Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-03-20
OPINION In EuRopE.

The London Globe, in publishing President acs-
sohs MessaSs On the opening of the session of Con
male and female Trollopes, that that is great and
singular nation, which, beyond the Atlantic, is
marching with such rapid strides in the career Of civ
ilization and liberty. "-JNdt. Int.
The Paris National, of the 9Th, after referring to
the fears that previous to the Election had been ex-
pressed from General Jaclsons violence of temper,
&c. thus comments on the Message, and the
Course of policy of the President:-'' four year
he, General Jackson) has WINGED the excellent
good sense and the sound equity which all his pre-
decessors, from Washington down, have without ex-
cepton, exhibited in the same station. The dis
appears, as it were in the Office rathcr the Pres
idency. renewable every fonr years, and which our
vices reproach unstable does more than guarantee
to the American Union the Government for life of
King, however long that life; it guarantees the gov
eminent OF one and the same spiri-of the uni
form purposes-of Il sing lie and Interchangeable princi
pie OF the public weiare--ofan unvarying and su-
preme morality, Transmitted from one President to
another not by the hazardous caprice of the heretit
airy principle, but by the well weighed force Of the
double principle of election and responsibility. A
fancy politician of the juste Dlieu school recently
said to an American. why, your Presidents are ali
alike there is no transcendant ia lent among them
One would think it was always the same person re-
elected under different Nance sThat,' said the
American, SIS just what we want; want in every
case to see the principle and not the man; and so
long as, in our Chief Magistracy, shall find the
man disappearing in the principle which, is excel
lent one, SO long we shall be best governed that is,
the least governed people in the word.'"
Governor Floyd, in his message to the Legislature
of Virginia, communicating the correspondence of
Mr.. Leigh with the South Carolina authorities, desig
mates that gentlemen the stCommissoner near the
government of South Carolina.n His excellency
has been reading the precedcnts, the high subject
OF embassies between princes and potentates, and
has adopted already the phraseology of sovereign
ties and High Mightnesses in their national inter-
course with each other 1t is BY such affectations
that the true character and preentons Of such pot
ci~n. NJ GoveTnoI FLOYD Clearly disting uishei
He would make foreign nations of the States and if
we mistake not, princes regent, for the time being
of the Governors. We are very certain that few Of
the petty sovereignties of Germany,-even before
their pretensions were circumscribed within their
present mits-ever had more dlctatoral power than
the Ex-Governor Hamilton in South Carolina, at this
time. We are in doubt, whether the Governor of
Virginia means Ex-Governor Hamilton, or Governor
Hnyne--as the government near which the Commits
'oner is to remain For all domestic affairs accord
ing to the constitution, Mr.. Hayne is the Governor;
but for making the affairs of notification, s.eyond
and above the constitution, Mr.. Hamilton is absolute
To which is the ''ambassador'' to attach himself?
'Under what king, Bezonian ''-BaH. american.