Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-04-21

subject, because removals from office are like
ly often 10 arise, and | would have my country
men TO understand the principle Of Executive
action.
In all public expenditures the most gid econ
omy should be resorted TO- and, as one of It's re-
suits. public debt in time of peace be sodu-
lously avoided. wise and patriotic constitu-
ency will never object to the imposition of me-
cessary burdens for useful ends; and true wis
dom dictates the resort to such means, in order
to supply deficiencies in the revenue. rather
than to those doubtful expedients, which, ulii-
mating in public debt, serve TO meet any great
emergency which may arise All sinecures
should be abolished. The appropriations
should be direct and explicit, so as 10 leave as
limited share of discretion to the disbursing
agents as may be found compatible with the
public service. A strict responsibility on the
part of all the agents of the Government should
be maintained, and peculaion or defalcation Wis
tied with immediate expulsion from Office and
the most condign punishment.
The public interest also demands that, II any
war has existed between the Government and
the currency, it shall cease-Measures Of fl
nancial character, now having the sanction of
legal enactment, shall be faithfully enforced un-
I'll repealed by the legislative authority. But
owe 1t to myself TO declare that regard exist
ing enactments as unwise, and impoltic, and
IN high degree oppressive. shall promptly
give my sanction to any constitutional measure
which, originating in Congress, shall have for
its object the restoration of sound circulating
medium, so essentially necessary to give conf
dence IN all the transactions of life, to secure
to industry lis just and adequate rewards, and
to re-estabilsh the public prosperity. In deci-
ding upon the adoption of any such measure to
the end proposed, as well as its conformity TO
the Constitution, shall resort TO the Fathers
of the great Republican school for advice and
instruction, to be drawn from their sage views
of our system of Government, and the light of
their ever glorious example.
The institutions under which we live, nv
countrymen, secure each person in the perfect
enjoyment of all his rights. The spectacle is
exhibited TO the world ofa Government deriving
its powers from the consent of the governed,
and having impaired to it only so much power
as is necessary for its successful operation.
Those who are charged with its administration
should carefully abstain from all attempts to en-
large the range of powers thus granted to the
several departments of the Government, other
than by an appeal to the People for additional
grants, lest by so doing they disturb that bal
ance which the patriots and statesmen who
framed the Constitution designed TO establish
between the Federal Government and the States
composing the Union. The observance of these
rules is enjoined upon us by that feeling of rev.
erence and affection which finds place in the
heart of every patriot for the preservation of
union and the blessings of union-for the good
of our children and our chidren's children,
through countless generations.-An opposite
course could not fail to generate factions, in
tent upon the qualification of their selfish ends;
to give birth to local and sectional jeaousies,
and TO ultimate either in breaking asunder the
bonds of union, or in building up central sys-
TEN, which would inevitably end in a bloody
sceptre and an iron crown.
In conclusion, beg you to be assured that
shall exert myself to carry the foregoing prin-
ciples into practice during my administration of
the Government, and, confding in the protecting
care of an ever-watchful and overruling Provi-
dence, it shall be my first and highest duty to
preserve unimpaired the free institutions under
which we live, and transmit them to those who
shall succeed me in their full force and vigor.
JOHN TYLER.
Washington, April 9, ls4l.
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