The Madisonian., 1840-01-01


money, and the Secretary Of the Treasury
supported him by declaring them to be less
SAFE economical aud convenient than banks.
MIR. Van Burcn, Mr.. Benton, Mr.. buchanan,
MIR. Wright, Mr.. Polk, MIR. Cambreleng, and
indeed the whole party in and out OF Con-
gress avcred that what the President and his
Secretary had said was true, and stood ny II.
Now the President undertakes TO falsely all
this, and his supporters will swear that what
he also now says is true, though they have
sworn to the contrary.
The President believes the establishment
OF an Independent National Treasury, as con
iemplated by the Constitution, is necessary to
the safe action Of the Federal Government"
We believe this to be the first time, without
exception, such language has been used in
Message from the Executive Of the United
States, 1.-TWO caich-icor stand like watch
men IN the 'front.' {" as contemplated by the
Constitution y The four or five lines in the
Constitution touching i" Treasury" contem-
plate no such thing as is recommended by the
| recommends has not been contemplated by
! any body until very recent date. We do not
believe that such a thing as an " Independent
National Treasury" was even thought of by the
trainers of the Constitution, and there is GER
tainy nothing IN that instrument "contem-
/ plating" such an establishment We have
always had National Treasury, and n De-
partment annexed, established and regulated
by law. But what means the President by an
Independent National Treasury y
Milton, in his defence Of the people of En-
gland, says that, the iadependency of the King
was asserted on the ground that he did not
o'ee his sorereigaty TO The people, but to his
descent. Does the President seek to estab-
lish an Independent Treasury on similar
ground Independent Of whom OF Con-
Sress OF the People! How can the Ere
.cutire assert for himself the independence Of
the Peoples Treasury Can he make it in
dependent of Congress, or of the People
Suppose he did, Would he use it himself!
Who then would rcplenish il 4! No. The
National Treasury is dependent upon the PEo-
rLE, and upon Congress. 1t is Independent
Of the Executive, and we trust the Congress
and the People will be sufficiently jealous of
Executive power, and awake to the interests
OF the Republic, to keep ii so, now and for
ever.
And the President tells us that relief is
not to be found in erpedients,' and his poti-
cal friends in the city-of New York have de-
clared by public resolution that they I" scout
The ,rord erpediency from their political coca
bnlay." The political vocabulary then Of
these politicians is NOT The Constitution of The
United States, -nce what is 4" erpedient' can
not easily be erased from that ancient and
once respectable INSTRUMENT. The Constitu-
ton declares that the President shall recon-
mend to Congress such measures as he shall
Judge necessary and erpedient" Now also
as erpediency is defined to mean i" fitness or
sutabeness to effect some good end" could
we properly expect any such constitutional
thing as expediency from loco-foco !! In
their measures and in their principles, they
have been and are, nexpedient, mpracticable,
Republican, and sometimes unconsitu-
tional.
When the Sub-Treasury was first proposed,
it was pronounced by the Albany Argus and
the Richmond Enquirer only a matter OF er-
pedleacy, and nobody, it was pretended, ever
thought OF exacting gold and silver exclu-
sively in payment Of public dues. Now, the
Sub Treasury is no longer an erpedtent, but
cardinal principle, and the specie clause is
sine qua mn Thus has locofocosm pro-
gressed until it has taken entire possession of
the White House
The mossageis specious and elaborate, but
the most radical and dangerous document that
has ever been sent to Congress from the
American Executive. TO notice all its OBJ
ectionable features fully, would require an ar
tclc longer than the message itself We
have already ,respassod too far.
~ The objections made to the election Of
! Chaplain in the House of Representatives,
did not proceed from loco-focos, as we were
enormously informed and stated in our last
paper but from Wings That fact of course
does not alter our views. The reasons of the
objections made, it is proper to state, how
ever, did not have reference to the appropriate
business Of a Chaplain, but rather to the man
ner Of obtaining the Office and the consequent
degradation of the ministerial character in the
] nersnns of ihnsn who have hcen inn much in