Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-06-15

reckless violation of vested rights and treaty obi
cations, the suffrage of Georgia for jackson and
Van Buren, would have been lost forever. That
Executive to do it justice, balanced not a moment
between it's duty and its interest; it found diff
Guilty in deciding between hazardous resistance, and
profitable cooperation. BY tho assumption Of u
power, not named in tho constitution, the Secrc-
tary OF War, at once the bosom friend, and favor.
lite Minister of the President, pronounced the act
of Congress of 1892 to be unconstitutional and
void, and coolly informed the Cherokcos that the
President would not protect them from encroach-
mcnts OF Georgia, or IN other words, that lac
had absovcd himself from his official OATH to exc
cute the laws and preserve the faith of trea ics-
When Georgia flushed with her victory over the no.
of the President, proceeded To her edct
of Punishment agains, the white inhab tants; when
she cast the ms sionarics into prison, to share the
soCictv and endure the suitcrings of common fcons
still the President refused to interfere. and avow
ed his approval of the proceedings of Georgia.
Worse than all this, when the highest judicial tri
bunal Of the land had pronounced these proceed
mgs tn be illegal, unconstitutional and void, and
had directed the release OF the innocent prisoners
not one movement of the President indicated his
intention to enforce that decision by the Exccu-
tive On The contrary, if any notion of his
feelings designs can be derived from the Ian.
guagc of his associates from tho acknowledged
writings of one of his cabinet, from the tone
of his confidential newspaper, he has arrayed
himself on the side Of Georgia against the Federal
Judiciary; he has encouraged her to rebellion
against the authority of the Union; he has sought
shelter from the and Indignation of the
country under an absurd and almost blasphcmous
chargs Of party motives against the venerable Chief
Justice; ho has added Insult to Injustice by aspcr
sing name, second only 10 that of ash.n gton in
the affections of the people, name hallrwcd by
it's association with the purcst public virtue, and
tho highest judicial integrity.
These are reflections OF the most pa inful interest,
of the deepest Importance TO the future welfare of
the nation, arising out of the case of the injured
he plSp trl,
much longer than is per ntcd by the limits of our
Address. They are Obvious, however, and we
lemnly call upon the people to make them for them
selves. We ask them 20 consider, whether the
conduct of the Executive, in regard to his subject,
does not indicate determination to ovcreap every
barrier of the Constitution and the law, and
break down every other department. of the Govern
inent which may impede its career of usurpation
and corruption We ask them to consider this at
tack upon tho Judiciary this wholesale erasurc of
treaties from our records and of laws from
statute books, in conncXion with the attempts so
shamclcssy repeated upon the constitute nal func-
tionS of the Senate by mcanly evading, openly
disrcgarding, The right of that body to pass upon
nominations, by vilfying IFS members through the
columns of a mercenary press and by threatening
its very existence because it has not dloays regis
tered, with tho most duiifu acquicsccncc, the de-
crees of the President. We ask them to remember
tie constant, and perhaps not entirely unsuccessful
attempts which this Administration has made upon
the independence of Congress, upon the integrity
paper press, upon the freedom of opinion and dis
cussion throughout the country, and upon that sa-
lutary combination of lofty principle with party
spirit, which has heretofore marked the political
divisions of the Republic, and which alone can pro-
ioct our institutions from ruin. We conurc
our fellow citizens as brethren OF the family
heirs of the same blessings, Repositories of the same
principles, TO reflect upon these things; conure
them by the liberty they boast, by the country they
love, by the hope they cherish; by their gratitude
to their fathers for rich inheritance Of social pr
VIiege, 10y their obligation 10 transmit the nher-
lance TO their chldrens children, by their response
hil'ty to God for right application of his mercics
ana ms judgments, TO pause they sanction such
mlschlevous proceedings, by IA new dcp' st of power
In the hands OF such men. If fu.r years of msrule
restrained in some degree by the necessity of pre-
serving appearances, in order to face the people at
the coming election; four short years have suiced
to organize and install faction above the constitu
ton and above the law; if that faction has already
changed the theory, subvcrted the practice, and
disturbed the balance Of the government; if it has
lpcriousiy dictated 10 the people in the choice of
Chief Magistrate, and the people shall submit to
That dlctaiIon--who can estimate the limit of it's
usurpations, or the measure of its audacity, when
1T shall have received fresh impulse from the suf
fragcs of the people? Who shall say that at the
end OF the period for which the Presidential office
has already been bespoken he will have a consti-
tutmn Ia shelter him--a country TO lovc-a suffrage
to give?