Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-10-27

rguMcnts USED Dy our Oe1ghbof; aho, as thes MP
" to only, do not attach any great
,eght to them either for against what we are =
hargcd Withholding Federalists. In the poltti-
al world men are ever changing; but principles =
e nain the same. To these we refer, and can :,
convince every appropriated and honest m'"a
ha, the principles of Federalism do not belong TO
he Wing party; but that many acts oil the late !,
and present Executive tend directly TO what the
wished
Alexander Hamilton is held up, by the prcsen'
advocates Of Executive power as the leader oil The
Federal party, in the early days of our republic
IIo believed, that s:American liberty and hdppi
ness had much more to fear from the encroach-
ments Of the great States, than from the General
Gorernment'' In this itacised quotation may
be found the spirit of Federalism. How ridicu-
lous, and how absurd is the charge then, that the
Wings believe with Mr.. Hamilton. Every effort,
and every exer,ion of the Wings, since General
jackson proclaimed the people of this country, /
his determination in tho ominous and despotIc I
language 81 take the responsibility has been 10
curtail the power of the Executive, as assumed
by him, and carried ont by his successor. Ii Fed
eralism consists in Executive power, where IS
there more of the principle than Gen jackson ex-
that the Secretaries were his Secretaries, his mere
instruments, his pen in their hand, without judg-
ment volion, in the discharge of their duties,
if the President chose interfere. That the
President had.,he control Of the money Of the
nation, we'll as the command OF all Its military
force, by land and sea; and that Congress even
could not take It from him, without violating the
Constitution. That he the Representative
of the people. That certain powers were cleft
in his hands ''unchecked'' by the Constitution,
being what he termed 'sorigina Executive pow
en-" This is Federalism beyond any thing ever
Hamilton dreamed of. If the chartering of Ma
tional Bank be a deral,mcasure, then General
. jackson must be a Federalist, for all readers will
recollect that he announced to Congress, that he
was prepared to furnish the plan of such an Instr
2 tuition. Did Martin Van Buren, act Demo
crat when he declared to the American people,
that their representatives need not pass such and
: such laws, for he would never sign them? Was
an assumption of Federalism, thus to threat
a en-, in the advance Of legislation, the Of the
;, veto power? What would the vencrated apostle
: of Democracy-Thomas Jeiferson-have said 10
Q such Republicansm this? He thought that
Federal officers should interfere in elections
n It was one Of the best principles in Democracy
II but does the present party of bald-face" democ-
Q racy practice upon it? No, it is understood to be
S sinecure by which to hold office.
l. We understand by the term Federalist, as ap
9 piled to individual, that he advocates measures
calculated to extend the power, and enlarge ihs
l. authority Of the notwithstanding power from
a, Congress and giving it to the President. Wouit
10 not the Sub-treasnry scheme recommended u
of Congress, for the receiving and dsbursing TIL
IN public revenue, enlarge the power of the Execu
tive? Every one acquainted with the projec
ed will answer in the affirmative. Then it is Fec
IL erai measure, and one Of the most alarming cha
=. racter. The President has, under the preser
r. Democratic arrangement, the appointing of a
UR inferior officers, without the concurrence of III
HE Senate. The larger and more responsible office
~ filled by his nomination, and in case the Sena
should be Independent enough to disopprove II
nomination, he forthwith falls upon his stubbo1
The reserved rights of'orgnal Executive power" al
Us makes no further nomination until Congress a
iourns, and then appoints the man rejected by Il
All, Senate. Thus he the Federalist W it'll a We
THE gencc
The Sub-treasury scheme is Federal meas,
~ in all its naked deormiy. 1t places in the han
emit Of the Executive the complete control of the
venue, by the appointment and removal of I
, to receivers Of the public money. If his PARTIAL
G. who receive the appointments arc honest, tn
a., pay the funds, received, to the "Receivers Gel
y raj, to be paid out to other members of the pa
any for their devotion to the Cabinet--bu, many Of
AVE thus appointed after fattening ON the spoi
ro:s make returns defauters. and permitted
retire to private life, or placed in other stuatio
d. Thus would the President be enabled to WELD
nv immense power by the patronage given him
.,or this measure; and fear that the power I
would be given to him would be difficult to WI
zoo. from his hands,.
cted
,o ,s There generation that pure in their
and yet washed from their hthiness PROVERBS.
ratio INsINuATIoNs.-Our neghbor uf the LETTERS
shed ian that he is not guilty Of making insn
), of tions intentionally. We excuse him for the
alluded to in our last paper. We also agree v
snre him in the sentiment he proposes for our ap
COM wall but we must be Judge of the he
num- of the person who commits the action. How
nave our neghbor reconcile his denial with the art
= ~ in reply to our mutual friend of the Eaton Re