate such doctrine, and t
expose its talacy, and deprecate its ten
4 dency-as fatal to the liberties of tn
4 United States.
= Resolred, That tariff for the protec
I ton of American manufacturers ,judicious
y regulated and occasionally modified t
= conform to the varying exigepcies Of tn
, United States, is essential to our pros
, perity; that such manufactures afford
home market for the products of agri
! culture, are in nowise injurious to for
eign commerce, furnish employment fo
Y our coasting tonnage, and viii eventual
c ly become aprlmary object OF the export
G ing merchant.
= GEN. LcKsoS's NULLIrIcArIoN. Go,
Hamilton, of South Carolina, i'm his spcec