Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-10-30

strongly it may be fortified by judicial decisions or
public reverence, it he chooses to conjecture that
II Ia not CONSTITUTIONAL he is not bound to execute
IT,. One would think that to refuse, according
to his pleasure, his appreciation of bills presented
by Congress for his signature, would be sufficient
stretch of power, without asser ing the monstrous
power OF nIlliying and rendering dead letters all
the laws of his predecessors from the beginning of
the Government! hat is the amount of this us.
sumption. but claim the part of the President
OF this Republic to DISPENSING POWER the
laws OF the landf Such pretension has not be- n
exercised with mpunity, even in the British mo-
narchy, except in its despotic times. After more
regular notions of liberty began to prevail in En-.
gland, it cost, in connection with other congenial
usurpations, ono of her Kings his crown, and
another his head.
To waste argument in proving that the system
we have glanced at must, If sanctioned by the
People. convert this Republic into despotism, by
whatever title its Chief Magistrate may be called,
would be insulting to their understandings Stuff
Glen, proof is furnished by the system itself and
the course Of the President, his followers and his
official organs. Both houses of Congress have
been denounced; proposition has been suggested
of amelsinE the Constitution SO MS to punish tho
Senate for their eontumacy; he has--and we are
well aware of the serious nature of the charge
he has approved OF, and by his language encoor-
aged the appl icaton of club law refractory Rep
rescntatives; his most cherished counsellor has eI
horted Congress to adjourn and go home, and
learn their duty to the Executive; one print-the
official paper of the Government, under his ow
eye, and generally speaking his sentirnents--hns
announced that he was BORN TO coMmAND; and an
other has hatly called the people of this country
SUBJECTS.
LIS this nation prepared to re.elcct to the Pre-
sdency, TN individual who has gone, even in one
term to such alarming lengths in prostIatine tR1
other branches of the Governments What may
not be expected wiew a successful termination of
the present canvass shall have left him unbridled?
Are those sections of the Union, which are SO SEN
sitive TO every thing like federal encroachment,
NJ Ayal =
dent JacksnR's invasion of the rights of Congress-
and OF the Indicary-or 10 his palpable attempt to
concentrate in his own person all the powers which
the Constellation has SO nicely and carefully part.
toned among the several departments of federal
authority Can the Ancient Dominion, the vigi
liant defender of restricted powers, look tamely on
the claim of a single man TO unlimited ruler We
trust noe
But 1t is not one section-all sections ofthe Uni
on are equally bound to consider deeply the point
In the Presidential contest to which we arc advert.
ing. 1t is one equally niomenous TO- them AN,
ana one which they can contemplate, free from
the influence OF those prcudices and interests which
embarrass their judgment in questions of general
policy. The public mind is undoubtedly greatly
affected by it. We believe that on. other grounds
majority Oft Americans People are adverse to
the reelection of Prcsider. Jackson.
They in that event a submission Of tho
great interests of the cOuntry-ofthe system of sei
protection and selt Improvement" which il the
"hrst right and the first duty of every naton;" of
The Bank OF the United States, with the conse-
qtent pcstilenaa of spurious currency and extern
sive bankruptcy. They also the triumph of a
system which treats the public offices as the insru
uonts of intimidation and corruption or in the
language of authority as the 'sPoiIs THE vIcroR;"
which proscrbes even for opinions sake and which
places the actual power of the Government in un-
scon and irresponsible banda. These causes for =
change of ADMINISTRATION, would, t is hopcd be
sufficient OF themselves in the approaching strug-
gle, to countervadl the power of Executive pat.
4 rs. nd devn ted =.
to- the procurement of General Jackson's re elect
ion But when aided by the alarm consequent
on ms extravagant assumptions of power, they
must, with ordinary excrtion, prevail. Let every
citizen remember, that vigilance is the eternal
condition on which Liberty is granted to man; let
every one who disaPProves of this Administration
reffect that the election may depend on III SINGLE
VOTE, and let him act according to that conviction
and all will be well. The broad banner of the
CONSTITUTION is unfurled. and floats gaIlaniIy on
the breeze; let all who wish well to lis cause
rally around the glorious standard, and THE
COUNTRY WILL DE sAvED!-[ National Inselligsncer