Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-11-02

1 THE VEro PowER-MR. CUsHlNa's AD- DREss.-Hon. c. Cushing, of Mass, whig, m his recent address to the constituents, oo lesgshy for our columns) which the Boston Courier deems "ah unanswerable exposition of the unteaahle doeuiae promulgated in the address adopted by "a dinipinuf tive fraction of the whg party, impndently speaking in the name of THE PARrY,' remarks in the follow ing strain on the said address, and the exercise of the veto power:--
 "An address has gone forth from portion of the members of congress purporting be the EnasimoHs act of meeting of THE whigs of congress, which, besides arraigning the President on various alega- tions of fact and surmses not fact, recommends such radical changes of the constitution.
 ssThe expression, ''the whigs,'' would be general lv understood to mean all the wings. What members constituted the caucus which issued this document does not appear. So far the journals of the hnnse afford any means of knowledge, il would seem that at the time when that address purports have been adopted il being the last day of the session, after all it's legislative business completed, less than hail of the whig members of congress were m Washing ton; and il is known nf many members present in the city, that they had part in it's adoption. al any rate had none.
 .'I protest against the itself, the measures it proposes, and the opinions il promulgates.
 The act itself seems to me to have been wholly unwise as a party movement. Our wounds need ed to be soothed by emoilents, not inhamed by lr- rltants.
 In constitutional sense, it seems still more unwise, when coupled with its matter.
 It proposes the organization of a party, has- ing for its main object sundrv vast changes m the constitution of the federal government. To attempt to organize party in pursuit of various and great changes of the constitution at this time, is To waste one's life in the chase of bubbles; and there Is no ex- isiug fact inpe the people to make such changes and therefore they will not be made.
 Those changes if effected, could concentrate the chief powe.s of government in the hands of that oi which this document itself is an emanatOn, namely caucus dictatorship of congress. aE The veto power has been stlgmatlzed as one man power. By tine fathers of the republic it was estabished and by the best expounders of the con stitution it has been constantly defended, need ful check on, not only unconstitutional or usurping acts of the houses of congress- but in general oil all improper legislation, whether improper by inrin sic defects of whatever sort by attendant haste oi faction,
 And if there be any description of bill which than any other requires mature consideration and when apparently Unconstitutional, justifes ht interpretation of the sspensive power of the President surely Is which proposes to trust to private corporation, jurisdiction over the currency by an ac irreparable.
 Tito clear the way for a bank, or for any other ob feet, this suspensive power of the President oye bills, this one man power, IS to be struck from me constitution, why not go to the root Of the matter a oace and strike from the constitution other parts 0  of the Executive?
 In fact, it is proposed in that document to do ih's for example, to give to congress jurisdiction oye removals from office and administrative of the Trea sury.
 ssDo this,--take away the veto, as to leave the mower of Congress unchecked, that is absolute, for all liberty exists by of checks on despotsm,- abandon to it not only the law making power, but the appointing power and money power, and where stand then the liberties of the people of the United States Nomnally in the hands of Congress, really in tbess of an unchecked and unempered party majority o Congress; nomnally n the hands prescribed by the constitution, really in those of heated and despotlc party caucus ;-Nominaly in the responsible hands of the Senate and House, really in the irresponsible ones of some man behind the scenes, yielding the government through Congress and Congress through the caucus.
 want no such Government. The dark shadow of its threatened coming is enough for Save tn country from the despotism of Congress on the on hsnd well that from the executive on the other by continuing to each the partition of powers as tn onstitution provides.
 When and how did the scheme of an Erecutire Con sress come to be the platform of the whigs?
 These new articles of the party seem to me to re se,nble the codicils the will of Cesar which Mar Anthony was continually finding, or the addtiona chapters of pretended revelation which Malomet wa accustomed to produce, erpedieas to meet the emer gency of the hour.
 The English commonwealth tried the experimen of government by legislative assemblies, balanced b no executive cneck, anu WAS Siau ehouSh io cscsP frem it into the of the mider despotism of Olive Cromwell,
 The French Republic tried it, and after finding hs its operation was to enable party chief after d mother, backed by clubs and caucuses, to exercise irresponsible to law, such bloody tyranny, as ti world never saw before, content to welcome 1T stead the sahrsee@ea, Sf NeHGsa. Gae 3oS zap ,,;er government hc has given :. au.i -s I ,bese perilous novelties, the hot bed growth oi c: temporary party passions, springing up gourd hke the night to wilt and erish in the first sun; repud ting these new fangled whimsies, let us cling WI S,ra affection to the constitution whose foundat,e were cemented by the blood of our fathers, and wh in so many vicissitudes of fortune, has proved 10 ,h. arL of salvation of our blessed union.
 ' " VI c. CUSHING.