Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-01-12

It's enormy. than the person by whom it is exercised
But from the Senate, after the indications Of last
winter, we hope better things We knou there is
no disposition in tina, body to excuse bad act
because Andrew Jackson did it, They will bring
HIM up to the mark ofthe constitutions and the decs
ion of sac In that body at least the Jackson fever
has cooled down 10 point if of regret for the act
of putting HIM where he il yet Of udispos ion to s,s-
tain him unfortunately, in all he does or attempts
We invite attention to the following:
A LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
From me .NeU York Daily .1doeriiser
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS
Extract of Litter, d1ied
WASHINGTON, Dec. Or, 1880.
qha President is much troubled bv the ,nouisi,iye
ness of the Senate and By the pubca, ion in the IA
pers respecting Air. Randolph After HIS in,ug,r,
on. and before the meeting Of the 2ls; Congress- in
December last, II" appointed three ministers TO treat
with Turkey. He made no nomination of Ministers
to the Senate during TN" last session of Congress
nor did he inimntc 10 TINT body that he had rn,do
the appointment. and that negotiations wore then
pending. treaty has been made, and is now before
tho Senate for confirmation rejection. Tho know
ing politicians at Gadshys and Browns who have
been wonderfully prlITh cncd bv their interviews
with the President. and by their attendance nj the
Circus soy, that the treaty contains secret article
which might, If known. possibly involve us in con-
troversy with Russia. They further say, that the
Senate hns The 'emerity To ask the President where
he finds himself sed with the power by tho Con-
stuien, to appoint ministers on q new mission and
keep them abroad during entire session of Con
gress without obtaining the consent of the Scnate?
The question IS puZzler; and although IN q comu,u-
nication he made three four years aro he said he
had most aiteniyeIy reflected clause of the con-
stnion during the American Revolution il is some
what doubtful whether he will be ,ble by the aid of
his conductors, the astute MIR. Van Buren, the think
| ing Mr. Branch. and the learned Mr.. Eaton-to say
"UhnG of the sugaciour mir Earry-o point out the
| article and section which gives him anv sucb mower
Nav, further. nd no IN
| uphold him in this arrogant assumption of power
phe tarthest that any President has claimed the con-
stutionai right to appon, ministers, has been only
during the recess of Congress.
We shall see how these gentlemen can .sstrain Mt
a gnat. and swallow camel" Mr.. Adams in his
message in December, 1875, after stating that the
Southern Republics contemplated holding Con
gress at Panama. and had invited the United States
to send ministers TO it, holds this language "The
invitation has been accepted. and ministers on the
part OF the United States WILL be commissioned to
! attend at these deliberations. &c. &c"
l. was cnntended by tho opposition members in
the Senate, that the President had assumed the nos
session of power not gwen him by the Constitn-
tion and there upon they called him to account for
asserting the rghtto do an net which, they said, if
| nc had done, would have violated That instrument
aIr. Adams. in answer to call made bv the Sen
ate, reat6rms his right, President of The United
States, to commission ministers during the recess
OF the Senate; but he says although This men
sure uns deemed 10 be t0itn lie constitutional com
potency 2IHe Executive, have not thought proncr
to take any step IN il, before ascerianing that nv
opinion of it's expcdnney will concur with that or
| both branches Of the Legislature" .--
| The minority i'll the Senate said, the President
asserted the right to appoint ministers in all cases
without the consent Of the Senate and lbev said
they bound by the oaths thew had taken "to
preserve the Constitution IN the language of Mr.
Branch) in all its pristine purity and vror"
On the 30th Of March, 1890, Mr. Branch introdu-
ced resolutions, protesting against the competency of
the President of the United States 10 have ined
ministers If al
vice and consent ofthe Senate. As thcy were mn
dl6ed by him on the day, they read AZ follows;
Resoived, that, 10 the opinion Of the Senate the
proposed measure not within tina constitutional
competency of the Executive And also resolved
as the opinion of the Senate nasmuch az the claim
OF power sci up by the Executive. might if suffered
to pass unnotced by the Senate, be hereafter relied
upon to justify the exercise of similar power tbev
it to themselves and TO the State tcy represent
to protest. and they do hereby solemny but respect,
fully protest, against the same In sustaining these
resoluions The mover denounced Mr.. Adams ue an
usurper. &c
In order that the commercial men of your city nav
see in what kind Of hands Mr.. Van Buren, for the
President IL out OF the question: has confided their
interests, and that they may have brought 10 their
recolections the trade which the friends of Gen
Jackson encouraged in tho Senate for the purpose Of
disparaglng Mr. Adams and Mr.. Clay, will make
an extract from Mr.. Randolph's speech on Mr..
Branchs resolution, gnd whoever will take the pains
TO read the speech will find the extract to be a fair
sample Of he whole.
"Now, sir, the gentleman from North Carolina is
so extremely unreasonable as TO wish-he will bear
with my reproof hope-us To break the lIncal suc
cession nj our monurChs. and To reduce us o some
thing like the borbafsm Of Russia where they haven't
yet perfected themselves in the u G Of Legitimacy
regular ndeeaslbe succession Of tyrants although
they claim the head oftbe table in The Holy Alliance:
where there is hardly instance of the lineal heir
succeeding TO the throne without regicde or purrcide
winch the cnse lmples) from the time Muscovy first
became an European Power-from the time of Peter
hexiovfch. Tor Alexowitx rs I was taught in nv
youth to call hm who was The slayer Of his SON and
who transmitted his power 10 Catherine, the Lvonan
peasant girl-iirst his --, then his Chamber
laln's' then nm EmOress; whom have beard more
than once COMPOUNDED with her nsmesakc. Catherine
Pincess Of hnhalt, the second Of that name who by
the murder of her husband Peter Third, usurped the
throne
with some 'vsrltion of the mode, not Of the rnea-
sure " IS the case in day Of Constantine Cpsaro
vrch. which means believe. Fitz Cesar. NJ il was
with hia father Psn Petrovitch and with his father
Pe@cr tho con ~ sor1nhohv 10bodv kroy9 no who