The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-02
FSom the Portsmouth, IN H. Gazette
REPORTS UPON THE VETO MESSAGE.

by the House. Of Representatives, to whom re-
ferrcd the Presidents veto message
i Ten Of the committee-all Clay Whigs-made a
report in condemnation of the message, and recon-
| mended to the House the passage of the following
| resolution
RESOLVED by the Senate and House Of Representatives. Of
the United States Of .4srea IN Congress assembled co
thirds Of the House eoncu'rng therein That the follow
| ing amendment Of the Constitution of the United
States in the 18th section Of article lst be recon-
| mended to the Legislatures of the several States
which, the adoption of the same by three-fourths
of the said Legislatures shall become part and parcel
| of the Constitution
50 Instead Of the words two-thirds, twice repeated
IN the second paragraph Of the said seventeenth
ton, substitute, in both cases the words, majority
OF the whole number"
The following names are attached to the majority
| report, viz:
John Quincy Adams, John NJ. Bolts, James Coop
| er, X. Rayner, Thomas j. Campbell, +. Granger,
| H. s. Lane, Jeremiah Morrow, J. A. Pearce, and
| T. Smith.
These men, suppose, are all in favor OF having
the President impeached, and this report Of theirs IS
another attempt to head Captain Iyierbut the effect
will be- instead Of nurng the object of their malice
| to heap Goals Of fire upon their own heads.
| Mr. Adams has the credit Of being the author
of this report-but we hardly believe he
wrote it. If he did, it is the weakest thing we
| ever read from his pen. This is Report of ten men
LEADERS of the Clay patty in the House-and an
attempt to lay before the country siaeent sufficient
to convince the people that the President oughtto be
| impeached by public opinion.
| This report of Mr. Adams is a failure-abortion !
| a tissue of falsehoods and Misrepresentation 1t
| commences by saying that,
"The Message is the last of series OF Executive
measures the result Of which has been TO defeat and
nullify the whole action of the Legislative authority
Of this Union, upon the most important interests OF
| the nation"
| This extract has reference to Mr. Tyler's Vetoes
upon the Bank and Tariff questions. And we are sa-
tshed that he has a large majority Of the American
people with him in his course. large majority Of
| the people are opposed to United States Bank and
| also opposed to high protective Tariff.
The Clay majority in Congress, and not President
Tyler responsible for the miserable and corrupt
proceedings at Washington. Mr.. Tyler has ever been
ready to sanction any laws beneficial to the country
| In his last Message he says:
sc take occasion emphatically to repeat my anx-
ous desire cooperate with Congress in the passage
of law, which, while it shall assist in supplying the
wants of the Treasury and re-esablish public credit,
shall afford to the manufacturing interest Of the coun
try all the incidental protection they require"
| This shows that he is willing and ready to go for a
tariff sufficient for the wants of the Government and
also afordng proper protection to the manufacturing
| interests But no. the Wings must have Bank, the
| Distribution, and high Tariff, or they will do no
| thing.
The report goes on to lie about and abuse Mr.. Van
Burens admnisration-stating that it had ruined the
| business ana cTedll OF country, ana tncn
| MIR Tyler again in this style
"The first development of this and most UNI
fortunate condition Of the General Government, was
manifested by the failure, and again. of the first
great intended by Congress to restore the
credit of the country, by the establishment of Ma
tonal Banka failure caused exclusively by the ope-
| ration Of the Veto power by the President In the
spirit Of the Constitution Of the United States, the
Executive is not only separated from the Legislative
power but made independent upon and responsible to
| itn
That the President is dependent upon and respon-
sibe TO the Legislative power of Congress doc
thine that we don't believe. As we understand the
Constitution the Executive is separate and iDdepen
dent branch of the Government, and responsible TO
| and dependent upon the PEOPLE. 1t is of little
to have President if what this Report states he true
But It happens what this Report says upon this point
is false. Neither the Executive nor either branch Of
| Congress is the sovereign power They repre-
sentalives of that power, the will ofhe people The
duties and powers of each separate branch ofthe Go
vernment is pointed out by the Constitution; they act
as checks and balances upon each other
| The truth is the Veto, power and the Constitution
and the just exercise of it by Mr.. Tyler has inter-
| fered with the unhaowed purposes of the Whigs,
and they in obedience to the commands of Mr.. Clay
wish 10 pluck II from the Constitution.
The following is a fair specimen of the style
and temper Of the Report, and is in striking contrast
To the dignifed language of the Presidents Message:
"a comparative review of the four several veloes
which, in the of fifteen months, have suspend
ed the legislation of this Union, combined with that
amphibous production, the for approving and
signing BILL and at the time striking by judi
cial construction, and lis most important enactments
illustrated by contemporaneous illusions and emper
and sentiment divulged al convvla festivals, and Oh
truded upon the public eye by the fatal friendship OF
sychophan private correspondents and stripped To its
naked nature by the repeated and daring aspersion
both of legislative and of Judicial power would present
| anomalies of character and conduct rarely seen upon
| earth Such investigation though strictly within
the scope of the instruction embraced in the refee
| to this committee, would require volumlnous report
which the scantness of hme will not allow, and
which may not he necessary Tor maturing the judy
ment of the House upon the document before
| them"
We apprehend there will come day when those
ten dgnifed gentlemen will be ashamed of this report
and wish it expunged from Il cir recollection.
The report, after examining the objections OF the
President to signing the Tariff, and attempting to
prove that the public lands belong to the States &c.
says:
They perceive that the whole legislative power of
the Union has been for the last fifteen months with
regard to the action of Congress upon measures Of
| vital importance in state of suspended animation
srangled by the five times repeated structure Of the
Executive cord. They observe that, under these unex
amped distractions to the exercise of their high and
legitimate duties, they have hitherto preserved the
most respectful forbearancc towards the Executive
chief; that while he has, time after time, annulled
by the mere act of his will their commission from the
people to enact laws for the welfare, they
have forborne even the expression of their resent
ment for these multiplied insults and injuries--they
| believed they had high destiny to fulfil by admins
terng to the People, in the form Of law remedies for
the sufferings which they had too long endured
The will of man has frustrated all their Iabors
and prostaed all their powers. The majority Of the
Committee believe thai the case has occurred in the
annals of Union, contemplated by the founders
of the Constitution by the grant to the House of Re-
representatives. of the power to mpeach the President
of the United States but they aware that
sort that expedient might in the present condition
of public affairs, prove abortve- They see that the
irreconclleable difference of opinion and action be-
tween the Legislative and Executive Departments of
the Government is but sympathetic with the same