The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-03-19

mao 80 heAlNMoty ENMbbAu6us NAo % Tic PIE.
servasion Ct which they relied a the Iasl
hope Of liberty. Without denying that Che
result to which they looked with 60 much
Apr ehengi0n IS Ia the way d being realized
/ ii IS observed that they did not clearly see
tile mode 0f ils accomplishment. The Gen.
eral Government has seized upon none 81
the reserved rights of die States As far 81
any open warfare may have gone, Che State
authorities have amply maintained theirrighte
To casual observer, our system presents no
appearance Of discofd between tie different
members which compose 4. Even the adj
ditlon Of many new ones has produced no
jarring. They move il their respective or
bite IN perfect harmony with the centralhe
and with each other. But there IS still an
under current az work by which, IL not sea-
sonably checked, the worst apprehension 81
our anti.fedeFal patriots will BE realized; and
not only will the State authorities Be over
shadoWed By the great increase Of power III
the Executive Department Of the General
GoVernment, but the character 0f that GoV-
ernment, If not its designation, be essentially
and radically changed. This state Of things
has been in part effected By causes inherent
IN the Constitution, and in partly the never
falling tendency Of political power 70 increase
itself. BY making the President the sole dis
tTibutOr Of oil the patronage Of the Govern
ment, the trainers Of the Constitution do not
appear 70 have anticipated at how short 3
period Il would become formidable instru-
ment to control the free operations of the
State Governments. OF trfIiing importance
81 FIRST, II had, early in Mr.. Jeferson's adj
administration, become 50 powerful as tocreate
alarm IN the mind Of that patriot from the
potent influence il might exert in controlling
the feedom Of the elective franchise.
Ifsuch could have been the effects Of its
influence, how much greater must be The
danger at this time, quadFupled in amount,
as i certainly is, and more completely under
the control Of the Executive will than their
construction Of their powers allowed, OF the
foTbearing characters Of al the early Presi-
dents permitted them to make. But tits not
by the extent of its patronage alone that the
Executive Department has become danger
Gus, but BIZ the use Of which, II appears may
be made of the appointing power to bring
under It's control the whole revenues Of the
country. The Constitution has declared it
to Be the duty Of the President 70 see that
the laws are executed, and ii makes him
the Commander III Chief Of the Armies and
Navy of the United States. If the opinion
of the most approved writer's upon that spe-
cies or mixed Government, which in modern
Europe, is termed .liOnGTchy in conradis-
tinction % DespOtisH, is correct, there was
wanting no other addition to the powers Of
our Chief Magistrate 20 stamp monaTchical
character on our Government, but the con-
troll Of the public finances.-And to me II
appears strange, indeed, that any one should
doubt. that the entire control which. the Pre-.
sident possesses over the officers who have
the custody Of the public money, By the
power Of removal, with Or without cause,
does, for all mischievous purposes At least,
virtually subject the treasury also to his dis
posal. The first Roman Emperor, in his
attempt to seize the sacred treasure, silenced
the opposition Of the officer to whose charge
it had been committed BY significant allT-
sion 10 his. sword. By aselection Of political
instruments for the care ofthe public money,
reference to their commissions by Presi-
dent, would be quito as effectual an argument
as that Of Caesar To the Roman knights.
am not insensible Of the great difficulty that
exists in drawing proper plan for the safc-kceP-
ing and disbursement Of the public revenues, and
know the Importance which has been attached
By men Of great abilities and patriotism 10 the di
vorce, Us it's called, Of the Treasury from the
banking institutions. IL is not the divorce which
is complained Of, bntthe unhailowed union Of the
Treasury with the Executive Department, which
has created such extensive alarm. Tothis danger
TO our Republican institutions, and that created
By the influence given to the Executive, through
the instrumentality OF the federal officers, pro-
pose to apply oil the remedies which may be at my
command. Ii was certainly great error in The 1
trainers of the constitution, not TO have made the
officer at the head Of the Treasury Department en-
tirely Independent of the Executive. He should
at least have been removable only upon the de-
mand Of the popular branch az the LeQislatuFe.--
! have observation-disclosures to remove Secretary Of
the Treasury. without communicating all the cir-
attending such removable both Houses
Of Congress.
The influence Of the Executive, in controlling Il
The freedom Of the elective franchise through the
medium Of the public officers, can be effectualIy
checked By renewing the prohibition published bp
Mr. Jefferson, forbidding theirinteT eTence IN cleo
lions further than giving their own votes, and
heirown Independence secured BY On assurance
# perfect immunity, il exercising this sacred T
lwn unbiased judgment Of the people. compen-
ated forhis services out Of their pockets, become
he plant instrument Of Executive WILL
There is no part Of the means placed ii the {
lands Of the Executive which might be used with ,
Ireater effect. for unhallowed purposes, thnn the
ur ancestors derived from the mother country,
hat tlhc freedom Of the press sthe great bulwaTk
i civil and religious liberty, IS one az the most
recious legaeies which they have LEFT Us. We il
ave learned, too, from our own as we'll as the ex-
efience Of other countries tlat golden shackels
y whomsoeyer oF BY whatever pTetence imposed. \
Fe as fatal sit as the iron bonds az despotism Z
he presses il the necessary employment of the !,
government should never re used stto clear the Il
uiltY, 81 to varnish crime's decent and manly 2
xamination 81 the acts u the Government should Il
. moi only tolerated but encouraged. d
Upon other occasions have given my opinion a q
,me length, upon the improperly DC Executive
reference III the legislation 81 Congress! Thar
d article u the constitution mixing ID the duty p
the President 70 communicate information, and *