Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-10-15
nate exertion Of which by President T yler has
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nate sxertion of which by President Tyler has
saved the interests, and what is more import
ant, the moral Of the country, from a repeti-
ton Of those abuses which would inevitably
| have proceeded from revival Of schemes whose
explosion has covered the land with rein and
disgrace. The veto is great conservative
power, which was not given to the President
without due deliberation and weighty reasons.
1t is an eminently popular power, because it 10
| always exerted to preserve the rights and in-
terests Of the people from hasty, passionate,
or corrupt legislation. No President would
wish to employ it against that popular opin-
ion, to which he must, sooner or later. appeal
for its sanction, and accordingly it has never
been employed without being sustained by the
popular will. Are the American people to
change their Constitution, the arduous, dispas.
sionate creation of their patriot ancestors, pu-
rifed and enlightened by the revolutionary
contest, because the factious designs of a man,
or of party, have been most fortunately
thwarted by executive interposition
And after all, what were the measures sus-
pended by that trbnnative power! The first
had not even the support Of majority Of Con-
gress upon its merits, and the second was adj
miited to be scheme to entrap the President,
to ''head Captain Tyler" Both of these were
juggling and practical men, and it is even ques-
tonable whether either of them could have
been put into operation. Their adoption would
have been fatal even to the wing party, for
they would have miserably disappointed pub
Tic expectation. Yet Mr.. Tyler is to be stig-
matized as traitor, is to be held up to indig-
nation for refusing his constitutional assent to
measures, which in his opinion, not only vio-
lated our great political charter. but in the es-
innate Of all sensible men, in themselves
worthless and imprac,icable. Such is party
justice, and for this the whole wing party is
appealed 10 endeavor to subvert the constitu-
ton, by changing some of its important pro-
visions, and emasculating it of great conser-
yative power, established by good and wise
men for high and necessary purposes! We
think that brighter talents than those of an
abortive novelist must be employed to pur-
suade the American people to tear up the very
foundation of the Constitution, because the
odious designs Of political Spectators and
specializing politicians have been npped in the
bud, by firm and faithful President, who pre-
fers the great interests Of the people to the
personal ends Of party, or rather faction.
The Chief Magistrate is accused in this cau-
did address of want of frankness towards
his Cabinet. How could he place confidence
in those who were VIGOROUSLY plotting with
their co-aborers in Congress to betray him!
1t is not to be regretted, indeed, that 10 the I'M
suspecting honesty of his heart, he trusted as
much to men, vino have since published to the
world, distorted, and misrepresented every un-
guarded word, every disjonted expression
dropped by him at the council board or in his
chamber! In word, this address is nothing
less than an assault upon the Constitution,
from vindic,ive motives and for party purposes.
The writer appends to it the names Of ninty.two
wing members of the House who took no part in the
proceedings of the caucus which adopted the adj
dress, remarkng that it "embraces thrcefourths Of
the Whigs in the House--the ablest most experien.