South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-03-07

July, and the Treaty has not yet been
presented 10 them. Such is exactly the
whole substance of the Presidents ar.
gumentation, and nothing can be easier
Than TO refute il.
may first observe, that the assem-
bling Of the Chambers on the 31st July,
ia obedience to a legal prescription,
that they should be called together
within a stated period after dissolu.
lion Of the Chamber Of Deputies, was
nothing more than piece of formally;
and if President Jackson had attended
TO the internal mechanism of our ad-
illustrative system, he would have
been convinced tina. the session Of 1885
could not have really commenced at
that season Of 1884. Every one knew
beforehand that, after fortnight spent
in the forms Of installation, il would be
adjourned.
The President Of the U. S. consid-
ers that the bill relative to the Ameri-
can claims should have been presented
to the Chamber within that fortnight.
cannot understand the propriety Of
this reproach. The bill was explicitly
announced in the speech from the
throne, on the very day in which the
Chambers met. This was all that was
required to make known the opinion
g. design Of the Government, g. TO pre-
vent that species Of moral prescription
to which absolute silence would have
given authority. With regard to the
mere act Of presentation, SO long before
discussion could possibly take place,
this proceeding would have been so
unusual and extraordinary, that it might
have increased the unfavorable pre-.
possessions Of the public, already toe
numerous, without producing any real
advantage 10 return. Above all, the
result which the President had in view,
Of being able TO announce the new vote
of the Chamber Of Deputies in his
message would not have been attained.
President Jackson expresses his re-.
greet that your solicitations instances
had not determined the Kings Gov
ernment to call the Chambers together
at an earlier day. How soon soever
they may have been called, the sim.
plest calculation will serve TO shew that
the discussions in our Chambers could
not have been known in the U. States
at the opening Of Congress, and the
Presidents regret ia therefore unfound-
ed. Moreover the same obstacles and
the same administrative reasons which
rendered real session impossible dur.
ing the months of July or August, were
almost equally opposed to its taking
Mace before the Iast wcrKs VI INC y1D
IbaLead.nte- Goyernment like - that % e1
comprehend more clearly than any one
else, those moral impossibiliiies which
arise from the fixed character of the
principles Of constitutional regime,
and to see that 10 such system the
Administration is subject TO constant
and regular forms, from which no spe.
cial interest, however important, can
authorize a deviation.
1t is, then, evident, that, far from
meriling the reproach of failing to com.
ply with its engagements, far from
having deferred, either voluntarily or
from negligence, the accomplishment
ofits promises, the Kings Government,
ever occupied in the design of fulfilling
them, was only arrested for moment,
by insurmOuntable obstacles. This
appears from the explanations now Civ
en- and, / must add, that the greater
part ofthem have already been pre-.
scented by M. Serrurier to the Govern
men, of the U. States, which by its 81. |
lence seemed to acknowledge their full |
value.
Il is worthy Of remark, that, on the |
list Of December, the day on which |
President Jackson signed the Message
10 Congress, aud remarked with sever.
Fly that nearly month was to elapse
before the assembling ofthe Chambers,
| hey were in reality assembled, in virtue
pf royal ordinance, calling them to.
gether at period earlier than that first
proposed. Their assemblage was not
indeed Immediately followed by the
bresentment of the bill relative to the
american claims but you, sir, know
'etter than any other person, the causes
IF this new delay. You yourself re.
uested us not to endanger the success
4 this important affair, by mingling its
DISCUSSION with debates OF different
AZURE, as their mere coincidence nigh.
save the effect Of bringing other inHu-
noes into play, than those by which it
hould naturally be governed. By |
pis request, you clearly showed that
GU had, with your judicious spirit,
l.