Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1839-09-24
From the New York Express

From the New York Express
THE POINTS OF THE STRUGGLE.
1t cannot but be clear to every observ.
ing man, that the ma n point of difference
between the Administration and the Oppo.
.stion, is on the subject of Executive pow
era division of parties known in En-
gland by the division Of Tory and Wing.
The enlargement of the Executive power
is the principal point to which the Execu-
tive directs its efforts.
The removal ofthe public deposites from
the United States Bank to put them in the
State Banks, condemned by the Wings
and approved by the Administrator party
was great stretch of Executive power.
The sub. Treasury scheme, for the col
lection of the taxes by the agents of the
Executive, and to be entrusted. in depo
she, with these agents, is another yei
greater Stretch of the Executive power
for these agents are appointed by the Elk
ecutive, and hold their power at his will,
The disguised proposition is, TO deposite
the public money with hm.
The creation of vacancies to fill them
with partisans, was the reduction of all
Federal patronage TO the Executive will !;
and the addition to this power of C eating
vacancies and filing them at will. Of the
money power of the nation, is yet the most
f'arfu stretch of the Executive power
ever before supported in this republic.
The appointment of members Of Con-
or IS to Office, is fertilization of the ex-
ercise and usurpations of Execut We pow
er. Tie appointing I Of defeated candi.
dates for popular offices tonExecutive Of
fee, is, in effect, if not in principe, bar
gain or the influence of corruption. The
case of Mr.. Seden, defeated, in the Rich
mond IVA } District before the people. in
an eff ut 10 get into Congress, and, after
The defeai, appointed BY the Executive to
be til T elsurer of the United States, is
a fragrant case of apparent bargain ard
apparent purchase, showing The danger
Gus tendencies of Executive power. The
case of Ely Moore. surveyor Of this port,
is another case of bargain and sale.
The frequent use of that high preroga-
tive of the Executive--the veto p pwer--
was dangerous f; but the practice of pock-
citing acts of Congress, in order to prevent
their being enacted into laws 10 spite ofthe
veto, was a revolutionary exerci-e Of the
Executive power, subversive of the Con.
StltUtion.
The election of Mr.. Duane as Secre-
tary ofthe Treasury, because M. Duane
would not surrender to the Executive his
legal custody of, and responsibility for, the
public money, was fearful stretch of the
Executive power.
When the trainers of the Constitution
created the Executive power, they fortified
as we'll as they could, this plume of the
Constitution taken from the cap of mon-
archy, bat they did not foresee the growth
and magnitude. of the resources Of the
Union, and the Federal patronage falling
upon this one-man-power They made
him for thirteen States he has twenty six
States. They made him for three millions
oil people he has sixteen millions of PEG.
pie. They made him when steam power
was but an engine for, acting upon matter
and upon man. They made him for the
disbursement of five or six millions of dol
lars he has nearly forty millions. They
made him for few hundred subordinate
Office holders he has one hundred thou
sand and over. Advancing as all things
have been in our country, the one man.
power has had velocity Of increase, and
rolled up a magnitude of proportion be.
yond any other influence in il.
Now, on all these points, we out of the
Government, differ with the party in it,
Exercising the patronage of office, they
naturally see no danger in it, and as natu.
rally seek 10 enlarge the power and the
emoluments of it. They strive to keer
what lower they have, and to wrench
more from he people, and we seek to give
back to the people much of the power they
have, and by all means to prevent theil
having more. These are the points of the
struggle.
Tne Executive power and the popular
power are almost always the sources o
dissentlon between the governing and tbe
governed. hey commonly make ,wr
great parties everv where in civ,lizee
countries always in liberal governments.
The struggle is hard in England now. /
Is gong on IN. France. It is smothered
ollt It rumbles nevertheless, in all ItaIy.--
Inc same, IN substance. is the struggle II
these United States. The Executive Ia,
the Offices. Il wants the money. Partie.
range IN the str1ggle as might be expect.
Cd many being duned by the assumed
mask Of popular privileges the monarchi.