The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1840-10-22

causes Which have given and hare aug
meaird this force Of excessive powell
The disciples OF the aneieni school of
Virginia long entertained lhe opinion Iha.
there vas great danger Of encroachmenl
~ he general government. on The ius.
nights 81 the states; bsl they we're also
alarmed 81 The possibility Of an undue
augmentation IL The exerulise poser. III
becomes rs a crisis like The present,
70 reeaF 10 first Prineiples-io 20 back
10 our early history. and 10 see how The
lquesiinn actually siands.
| You all well knos thar, IN lie lorna.
lion Of constitution for The government
loi Ibis country. The great difficulty lis
trainers encountered MAS with regard ID
The exeenIivs power. II Was easy 10 es-
iablish House Of Representative and 4
second branch 81 the government. in The
lorm Of > Senate, for il sas very obvious
hing 10 say that The states should be
represented IN one House of Congress as
The people were Represented. Bot The
great and perplexing question was. how
70 limit and regulate The executive power
10 such . manner that while il defended
The country. IL should not be able 10 en-.
danger civil liberty. Our fathers had
seen and fell The Inconvenience during
The revolutionary war. Of . weak execu-
i've 10 government. The country had
suffered much from that cause. There
was moi any unity Of purpose or efficiency
Of action IN iis executive power. As The
county had just emerged from one war,
and might be plunged into another, they
were looking inlenIly 10 such cons,i-
tuition as should secure an efficient execu.
tive. Perhaps il remains 10 be seen,
whether 10 this respect they had not better
have given less power 20 this branch and
taken all The Inconvenience arising from
the want Of il. rather Than 10 hazard the
granting Of so much as might prove dan.
gerous not only 20 the other departments
81 government. but 10 the safety and
freedom u The country II large.
Because, in The frsl place. i, is The
executive which confers all the fayors OF
government. II has the patronage ia
us hands. and il we look al the augmen-
islion Of patronage which has taken place
in this country. we shall see that in the
course Of things, and 10 answer The pur-
poses Of men, this patronage has greatly
increased. Weshall fndihe expenditures
iH SilIss he's VERY much increased. We
b'P'"S aepsf.meHis ave slf8Yi. 4. and
is irus OF al the depsrsneass. la. nteisg
Office. and especially Of the Commercial
department. Thus 10 take an instance
from one Of our grea, commercial cities:
In the Custom House al New York
The number Of officers has 10 twelve years
increased three fold---while the emolu-
menis of Office have been augmented more
than ihree-lcld, as well as remember.-
| There is thus acons,an, increase Of power
from the besIuwmeni Of Office.
Then there 10 the power oi removal;
mower which in some instances has beeI
exercised mos, emorselessly. By What
ever par,y il is exercised, unless a \
called lor BY the actual exigencies Of y
I public service. Virginia, more than az
state of the Union. has ever TeJeelt,
=. disowned, disayowed The power oil i
9 moyal for opinions sake. | do honor'
Virgins in ,his respect. That pow
A has been Ear less praclised in Virginia TN
/, in cersain states where the spoils' doci'e
!. is knhwn 10 be more popular. but Is
mower &C removal, sanctioned as II ICY
!. lime. does exist, aud have seen ilx
e ercised in every par, Of the country "te
If public opinion tolerated il, with a 81
81 remorseless hand.
0 | will now say, however, that ven
n. | admit 10 be very presumrtuouse-
Q. cause il is SAID. Notwithstanding Wh'
,v lnstrious authority Of one Of the gtss'
II of your great men--a man bene,c-
Il. ouaiuled with the consultation cue
ed United States Than any other m-a
r.. man who saw il in lis crade-whsiu
Of il in his arms. as one may say, IN 10,
,as rancy-who presented and recomn'ed
he !, to The American people, and whw
a. i, adopted very much under the OF
lie his own reasoning and the we'shmi,s
oh own repuia,ion-who lived long 'gn
"a. 10 see il prosperous-,o enjoy 'lso's
SOS and who at last went down ,he
es. grave among ten thousand blessl LOT
his which morning and evening he hank
rise ed God: | mean James Madisoi e'
can even from this great and gocan'
a. whom hold to be chief among l"s'
,,rv in,erpre,ers Of the constitution, la'"-
did strained, how--er presumptnouSay
ak he considered. 10 differ in relaiioone
,hs, Of his interpretations of that inen''
onrs refer to the opinion expressed,m'
/ lis ,ha, the power Of removal fr'thce
hon, does exist in the constitution aaue'
n \ penden, power. | wish he haen
anil s;lTeren, view Of il. do no. s ne
was wrong: ,hs, in me would bfes'
and presumption. l adser. TO .his 70
o,;ye show. tina, | am not now for ,hume
and preaching agains. the dangers 10.
na;o. crease Of Executive power; To- 'ne
,,re subject was in discussion boon
/, s,il gress, | expressed there the spin,-
,.nJs ons which / have now uttered, men
op;sb have been only the more COZ oy
,re more recent experience. Tier o.
,,,,l ,lacss the hopes ans Tue