Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-12-09
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THE MESSAGE.

The Presidents Message is unusually tame and
vapd. Onc reads it without any sensation. 1t is
a dull common place, slightly seasoned with little
cant, little imperialism, and little hypocrisy.
How different from the last! Night is net more
opposite to-day, than the spirless narrative before
US, to the artful intricacy, and dovetacd clabora
ton, of the Message of December 1880. What
diversity of style does the Hero command!
The Message possesses another quality to which
We have not adverted-wc mean modesty. Take
Tie following specimen:
81 have heretofore recommended amendments of
tie Federal Constitution giving the election OF
President and Vice President to the People, and
limiting the service of the former to single term
So important do consider these changes IN our
fundamental law, that cannot, in accordance with
my sense ofduty, omit to press them upon the con-
sideration OF u new Congress. For my views more
at large well in relation to these points as TO the
disqualification of members of congrcssto receive
an Office from President i'll whose election they
have had an official agency, which proposed as a
substitute, L refer you to my former messages"
We had an eve to this passage when we spoke
of hypocrisy. What does the reader think OF it2
Has the-(if NO were not speaking Of the Presi-
dent of the U. States we would say) efirontery
of these recommendations to Congress, any paral-
lei? 4 President-who volunteered candidate,
the pledge fsettipg the sautary example Observing
but one teru1-who obtained immense support
on that ground alonc--wkose friends recited this
pledge in their elcctoneering speeches and pro-
auctions, in the very front of all the arguments
in his favor-who Immediately upon his election,
set to work to procure 4 second nomination, and
whose frank endorsed the letters which put in
motion the Harrisburg Caucus, which re-nominated
him-who is at this very moment, through all his
personal friends, his minons and his pension aries,
pressing the point of his reelection by every art-
flee, eSertlon and argument-under such circum-
stances, to have the modeStyto urge upon Congress
the necessity of restricting Presidential eligibility
TO one term, by Constitutional amendment !!
Tho extraordinary impudence of the thing tempts
one to laugh outright. Who does the old gentle
man expect to dupe? The most stupid of the
ignorant cannot be imposed upon by such shallow
means Every will ask, if the Hero thinks
it essential for the public safety that the Pres-
dcncy be limited to tcrm why does he not
afford the principle the benefit of his example,
Doubtless that would prove more efiicacous than
cold recommendation to Congress. What
wretched imbecility! The President thinks he is
preserving by this means, the consistency of the
candidate, who viewed the second election of the
same President with much alarm, and who
promised faithfully, to set good example-the
example of rotation"
IF possible, the succeeding recommendations
the exclusion of Members of Congress from Office
coming from him, is more farccal than the other
1t is known that he has appointed more than any
two of his predecessors combincd yet as their OK
ciusion was one of the promises which figured in
the ''Reform" he TO introduce in the Govern
ment, the two superannuated mbeces one who
wrote, the other who signed the Message thought
it incumbent to pretend wish for Constitutional
reformation in this particular! What need to spur
a willing borse2 If President Jackson esteem the
appointment of Members of Congress, making
corruption the order of the day." why has he APP
pointed so many?