Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-04-12

about 10 address you on suDicct WHICH
has caused much speculation among our
friends, and great uneasiness IN my bosom.
! sneak to q YOU as a friend, and without
the sIirhtest reserve. The papers have
rcccnty Y spoken ofa bach of appointments
which the President is about to make
embracing tho two highest missions to
E,,ropean courts, and the two highest seats
in his cabinet. | have coAersed freely
with our friend Stevenson upon them, ana l
have this day communicated to INN my
;ntcn,i,u to write to you, and to lay before
Won nv own views oIthc matter.
ave have the utmost confidence IN the
virtue of Gen. Jackson. We have no idea
that he would arrogate to himself new
powcrS. at tho expense of tho other. depart
n,ets ofthc Government. His generous
ambition has been fully satisfied! lie has
nothing more TO ask of his country than her
verdict of appreciation when he lays down
the high and difficult Office with which he
is ntrusted2 We all know it, and every
candid individual admits it! We believe
that the course llc may pursue will DO win
single eye to the pubic interest. But
whilst we dismiss all apprehcnsions that he
Will dcsigncldy abuse his authority, we
wish. at the same time, that he should do no
act which may be plead, hereafter, by an
unworthy successor, in Justification CT his
acts. In this last term ofhis Administrations,
VIC wish to secno precedent act, which may
be perverted in future times; we desire 1t on
our own account as we'll rs that OF our
country. We wish to see his AdmlnIstra-
ton set in glory: and VIC wish TO sec our
country benefited, in all time to come, by his
pure example. But this cannot be, If any
error should be committed against principle,
even from the best Of motives; if any
authority should be assumed which does not
fairly bcleng to him, or even if any doubtful
power should be exercised upon any delicate
branch Of the Constitution, his high popu-
larity woulI only make it more current.
One Of the highest powers which attaches to
the Executive is that of appointment; over
its exercise is accordingly thrown; and
wisely thrown, the check Of concurrence by
the Senate. Now, sir, doubts 90 exist
whether the vacancy in the missions to
London and Paris did not originally occur
during the recess of the Senate. Secondly,
whether the vacancy does not still exist !:
and thirdly, whether it ought now to be
flle;, without consultation with the Sen
atc,"
The letters from which these extracts
were taken, having been written expressly
with view Of being laid before the President,
there can be no doubt that it was done.
Their main object, that of preventing the
appointment of Mr.. Stevenson in the vaca-
ton Of the Senate, was secured, The
President forebore to make it, and waited
until the Senate assembled at the ensuing
session before the nomination was made.
Itis stated by the President in his message
ofthc 18th June, 1884, communicating the
note ofthc Secretary ofState to Mr.. Steven
son, that the negotiations to which it refers
were commenced carly in April, 1888, in
the city of Washington instead of London,
and as they have been since conducted here,
no further communication was made to Mr..
Stevenson. What these negotiations were
has not been stated. Whatever they might
have boon, the residence Of minSlor OF
the United States at London, at all times, is
obviously proper and that the appointment
Of Mr.. Stevenson did not depend upon any
particular negotiations, is manifest from the
fact tofhis having been finally nominated to
the office. Ifthc President had abandoned
all intention of sending him to England mas
much as he had been requested to hold him.
self in READINGS TO so, during the summer
Of 1888, and had not declined the offer, ne
would probably have been notified OF the
change in the views of the President.
The Senate saw, therefore, that prom
ise ofthc mission to Great Britain had been
communicated to Mr.. Stevenson on the 18th
March, 1888. They saw an indirecct In
teryen,ion, with Mr.. Stevenson's knowledge
and acquicsencc, to prevail on the Pres.
dent not to make the appointment in the
vacation Of the Senate, in accommodation
to the views of Mr.. Stevenson and his friend
Mr.. Ritchic. They saw that the President
did lorbcar to make the appointment in va
cation of the Senate. And they saw the
final execution Oft pomise, as far as it
depended upon the Executive, by his NOM
na.ion on the Goth May, 1884. During
the long interval, he had been elected blythe
people Of congressional district in Virginia
as their representative, ignorant OF his hav-
inc possession Of such an official Pon'lsc !;
he had been elected, under the like ignor-
ance, by tho House of Representatives, as
their Speaker; and, in that station, had per-
foemeb all the highly important duties Incl.
dent to it. That Office, at all times one Of
great influence, possessed more than ordi-
nary weight in the session of lS33-4. The
President, some time before its commence