Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-04-04
BY CYRIL G. CADY.

o tnS appear, Oy representing the SuD'TeaSuIy
scheme as mere question Of eIpediency, on
which men may agree to differ without any com
promise Of principle on either side; and this at
empt is made, too, by those who have themselves
but recently denounced the scheme in the strong.
est terms, as dangerous to the public liberty, by
giving the President the immediate control Of the
public money, putting into his hands I" fund of
and aarmingly increasing the power
and influence Of his office, "aIready too great for
a republic. Surely when considerations such
as these are involved, the question is Of vital
and fundamental Importance. In this aspect
as measure alike hostile to the public liberty,
and warning upon the prosperity of the country
directly and indirectly, in all its most essential in.
terests,-the Sub.treasury project has ever been
viewed by those Conservative Republicans, who
have given evidence Of the sincerity Of their faith
by learlessly and unfinchingly meet g the de-
nunciatons which its profession has drawn down
upon them. Entertaining such opinions, can
they, as honest men, and as reemen, so far sur
render their minds andthefr wills TO the s1avish
discipline of party, as TO support the re election
Of President, whose policy they believed to be
fraught with consequences so calamtous 10 their
country | humbly think not.
Another disngenuous device for entrapping
conservative votes, is founded on the assumption
that they differ with the President on but single
question. Even were this SO, it would be cause
enough for the Withdrawal of their support where
the question is one Of SO grave and fundamental
a character as the Conservatives honestly believe
the sJb-treasury scheme to be. But the assump-
ton is wholly untrue. The Conservative Re
publicdns nave differed and still differ with the
President on other points Of the highest import
ance. They have seen, through the whole course
OF his administration and in the conduct Of his
friends, systematic design 10 build up the prdcti.
cal supremacy Of the Executive po1cer, at the ex-
penSe Of the Legislative department, ard of the
people themselves. They have seen this design
pursued, not only by the perseverins efforts
wi ich have been made to secure TO the President
and his agents the custody ahd control Of the pub
lie monies, through the medium of the sub.treas.
ury scheme, but also by the new and alarming
doctrine, which was preached in his annual mes.
sage at the commencement OF the late session Of
Congress in December, 1888, that, in the man.
agement Of the public revenue, he should be left
at liberty to employ Banks or not, 1cithom legal
regulation and al his mere discretion, as deposi-
taries and fiscal agents Of the government,-thus
subiectng all monled institutions OF the country
| to his influence and control. In the steady pur.
suit Of the same great aim, they have seen sys
TEN of party discipline, introduced and organized
under the auspices Of the present Chief Magis
trate, the fundamental cal on Of which is that
every member Of the party which brought him
into power, must surrender his individual opinions
and convictions on public measures, however pro
foundly entertained, TO the diCtum Of the Presi
Gdept. cnd 7n--a ate.atala>iie shall recon-
me N lndet pain Of accommodation and polt
IicalH doah for dsoLcdence.- these means
combined with the powerful persuasyes of hi.
official patronage, the President is virtually in
vested with supreme polcer. The debasin5 prlh
IcipIe has bean openly avowed, as well as pracli
cally enforced, that the first duty Of the public
Ifunetionary is to the President who appoints, anc
not the country which employs him; and that Sc
long as he renders good political service to h'
chic, no infdelity to his public trust, not ever
the grossest peculaton shall be suffered to de
priyo him Of his office. While un(aithful agent
aud public defaulters have thus earned impunity
and reward, others who have been distinguished
by the honest, able, and exemplary discharge o
their official duties have been arbitrarily removed
from Office, for no other reason than that they
could no. conform the private and Involuntary
Operations Of their minds TO the standard Of Elk
Iecutive aith or that they believed it unbecoming
the prJptietleS of their situation, as public Off
GERS to take part in those electioneerng exer
lions hch have come to be considered the sur
es. passport TO favor and security. And to car
the climax Of these bold pretenSions OF Execu
tive power, we have seen report solennly pu
forth and triumphantly carried through, by the
Presidents friends in the Senate, procamnq
in the face OF day, and in contempt Of the mos
revsrel oracles Of Angl o'Anercan liberty, The
Ida ne heresy that it is both the right and the duty
Iof Executive oiiice-holders TO inermeddle viii
1.-The freedom Of elections, thus sacrificing the vita
principle Of popular sovereignty itself at tht
shrine Of this new idol Of Presidential SUI
, prenacy.
} While in these measures and proceedings, we
have seen the President and his friends pursuing
with unvarying aim, as the primary object, i
would seem, Of their efforts, the dangerous ag
; grandzement of his power,-in his plans Of ma
lionA policy we have been constantly met witt
suggestions and recommendations aiming at thu
subvsrson Of established Institutions and utterly
, destructive Of the repose and settled order o
business in the affairs Of the country, and appeal
ing to the ieaousIes and worst passions OF society
in their support. The special object to which hi
schemes Of innovation have been mainly directed
is unfortunately the most delicate OF all the IN
teFesls of society and that which requires to b'
touched with the wisest and mos! cautious hand =
: the system Of its currency, forming the common
measure by which the labor and property Of ever!
: individual in the community is estimated or ex
changed. Instead of pursuing salu!ary and prac
: IIcaI reform Of existing abuses, whatever they ma
be- Ian object in which all COED men and patri
e OTIS would heartily unite with him, he has brougl
y forward crude and antsocal theories, and ha
d Propagated them with all the influence Of his hig
office. which 90 70 the entire deStrMctioM Of tha