The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-09-07
JUDGE WHITES spEEcir.

tation, not so much to paTtake of Your hos
pitailty, as TO thank you, IN great SINCERITY
Tor your continued confidence aud suoooft
lou have beeni me an iinpeneirabie shiclc
. against calumniators and enemies.
Alter an absence of twelve months. viii
out h1'ie IniarmIssion, am again among
my constituents.
, Thanhs to kind Providence, and Il
! mIne enemies, am IN good health, read,
aud willing TO converse with YOU. on ul
that has passed, and Is likely TO happen.
My political enemies sought to desire,
me they iancled II an easy task more Ii
life, was ieh, than they, or |, suppose
Their UNJUST attacks revived energles winch
I !, mi sell, believed were extinct and 10 all
appearance they have renewed my life .
lease Tor sotne len, or tweniy, years.
aai no. only here. but IN good health ;
and aliho' the two last sessions Of Congress
we're nniong the mosi labor.ous have ever
served, | have no want Of health 10 plead,
Tor any deficiency YOU may tind IA the per.
lormance u ny "llic,a duties.
iam grateful to Pfas.dtuce, and proud
before you, ia the belte that | have mol
been, that SIMPLE autouiatcn, hleh, by the
tfcial organ, was represented 10 be, ca
paoag cay oi sas M, yea or nay, to the d.i
iefeni questions presented TO tho Senate for
dectsiost.
he lsbors OF Congress, both Ut the call.
ed aud regular session, have been arduuus !;
aud although bul few laws 81 general TIA.
lurn have been pissed, ye, 1t has not been
ifom inauegtlon to the great interests o.
'he country. There was continued stfag
gtr between tbs Executive and CansteSs.
The lfst wishing TO obtain an unlimited,
discretionary, power and control, over The
tionies be'oaglng 10 the pubic /; The latter
atsio1siy eisdeayuftng So la provide US to
have Itlpm safely kept, aud secuted. ia such
nannFf, as 10 make them applicable, al all
times. 30 tbs wants III the public. To the
opposition 10 the iIuuse Of Representatives
the cfeds; Is due, 81 preventing tho mou,ed
poser, from beng, 10 dao lufin, added to
tits other powers OF the Executive.
Shortly after entered Your service in
the senate, the great controversy comnene-
Cd, which eodrd in oeSfiny the chen iuenln,
bsa', and placing the lste Chief Magistrate
10 the Executive Char. The principles
lor which sau aud commended, AID Which
sc successfully maintained ought never To
y" iorgoiiea, aud cannol be Too ulieu IL
CURED 10.
We cuu'eaded tia, the powers Of the
Executive were too great, and ought to bc
teencca ana hunted hy Law.
That tho expenditures of tho soyernmen
Waretxirasassu, ndooght 10 bs reduced.
That X ans crime n the President, 81
any officer under hin 10 Use hgs official sta
item. 20 lriluence thC people 10 elections.
That oil monies ahlch came into the
Treasury. beyond thuse which we're neees
sasy ~ dsfray he economical expenses of
siis government, ought to be returned H.
kar peuple, sho wefa ihe true aud leairl
mat. usuess.
And ~r Kolemnly pledged ourselves IN
face N the clsliiznd word, tha, ii We could .
obtain place ard power. reirrnchmeut and 7
feiorm slsoul4 b" ~ order 81 the day. That
the Aegean stable should bo thoroughly
swept out aad cleansed
Enblemaiic Ut what we iuteadsd "a ac.
we chose for cur nn,lo thu brootn,
40. oae u tie common material, hut thu
Hickory broom.
Hickory, shvn young. is Of all dcscrip.
'l".,s Of wood The mos. tough, strong. and
durable, bur when old and uornf eaten, the
aos1 brittle aad trurthiess.
Gontidins IN the sincerity of our PROBES
sions, the sovereign people, lhro' the ballot.
boS, placed uur political friends in power.
,ai after most solemn, and formal, re-
lesa IT our pledges, We commenced our
'peraimns, and for the first four wears be. I
,eFed We we're making some headway.-- !
We bad checked ln,ernal Imprav enents I
athin the States, BY mere Federal power. J
By Netoing the Aiaysslllc Road Bill, the q
Road Bill. aud by Vetoing a bill $
% &c charter the Bauk of the u. StAtes
lut when the SECOND four years of our terms 5
then commenced also con Z
rosersy, upon the question: Who should sue }
,oe'i the then Chief Magistrate. y
For one kept on, eudeasoring 10 nc G
'omplsh the task we had undertaken, bul I y
he mere we swept the diriicr the stable |
aecnme, and eventually NO found our broom b
would not perform It's office; the political Z
moths aud worms had got into It, and had y
'uien the splits SO badly, that the moment
We attempted TO SWEEP, they broke oil, aud l
inaly, when the second four years ended, Z
Ind wecome 10 look into the Augeaa stable, $
Ne found II len times as full Of hitter and q
thh as Il was when No commenced our .
operations. d
iaihl Seaate wa made an effort TO pass, Il
md did actually pass, bill to limit the pow. Il