Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1839-07-30

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age of bis office So tho purpose az iufuonc.
INK ilic people 20 submit % ts government
as thc contumnonal government. and TO re-
IS upon fa as the great Copscnator Of
popular rights From such an assump-
tnn &C power. and such pcUcrsion Of Pres
iiental influence. nothing but mischief
could cuit. or can ever result.
We regard it rs The highest OF our polit-
Zeal 3uljo 20 stand by tie Constitution and,
40 ibc extent Of our power, to guard it
against every violation especially TO guard
ID at iis weakest poiui--iho point where il
Uiil forever be pressed aud endangered by
the ambition from which nothing bat the
purost and most exalted virtue can exempt
lls Executive Chief
As wings, we ask a return to the coycn-
mcnt Of the constitutional government Of
the people, acting through their constitu-
tlonal organs uninluonccd by patronage
and unwoariod by power We are willing
10 trust the people, without the aid Of exec
utiyc influence or dictation. We do not
believe that the constitution created the
presidential Office that lis incumbcnts might
operate through il on the popular opinion,
direct the popuarwil, aud control the dcsti-
MES Of the country. We believe that il is
the appropriate business Of the President to
execute laws made by the people and to re-
gard the laws made by the people through
their representatives. We want TO keep
him in bis place. We want the people
should be left free TO act without his inllu-
cncc This. fellow citizens, we believe is
genuine democracy .--lt was cmphaiicaly
the democracy Of '9S. II is true democracy
in 1889. We intend TO maintain il against
the democracy of submission to execute
and popular acqucscencc in a
government of executive influence. We
desire, too, Congress free from that inilu-
cncc-- Congress which shall be fair ex-
preston of the popular villa congress
whose members should think more of the
people who constituted them, aud less of
The President who did not constitute them.
We believe it will be in vain TO struggle for
popular rights; the country is TO be perpet-
uaIly pressed down by the incumbus af ex-
ccutiyc power, and vain TO keep the fountain
of popular action pure, if there is TO be per-
pctually poured INTO it the polIuting stream
Of executive influence.
From that influence, too, do we desire
10 have the state governments OK
ampted. lfthcrc is any such thing as fed !
lralism IN truly odious sense, il is the in (
lucncc OF the federal executive on the ac-
ton OF the States. If anything can ever
PROSTATE state rights, and annihilatc state
it will be that influence
The federal executive possesses Il power
which he can bring TO bear on almost eve.
rythlng. His agents are every where
Through their iHsirumcntality he can reach
Every ballot-boX, and act Oh every state
government in the Union. Has Congress
my such power as this las the judiciary
my such power? Can all The other bran
hes of the government combined, exert
honsandlh part of the influence over cleo
ions, state and national, which the Pres-
lent may exert, and which has been exert
ID by the President and his successor?
VIII you censure us. fellow citizens. for
icing jealous Of such n power as this p
Shall we be called fcderalists, and aristo
rats, and monopols,s, aud lordIings, be-
,ause we raise our voices against it /? Shall
We he denounced as the enemies of popu-
ar rights, because we cndcayor to main
ain the true democratic republcanism of
y8, and are struggling in the cause in which
Madison and Jefferson triumphed VIII
lot Vermont be the last state 10 Weld in this
contest with power? Where is there a
tate in the conlederacy, whose feemen can
'raw from the examples Of tie founders of
IS Independence a deeper inspiration for
UGH contest, than the freemen of the
irecn Mountain State Where is there
tate whose chief magistrate is vested with
oss power and whose government is more
ruly republican, We rcpcatit-Vormont
vii be the last in this contest. She has in
eed given pledge Of this, IN the frnncss
.llh which her people have long resisted
he pressure Of anti-republican influences
ne very side of them. While other states
ave been prostrated before the power Of
he federal executive, Vermont has stood
rmas her everlasting mountains.
And shall she now yield WHY should
he What is there 10 induce her 10 do if
ow What ground Of hope can the exec
tive party have that she will do il. unless
be in the apathy and want Of energy and
oncert of the democratic wings at the ap-
roachng election And is tins the time
Or them 10 relax their chortsl Shall the,
ow fold their hands, when every abnse of