Litchfield enquirer., 1832-11-01

mol only without the assent 6U, agansl inc known de- IrrmiMaIiOn of his constitutional advisers.
 Look at his abuse of the power, turning iI into
 0furdinary, not us A was originally intended by the frRmere Oi the Constitution, OG extraordinary
 erciae--mvHg employed is oiteWer 70 defeat the will of tue people as expressed by their representatives n Congress during Shree years than all is predecessors, during 70 years N,lminis,ration of the Goverume.'
 Look, especially, to his late Veto Message, refusing continue the existence of aN insnlion, which nt- lords Unexamped facility for collecting the public rcy- enuc-cherishes the growing prosperity of the West, and sends soaud stable and universally received cur- rePcy every secnn otthis Union. lf the President l Is re-eleclea, the Baak must go down, and wide spread scene Of commercial embarrassment and dis tress will inevitably ensue Nay, has already com | menced; and the trading and active classes Of the great West are beginning feel that they fast ap- preaching the gull of general bankruptcy. Important as the qWestiOn is of National Bank, National BankrupIcys which hangs upOn the event of is lection, the President has advanced doctrines of Tar more essential and vital importance. Wesay nothing oi his harsh aud OpprohoWs ianguage-notliRg Os his thousand sinister interests, prtjutices aud passons
 nothing Of his laOred attempt to infianc sectional IjeaiOusy-nOtlng Of his attetnpt to give groundes
 arlD Co State pride and State soVereignty-,o array class Of the community against anohp,-o reflect upon the honor and integrity of Ihe Members of Con- gress who voted L" .Ihe Charter of the Bank, Of his atiusi0c lO the Tariff laws As an abandon men of ,'e legitimate objects oi Government, all of which characterize this Message the extraor dinary document eyer promulgated unaer the sanction oflhe Executive of the United States b, e ask your candid, serious and careful attention of his constitutional views. ta.t Ar a.
 He complains that the Executive was not consulted about the proprieiy otpresen action, when for three years he had urged the subject upon the conside ration Of Congress. He complains that he was called upon to furnish the project oi Bank, as though it was pnrl oi his tluy" lO orvi bills as ell as ,u give withhold his tanc,ion after the action of Con. gress; thus making all legislation and mina,e in himsc and in such manner and time us he shall prescribe. lie lays down rule ut action for the Executive and his subordinate officers, which would involve the administration of the govern. meni in general disorder. Every public officer. ho takes oath support the Consiiinn s,veara that he will support t as he Mn6erStands ;; thus making the Constitution not Oi equal aud Hnversa O igaun, hut 80 lar only ns t c"incdes with each officers ndi- sidual views. The meaning of the Cons'su,ion with every public officers an interpreter or judge, wOud be involved tn inexiricahe confusion. Nay more, this rule o action brings every law of Congress at the foot ofthe President. When bill, which acr having passed both Houses Oi Congress, aWd returned without the signature of the President, the ground Of consn,i0nay, shall he re-cOnsidered ana passed by majority oflwo thirds oI both branches of tho Legs. laure, aud thus becomes Jaw of the lan, still Ihe President is not bound to that law because it does not conform io the Constitution he understands t Nay more, he is not bound to enorce the various laws which have been passed before his elevation ohce, because they may not be agreeable to the Con- s,i,u,ion as he underestimate t. The people of the U ned States hava lrOtessed to acknowledge s,.pre macy but that Uf the Laws; but if the views Of the President are correct the Executive is clothed with discretion, above and beyond all law. We hold our lives, our liberty aud our property at the will oi
  very arbitrary one. |
 We are not Jeff to conjecture how far the Execu- tive will be guided by his own rule oi action. Itisai ready matter of history. He has openly refused execute Inc Intercourse Law, or 1909, now our Statute BOoks aud sanctioned by Mir. Jefferson him. self; and yet Andrew Jackson claims Co D" ,readnG in the footsteps of that usrious man. He has
 fused to excr0ic the long list of treaties negotiated with the Indinns, and which the Consstu,ion declares io De us much the Supreme Law of the land us that sacred instrumeMt itself Ln an official conlmumca- ton so the Senate, and also through his Secretary of War, he has assumed the responsibility uf pronounce ing ,s Laws and Treaties of ihe United States nop eratise, whea conflicting with the egslatOn of the several iates in direct opposition boih the Con- suOn, which declares that the former shall be the /" Supreme Law of inc land and the Supreme Court, whose especial province it is to pronounce 6nalty constitutional questions, who nave decided ,hu, the laws 0f Georgia, under which TWO citizens of the U niled Sta detained in cr1e npris"nment, are and therefore v"id Nay, within tue last few months he has arrested the operation ofLaws which he has himself sanctioned, 0D the ground lhai their provsions are not consliiulionai His practice has i'' this respect confo'med to his professions That the opinion of the Judges has DO more author iiy over Congress, than the opinion u Congrcss over the Judses aOd this point the President is nde- pehdent of bo,h." Independent of. the Legislative Departnrnt! Independent of ihe Judicial Depart- men;! and of what we ask is he nOt independent ?- We trust this Election will show that he ls not nde- pendent ofihe Ballot Box, elnphntically the Peoples Department. @ 5qs as f @a a,gt, as E~,-. .tsa-
 FELLOW CIrIzESs--Are you prepared to sanction such dcspoc principles thus unblushingy anno'nced for the first time by President of lhe United Sstcsf not mplOre you i0 enter your stern and solemn protect against them before sj'nl be everlas.ingyoo late. Go to the polls iW November next a6d record Il there. Speak through the Ballot Box, the only un- houeh avenue 0ihe President, md let your voice bc trumpet .t0ngued for Liberty and the Constitutions His octrine, f susaincd by the country, strikes out the Judicial. Ms aD efficient hepar ment in Gcs ernment. tieFAtnfore it has heen recognxed saihe great conservative principle that peryades and ians the whole machinery ofour system. In looking forward 10 the brilliant aud glorious esfDies which open upon his vision, ,he hopes of the American pari- oi gather arouDd this departmen the shield of our liberties against the encroachments Uf Inc Executive, or the violence of popular cemmoliOR. Clothed with power extending to all cases arising under tire Constitution, and the Laws aud Treaties Of the Unit ed States" which the People have declared to be the Supreme Law of the Lnnd, the Judciary has exercs. ed the hitherto unquesiioDsd right of deciding fpnly all eases, in which that Supreme Law of thc land has been brought in question. Thus al they have performed ther duty earlesaly and independently, md often under crcWmsiances O ihc painful and try. ing responsibility And their decisions have been t- nifnrmy acquiesced in, even where they were highly oensye 10 State pride, involved private and pnb- lic interest am incaicntahe amount. So long as this coninues--so long as m unconstitutional law cannot he enforced upon n cZcn or State--so long as the States cannot encroach upon the General Gov. ernmeni, ar the General GoyerRmeny upon the State Goyernments, or one branch of the Govcrnmeni can. not usp the powers of coordinate branch. so long as justice holds aioliler scalcsunawed of unsednced m
 the midst of popular pregdicrs, parry triumph, Siaic strife, national dissatisfaction, long gre our b critics safe from the aris of corrupt administration