The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1841-10-02
VETO MESSAGE
To the House of Representatives
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of the United States.
It is with extreme regret that | feel
myself constrained. BY the duty faithful
ly to execute the office Of President o.
the United States. and to the best OF my
ability to "preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United States" 10
return 10 the House, IN which Il Orlglna-
ted, the bill "to provide for the better
collection, safe-keeping and dlsburse-
ment Of the public revenue, BY means OF
a corporation to be STYLED the Fiscal Cor
poration of the United States, VIII my
written objections
In my message sent to the Senate on
the 18th day of Angus, last, returning
the DILL "to incorporate the subscribers
10 the Fiscal Bank of the United States,
| distinctly declared that my own OPT
Mon had been uniformly proclaimed to
be against the exercise of the power d
Congress 10 create a National Bank 10
operate per Sc over the UnIOn; and, en-
pertaining that opinion. my main oojec-
ton to that bill was based upon the high
est moral and religious obligations OF con
science and the Constitution | readily
admit, that whilst the qualified veto Win
which the Chief Magistrate IS invested
should be regarded, and was lntenaed
| by the wise men who made Z. a part q
1.-The Constitution, as a great conservative
principle of our system, without the eX-
ercise of which, on important OCCASIONS
mere representative majority migh'
urge the Government IN its Legislation
beyond the limits fixed BY It's trainers, o.
might exert its just powers to- hastily q
oppressively; yet II IS power wnacn
ought TO be most cautiously exerted, and
perhaps never, except IN a case eminent
liy involving the public interest or one N
which the oath of the President, aching
under his convictions, both mental and
moral, imperiously require rs exercise
In such case he has no alternative
He must either execJ the negative POwei
ertras to him by the Constitution
Ich5efv .or is own preservation, Proiec
ron md defence. or commit an acI .
gross moral iurpitude Mere regard e
me will OF majority must nol. IN a con
4 s.l,ationai republl like ours, control thn
sacred and solemn duty OF sworn ON
Ger. The Constitution itself regar'
and cherish as the embodied and whites
will Of the whole people Of the Unlre'
States. Iii their fixed and lundamenia
law. which they unanimously presents
to their public functionaries-thelr mer'
trustees and servants. This, their will
and the law which they have gwen q
as the rule OF our action, has 20 guard
no guaranty Of preservation, Proie~tio
and defence, but she oaths which pre-
scribes to the public officers, the sancs'i
with which they shall religiousiy o.
E.erve their oaths, and the PatrlOtisn
with which theweople shall shield II ,
sHtheix own sovereign will, which has mad
Tithe Constitution supreme. II must ,
exerted against the wills Of a mere reprs
sentative majority, Or not al all IL
alone in pursuance that will that an
! measure can reach the President; an
: to say that because majority IN 20
; igress have passed bill the Presidei
? Should therefore sanction 1t, Is TO aos'
gate the power altogether, and to renos
its insertion in the Constitution woF
of absolute supererogation- The duty
to guard the fundamental viii OF the Pc
ple themselves from I'm this case ! adm