The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-09-28

be Iamented. We grove 10 w you ttnuiS Wy
rho exercise of that power 10 The Constitution
which has ever been regarded with suspicion, and
often with odium, by the people--a power winch
we had hoped was never 10 DO exhibited, on 'nis
subject by a Wing Presdent-we have been de-
feaied in two attempts TO create Fiscal Agen',
which the wants OF the country had demohsttateu
TO u.s. in The most absolute manner, TO DC emf
nenily necessary and proper IN the presen, eule'
CIV Twice have we with the utmost oliilgehce az
deIiberatou matured plan for the collection, sate-
Keeping and discussing of the public moneys
throug IL the agency of corporation adap'ed 10
that ond, and twice has II been our rate 10 encouh
ter e ouuosition of the President, through tho ap
plication OF the veto power The character OIL
veto in each case, the circumstances in which II
was administered, and the grounds upon when IL
has met the decided disapprobaton OF your lriends
IN Congress- are sufficiently apparent In the pubic
documents aud the debates relating to 1t. rms
subject has acquired painful interest win U.S. ana
viii doubtless acquire 1t win you! rom .me unnap
We are constrained to say that we nm no ground
10 iustfy us in the conviction that the veto OF the
President has been inteposed on thus question sole
lv pnon the consciep lous and we'll considered o.
ninions of constitutional scruple us to his duty IN
the presented. le' -'-.
On the contrary, too many proofs have been fore
cd upon our observation to leave US nee from the
apprehension that the President has permitted him
self to be beguiled into the opinion that, by this
exhibition OF his prerogauve,h e might be able to d.
vert the policy of his administration into a channel
which should lead to new political combinations,
and accom- plish results which must overthrow the
present divisions of party in the country, and final
ly produce state of things which those who elect
ed him, at least, have never contemplated we
have seen, from early period of the session that
the Wing party did not enjoy the commence oithe
President. With moriifcauon we have observed
that his associations seduousY aimed at a
free communion with those who have been busy to
prostrate our purposes rather than those whose prn
cipIes seemed most identified with the power by
which he was elected We have reason to believe
that lie has permitted himself TO be approached,
;,Q,, hy thnga ~ n m
ifested least interest in the success OF Wing meas
ures.s Y'"a ~ @ 80 h"'f
What were represented to be his opinions and
designs have been freely, and even insolently put
forth in certain portions and those not The most 70
putable, Of the public press, in manner that ought
TO be deemed offensive to his honor as it certainly
was to the feelings OF those who were believed TO
be his friends.In the earnest endeavor manifested
by the members Of the Wing party in Congress to
ascertain specifically The Presidents notions In ref
erence to the details of such bill relating to fs
cal agent as would be likely TO meet ms aPPTTooa-
ton the frequent changes Of his opinion, and the
singular want of consistency in his views which
have bafled his best friends and rendered the hope
OF adjustment with HIM impossible.
Congress early in the session, Called upon tie
Treasury for the plan of Fiscal Agent: the resu It
OF this cal bill which reported in detail,
with an argument in its favor, and it was, as we
had right regard ii, received by all the bill
Of the President In fact, IL was known to contain
provisions eference the assent of the States,
which corresponded with the private opinion OF no
member OF the Cabinet. This bill the President
had even Informed more than one member of the
House he would be willing to sign II passed by
Congress yet contained provisions for local DIS
counting, in regard to which his Veto message at
firms his objection to be altogether iDsuperablc.
The PresideGt has subsequently declard that th is
ord 'iiat 'i,nn he said lie
the first Veto, the President is understood by more
than one member of Congress to whom he express
ed his opinion, to have regarded as favorite meas
ure. go DDS t#Io} .HA'' tEa t" Z"
A. -
it is in his first Veto, and after using every proper
effort to ascertain his precise views upon it, that
the Committee of the House of Representative re
ported their second bill 1t made provisions for a
Bank without the privilege of local discountng and
was adapted as closely possible, 10 that class Of
mercantile operations which the first VooN essage
describes wit appreciation, and VIII ich that paper
specifically illustrates by reference to the "deaiin
in the exchanges" OF the Bank of theUnite States
in 1888, which the President afrms 'tamounted to
upwards ono hundred millions Of dollars" Yet
this plan when it was submitted to i'm, was object
ed to ground. The last Veto narrows
down the question Of Bank TO the basis of
Sub-Treasury scheme, and il is obvious Fl ON the
opinions of that Message that the country not to
expect any thing better thaa che IRE as
ury, or some measure Of the same character, from
Mr. Tyler N+-' Tt+ E@.ii@ PSI" 3ta "
In the midst of all these varieties of opinion, an
lmpenetrabe my stery seemed TO hang the
whole ques ton. There such frank inter
change of sentiment ought to char acterize the in
tercourse of President and his friends, and the
last persons in the Government who would seem To
have beer entrusted with his confidence on those
embarrassing topics were the constitutional ad
visers which the laws had provided for him.
In this review of the position into which The late
events have thrown the wing party, it is with pro-
found sorrow we look to the course pursued 5y
the President. He has wrested from US one of the
best fruits of long and painful struggle, and the
contamination Of glorious victory: he has even
perhaps thrown more on the field of politi
cal strife, not weak ened in numbers shorn of
the support of the country but stripped OF the
which success had placed in our hands, and left
gain to rely upon that high patriotism which for ~
years sustained Us in conflict of unequaled asper
iy, and which finally brought to the fufi Iment
of those brilliant hopes which he has done much
to destroy.
In this state of things the Wings will naturally
look with anxiety to the future, and inquire what
are the actual relations between the President and
those who brought him into power; and what, in
the opinions of their friends in Congress- should be
their course hereafter. On both of these ques-
tons we feel it 10 he our duty TO address you in
perfect frankness and without reserve, but, at the
same time, with due respect 10 others.
nregard to the first, are constrained to say
that the President by the he has adopted in
respect to the application of the power TO two