Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-07-02
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he has undertaken to rcbnke one Of the Houses
Of Congress for expressing its disapprobaton Of
such usurpaon Of tho powers Of Congress, trans.
hitting to them long lecture to instruct them
upon the subject Of his rights and their duties.
To return to the Veto for one moment. To
shcw how that power has been estimated by the
party and how it intended to have been used,
lot as state a case. We need not remind the read
or that the public money had been placed by law
IN the custody Of the Bank Of the United States
that, besides, the Representatives Of the People
had declared by vote Of two to one, that il was
safe where il was, and Of course ought not to be
removed that the President resented this vote as
nm effort to deter him from the execution Of his
fixed purposes; that the Secretary Of the Trcasu-
~. who alone had legal power over the money, be-
ing sasiicd'lat the dcposcs ought not to be remo-
we'd, refused TO remove them upon the Presidents
suggestion; thai the Secretary removed from
office because he pretended TO have a conscience
and responsibility Of his own, and another person
put IN his place who was ready and willing TO car
~ out tho will Of the Presidents that, within two
short months OF tho meeting of Congress, in tho
autumn of lS33,shc public money pds removed
by order of tho President, and that the power
properly belonging to Congress was thus usurped
and the regular action by tho Legislative bodies
anticipated and lwar,cd, far the purpose ofbring-
ing mHhm the VETO pOmer the question of the GUS
toby OF the public money, and thus placing il be-
vond the power of Congress to restore tho money
by less number than two third, Of both Houses.
Apprchcnsvc Of The resistance Of the majority to
It's views, the minority Of Congress is thus rolled
upon by the party" to effect its favor'c purpose,
IN the event of the majority proving FESTIVE We
say nothing Of tho cHpcdioncy Of the measure in
question that is matter upon which men may
dilicr hut we say that republican, capable Of
compromising the meaning Of the term, will I'M
derin.c cres 10 Justify palliatc this gross inva-
SION OF tho Legislative authority. u i, anly by the
force OF party discipline, by the operation Of the
fear of punishment and the hope Of reward, that
Congress could have bee, restrained from visit
ing tins cncroachmcnt with expression Of al
most unanimous Indignation. The power Of the
Spoils princip pie thoroughly pro-
we'd as in its bringing tho whole party in line 10
sustain this high-handcd nsnrpation, when in
their hearts many Of all the individuals compo-
sing tho party deprecated the rash and violent
measure.
Under the rule tho dominant party. therefore,
We have seen concentrated in tho same hands, and
subjected to the individual WILL no nconsid-
cradle portion of the Legislative, with moro than
all the Executive power, and so much Of the autho-
r'y OF tho judiciary as makes that body the
Judge of the constutonali,y Of acts done under the
laws. The concentration Of all these powers in
the same hands, is 4" the definition of Dcspotism :"
and every approach towards this gulf of consolda-
ton (as we have seen il somewhere callcd) ought TO
be regarded by tho people with most vieilant ca-
lousy. An chotire Drspotism," said MIR. JEr-
rrnsoN in his Notes on Virginia, was no, what
we fought for but one which should not only he
founded on free principles, but in which tho powers
OF Government should be divided and balanced
among several bodies of maeistracy as that no one
could transcend their legal limits without being ef-
tcctual checked and restrained by the others"
W i'h ms quotation from an authority which the
party make profession of respecting, we close
our review of the principles of the party now DOM
inant in our country, FAR it can rghtiully lay
claim to any principles in government peculiar to
itself.
In the brief review we have gone through, it has
been no part of our purpose to arraign the con.
duct Of the present Executive, on its own account,
nor 10 disturb the tranquility of its remaining days.
The errors OF the President we have no wish to
impnc to i'll dcsignS. Va are willing to allow that
the public good has been chiefly has aim, and that,
if he has sometimes sought tins end by unlawful
means, his have still been honest, the effect
of education and habit. More nccc ssary, there
fore, that his admitted honesty of intention shall
not be- allowed to sanctify these errors; and still
more necessary that party bgotry and zeal s!:aani
not be allowed To perrc;aatc them as n political
creed. Reviewing only the peculiar principles
which have distinguished " the party" we have
Intentionally passed over without notice a number
OF things not to be entirely approved in this Adj
ministration, because some NAV be allowed 10 have
been accidental, rcfcrribe to personal eau.
scs and all are subordinate in importance to the
+ great constitutional points We have included in this
review.
We arrive now at the enquiry, what course, in
the present con unctirc, it becomes those 10 pur-
sue who have honestly entertained the same opi-
mons with rs on those great public questions
Can they, without utter disregard Of principle,
give their support to the Baltimore nomination for
the Presidency, presenting candidate who APP
proves of all that the party" has done and sane
tioncd-who has himself in fact, been the soul Of
the party, and more deeply responsible for all its
acts, since it came into power, than the citizen
who is nominally the head of it,
Addressing ourselves TO the WnIGs-to those
+ who have conscentiotsly and faithfully resisted
these measures from the beginning. and in their
progressive ask whether they can sustain no.
mination which is to preserve the power and per-
petuac the principles Of the party dominant
in country y Arc they rccrean, to their
faith as to give in their adhesion to the party
which has prosecuted and prescribed those who
profess it, and still pursues them, by the despica-
BILE instruments it employs, with all the dcmoniac
vindictveness of party hate' Or are they ready,
either from Incidence in dependency, to give
= up, rthom an effort, the principles for which
they have for years past maninlly contended, un-
der circumstances not all more encoura-
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