Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-03-15


character There are FIVE high witnesses to al
ties, these facts. f committee be appointed to IN
qnire, who may be called on. You may ~ to the
6rst second. third f,arh and fflh highest officers
OF your government. and s,r, ! should like to
them Thoroughly crose-esshnued. We have had
most important tact disclosed ls,ely. The secret
journal Of the Senate has bccn opened. and Ger
tain endorsement uf i,s clerk has been exposcd-
Now, air, that Secretary Of the Senate IL = most
excellent good, aud piGus man, with a high aud
due sense of proprirty. lie would be cautious TO
endorse nothing which was not only true bat prop
er to be endorsed. Bnt must ask Il all Yves en-
dorsed which WIS said conid not shut NV care
cir TO the roaors which passed from SEA, TO seat.
that awful night. Suppose the Senate did send
message to the Esecstne tbat night. rejecting
certain nomination; and suppose, IN reply, the
President bod told the Secretary, ~ will re,aiye
no further communication from the d------d ras
calls. the Senate is defunctr' am sure, sir, snch
an answer would have been undgniied aud unbe
coming, and that the Secretary's street sense OF
propriety. and Of what was due TO the President
aud to the Senate, would have prevented him from
endorsing all that was sad And yet this COM
m,iee, If raised and it inquire faithfully, may bring
out many sucb facts.
Sir, repeat that there was disposition on
the part ofihe Senate or of the House To defeat
the ior,ifcaton bill of the last session. Both ous
cs did their duty, and both now equally inter
ested TO guard against such interference for the fu-
ture as actually prevented both Houses, though
ready and willing from doing their duty. Yes, sir;
the getleman from Kentucky Mr.. X. NJ. Johnson)
challenged me at the beginning OF this session,
to specify the acts of Executive nermeddliog OF
interference with the independence of the legisla-
ton of Congress. ] gave him, sir, one pretty
strong case, but here is one still stronger. None
could be stronger. On the last night Of the last
Congress, both Houses Of Congress, | assert, and
have proved were not oply ready and willing, but
ANxIoUsLY ENnEAvoRRD, TO pass law, which the
| President himself says and which | admit was We
ry important TO the public Interests with large ma
| orites in each in favor of the Law, and the two
Houses agreeing. by special conference, and they
could not and did not get the biz! through, in con
sequence of the minions and pimps of the Execu
tive tamperng with their tools in the House o
! Representatives.! Now, sir, If the gentleman
wants a stronger case than that, cannot imagine
it. knew snch was the fact and though all 'th'
Government" should swear to the contrary,
should know aud believe the fact until the day o
nv death. It is 10 be borne, that some twenty o
thirty of the trained band shall, by reducing us be
| low n quorum-redDce a majority OF both Houses @
Congress below the foot of the Executive Sha
we be thus interrupted in our business by "A irag
ment of "the party doing the bidding of ihe
idol? Is this an administration of tho government
in the spirit aud letter Of the Constitution, who
makes the Legislative department independent c
the executive, and intends that it shall be chez
upon the executivo' Will the people suffer TIL
monst.ons violence TO the theory and practice {
their governments Oh that | could raise IN
) voice to pitch of remonstrance which could q
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cry hamlet every hou4e, and every heart OF tn
people, which could speak trumpet tongued to e'
cry man who has in his bosom spark of the spr
, of the free ? | woud rouse resistance 10 tn
misrue, this corruption, this patrcide of"the pa
ty" which would soon determine whether the Il
many or the few shall rule the destinics Of this n
public
Sir the whole mass of power which is coDferrt
r BY the Constitution on all the departments OF IA
q government is nearly as great as the whole pow
j OF any civilized people. But the theory Of our go
eminent so distributes this power among difiere
branches or departments as TO check and counte
balance. restrain and control each other mutual
Power with us is 20 neur allied to do harm, and
g well poised to do good, in all the theory OF OF
Constitution, that the government was made RI
C at the same time II was efficient. But, sir Il
practice Of the government has Of late peryert'
the theory Of the Constitution, that through corfu
e ton we are fast becoming bound hand aud foe
u aud single department absorbing the whole ma
k Of power. The principle Of the party is now wa
T. ng upon one Of the cardinal principles OF the Co
, stitutior, TO keep separate, distinct, and ipdepe
!. dent the Legislative and the executive department
e That principle without which this government ca
0 not remain free, is totally undermined by the po
# cy of parties select Legislators to suppon-th
is, 20 do the will of-Presidents Is there
jealousy of the executive LETT No esprit du cor
b in Congress gone gone
d Sir must remind the House that on the Gun
e berland Road Bill there were ia members prese
e and voting. That the very next vote there was
y quorum.
:, Here Mr. Wise read list Of the names OF met
= beers who voted on the Cumberland Rohd Bill, -
= Gid not vote on the next vote, the Moore and Letc
= er resolution. There were 66 10 number.
: these, Van Buren, men so opposition and {
i White, 10.
l. On the Cumberland rosd Bill there were TIA vote
d OF these were, Van Buren, men, 81; opposition al
e for White. ST.
e Parties were equal on that vote. On the Leieh
= resolution there were ll3 votes. Van Buren, ib'