Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-05-15

5 and say that the executive had no author
ty or that the reasons are insufficient
! The house of representatives had not COM
up to the question, whether the reasons 70
he removal ofthe deposles were sulIicien
md satisfactory and what do we now fad
The president interfering between us an,
'ur future legislation. He POUNDS himsel
IN his power of removal, and while h,
leases himself on forty years construction
he forgets the country's experience for for
ty years of the necessity and utility Of tn,
nank of the United States. The legisa
tive consequences of our action were di
rect and immediate, for until congress ap
proved OF the reasons of the secretary, he
was not sustained and vet the presiden
takes all this as Il matter of history, and
takes leave to record his protest against it.
But Mr.. f. maintained that we had right
to administer officia rebukc, in spite his
sac rolo sicju5eo When we think he is
making use Of his popularity to destroy
The Liberties OF the people, we have right
to say that the president is on the way to it
and II those liberties are not secured by the
ballot boxes, they will inevitably be lost.
ne could not consent to receive this paper.
II for this reason alone. The allusion to
the resolutions of the legislature of New
Jersey, We're unworthy of the chief mags-
trate OF this great natipn, as the chroni-
cler OF the times. And if four senators
here have dared to meet the frowns of
constituents in their yea for their country.
and their love of liberty, by voting against
these usurpatons of executive power, it
was some evidence of the existence of
these evils. He did not bow his knee to
these instructions, and he appealed to the
great Judge of all things for the honesty
and uprightness Of his intentions. He
had but one word to say of these instruc-
lions. The people of New Jersey have
their servants at home, and they have
these servants here, and they have dis
tincilv said that they consider it pure aro>
gance in their servants at home to dictate
to their servants here
MIR. BENTON rose and said that the public
mind was now TO be occupied with ques-
ton of the very first moment and import
ance, if not identical In all lis features
with the great question growing out of the
famous resolutions of the English house ofI
commons in the case of the Middlesex cleo.
ton, IN the year 1868, and which engross-
ed the attention of the British empire for
fourteen years before it was settled. THAI
question was one in which the house of
commons was judged and condemned, for
resolution which was held bv |
the subjects of the British crown to be a |
violation Of their constitution, and a suh-
version of the rights of Englishmen: the
question now before the senate, and which
will go before the American people, grows
out of a resolution in which he (Mr. B.
believed that the constitution had been vin-
lated the privileges of the house of rep,
resentatives invaded ,-and the rights ofI
an American citizen, in tie person Of the
president, subverted The resolution otI
the house Of commons, after fourteen wears
OF annual motions, was expunged from the
journal of the house; and he pledged him
self to the American people to commence
a similar series Of motions with respect to
his resolution of the senate. He had made
up his mind to do so without consultation
with any human being, and without deigu-
ing to calculate the chances, or the time of
success. He rested under the firm cunvic-
lion that the resolution of the senate, which
had drawn from the president the calm
temperate, and digniied Protest which had
been read at the table, was a resolution
which ought to be expunged from the Jour-
nal of the senate; and if any thing was
necessary to stimulate his sense of duty in
making a motion to that effect, and in en-
couraging others after he was gone, in fol-
lowing up that motion to success, il would
he found in the history and termination of
the similar motion which was made in the
English house of commons to which he
had referred. That motion was renewed
for fourteen years,-irom 1868 to l7ss,-
before it was successful For the first
seven years, The lofty and indignant ma
jority did not condescend to reply to the
mntinn. They sunk it under dead vote
as often as presented. The second seven
years they replied; aud at the end Of the
term, and on the assembling Of new par
Lament, the veteran motion was carried
by more than two to one; and the gratify-
spectacle was beheld of IA public expurga-
ton, in the face of the assembled commons
of England, of the obnoxious resolution
from the journal of the house. The elec-
tions in En.lan were septennial, and il
took two terms of seven years, or two gen.
eral elections, to bring the sense of the
kingdom to bear upon their representatives
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