The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-19
From the BelLOars Falls (Vf.) Gozefte.

There is evidently in Congress party who are de-
termined to oppose the President they hostile,
open enemies of John Tyler, and their opposition is
carried in some instances beyond all the honorable
and legitimate objects of party contests and strikes
at the welfare of the country itself Ii is perhaps
well for the people that this Congress has but ten
months longer to serve. The coming Congressional
elections will produce sweeping change in the cha
racter of that body, if there any thing in the signs
of the times The next Congress may be strongly
opposed to the President but for the honor and well
fare of the country we trust they will be governed
by the wants of the nation and less by the spirit
of faction. The people care not for mere men, d-
vded they and always will be in opinion but
when they seLd servants to the halls of Congress,
they send them there to seek the common good of the
whole country, and want them to give liberal and
patriotic support to the lawfully chosen officers of the
Government, and wo to them who wantonly violate
the will OF the people who gave them Office and re-
posed in them important political trusts.
The power to nominate is the constitutional pre-
rogative Of the President the power to confirm lies
with the Senate but in referring to the objects and
intentions of the trainers of the Constitution it will at
be perceived that the concurrence of the Senate
is merely a conservative power to correct any err
ror as to the character and capacity Of the NOM
lnee, of which it is supposed the President could
not have become acquainted. 1t was never
int, nded, and does not correspond with the spirit
Of our free institutions, that nominations should
be rejected, because the citizens whose names
are laid before the Senate may be the personal and
political friends of the President President TYLER
has the same right to appoint his friends to Office if
duly qualified by character and capacity as President
Jackson any other President has had or has exer-
cised Our apprehensions that the course pur-
sued by the Senate may abrdge the high respect and
veneration which the people feel for that distinguish
ed body, and system of legislation or legislative ac-
ton based personal and political objects NAV Law
the foundation of dangerous precedens which here
after it may be difficult to destroy The Senate has
rights and has the President and they should be
mutually respected. on the Executive from
partisan feelings will never be countenanced by the
people. Such determined hostility may compel the
President and indeed his rights and his position de-
mand it, to throw himself upon the support of honest
of all parties, to carry out measures for the re.
lief of the country and to bring such men into the
councils Of the nation shall tend, by their wisdom
and patriotism to extricae the county from its pre-
sent embarras sments. The President was elected by
the Wings but if those representing that party in the
Senate are determined to wage indiscriminate war;
fare on the President from personal considerations,
he will be compelled to stand on the defensive and
to sustain himself and his honest intentions with the
ample power placed by the Constitution in his hands
We regret, therefore, to the Of the Senate
towards the Executive and trust that better feelings
and camer councils will prevail hereafter and that
violent n6ammatory and partisan considerations may
not for the future prevail in that body Justly es-
eened as ore Of the main pillars Of the Constitution