Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-05-25
NEW sERIEs.-VoL. 1. NO. AZ.

Legislature was q measure resOrled to
with extreme reluctance on my part, ana
that no consideration less imposing than
securing to the people Of Alabama in The
present peculiar aud deeply Interesting
crisis Of our public affairs, the inappraeiS-
BILE right of being fully represented, could
have justified it, attended a. II necessari-
" must be, with great personal inconVs-
nlence to the members OF the Legislature
and considerable public expense. Be.
hevIng i not improbable; freTiI the indi-
cltIons then afforded, that those Who Rera
about 10 succeed 10 the administration
of The afNirs Of The Go1efhTent Of ,be
United States, might think il necessary:
10 order to carry into practical operation
and effect the principles they no doubt
honestly believed To- be Involved In
the issue of the recent election ofa Chief
Magistrate Of the Union, that Congresa
should be convened earlier than the TeOu.
lar period fixed by law for the meeting of
thai body; and anxious that the people Of
Alabama should be fully represented AZ
The very commencement of that disas.
irons political career, which to nv mind
had been too percePtibIy shadowed forth
by the result Ofihe Preside ntial election.
IN the l9Ih Of December last, | took the
liberty of submitting special message TO
The General Assembly respect fully re.
commending the passage Of law 10 pro-
vide for the contingency which has since
happened. And if with the lighis bV
which | was then aided, the utmost ne.
cessiiy was discov for the most un.
remltiing vigilance on the part Of those
who occupy the responsible places Of guar
dlans oftne public interests, and the sim
cerests spprehesiOns were felt that the
Government of the United States, in which
we have stake Of such incalculable value
was not likely 10 be conducted upon those
pure and unerring principles ofdsmOcracy
which have always prevailed in the better
days of the RebublIc eandOr impeIS me
20 the declaration, that these apprehen.
sions have not been abated or deminished
by events which have since transpired.- -
1t may be safely asserted as general
principle 10 the correctness of which all
will probably accede, that no public func-
tionary is justifable in resOriing 10 the
exercise of the extraO ordinary powers with
which he is invested, except in cases of
mpeTious necessity; and where the exer-
Csc Ofthe ordinary powers with which he~
IS clothed is inadequate 10 the emsrgen.
cy which renders resort to the extraOr-
binary powers necessary and proper; and
in all cases before the exercise ofextra.
ordinary power is resorted to, the neces-
sity for it should be clearly shown to ex-
ist. 1t is, therefore considered unfortu.
nate, and not calculated to allay the ap.
prehensions Of patriotic people, Jealous
of their rights and watchful Of their SER
wants, that the President of the United
States should have thought it his duty to
convene cungress at a time not only un-
usual, but within less than ninety days
afer the adjournment of that body and
at an expense, moi TO be lightly estimated
in these times. without stating clearly and
distinctly his reasons for doing SOL ili,0r.
der that generous and con6ding people
might understand the necessity which ex-
listed at the time, for continuing TO sub
ject them 10 an increase of those burdens
which they had been repeatedly told were
grievOus and oppressive, and which they
had heen solemnly assured, in almost
all the varieties Of promise, should be,
greatly diminished, if not taken off en-
trely.
The arrangement of the currency is,to
he sure, alluded to as the reason why il 10.
necessary for Congress to assemble; and
so it has. perhaps with equal justice, been
assigned as the cause of all the public
and private misfortuHes, railroad and
steamboat accidents that have taken place
since the guardian genius Ofthe United
States Bank has been Withdrawn from US.
Ifby providing, or relieving against the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF "a deringsd and dis.
ordered currency, is mean! the establish!
ment of N ,tional Bank, let the question
be stript of all Disguise, and fairly pre-
sen,ed at once. But 10 be continually
the unsoundness and deprecia-
ZION of the currency, without the moral
courage to propose a remedy, not only im-
niles a want Of candor on the part cf
those who indulge these complaints, but
would really seem 10 be rather bold ex-
perirnsnt on the disceFnment and the Gro!
dGlity Of the peoples . e e