Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-08-16

hepubhcans OF '96 were invoked 10 sustain
Gen Jackson, as. they had sustained MIR.
Jefferson, TO put them down. Never were
high and hollow professions more thorough.
Wy tested, or more successful, than they have
.heen FpIing the last ten years Every move.
men, TO extend Executive Influence and en-
large Executive power has uniformly been
preceded by some extraordinary pretensions
OF legard for popular rights. The Presi.
dert has been lauded as the patron saint OF
Democracy, even At the moment of assuming
powers which set laws, constitutions, egis-
latwes and courts Of justice al defiance, and
shock the very frame work Of the govern
mert to its foundation
Up blind the people to the fragrant as
SYMPTOMS Of Executive power, care has been
taken to exercise it upon objects OF popular
jealousy. Its true character, and tendency
have to thousands, been efiectually conceal
ed BY the flourish and parade Of using il TO
CRAFTY an artfully excited prejudice against
the object of its attack Thus Gen. Jackson
availed himselfof the natural jealousy of the
people against Banks, and especially gainst
Mammoth banks, to cover the enormity Of
the assumption OF power in taking millions
from the custody in which the law had plac.
ed 1t, and putting it where il could be made
to subserye the purpose OF augmenting his
power Every enlargement Of Executive
power has been accompanied by the preten-
sions that IT was necessary to maintain the
peoples rights. The President has been
presented before them as, pre.eminenlly
their friend and guardian-as welding his
great power 10 pu, down aristocracy monop-
oily, monster bank, and everything opposed
to equal rights BY the slrangest perver-
sion OF language. the last and present ad.
minlstrations have been denominated tie
Denocrafic administrations. And Presi-
dent Jackson and Van Buren,, the disciples
OF Jefferson while opposition. struggling 10
maintain the true balance Of the Constitution
against the oyergrown and overbearing pow
er ofihe Executive, has been branded as the
revived federalism OF '9S Never, we ven.
lureto say, has higher stamp of political
deception been played off on any people. In
The genuine spirit of juggling. executive en-
croacbment has assumed names precisely
opposite TO lis nature Thus while carry
ing out. with high hand the very princi.
Piles which rendered the administration of
The elder Adams odious TO the Republicans
ofthat day, it coolly takes its seat on the
Democratic PLATFORM processes 10 be the
true expounder OF democracy, and, in the
name Of the people, hurls ananthemas al the
W1Jgs as ledeEalIsls Of the schoo! of '9s.
The subject Of Executive power because the
abuse Of that power lies at the Foundation Of
all the evils which afflicted the country. in
ha ffk L.
President had kept within his Constitution
al sphere, we should have had no ruinous
experiments on the cnrrency--no specie
ciicular-no bank suspension--no derange-
ment OF the exchange--no defalcation ofpub-
he oflicers-no wasting the public money
on Executive lavoriles. The grand funda-
mental mischief has been that The President
has undertaken 10 gopera the country; and
has perverted the whole patronage of his
Office TO the purpose Of influencing the peo-
pie TO submit 10 his government as the con-
constitutional government, and 10 rely upon
him as the great Conservator Of popular
rights. From such an assumption of pow
er, and such perversion of Presidential in
duence, nothing but mischief could result, or
can ever result
We regard it as The highest OF our politi-
cal duties 10 stand by the Constitution and
TO the extent Of our power. to guard il against
every violaiion--especially 10 guard il as
lis weakest point--the point where it will
forever be pressed and endangered by the
from which nothing but the puresl
and most exalted virtue can exempt its Ex-
ecutive Chief
AS Wings, we ask return to the gov
ernmeDt of the constitutions government
ofthe people, acting through their constilu-
tiona organs, uninauenced by patronage and
by power. We are willing 10
trust the people, without the aid Of executive
or dictalion. We do not believe
that the constitution created the presidential
office that IFS incuHbents might operate thro'
il on the popular opinion, direct the popu-
lar will. and control the destinies ofthe coun-
try. We believe that il is the appropriate
business oil the President to execute laws
made by the people and to regard the laws
made by the people through their represen-
latives. We want to keep him in his place.
We want the people should be left free to
act without his influence. This. fellow cit
liens, we believe is genuine democracy.--It
was emphatically the democracy of '98 Ii
is true democracy in 1889. We intend to
maintain il against the democracy of sub
mission to execute usurpation and popular
acquiescence in a government of executive
influence. We desire, too, Congress free
from that influence Congress which
shall be a fair expression Of the popular
villa Congress whose members should
think more of the people who constituted
them, and less of the President who did not