Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-04-17
LIBERTY AND MONARCHY.

The thought has been expressed by
us more than once, that our Republican
President exercised more direct power.
and could usurp with more impunity,
than the constitutional Monarchs of
France or England. We find it de.
veloped, and the cause why it is so.
traced in the London Globe. Uack.
sons energy" as the London paper
Expresses it, was only wanting to elicit
the lurking principles Of Despotism in
our system. That energy has been
applied, and practically, and in so far
as the action of the Government is
concerned, the U. States exists at pre-.
sent under Despotism, for one man
is 'the Government"
We ask an attentive perusal of the
following article from the Charleston
lMercury:-Whig.
EUROPEAN VIEWS OF THE CRISIS IN
AMERICA.
Incur files of foreign papers, recciv
ed by the late arrivals at New York,
we find that the deposite question has
received, from the journalists, more at.
tention than it is their wont to bestow
on American affairs.-They speak of
lit as developing arbitrary and danger
GUS features in our Constitution; and
the absolutists look with confidence to
the result, as calculated TO prove that
an elective President is more likely to
become an oppressor of the people, and
to disregard the general welfare, than
an hereditary Monarch
The London Globe has some striking
reflections on the subject: 1t declares
that no hereditary Monarch, in a con-
Istitutionalmonarchy, would have dared
to pursue General JACKsoN's course;
and it expresses an opinion similar to
that Of Mr.. BINNEY, in the impressive
conclusion Of his speech, where he
despendingly treats of the sign, that
the spirit of party may become as fatal
to liberty as the spirit Of despotsm.
The Globe says,
The head of party has commonly
at least an ordinary share Of party
violence, and setting aside any notions
Of mere interest, his passions engage
him to make the most strenuous efforts
to support the party Of which he is the
chief. His political existence depends
on his success. Half the nation are
his partisans, the other halt his ene-
mies-enemies whose bitterness is Of.
ten proportional to his abilities and
success. Under the stimulus to &C
ltivity, he may be often more powerful
than the hereditary Monarch-and un.
less to the qualities which make man
successful leader of a party he adds
almost preternatural magnanimity and
temperance, that great power which
he may SO acquire will not be justly
and equitably exercised. On the other
hand the hereditary king must be &C.
customed to feel himself the head, not
Of party, but of the nation, and un-
less he have fraternity of feeling, he
can feel no temptation to foster the vlo-
lence or injustice of any party, and he
knows that his safety and glory are bet
ter consulted by moderating the VIC.
lence of conflicting parties, than by
tramplng down any portion of his sub
lects at the expense of justice. Proba-
lbly the U. States have not yet felt the
lfull effect of the difference between an
ELECTIVE and hereditary-a perpetual
and temporary Monarch, because from
various accidents, but especially, per-
|haps, the character of Washington,
which exercised an influence on his
Immediate SUCCESSORS, no President has
hitherto exercised his power with what
we believe to be its natural vigour.
General Jackson is beginning to give
an example of the powers of the Presi-
dent as compared with the powers OF a
. King.
: Another paper says boastingly, that
it only required the energy OF man
Hike Jackson to elicit the lurking prin-
/. ciples of despotism in our system; and
S some of them misled by the Proc
r Ilamation of Mr.. Livingston, speak oil
a 1.-The President as a man not only OF
n ensrgy. but OF talent.-They will find
!. ont that Gen. Jackson's energy is as
Ear removed from ability, as that OF the
: overseer. who was engaged on the
! score of his energy, by simple planter
n bocause ne logged the negroes da,ly
!, land severely, and had, moreover, kill,
y ed three men in broils.-The man wa'
r Acknowledgement veryinterestlng AS
po,,ary eases originated II
r. the neighborhood-,he calves deposl.
,e ed bv the neighbours cows were re
IN moved, and became the fruitful sourc
of litigation; fagellation abounded; an
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