Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-03-27

h'uHVe qulckness cOtnprehended the
details o! ii SUBJ connected with thei
pursuits, and oi deep import To their pros
perry, 1t was not necessary for him {,
hIiude iuiiher 10 the report, than to pa,
II tribute OF pldisc IT, The Committee " h,
drafted II, for their uulillng industry and
lodabie zeal The merchants oil New
ork, he added, would, in the present
crisis, have to depend upon their own re-
sources, those resources which they pos.
stssed within themselves, and which no
despotic power dared touch Commit
tees to Washington had been tried and
proved iruItless, Happiness and pros
perIty, he firmly believed, would never
be restored to the community, until wis
dom and prudence returned to the Coun-
cils Of the government. We had the
means Of producing this return, if we did
but exert ourselves and use those means.
The individuals composing this coininu.
nifty, were gifted with liberal ieelngs;-
our banking institutions were Literally
conducted; the blessings of kind heaven
we've showered with liberal hand on
this Western world, and all that was re-
quired was, that we should exercise our
rights as lreen;tn, TO place ourselves IL
gam IN the position we had once occupi-
cd, and from which we had been unnec-
essarily and unJus,ly drivcn-( Mr.. Pc.
rit was repeatedly and loudly cheered. }
John a. Stevens, Esq then presented
three resolutions that had been prepared,
and sent to the Meeting by MIR. Ga!la-
tin, which are as follows:
|. ReSolped, That the removal Of The
public monies from the place where they
were by law deposited, and declared by
vote oi Congress to be perfectly safe,
IN virtue of the sole order of the Presi-
dent issued oply two months before that
body was again to assemble, and with
the avowed object of being enabled
thereby 10 interpose his veto, if Congress
persisted in its opinion:
The uneXamplcd interference with the
officer to whom the public purse is in
trusted, in the performance of duties by
law exclusively ass gned TO that officer:
The appointment, during the recess of
the Sena'e, of "A temporary officer, for
the special purpose of doing AN act,
which no Secretary of the Treasury re-
g"la,ly appointed with the advice and
Consent of the Senate, would have per-
formed: 4
Are an abuse Of the powers vested by !
the Constitution in the President, and |
encroachments upon the legislative au-
thorl:y of Congress, upon the laws and
upon the constitutional participation of
the Senate in appointments to Office, -,
which, unless arrested, must give TO the
President alone, the exclusive control
over the public purse, over the currcn-
cy, and over private and public credit.
.. Rcsolred, That those acts and 9TH
ers of a similar description; the iicquent
and indiscriminatc use Of the Presidents
veto; his belief in his own inlallibility;--
his fixed determination that his will alone
shall govern; the avowal that, whatever
may be, he must at all events be sus.
taned: or in other words, 'that the
King can do no wrong;" the submission
Of The worship Of II nIan for our ancient
notions of entire freedom of opinion and
love Of liberty, are subversive Of the
principles of our institutions aud tend uI-
timately, leaving US hardly name and
form Ola Republic, to convert it substan-
TALLY into Monarchy.
3. Rcsoircd, That there is a redeem
ing spirit in our fee and glorious insii-
tu,ions which guarantees tier pcrpetul- {
ty; and that for the true and only rcme- ,
dy, and with a perfect conviction ct ulti-
mate success, we itarlessly appeal to
'lhe People of the United States," our
and their Only legitimate Sovereign. !
We recommend the strong and pun I
gent resolutions OF MIR. Galatin, as well !;
as the report itself, to the candid and re- ,
Elective consideration Of all those who
still adhere to Gen. Jackson and sustain !
his policy. 1t is quite too late in the I
day to ascribe the opposition to the ex- G
ecutive measures to the old scapc-goat, :,
Federalism. lfAlbert Galla,in is IA Fed
rralst, where shall we find "a democrat? =
For more than forty years he has been l
identified with the ultra democracy Of h
he country--but he now perceives the 1;
oroe Of the philosophical truth, that "cX. :,
remes are often nearer each other than
he MEANS" aud that the transit from ul-
ra democracy is easy and rapid to the
of despoiism. Like an hon
,st mar, he has paused as he approach :
ID the precipicc, and given warning to u
,thers in voice that all can hear and -
zone not purpoaely misunderstood. =, u