Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-01-14

looked for from that Independent quarter lis disup-
probation of power depends less upon
its enormity than the person by whom is exercised
But from the Senate after the indications OF last
winter, we hope better things. We Anow there Is
no disposition in that body, to excuse bad act
because Andrew Jackson did it. They will BRING
HIM to the mark of the constitution and the dec!s
ion of 626 In that body least, the Jackson fever
has cooled down point if not of regret for the act
of putting him where he is, yet Of ndisposon to sus
tain him unfortunately, in all he does or attempts.
We invite attention to the following:
A LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
From the .New York Daiiy .4dUertiser.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.
Extract Of q Letter, dated
WASH NGruN, Dec. %, 1880.
| The President is much troubled by the InQusitive-
ness OF the Senate, and by the publication in the pa
pers respecting MIR. Randolph. After his inaugura-
ton and before the meeting of the 2ist Congress
December last he appointed three ministers to treat
with Turkey. He made 40 nomination of Ministers
to the Senate during the last session OF Congress,
nor did he intimate to hat body that he had made
the appointment, aud that negotiations were then
pending. treaty has been made, and is before
the Senate for confirmation rejection The know
ing politicians Gadsbys and Browns, who hove
been wonderfully enghr ened by tller interviews
with the President, and by their attendance at TIE
Circus say, that the treaty contains secret article
which might, if knoI"n, possibly involve III
troVCrsy WIN NuSSla iney iurttl"T say, That the
Senate has he 'etneri.y to ask the President where
he finds himself vest ed with the power, by the Con-
stuion, to appoint ministers Il mission, and
keep thein abroad during entire session Of Cou-
gress without obtaining the consent Of the Senate?
The question Il puzzler; and although, IN cnmmu-
nication he nude hree four years ago, lie said lie
had most attenvply ref cted clause OF the CON
stuon during the American Revolution, il is some
what doubtful whether he Will be sblc by the aid Of
his coad@ors, the astue Mr.. Van Bnren, the think
| ing Mr.. Branch, and the learned Mr.. Eaon-to say
nothing of the sagacious Mr. Barry--,o point out the
article and section which gives HIM any such power.
Nay, further; he find precedent which will
uphold him in this arrogant assumption of power
The farthest that any President has el1imed the
situtonal right to appoint minister's has been only
during the recess of Congress.
| We shall see how these gentlemen can estrain at
gnat. and swallow camel " hIr. Adams, in his
mes age in December, 1885, after stating that the
Southern Republics contemplated holding Con
gress at Panama and had invited the United States
to send ministers it, holds this language: "Phe
invitation has been accepted, and ministers the
part of the United States WILL be commissioned to
attend at rhese deliberations, &c. &c"
! II was cortended by the opposition members in
the Senate, that the President lad sunlcd the pos
session of power not given him by the Constitu-
ton; and there upon they called him to account for
asserting the right To do act which, they said. if
he had done. would have violated that instrument
! Air. Adams, In answer to a call made by the Sen
ate.' reatGrms his right, President Of the United
S,atae, to commission ministers during the recess,
sure deemca TO be tcitip the cosiiutionaf com
petepcy Of The Executive have not thought proper
to take any step in it, before asceraining that my
opinion of its expectancy will concur with thar Of
both branches of the Legislature"
Tie minority in the Senate said the President
Fl asserted the right TO appoint ministers in all cases.
without the consent Of the Senate, and they said
they were bound by the oaths they had taken, sto
preserve the Constitution III the language of Mr..
Branch) in all its pristine purity and vigor."
On the Both of March, 1920, Mr. Branch introdu-
ced resolutions protesting against the competency of
the President of the Un cd States TO have appointed
ministers to the Congress of Panama withou the ad-
vice and consent oc;hc Senate AS they were mo-
dhed by him on the same day, they read as follows:
I"Resolved, that, in the opinion of the Senate the
proposed measure was not within hn constitutional
competency of the Executive. And also resolved.
as the opinion of the Senate, iDasmuch as the claim
of power, set up by the Executive might, if suffered
to pass unnoced by the Senate, be hereafter relied
upon to justify the exercise of similar power, they
it to themselves and the State they represent
to protest. and they do hereby soennly but respect
fully protest, against the same" In sustaining these
resolutions, the mover denounced Mr.. Adams az an
usurper, &c
In order that the commercial men Of your CITY may
see in what kind of hands Mr. Van Buren, flor the
President is out of the question: has cond@d their
interests, and that they may have brought to their
recollections the TRADE which the friends of Gen
Jackson encouraged in the Senate for the purpose of
disparaging MIR. Adams and Mr. CLAW viii ma ke
an extract from Mr. RandoIphs speech on Mr.
Brancbs resolution and whoever, will take the pains
to read the speech, will find the extract to be far
sample of he whole.
CHOW, sir, tue gentleman from North Carolina is
so extremely unreasonable 10 visible will bear !
with my repTOof, hope-us to break the llnca sue
cession Of monarChs, and to reduce us % some
thing like the barbarsm of Russia where they haven't
yet perfected themselves in the \ G of legitimacy
regular iDdefeasble succession of tyrans, although
they claim the head OF the table in the Holy Alliance
where there is hardly instance Of the linea heir
succeeding to the throne without regicde parrcide
(which the case impes from the time Muscovy first
became an European Power--from the time of Peter
AIeMovifch. tor Alexiowitx as was taught in my
yohth to call him. who the slayer Of bis SON and
who transmitted his power 10 Catherine, The Livonian
peasant grl-tirst hfs ---. then his Chamber
lain's, then an Empress; whom / have heard more
than once COMPOUNDED with her namcsakc. Catherine
Pincess Of Anhalt, The second of shat who, by
the murder Of her husband Peter THIRD usurpaJ The
throne
with some 'ysriation OF the mode, not Of the rnea
sure, it IS the case day of Constantine Cesarn
witch, which means believe. Btz Cesar, as il was
with his father. Paul Petrovitcb. and with his father
Peter. the son Of somebody nobody knows who who
went beSore Paul, not by the same rns,rumcnts--no