Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-05-17
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Dci Ii our contemporary will permit US, VIC would
attract his special attention and that of all tho camoro
aPPiauders OF the Veto, to the following article from
Tho National Inelligonnor This time last year. the
PRESIDENTS Roman frmness in nerposinq his Veto his
heroic devotion to the principles of the Constitution
extolled to the skies, the delightful themes of
his partizan Press from extremity of the Union to
tho other. Twelve months have olaspsed-thc Presi
dent finding public opinion against the Veto has disco
vercd Internal improvements be no longer uncon-
sttutiona, and approved what last May, he gave
elaborate and learned for forbddng as inexpe
dent, and unconstitutional! Nor does the wonder
cease here The appauders of the Veto, observe pro-
found silence indeed, his aburation of it's prnci
Pies though they were CONSTITUTIONAL and enoined
hs observance by his oath of Office but they do not
the less warmly support him. They who found such
ceent and unanswerablc arguments inthc Veto for re-
clectng General Jackson find others no less
for the thing in his Abandonment of its doctrines
That act of the Yeto the solitary earnest of the
realization of the hopes of Virginia, that Jackson was
politician who cherished her principles Now that
he has rctraced and abandoned that upon what
will the support of Virginia be demanded for his reclcc
ion2 What has she to gain? What to hope?
A RETROSPECT
The doctrines maintained by the Executive of tho H.
States the subject of the of the power of In
terna Improvement by the General Government in ifs
at the last we'll at the preceding session. are too
we'll remembered to make necessary for to refresh
the memory of our readers by making from them
here. The Maysvile and Rockville Road Bills our rca
doris know suppressed by the of the ner
tive authority of the President for several assrned
sons, one of which, very particularly urged, was that
the continuation OF appropriations of that description
would have the effect to delay the payment of the ma
tIonal debt and another of which was that the surDus
revenue, when the debt shall have been extinguised in
stead of being thus applied ought in the opinion of the
Ike utlve, to be distributed among the several States
For the the President assent to
two other bills which contained appropriations ap-
peaTed to him to within the same rule. NOTHING
could be distinctly expressed than the denial by
the Executive of the expedency of these measures
the determination therefore, not to sanction them The
President won't far, in notifying the Houses
of his approUat of other bill, as inform them by
message that he had signed it with the understanding
that no part OF certain appropriation eight thousand
dollars only therein contained for Road from Detroit
to Chicago should be applied beyond the limits of the
territory of Michigan, hat is within the limits of any
State)
At the commencement of the late Session will also
be remembered that the Message of the President to
Congress spoke of the taken by the Executive
IN reference to this whole subject, having been his
opinion, approved by the great body of the People
under which impression, said the President have M
the most mature consideration, determined 10 Durse
IT," BY which we, in common with all readers and
hearers, understood that the would continue to be
interposed to prevent expenditures for Internal Improve
nent those admitted to be of a National character
at least until the National debt should be paid off, In
deed, the subject of the appropriations of this nature
heretofore made, and such were neratiyed bv the
President at the Session before the last the Nessarc NJ
tho opening of the last Session went so far as to CIV
" it but doing justice to the character of our Peope
TO expect the condemnation of the past which the
recent exhibition OF public sentiment has evincedn
What wish to bring to the attention of orr
Traders is the fact that notwithstanding this determine
ton of purpose announced by the Executive in success
Messages to the two Houses of Congress- the Pres
dent actually did, at the close of the session. approve
q sign bills making various appropriations of the nature
OF those to which ne had refused his sanction at the pre-
cCding Session of Congress.
We do not, of course take exception to the Presi
dents signing such bills at the late Sessions bn we hold
up the fact distinctly to view, to mark the strong
~ the error oil the course to which he advised at
the Session BEFORE and in which no persevcred ND to
and beyond the opening of the last Session.
The change OF opinion was produced we presume,
by the conviction, that his conclusion that the veto was
approved by the great body of the people, was pre-
mature one The blind followers oftho powers that be,
u was true continued to praise it, in duty bound; the
kentucky Convention praised it, the Maryland Central
Committee praised il: all the Rewarded praised it, bnt
voice was anon heard from another quarter which
could neither be misunderstood nor disrerarded At
the session before the last the Executive and his Ca
net put the veto the deliberately expressed opinions
Of the two Houses of Congress At the last sessions
the two Houses took satisfaction therefor by puttinm
the seal of condemnation on the veto of the President
and his Cabinet The President and his Cabinet were
Obliged to yield to power which they could not with
stand and they gave upon the point which they
have been applaudcd by their hattercrs for having
takcn resolutc stand upon Some Of these last hav-
ing iost slght OF the game, still continue 10 cheer the
80 Gnu 90 ldIeiJ as ~ inc Ffaaclphia Jackson Meet
lng' we were somewhat amused at observing a resou-
lion was passed flriousy approving it. The light
breaks slowly upon their benightod optics
we have said that the two Houses Of Congress NJ
the late session condemned the vcto but if was in tho
SEHATE, especially, that it received its doatblov And
was to call the attention particularly 10 ;hs piece Of
Congresslona! history that VIC took up the pen to-day.
On the night OF the I'd day Of March, (hc last bust
Jrc&a-day oi the session. The field fought and won
Some notice Of The incidents of that sitting was taken
the National Intcjgcucer Of the 4h Of March but
The yeas and nays were not given, tho questions
stated particularly 10 attract the readers attention
10 them For that purpose We h1vc procured an OK
tract from the Journal Of the Scpate, which will be
7ound IN the preceding column and TO which ask the
particular attention Of orr readers.
Fhe title ofthe bill under consideration plainly shows
That 1t was bill directly in the teeth Of the principles
assumed by thc Executive in its messages TO Congress
n bill for making appropriations FIR cary1pr on
crtain ronds and oorks Of Internal improvements it
embraced bodily the whole principle upon which tho
Acsidcas lad cHtSsscd tbo belief that tc people had