The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1836-03-04

Tor war, another tor peace, another Tor war
again; aud, at last, thought, was about
right. 1t has lately been said, and be.
lieve he authorized It by letter TO the gen.
,Ieman from Rhode Island, (Mr. Pearce,)
that he has changed his politics once more
in his latter days. Ii SO, sir, shall be glad
of IT, for he has had the fortune always,
believe, to PROSTATE his own friends. | shall
rejoice, sir, for another, the best evidence
10 Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and
all the democratic States--all the old demo.
cratic party where the old federal States
and the old Hartford Convention tederalst
are rallylng | believe no man knows his
own kind better than the honorable gentle.
man from Massachusetts, aud know there
Is grea, change, somehow or other, IN the
old jackson party. SIR, a nertaRgtcd demo
crdcy has sprung up, aud renegade federal.
lists, OF whom 1t has been SAID that they
haunted the graves Of such men as Hamilton
and Jay like vampires, are aolc among the
present democrats IN the land
The gentleman says his object in intro.
duclng this resolution is TO arrive at truth,
and TO produce harmony between the two
Houses of Congress. Sir, | fear his means
will defeat his ends. He will, by this reso.
luton. reanlmate and arm the dead Hector,
once, be saws, dragged around the walls OF
this Capitol BY the victorious Achilles. In
stead OF an inquiry after truth, the business
OF tins committee Will be to arralgn the Sen
ate Of the United States, and to break down
that BODY, which cannot stand much longer.
1t has wlthStood already more than thought
il could bear, and viii not consent TO apply
another catapulta to It's walls. The gentle
man will find himself mistaken. Instead OF
harmony, he will array House against House,
aud the legislative department, divided a.
2anst ITSELF must fall. The policy OF the
Executive, when II means TO consolidate all
power 10 itself, will ever be TO divide and
conquer. will not aid the Executive a.
ganst Congress. Instead Of beng united
here, 10 a man. against encgoachmenis ot
the Executive, It seems We are TO be made
ourselves the instruments and the tools OF
IsNfNuitNt d11I duIlLttIltlt' w III lltlc ON
no peace in the land unth every institution
is Frustrated to that one hope the gen,
tleman does not mean TO enlist US 10 this ia.
tai and unprecedented war upon the Senate.
Sir, if differed as widely as the poles from
the Senate on subjects Of past differences,
| would now, 10 these fearful times OF con.
yolldatng all power in the Executive, en-
deavor TO become reconclIed 10 that body,
and 70 meelit on common grounds OF peace
aud harmony and united action. Behold the
spectacle Of the two Houses of Congress
wranglng, to the des, ructlon Of each other,
upon the point Of dispute which failed TO do
the sovereign viii and good pleasure Of the
Executive, which viii and good pleasure was
never graclousIy made known TO either I!
Would that be the Congress which our IA.
theirs created BY the Constitution to be watch.
iul and jealous Of Executive power! They
created Us to be a check, to preserve the e.
qutlIbrlum OF power, and We are TO quarrel
about which shall yield most to Depart.
ment which al best Is but coordinate
say, sir, such Congress as some would make
Us Is not the Congress which the founders
Of our Government intended and, when We
yield our Jealous Independence, the Congress
OF the Constitution will be dead, dead, dead I.
With the power Of appointing the judiciary
10 decide upon laws, and with the power OF
controlling, BY the brides Of appointment,
the legislators who are to enact the laws,
the President, if he will abuse bis trusts, Is
omnlpotent, and the Government IS consoI.
ida,ed 10 the Executive. Oh that | could
inspire my felIow.members OF this House,
and the whole American People, to rise up
in time against excessive Executive pnNer !
The time has come when every man, IN prl.
yate life and 10 public, when the high and
the low, the rich and the poor, should meet
together for the safety Of the Government.
" hist that Is at stake, let US conclIlate and
cheer each other, and say-rt IS not you of
the Seaate, nor you of the House Of Repre-.
seatdtires, who have slnned 50 grlevously "a
gaInst the country, lis laws, It's Constitution,
and the spirit ofits institutions, but you, the
mlnons of the Executive
Sir denounce the attempt to charge the
loss Of the fortlfcaiIon bill upon the Senate,
on the part Of those who make 1t, knowing
1t to be false, to be base fraud and lmposi.
ton upon the country
Virginia Codi.-He are informed that
Stone Coal Of the first quality has been dis.