Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1841-10-05
THE SESSION or THE VETOES.

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pub -hed letter to las constituents Of the Third
congressional District Of Pcunsylv ania. After mo-
e. ~ At some length tie tyranny Of the caucus sys
en- OF originating measures the adoption of the
-ac kt,o by which the mouths OF the minority were
.losed aud the dlsgracefu and slayish passive ODE
iieucc Of the whig Representatives to the dctaton
IF Mr. Clay. &c, Mr.. irgersoll concludes as fol-
ows:
lie Us contemplate. next, the strange and revolt
ing characteristics q the laws made by dragooning
Dapffcafc bank blls-aue done. tother come OLA
bankrupt bill enacted into abcyancc, Ike beare
cub 10 be licked into future shape Distribution
o II. which Is a mere paiieriug deuslon, mutatcd
n u r. If it, productive faculties Loan Bal, the
mere basis of the blessings Il national Dcbt and
new funding system larger loans explicitly an
nourced by the head Of the Finance Committee,
and that head ia the Senate which It is imposs Die
10 wink so hard as not to see must be followed by
direct taxes: for. like the deplorabc State debts,
they can never be redeemed by other eXpedients
a Revenue bill, which taxes N the lump, so that
neither merchant nor manufacturer can possibly
comprehend It's oracular provisions, incidentally de-
claring pruhibltory hostilitIcs with France. when
war with England is imminent the Post Office put
on the Custom House for support-it required the
raging delrium of ups;art madness, to lnangurate
such measures. Nothing but reiterated gciocs
sustaining strenuous and lldlcous minority. pre-
vented, as any one may ascertain by simple compu-
tation the cost of the late hundred days misrule
being one hundred millions Of dollars. million Of
dollars day would have been the per diem Of the
late dynasty, had il not been dethroncd.
Next. let Us see what II has accomplished. II has
achieved tine final extinction of al banks Of the l
=. and unwittingy restored the custody of the pub
lie money 10 the Treasurer OF the United states to
whom it was entrusted by the original ac. of l1o9
and not the Secretary of the Treasury, usurplng
It's control. It has wrung from the President his
slow leave a contingent distribution act, dcstn-
cd to be repealed by act of Congress early
dav. Il has carried a bankrupt act which may
have some influence on the fall elections and ring
the knel of expiring banks but which, 1t Is not pre-
tended, can be executed without fundamental alter
atoms. so that loans, taxes, and few bills, too
ms gnfcant for enumeration, are the poor achieve
ments of the hundred days msrule, frequently
Wanted on the floor of the Senate, and in certain
of the public presses as frightened children whistle
in the DARK, when courage Is oozng out at every
pore and the sweat of trepidatIon starting from the
forehead. Thus divinity III party discord overrued
party combination, and shaped It's rough hewn ends.
The cloud, only as big mans hand IN the Pre-
dents Message, increased till it darkened the whole
horizon and ut length the storm broke forth with all
intensity of which, fellow citizens, newspapers and
letter writers give but faint impressions at a
distance. The distinguished member Of the ruptur-
ed majority who vany attempted to reason with
It's rage, truly said thar what large portion OF It
did to Wit: arraign the President for his hostility
to a bank, the pivot OF all their proceedings Is no
better than for the wing party TO have olsted itself
INTO power, by concealng their designs; and that
their party differences II reconciled, will become
net mlsortunes but crimes, by their own mscon-
duet.
They never can be rcconci!cd because they are
quarTc!s Of prime pies The dissensiOns Of that par
ty inevitable consequences of attempting to Gre
ate out of dscordant materials. The President
4 l.. 81, ,l.,..r.s
Justice of an -advised extra session. designed %
DO wha, human power cannot effect \ ct throughout
the whole hundred days OF viceroyalty over him,
party purposes unrclcntingly pursued, IN con-
tuneliuuS disregard of his warning and views--un-
I'll he left, the first veto with much feeling
declared with no other option than abIect subms-
sion, or the of that Potentially. the only
safeguard against legislative Gctaton, and which
he obliged to use against laws forced through
the Legislature by caucus malOrltles, which were
mnorites OF the legislative body. But for that ap-
peal to the people, the people themselves would
have been much cnslaved as the President This
Union would be governed by lllegitImatc regency
ruin with upsart irrespons ibity. Both the Presi-
dent aud the House of Representatives would be
nullhcd. Even the Senate was not willing party
to at least the first bank bill We should have had
Bank Government, and nothing but paper money
a vast brokers' shop, IN the metropolitan solitudes
OF Washington, with branches oglng each other
means of conspirng mischief. all secretly managed
by some old woman Of either at the seat OF Gov
eminent, would be necessarily deranglng the prices
of property every where An invisible empire OF
Bank ike the caucus empire, secretly ruling Con-
grcss, power not behind but before the throne,
would govern the Government OF the L. :. From
all these. the recoing excuses of the hundred days
through the nstrumcntaty of the vetoes, have saw
Cd the country.
Mr. Tyler is an instrument of overruling provi-
dcnce, often marvellously snatching this Republic
from appar nj jeopardy to rescue l. from the caam-
tles OF the late overweight extraord nary session
The chapter OF strange accidents conducting him l.
the Chief Magstracy is said to nerve HIM with a
sort o. religious belief that he is destined through
higher power, to wonderful fundamentally. I'm
compromising champion of the radical politics oil
the Virginia platform. he stood erect upon II al
most alone, environed by party adhcrcnts opposed To
his principles, confronting party opponents sympa-
thzing with those principles, fearessly sustaine
by a small sect Of intlexibie politicians, unlusiy
stlrmatizcd cabal or kitchen Cabinet, counter
acting an official ministry without the President :
predictions, II not their antagonists, IN TACT the
Cabinet OF another, most Of whom have inst depart
ed this political life, after SIX short months of fit
full. ephemcral existence. For some time past Mr..
Tyler must have been constant veto upon all the
views for he did not sympathze with one of his
Secretaries in attachment to Banks Abolition in
enjoyment of arbitrary removals from office, or any
oil the pleasures of excessive Government. While
ever he stands fast by the people, they will support
him. Measures, not men, is the cardinal rule OF
Rcpublicanism.
Never in American annals was a crisis so fall OF
consoing lessons the late abortiye session OF the
vetoes. The whole country Justly admires the
motions, speeches, and votes. are still free Let
say for the minority of the House of Represent