The Arkansas advocate., 1834-05-30
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iiauoifs Hlaue Dy tne IfeSldent. If has al< ready been maintained (and T IS mol con- ceivable that the resolution of the Senate can be based on any other principief that the Secretary of the Treasury is the officer ot Cofgress, and Independent of the isre- sitietif; that tifn President has no right 10 control him, aad consequently nonp 10 re- move him. With lhe same propriety, and on similar grounds may the Secretary Of State, tho Secretaries of War, and the Ma ", and tho Postmaster General, each in succession, be declared independent of the President, the subofdinutes of Congress, and removable only with ihe concurrence oi the Senate. Followed to it's eonse- quences, this principle will be found ellhcti,- ally to destroy one eo-ordinase department oi the Govefnment, to concentrate in the haIlds oi the Senate the whole Executive power, and to leave the President as pow- efiess as he would be uselcss--fhe shado,y ot authority after the substance hnd de- parted.
 The time and tho occasion which hntn
 called forth the resolution of the Senate,
 seem to impose upon me an additional ob-
 iigaton not to pass 1t over in siience.--
 Nearly forty five years had the President
 exercised, without d question as to his
 flghtinl authority, those powers for the re-
 cent assumption of which he is now de-
 nouneed. The vieissittides of peace and
 war had attended our Government; violent
 parties, watcful to take advantage of any
 seeming nsufpation on the part of the Ex-
 ecutive, had distracted our counseis; fre-
 gtreut removals. or forced resicnafions. IT,
 every sense taDtanulnt to removals, had
 been made of thc Secretary and other offi- eers of the Treasury; and yet in no one in- stance is 1t known, that any man. whether patriot or partisan, had raised his voice against 1t as Il violation of the Constitution. The expediency and justice of such chan ges, in reference to public officers of ali grades, have frequently been the topics of but the constitutional right of the President 10 appoint, control and ro4 move the head of the Treasury, as well aa all other Departments, seems to have been conceded. And what IS the oc4 easion upon which other principles have been first officially asserted! The Bank Of the United States, q great tnoneyed mono- poly, had attempted to obtuifi | renewal Of is charter, by controlling tho elections Of tho people and the action nl' the Governs ment. The use of its corporation funds and power in that attempt, WAS fully iisclos sed; and was made known to thc President that the corporation was putting in train tho
 same course of measures, with the view of
 making another vigorous efiort through ar
 intcrIcrencc in the elections Of flln People, to control public opinion and force the go- yernnent to yield toits demands.
 This, with its corruption of the press, ita violation of its charter. it's exclusion of the Government Directors from is proceedings, its neglect of duty, and arrogant prcten- sions, made 1t, in the opinion of the Prosi- dent, incompatible with the public interest and safety of our institutions, that it should De longer employed as the fiscal agent of the Treasury. \ Secretary of the Trea- snry, appointed in the recess of the Senate. who had not been confirmed by that body, and whom the President might or might not at his pleasure nominate to them, refused to dc vha. his superior in the Executye Department considered the most imperative of his duties, and became i'll fact, however innocent his motives, the protector of tho Bank. And on this occasion 1t is discove- red for the first time, that those who framed the constitution misunderstood II; that tho Congress and all its successors have been under deIusion, that the practice of near forty forty five yyeaas.ss, s but eenlnuea nsnrpa ton; that tine Secretary Of the Treasury E not responsible to the President; and that to remove him is violation ot the constitu- toii and laws, for which the President de- serves to stand forever dishonored on thp journals of the Senate.
 There are also some other circumstances connected with the discussion and passage of the resolutions to which 1 feel 1t tc he, not only my right, but my duty, to refef.-- It appears by the journal of the Senate, that among the. twenty-six Senators who voted for the resolution on it's final passage, and who had supported 1t in debate, in it's original form, were ono of the Senators from the State of Maine. the two Senators from New Jersey, and ono of the Senators from Ohio. It also appears by the same journal, and bv the files of the Senate, that the Le- gislatIires of these States had sevcrally ex- pressed their opinions in respect to the Ex- ecutive proceedings drawn II, question be- fore the Senate.
 The two branches of the Legislature of Inc State of Maine, on the 18th of January, 1894, passed preamble and series of re- solutions in the following words:
 Whereas at an early period aIler Inc election of Andrew Jackson to the Presi- dency, in accordance with the sentiments which he had uniformly expressed, the att tention of Congress was called to inc con- and expediency of the renew