The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-09-25

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than enc member of the House he would
be willing TO sign if passed by Congress:
yet 1t contained provision for local dis
counting, in regard to which his veto mes
sage aflrms his objection to be altogether
lnsuperable the President has subsequently
declared that this was not his measure,
and that when he said he would sign this
bill he had not read it, The plan of an
Exchange Bank, such as was reported aC-
ter the first veto the President is under
stood by more than one member of Con-
gross to whom he expressed his opinion,
to have regarded as favolite measure. 1t
was IN view OF this opinion, suggested as
it'll his first veto, and after using every
proper ofiort to ascertain his precise views
upon it, that the Committee of the House
OF Representatives reported their second
bill. 1t provided for bank without the
right OF local discounting, and. was adapt
ed, as closely as possible, to that class of
mercantile operations which the first veto
message describes with appreciation, and
which that paper specifically illustrates by
reference to the "dealings in the exchan-
ges" of the Bank of the United States in
1888, which the President afirms IA
mounted to upwards of one hundred mil
lions of dollars.' Yet this plan, when it
was submitted to him, was objected to on
new ground. The last veto has mar
rowed the question ola bank down to the
basis of the sub-Trcasury scheme, and it
is obvious from the opinions of that mes
sage that the country to expect any
thing better than the exploded sub-Trea-
sury or some measure of the same char
acter from Dir. TYLER.
In the midst of all those varieties of o.
pinlon; an impenetrablc mystery seemed
to hang over the whole question. There
was no such frank. interchange of sen,-
ment as ought to characterize the inter-
course of a President and his friends, and
the last persons in the government who
would seem to have been entrusted with
his confidence in those embarrassing to-
pics were the constitutional advisers 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 profound sorrow
we look to the course pursued by the Pre-
sldent. He has wrested from us one of
the best fruits Of a long and painful strug-
gle, and the consummation of glorious
victory: he has even perhaps thrown us
once more upon the field of political strife,
not weakened in numbers, nor shorn Of
the support of the country, but stripped Of
the arms which success had placed in our
hands, and left again to rely upon that
high patriotism which for twelve years
sustained us in a conflict of uncqualled as
perlty, and which finally brought us to
the iul6lment of those brilliant hopes
which he has done so much to destroy.
In this state of things, the Wings will
naturally look with anxiety to tie future,
and inquire what are the actual relations
between the President and those who
brought him into power; and what, in the
opinion of their friends in Congress,
should be their course hereafter On
both Of these questions we feel it to be
our duty to address you in perfect frank
ness and without reserve, but, at the same
time, with due respect to others.
III iCSdiu w ulC illSt, VIC are COHSTdilCu
to say, that the President, by the course
he has adopted in respect to the appica-
ton OF the veto power to two successive
bank charters, each Of which there was
ust reason to believe would me 1t his APP
probation; by his Withdrawal of confidence
from his real friends in Congress and from
the members Of his Cabinet; by his bes-
towal of it upon Others Notwithstanding
their notorious opposition to leading mca-
sures of his Administration, has voluntar-
lily separated himselffrom those bv whose
exertions and sutfrages he was elevated
to that office through which he reached
his present exalted station. The exis-
tence of his unnatural relation is as extra
ordinary as the annunciation of it is pain
full and Notifying. What are the conse-
quences and duties which grow out of ita
The first consequence is, that those
who brought the President into power can
be no longer in any manner or degree,
justly held responsible or blamed for the
administration of. the Executive branch
of the Government; and that the Presi
dent and his advisers should be exclu-
sively hereafter deemed accountable. But,
as by the Joint acts of Providence and the
People he is constItutionally investediwith
the powers Of Chief Magistrate; whilst he
remains in office he should be treated with
perfect respect by all. And it will be the
duty of the Wings, in and out of Com
gress, to give to his official acts and mea-
sures fair and full consideration, approx
ing them and cooperating in their sup
port where they can, and differing from s.
any of themonly from a high
sense of public duty.
The more important question remains
to be touched. What ougt to be the flu
turc line of conduct of the Wing party in
the extraordinary emergency which ex-
ists2