Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-02-11

understanding OF the community, well in the view
oil the law, om the adoption OF the Constitution the
present day. As little, the omission denOninae
him Executive officer, in the title of the act es-
,a5shing the Department OF which he ior,ns a part
have that effect (expined too that omission by the
circumstance 10 which have advcrted il the functions
assigned To him BY the oct itself be- as ,hnl All ,u.
admit them 10 be- Executive in their nature. But there
Is still another ciierion, II another Necessary, Tor
ascer'aiu the character oil his office. mean its tenure
The Secretary OF the Treasury hollis hix office precise
W the same tenure every other Head Of Department.
lie is removable by he President precisely in the same
way as other Secretaries and that ability is de
ciar'd in the act creating the Treasury Department, in
idenicaly the same terms and manner that the
oy OF the Other Secretaries is declared, in the acts
s uting their especvs Departments By reference TO the
debates OF Congress In 80 the power by the
President, il will lie that the remov ability Of public
officers by the President, con-idered as depending
solely the rrcunsanc OF their being recuiire Off
GERS Other WISE All Executive officers were regarded
assistants substitutes OF the PRESIDE mt in the
exercise IT that Executive p0,oer which the Constitution
had vested wholly in him, aud such ought TO be- and
were removable by him PLEASURE. The act establish.
ing the Treasury Department, therefore, in expressly
c"gnsng as il doe, the removab,y OF the Secretary Of
The Treasury by the President, virtually declares him to
he am Executive officer.
The power OF removal, existing alike in regard 10 the
cre'ary OF the Treasury and ,he oher heads De-
patmens, may be righuliy exercised for
rious tha is mpos sble To reduce them any
class hcaioD. The President, who possesses the over
Is TO judge in the first instance at ess oil s
to this subject, Mr.. Madison said. ali head OF De-
ps,'nen shall not conform 10 The judgmentef the Pre-
sdenf in doing the i've duties OF his office, may
",
tMlr. Southari) who spoke days ago. cited the OPT
MON expressed by Mr. Madison in the debate, that
the President might be impeached for renoval
OF public 'ihcer Sir, do not doubt it, but III beg leave
toremnd the honor able Seua or Of correa've opinon
delivered by Mr. Madison on the casion- that the
Resident might be properly iRpesched also for neg.
letting to remove public officer, when the public
: interests demanded it, AMI this. sir suggests the
true mode oiesng the question which raised of
the Presidents constitutional po,cer, remove the late
Secretary Of the Treasury for his refusal the language
OF Mr.. Mads just cited) ssio conform TO the u,gment
Of the President the subject of the public deposes
Let us reverse the which actually and sun
pose that the Secretary Of the Treasury instead of te
President, had desired transfer Of the public depostes
that he did so without any sufficient reason, was abou,
to commit them to Banks Of questionable solvency Of
torious insolvency IL the President entertaining diff
ieren opinion OF the expedency and proprieiy of the
measure, had stood by and renouncing sauary con-
tro which the Constitution had placed his hands by the
power oil REMOVAL had permitted his Secretary quiet
ly to consummae his purpose, the ground that the
President had right to interfere with Discretionary
power entrusted by Congress TO head of DEPARTING MT
what then would have been said! We should have he
SIR denuncaons not less loud and vehement than those
which have been uttered the present OCCASION than
dered against him, but upon different principle We
should then have been told, sir that the President had
been recrean his high trustba he had been armed
with the Of removal expressly protect the public
interests from the fhfuness incapacity OF public off.
GERS, aud that in falling to exercise it, he had weakly
and wckedy betrayed his duty TO the Constitution and 10
u the country.
Having thus reviewed, Mr.. President the doctrines 10
me, must say, novel doctrines, of constitutional law
which have been advanced by the honorable Senator from
Kentucky, (Mr. Ciay0 will dean the Senate with fe W
words more The honorable Senator told us, with deep
and mourniul pa,bos, that in the midst of a
resolution. agree with him, sir; ARE in the midst
Of revou,ion-a happy and suspicious revolution like
l. the "civ revolution of 1900" which, according TO MIR
Jefferson. Gas real revolution the principles as
that of 76, was in the form of government" like
sslnary revolution sin the principle. of the government
like saluary revolution in the principles the govern.
= men,, we have accomplished during the last five
, years OF its administration la that time, sir have
the Government, brought back oi,s publican
from the deviaons OF latudinous power into which
y had fatally iaien--we have seen an unconstitutional
and coFrupng system OF Internal Improvements, under
the patronage OF the federal authority arrested and those
great local interests RENTED their natural and safe
guardians The governments Of the SIaieswe have
: the Bank, the first BORN Of federal usupaons foiled in
!, lis efforts TO perpeiuae its existence and confirm liz
81 W Syss@ % OF The n"%orane Sc
TO be ONE not oil protection but oppression have
seen that too partially and abandoned Here
indeed is happy and glorious revolution for those VIII,
u tonal construction Of freedom, industry of EQUALITY q
public bur,hens And for these great results we are in
deo'ed TO the rmness, the vigor the patriotism of the in
divdual who presides over the administrators of ,h
It Governmen-sutained by the viruous confidence of
:. Tree people.
G We have, sir, the authentic and nos;,ive dec,,,; -
me honorable Senat from Kentucky himse f. made or
his floor during the last session. that was owing 70 the
: known and determined opposition the Chief Macsra,s
IS 10 the protective system, sustained as il was he
II would be- 10y an increased popular support in the
Congress, that the honorable Senator conssnd -
what he did Of that system in the conpromise If G ,
winter The other great reforms national polcv have
been accomplished by the direct agency Of that high now
nj f,e
PRESIDENT asa shield, among other for The
lection oil the just rights OF the States and which he r.
Il faithfully and firmly welded for that object sed &
as that power has BEEN sympa,ize in tIe sen
men's oil Indignant repro5aon with which lis a.
oeeR denounced by the honorable Senator of KcnucLy
Is power, sir, which has been eXered n te he At con
siuuonol times oil England and Of our own country In
England, william the Third, venera,ion for whose
memory is pronounced by late writer on The cors;,
iional history OF England be the true test of Engish
wnggism exercised i-an exercise rendered
aud Justified told by one of the historians nj H.,
me by The existence OF ga strong party in The House nj
LORDS, Who entertained deep designs" Our own had;
son, siT, than whom there lived man noro 90
'uos' more conscientious, scupuous in the use ri
power nor yet one rner in the Discharge of ,uv i o
hesitate to exercise IT, The limited oppor,uhi,ies oT TO-
search have had, disclosed less than half dozrn in
stances IN which he resorted the veto four NJ H.
during the first term OF his Preshency-and one of ,h
he veto OF the Bonus Bill Tor Internal Improvement ~
me very last act OF his public le thus rendering an an
propraie and impressive homage 10 the ConstifTto, o.
retiring from lis highest trust. cannot see ,ben l., a.
use the veto by the present Chief anv
oil alarm Tor the liberties Of the country.
CONFESS sir, consider those liberties far mora so.
yHfea'ehed by The unconstitutional su,ion will, GO hoe.
erdsp"g ahoi'on we are now struggling. IT, SIR IL sla
triumph in this vital strug gle, then indecd f,ii 800
luton will have been accomplished The lime ai,,
arrived which was oreold by that great republican
man. Jefferson whose prophetic administrative warn
ings were read 10 us by the Senator from M.sou r. .
moneyed power, SELF constituted and irrespousibIe ,.
have superseded tho delegated and ycspo,sibe Cnya
inent Oh The people in its action. Gentlemen in the cours.
Of ihis debate have declaiined much on the anyernn in
iuence oil money But The only money whose inf uencs
'hey seem 10 regard as dangerous, s the money of lie
peopIemoney raised and appropriated by The
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