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

: your own Judgment; but if you don't ar
. point my list, will turn you out of office
ms Is no messages; ii is merely pape
y signed-Andrew jackson, and much NOR
e dangerous in its tendency than the pape
which the same man sent here in lSl
. ma which The senate kicked out of doors
r lhen, he held the military power only
Jaw, he holds both the civil and military
ans, MIR. ?. sud, was measure cacu
Eaied to produce NJ general good. 1t wa
merely an attack on this body. 1t woul
make good article for certain officia
lufnal; but it was unfit for the seriou
consideration of the senate. He wonI
IsPurn it from the senate; it was an attemp
t" use the senate as a medium through
which to assail the body itself-ths bod,
which stands as a barrier between the PEG
pie and the encroachments of executive
poWer-npnn which liberty may repos,
without danger to The remotesf posteritv.-
Destroy this branch, and, with the aid Of
niue book, no llmi: can be set to the exten
1T Executive power. 1t is a most misera
Die attempt to sustain that power. Bat Il
IS nothing more than the executive has sale
IN his private chamber. and what appears
daily IN the colums Of the executive iour
nal itself.
MT, z concluded by moving that the
paper be not received.
M:. oPRAGUE rose to make but a very
lew observations upon this most extraor
binary paper. And what he would say
Was morein grief than in anger; for what
ever other feelings, on ordinary occasions
ne might have, on such an occasion
as this, the paper, coming from such a
source, and being calculated, if sustained
to produce such AN injurious effect upon the
institutions of the country, that all other
feelings must be emerged in that of deep
regret. The claims of executive authority
and power, in this document, leave no 9th
er department in the government than a
single executive will. He says all execu-
uVePower is vested in him; that he is re
sponsible for the acts of every executive
ofilcer, and that all the powers given by
law are vested in him as the head and
founlain of all, that he is the sole execu-
tive, and that all execu tive power is mer-
ged in hun alone. In " hat language does
he speak of the secretary of the treasury
lie speaks Of his power over his secretary,
and thus he is the secretary of the president
and not the secretary of the laws of the
land, or of the treasury, and if so, every
head OF every department is his secretary
Your MAYOR General is his MAJOR General,
and all the officers of the country are his
"tilcers. He then has forty thousand Off
GERS, who are all his officers, aud this cor
responds well with the expression to the
Fhlladelphla committee, "thrs is My Coz
ernment" But what more does he saw?
he has gone beyond what has ever been
claimed here by his most ardent friends
and supporters Of executive power. He
has said that, by the constitution, he must
have possession oil the public money and
public property, and that congress cannot
take from the executive the control of the
public money. Is this the possession of
The public purse or is it not2 Gentlemen
here admitted, on the deposi,e question,
that congress had the control of the public
moneys, but new the president tells us that
The constitution gives him the possession
the possession and contiol of them. And
with all this what further? WHY, the gen
leman from Mississippi said that ,he pres
ident had no power to send such message
to congress. But the gentleman did not
observe that this power was claimed in
part OF the constitution never before claim
ed by any other president, to wit: his oath
OF office. He gives this as the foundation
from which he derives his power, and claims
1t to be his duty to see the constitution pre-
served iGvipiale. He says the senate has
violated the constitution, and that it is his
duty to 60 to the senate and correct that vi
olailon. With The sword and the purse in
his hand, and his oath to see that the con-
sIituion is nptvi"laied, where is the limit
Of his power? And he is to sustain the
constitution under his oath of office. as he
understands it; not as the judiciary may
IexPound il, or as congress may declare it,
but as he Individually understands it,
And because the senate have passed res
olulion expressive of their opinion, he says
that ii is IA violation of the constitution and
acting judicially, and that he cannot be
touched but by impeachment Impeach
nent Of the executive with all the powers
he claims! The expression of opinion b,
The senate, the president translates into 8
judicial sentence, passed without trial, aht
yet the same president has passed the SAINT
opinion on the senate, and we have no
heard that this is unconstitutional In tn,
IeXecutive message sent to the senate il
Il thnc l.