The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-30

Be regulated 81 q profound sense Of what is
due to tie country and its Institutions; nor
shall neglect 10 apply The same unbending
rule to those Of my own appointments
Freedom Of opinion will be tolerated. and
full enjoyment Of the right of suffrage will
be maintained, as the birthright Of every A.
merican citizen, bur say emphatically to
the official corps, s'thus Car and no farther.''
have dweh The longer upon this subject,
because removals from Office are likely often
to arise, and would have my countrymen
to understand the principles Of executive
action.
In all public expenditures the most rigid
economy should be resorted to, and, as one
of its results, public debt in time of peace
be sedulously avoided. A wise and patriotic
constituency will never object to the impo-
sition of necessary burdens for useful ends,
and true wisdom dictates the resort to such
means, in order to supply deficiencies in the
revenue, rather than those doubtful expedi-
ents which, eliminating in public debt,
serve to embarrass the resources of the coun-
try and lessen its ability to meet any great
emergency which may arise. All sinecures
should be abolished. The appropriations
should be direct and explicit, SO as to leave
as limited share of discretion to disbursing
agents as may be found compatible with the
public service strict responsibility on
the part of all agents of the government
should be maintained, and peculation or de-
facation visited with Immediate expulsion
from office and the most condign punish
ment.
The public interest also demands that, if
any war has existed between the gov
eminent and the currency, it shall cease.
Measures of financial character now hav-
ing the sanction of legal enactment, shall
be faithfully enforced until repealed by the
legislative authority. But owe to myself
to declare that regard existing enactments
as unwise and impolitic, and in high de-
gree oppressive. I 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 con-
fdence in all the transactionso of life, to SEE
cure to industry it's just and adequate re-
wards, and TO re-establish the public proper
ity. In deciding upon the adaptation of any
such measures TO the end proposed, as well
as it's conformity to the Constitution, shall
resort to the Fathers of the great Republic
school for advice and instruction to be drawn
from their sage views of our system OF gov
eminent, and the light of their ever glori-
Gus examples.
The institutions under which we live, my
countrymen, secure each person in the per-
feet enjoyment of all his rights. The spec
tacle is exhibited to the world of a govern
ment 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 charg-
ed with it's administration should carefully
abstain from all attempts to enlarge the range
of powers thus granted to the several de-
partments of the Government, other than by
an appeal to the people for additional grants,
lest by so doing they disturb that balance
which the patriots and statesmen who franz
ed the Constitution designed to establish be-
tween the Federal Government and the
States comprising the Union. The obser-
vance of these rules is enjoined upon us by
that feeling of reverence which finds place
in the heart of every patriot, for the preser>
vation of union and blessings of union-for
the good of our children and our chlldren's
children, through countless generations. An
opposite course could no! fail to generate
factions, intent upon the qualification OF their
selfish ends; to give birth to local and Sec
tional iealousies, and to ultimate either in
breaking asunder the bonds of union, or in
building up central system, which would
inevitably end in bloody sceptre and an
iron crown.
In conclusion, I beg you TO be assured that
shall exert myself to carry the foregoing
principles into practice during my admins
tration of the Government, and coniding in
the projecting care of an ever-watchful and
overriding Providence, 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 sue
coed me, in their full force and vigor.
JOHN TYLER.
Washington, April 9, 1841.