Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-04-24


likewise in its responsibility. The Gus
tody Of the public money is one of the
functions of that Department. For the
discharge Of that function il is response
BILE, no. to Congress, but to the Presi-
sident. The law establishing the Bank
of the United States did not, the Mes
sage argues, change the relations of the
President and the Secretary Of the Trea-
sury to the public money; it did not re-
lease the former from the duty Of direct
ing where the public money should be
kept, nor the latter from the Executive
supervision, in relation TO the discharge
of his duties: it merely superadded "A re-
QUESTION, that, when the President should
think fit to remove it from the Bank Of
the United States, the reasons for so do
ing should be laid before Congress. So
glaring had been the abuses Of the Bank
so determined il appeared to be to inter
fere in elections, and TO corrupt the
press, Sc. the Message says that the
President had felt il to be his duty to in
terpose, to check the Bank in its career,
lessen its power to do mischief, &c. and,
in doing so, remove the Gisobodient
Secretary who refused TO act in the case
In such case as this, the Senate has
no right upon the general argument of
the Message, to interfere. If the Sc
nate had a right to interfere in such q
case, says the President, it had right
to make its Interference ellectual. In
such a case some future Senate might,
in order to make such interference eiiec-
tive, omit to perform their own Consti-
tutional functions: refuse to pass the ne
cessary appropriation laws, or to confirm
proper nominations by the President
thus shadowing out the consequences
which might result from such an usurp-
ing disposition on the part Of the Senate,
Sc. sc.
The Message then adverts to circum-
stances connected with the discussion
and passage Of the Resolution censurng
the President, who, it is argued, is the
direct Representative Of the People,
whilst the Senate only Immediately re-
presents them. The instructions from
the Legislatures of the States of Maine,
New Jersey and Ohio, expressing their
attachment to the President, and their
hostility to the Bank of the L. States,
and instructng their Senators to vote
accordingly, are all embodied at length
in the Message. From these States,
the Message says, four Senators out of
the twcnty-siX, voted in favor OF the CEN
sure of the President: had they voted as
instructed, 90 only, out of 43, would
have san ctioned the accusation against.
the President, SC.
The Message then goes on to depict
the awful consequences which must fol-
low from submission to such usurpa-
ton, by the Senate, Of the rights Of the
Executive; such as aristocracy, anar-
chy, or dismemberment of the Govern
ment, &c.
The President also vindicatcs his pri-
vate reputation from Implications which
he conceives to be contained in the vote
OF censure, SC.
The whole Message concludes, for the
reasons briefly hinted at above, and 9TH
er reasons which are not enumerated,
lin the course of which the length of
term Of service, and responsibility of
Senators are more than once alluded to,
with solemn protest, which, with the
Message, the President requests may
be entered at large upon the Journal Of,
the Senate.
The above is hastv and faint outline,
but substantially a correct one, Of this
important Executive missive to the Sc
nate: which, the reader may very well
conceive, produced not little sensation
within the precincts Of the Capitol.
The moment the Senate was called to
order yesterday, the Private Secretary
OF the President of the United States,
presented Message to the Senate, pro-
testing against the Resolutions of the
Senate, touching the removal of the
Public Deposites. The Message SEEM
ed to have been expected, at least during
the morning: for there was gathered an.
unusually early audience Of both sexes.
The Senate, however, was not full. MIR.
Webster, Mr.. Chambers, and Mr.. Bell,
were still absent: MIR. Forsyth, Mr..
Preston, and Mr. Porter were casually
absent-and MIR. Clay had yesterday
accompanied his Lady, who is in i'll
health, on her way to watering place,
in Virginia, where she is to stay some
weeks. As soon as the last word of the
Message, as its reading was concluded,
fell from the lips Of the Secretary of the
Senate, MIR. Poindexter addressed the
Chair. In indignant terms, he denounc-
cd the Message, which he declared
could not be considered an Executive
Message, as not pertaining to any ofthe
public occasions on which the Presi-