Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-03-26

r. 4 not the divorce WHICH 10 " ", ,;4h tho
,he unhallowcd union OF the iieasa s,,ch
Erecntive Department when ia. pon,,h1.
extensive alarm. TO this dalis1' ~ ~ nf,,,sn.e
cs'l lns'' 49, recutiye, through the instrumental
I've ~ saaer,l officers, propose to apply an the
v :. s.s r,h;ch NAV be at my command. ~ was
'eu'e.s -rsot error in the trainers OF the Consti
certainty q have made the officer at the head OF
snrv Department entirely Independent q
tue 1ss,,,;,e He shoud at least have been re-
..ovsble only upon the demand OF 'ns Popuia,
h-snch of thu Legislature. ! have determines
. D..- A Secretary Of the Treasury, with
-.,,c all the circumstances attending
.,,, TrMfmoyaI, to both Houses OF Congress.
Tha ;,anence Of the Executive, IN controlling the
60. - TIN elective franchise, through the medl-
- ,he rnbc officers. can be eectually check
~, renewing the prohibition published by Mr. Jefier-
son f,rbIing their interference IN elections 'urhef
than giving their votes, and their own lhuepeh
ence secured by an assurance OF perfect immunity
in exercising his sacred privilege OF ireemen under
the dictates ofther own unbiased Judgments New
or. with nv consent shall an officer OF the people,
compensated for his services out OF their pockets De-
come the plant instrument of Executive WILL
There is no part of the means placed in the hands
Of the Executive which might be used with greater
effect for unhalIowed purposes, than the eohro OF
the nnhl;c nress, The maxim which our ancestors
dorred from the mother country, that !" the reeuom
Of the prcss is the great bulwak OF civil anu feSlous
hbertv is one Of the most precious egacies WHICH
,hev have left us. We have learned, too, from our
own as well as the experience OF other countfles'
that golden shackles, by whomsoeves or by whatev
er prcence mpos as fatal to 1t as the iron bonus
ofdespotism The presses III the necessary employ
ment of the Government should never De useo
l. AM
clear the guilty, o. to varnlsh crime. oece''' anu
manly examination of the acts OF the government
shouidbe not only tolerated but encouraged.
Upon another occasion have given my OPINION
3, some ZENITH, upon the improperly of Executive
Interference in the legislation of Congress mat the
article in the Constitution making 1t the duty OF the
President to communicate information, and authorl-
ring him to recommend measures, was not lhtendeo
70 make him the source in legislation, and, III Partic
MAR that he should never be looked to tor schemes
of finance 1t would be very strange, indeed thal
the Constitution should have strictly forbidden one
branch of the legislature from interfering In the or
yauzaton of such bills, and that it should be consd-
cred proper that an altogether different department
of the Government should be permitted 10 90 So
Some of oEr best political maxlms and opnlons nave
been drawn from parent Isle. Ihere are o'hefs'
however, which cannot DC introduced IN our sys'e"
without ncongruty and the production OF much mis-
in which OF the houses of Parliament bill may have
ORIGINATED not bv whom introduced, a minister or
member of the opposition by the fiction OF law or oil
constitutional principle the Sovereign Is supposed
to have prepared it agreeably TO his will, and then
submitted it to Parliament for their advice and con-
sent. Now, the very reverse is the case here, not
only with regard to the principle, but the forms pre-
scrbcd by the Constitution. The principle certain
" assigns to the only body constituted by the Constr
tuition (the legislative body the power to make laws,
and the forms even direct that the enactment should
be ascrbed to them. The Senate III relation to rev.
enue bills, have the right to propose amendments
and 80 has the Executive, by the power gwen HIM to
return then, to the House Of Representatives with his
objections Its in his power also, to propose amend
ncnts in the existing revenue laws, suggested by his
observations upon their defective or injurious opera
ton. But the delicate duty of devising schemes OF
revenue should be lief, where the Constitution has
,fsccd itwith the immediate representatives, Of the
lcop!e. For similar reasons the mode OF keeping
the public treasure should be prescribed by them,
and the farther removed it may be from the control
of the Executive the more wholesome the arrange
ment. and the more in accordance with republican
principle. - -
Connected wifi this subject is the character of the
currency. The idea of making it exclusively
metallic however well intended, appears to me to be
iraught with fatal consequences than any other
scheme having relation to the personal rights OF
the citizens that has been devised. If any sim
gle scheme could produce the effect of arrestiDg, at
once, that mutation OF condition by which thousands
of our most INDECENT fellow citizens. by their indus
try and enterprise are raised to the possession OF
wealth. that is the one. If there is measure bet
ter calculated than another to produce that state OF
things so much deprecated by all true republicans
BY which the rich are daily adding to their boards
and the poor sinking deeper into penury 1t is an ex-
elusive metallic currency. Or II there Is process
by which the character of the country for generosity
and nobcness oi feeling may be destroyed by the
great increase and necessary liberation Of usury is
an exclusive metallic currency.
Amongst the other duties of a delicate character
which the President is called upon to PERFORM Is tbs
supervision of the government of the Territories o.
! the United States. Those Of them which des-
tined to become members o. great political fa
~, are compensated by their rapid progress from in
fancy 10 manhood for the partial and temporary de-
privaton of their political rights 1t is in this Dis
trlct, only, where American citizens to be found
who, under settled policy, are deprived of many
important political privileges. without any inspiring
hope as to the future. Their only consolation under
such circumstances of deprivation is that of the de-
voted exterior guards of camp--that their suffer-
lngs secure tranquility and safety within Are there
any OF their countrymen who would subject them to
greater sacrifices, to any other humiiaons than those
essentially necessary to the security Of the object for
which they were thus separated from their fellow cit
lzens! Are their rights alone not to be guaranteed
BY the application of those great principles upon
which all our constitutions are founded We are
told by the greatest Of British orators and statesmen
that at the commencement Of the war of the revou-
ton the most stupid men in England spoke of their
American subjects Are there indeed citizens of any
OF our States who have dreamed of their subjects in
the District of Columbia Such dreams can never
De realized by any agency Of mine. The people OF
the District OF Columbia are not the subjects of the
people ofhe States, but free American citizens Be-
iho lntAor A.