The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-09
Buffalo From the Mercantile Courier.
THE VETO POWER

La view of the unsparing denunciatons poured by
the tedeTaiisls IN Congress and by the FedeTallst
presses throughout the Union upon the head Cap
tain Tyler for the use Of the pow placed in his hands
| by The Constitution, TO arrest them IN their insane
and destructive plans, 1t may be well TO To
OF their professions, ON the subject before cleo
uon although every indv dual who Is all uaint-
ed with the nature OF Federalis promises knows that
they all made with tie that gene
rous confidence was 10 be exercised by community
that IL, they be- literally construed al
low the party 10 keep them violate them, precisely
as circumstances might render II convenient. For
this reason have thought IL unnecessary TO quote
their nnumerabe denials made through their most
responsible channels that they were not IN favor
OF chartering a mammoth national swndiing shop;
mat ibey we're not IN favor of high protective arh,
and would adhere lnvolaby to the Piled contained
| IN the Compromise The country Is aware that
These professions put forth from every FedeIast
Convention, AT every Federalist meeting, by every
federallsi press, and every edgeng Federas, stump
orator from Name 10 Georgia, and from the
the Mississippi But the country is aware also that
they were made only To be broken without the slight
est hesitation, at the fist convenient opportunity
ana although 1t vas temporarily msled by them II Is
now July aware OF the real nature of federalist pro-
misses and Professions and correctly estimates the de-
gree OF confidence 10 be reposed in them. We have
nevertheless thought It worth while as a matter of
curiosity alone, to contrast their present unsparng
and violent "buse OF Captain Tyler with of their
more prominently expressed sen imenls in lS4O.
In lSiO he Committee Of the State Rights and
Harrison Convention of Georgia, who drafted their
Address, (and John M. BeInen now one of Claws
tools In the u ). Senate was of that Committee)
exclaimed IN rapture
"What Republican read his Gen. Harrison's)
letter to Harmer Denny, without admirng the sier-
ling Republican doctrines II breathes' The following
| principles will be found laid down in it, proper 10 BE-
adopted by the President, pz:"
Omtting others which the Committee quoted from
the letter to Harmer Denny, confne ourselves to
tbDtn lpt. htnh,n Cd a.,
the General states the cases in which President
ought to exercise the Veto, in these words
81 That in the exercise of the veto power, he
should limit his rejection of bills to,lst such as
are, in has opinion, unconstitutional 3D. such tend
to encroach the rights of the States or indiydu-
ais; Sd, such inpolpng deep interests may in his
opinion, require more mature deliberations reference
to the icH Of the people, to be ascetaed at the succeeding
elections"
Now, as regards the professions of John NJ Berri-
en- and his federal coadjuors, they were of course
nothing; but as regards old Tip the is quite diff
ierent Notwithstanding the intention of the federal
lists to use him their plant and supple tool the old
man did manifest degree of old fashioned honesty
| and stubborn and Independent spirit, which showed
that he would have kept his pledges to the country
and would have utterly disappointed the expectations
OF the dsinerested gentlemen who elevated him to
power to serve their own purposes.
Let the country, therefore, contrast this Sterling
Republican declaration of the old General, which
excited The admiration OF the Georgia Wings with
the new-fanged doctrine lately set up by the consci-
entious Clay tederalist faction that the Executive
| ought never TO exercise the veto power, except on
grounds of unconstituonaty. If the old General
had lived to this day and acted this 'sterlng Re-
publican principle, as there is no doubt he would;
If he had dared to veto Clay measure, and tell
Clay that he wished refer the matter to the
will of the People, ''the glorious old soldier and
statesman" would have been denounced a traitor,
in like manner with Capt Tyler. The cry Of the
b,vo hoo, IN, III.
and they would have bestowed on him the epithes
OF despot and "usurper," as they have heaped upon
Mr. Tyler for carrying out the sterling Republi
can principles protested by Gen. Harrison