Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-04-28

APRIL %, 1881.
Extract from the Speech Of Mr.. TassVeH, o.
Virgutia, NJ the Senate Of the U. States, res
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Yirg.tia, M the Senate Of the U. States, res
pecting The Turkish Mission
AIR. President, have presented to the
Senate nav views Of the constitution, so lar
a. IL aaplies to the matter before US. III am
4 right in these views, all must agree with me,
i tia. the powers exercised by the President
Il unon hi. occasion, was without warrant, &
Il therefore unlawful; that it is a manifest vio
4 jafon OF the rights Of the Senate; and if the
act was done with that view, it ID fragrant
nl6gaiisn OF then constitutional powers.
-. President, my strength is almost gone,
/and your patience must be at least as much
4 exhausted, yet few words MORE hope
they may be the last with which shall have
occasion to trouble you For many years
n have watched the workings Of this govern
4 ment, and have seen it steadily advancing to
that condition to which our most sagacious
statesmen long ago predicted it must one day
come. Occasional distractions to its onward
motion. have sometimes cheered me with the
hope, that these predictions would not be rC.
rlfed. Nor will | ever part with this hope,
while this body remains true TO ITSELF and
faithful to the States whose sow reisnties are
here represented. But what | have seen aud
heard of late, is not well calculated TO cher
ish hope. The time is not far distant, nay 1T
is at hand, when the theoretic maxim Of the
British law, will become practical rule for
the American people. The English jurists
tell us, that ''the King can do no wrong" s.
soon may We expect to hear this fiction OF the
British government, transferred to ours as a
solemn truth affirmed Of our President. !
wish we may be able to introduce with this
principle, the corrective it finds in the gov
eminent from whence ii is borrowed. There,
although the King can do no wrong, his min-
Isters are responsible for all the bad advice
they give him.
"in the instance before us, am willing to
beheye, that the President has not knowingly
violated the Constitution, or designed to ina
pair the rights of the Senate, or desired to u
,urp fer himself the entire and absolute con-
trsf over all appointments, although such
certainly is the effect eli his acts. In the
mode 10 which business of this kind is done,
as we all know, many circumstances may
have existed to absolve the President from
all designs to exert any such power as has
been here put in practice, in order to pro
duce such effects. But what must we say of
his ministers, the bounden duty Of some of
whom 1t is, to present to him The facts as
they know them to be. OF his cabinet, four
were members OF this body during the mem-
cradle Panama discussion. One ithem, (tha
Secretary of the Navy was the mover of the
resolution declaratory Of oar rights, and de-
pying to the President the power then claim
ed, and here exercised Another of them (the
Secretary Of State) stood by MY side in that
debate, the able advocate of those rights.
eioquen.ly denouncing the claim Of power
then preferred, as but part of long settled
system covertly to increase the influence and
patronage Of the executive. And all four u
nltcd with me in The vote given upon that oc-
LODI h1s Il,
voice was raised to admonish him, if no
friendly caution was given TO him by any of
those whose opinion upon this subject was
80 well known, and one of whom had in his
own office full representation Of all the facts
existing IN the case, it ought not 10 be mat
ter OF much establishment, If the President
should have regarded it as one of common
occurrence; and the omission to lay the APP
pointments before the Senate at their next
session, may possibly have been accidental
know NOT now this matter stands; but this
Low, that II such representation had ever
been made to the Senate, should never have
been heard TO censure mere oversight; or acts
Of any kind unconsclously done. When hon
orable Senators, however, instead Of excus-
ing, seek TO Justify what has been done; and
thls too by such arguments as we have heard,
which, If sound, must suffice to petpetuate
this power, the case assumes very different
aspect isdeed Under this different aspect
have been obliged to consider it.
For thus regarding ii. know we'll what
am to encounter.-I have seen The writing on
the wall i know the finger by which ii was
inscribed. 1t needs no Daniel TO interpret 1T.
But sir, it is my consolation 10 know, that
the balance in which | shall be weighed, will
never be held by any executive officer Of this
Government, be he whom he may. They
who sent me here, placed me as warder on
the Watch tower, to warn of the approach
of danger. will not play the shepherds
boy, and cry cut when there is none. But
when the danger stands confessed before me,
come in what questionable shape" it may,
will do my duty.
Mrs. Regal VS. United States Bank,-Mrs.
Royal has assured us of her high grati6ca
ton at the passage of the resolution against
the United States Bank by the Legislature.
She says she has been-is now-and will c
Yer be an Incorporating enemy TO the u
nited States Bank. She is determined to put
sssswn the Bank.--N Y. Courier.
A Southern paper classes Jacksonism as
follows: 1 he Calhoun jackson men; the Vn'
BHeH jackson men, and the Jackson Jack
son men. In their Con slomerated capacity
they form the ''truc Republican party"