The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-13
THE SYRACUSE CONVENTION.


"1Hc separation Of The public money from the poll
teal poecr." ....
The Address and proceedings of the New
York State Convention, held at Syracuse on
the Sd inst, will be perused with qualification
by the Democracy. They give assurance that
there is formidable strength yet living in
flesh and spirit of that party into whose vitals
the poisonous leper Of Loco -iocoism had at
tempted to steal for purposes Of destruction.
They give us increased confidence and hope
that the cause Of good old fashioned sensible
Republicanism is yet to prevail over the
pseudo democracy and hum-buggery Of the
day.
The Convention was well attended by de-
legates from thirty.tour counties ofthe State,
to the utter dismay Of the Loco-focos. Men
of ability, tried patriotism, and many Of them
of long experience and distinction, their go-
rous gathering had an impressive effect,
which cannot fail to be deeply felt in the inn
portant contest at hand. The address and
resolutions are in the finest spirit, and written
with marked ability, and with all the earnest
ness and force of truth and pa triotism. The
great democratic proposition 10 separate The
peoples money from The political po,cer, can
not fail to commend itself to the honest APP
prova of every republican patriot in the land.
They propose that the Treasurer shall be
elected by Congress for the term oftwo years.
(They mean, undoubtedly, the Secretary of
the Treasury. The Treasurer" can have
no effect whatever upon the currency or the
business of the country-the office having
been virtually nullifed by the usurpations of
the Secretary. His business now principally
consisting in countersigning drafts and war
rants.) 1t was undoubtedly the intention of the
creators of the office of Secretary of the Trea-
sury to make him an officer Of the Legislature,
and therefore they required him to address his
reports directly to Congress. By modern
usage, however, he has become the most i'm
portant officer Of the Executive cabinet in
deed the creature and subservient tool of the
executive, subject to his bidding and not to
Congress- We hear the executive cabinet
councilling how they shall contrive to get
'that entire control over my own funds which
| | desire" 1.-The Legislature" said the Re-
publican Monroe, sis the legitimate guardian
over the public purse" but according to mo-
dern loco-foco theory and practice the Office
and privilege is claimed by the executive of
managing "my own revenue in my own way"
The Convention have done molly in making
this public demonstration in favor of this po-
pular measure, of separating the public mo-
ney from the executive power, and restoring
it where it Of right belongs, to the custody of
the Legislature. The people will sanction
this doctrine, and rescue their own money
from the corrupt and corrupting control of the
executive, and manage it in their own way
through representatives Immediately response
bic to them. Let the people speak out onthis
subject, and with the aid of that mighty en-
CINE, the public press, the Questorships shall
be abrogatod, and the public moneys shall be
wrested from the corrupt and defalcating "lic
tors Of the Emperor" and restored to the Gus
tody and control intended by the Constiu.
ton.
We cannot refrain from copying an inter-
esting account of this Convention, addressed
to the editor Of the Albany Evening Journal,