Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1842-08-29
MR.. Gn.AiER AND HIS REPORT AND PRO
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To Enron OF THE RICHMOND Vine
What M Fdlor. bas come over our old cornpatrits
that "overy inch Wbg'' Gilmer2 He has grown as
dull ps dead hnrae regarded him as very pro-
found as Dr. johnson would have express. cd IT, very
fundamentally sensible;" bull since his translation IL
Congress he Is really become bore His speeches az
The extra session were sad tasks 10 read which per-
iurucd as a melancholy duty 10 mau who had been
Governor If Virginia; but compared with the Protest
aud Report ol lof. Thomas ". Gimcrv which has
llsl appeared. they were brilliant aud corruscatina,
That report Il, without exception. the duas he a,lcs
most WcaIsDme confederation OF common place and can't
hat have ever known TO enanale from the Congress
al the l,ued slacs.
VII mol iatiano Your readers with quotations finn
MIR Tllmef's Protest and Report Ii they have n
ready pcruaed H. this We're cruelty; aud If they have
nat, It might laYe the effect Of dclffriug them from its
performance o. HAT ratdote labor. II IL iIruuau
much OF mQehnessj sim clumsy and uucouih IN It's
style; impolnnl in argument; moHgTe AS Calvin Fdson
IN know ledge II Tho EX Gosernlr as no doubt he did
'ur the maq never lived more prompt seize opprtu-
mites ur hnainp hmapt loWard) ayaled himself of the
late occasion To fix public attention upon himself by a
separate Repofi he VIII probably succeed in the ma =
climbing the Tree. Congress, M. Edtor has proved
The grave Of many provincial and demaaoaio repuiy
ton aud uuer lost there the fame OF abilities is never +
recovered lfne talent exhibits itsoll most fayorably.
tho greater The otfgency, he more expanded tho thea.
rc, and lheseverer The esl. When il fails at all il ias
from the uadeqaaey ol the occasion ca forth ia latent
strength and pnerpits. Al what mnciuro in our sixty
seven years el separate existence People. has err
sis angry and potenluus lowered over our country
Nevor Tho Treasury begealed tie People ground into
dust aud ashes by mlsue the country without Revenue
laws the Magistrate oyyingm money and eacting
regulations TX his own authority; -four votoes in year
aud legislation dictated hy the ENeeutivchere are uni
led numbefot difficulties and grievances well CALCIUM
I'D to iuane thel,od Of men the point Of yiolence
and Ia shake tie edilcc OF our institutions like an earth
quakc. The public man NhoIn snch crisis could not
animate into sputt and rouse into the exhibition Of ahif-
iy, lauot entitled even to niche in Duneiad. were
some political satlls 10 arise, 10 lash the Ounces and
pteiondcrs of the time.
But, If the dullness OF Mir. Gilncrs Report renders ii
heavy ana oninsfnc'lve ms a State paper its Stale
Rights can't and constitutional clap nap when such OK
traunary events were passing under his nose render it,
hateful and eoniomplble How nyclcraie must he iien
nemapogusm which nj period Of such startling inter
est IN the American world. mouths phrases ln Bun
eombd W bal malclloss elroniefy in the apooest OF
Executive drlalon, of Executive law making of We.
toes after Neoesun they have smotlered the will Of
the poup aud oyorthrown the balance Of the Con6iitt-
lion To prae as doth this aboon ol Report aud Pro-
heat. about the necessity ct observing the fundamental
law the saerednrts Of Constitutions and the pretended
us0ipaons ui Gongross Ia possible concevc of a
stnnger oblqulty 81 vision II The srally in est
Tor Of gsser insult Ia the popular understanding he IN
only attempting by the shallow oSpodicni Withdraw
attention from the conduct Of the ENoeutivol
Congress us0tpnq when thai body is thwared at ey-
cry 10y the presidenul efol Congress usurpinr
when yenr has Witnessed fur times the exercise of
The arhttary pawer Of the Veto. measures Of the
greatest possible importance, and from considerations of
eNpcdIeucy; the Neocs IN a twelyenonih exceeding III
number All the teloes Of Washington, jefferson Mad.
sun and Monroe Congress usnrpne, when the Pros-s
dtni has claimed under his signature. To be cumponelt
pat at the Legislative power Congress nslrpii.
when the President leycs taxes by his own authority.
and establishes, rules and regulations tho elor, which
by tha COMPOUNDS Of 1883, were expressly left for
the action Of eturd Congress, and Withhold from Tie
President and Secretary Of The Treasury!
And these charges or rather nainuatlons against Con-
presS-tU should have respected him ho lnakrA ie,
nore hc had oPony charged in place Of syy iusinna.
tlng-are preferred Mr., Ediler bg mlo,n? BY Stale
Rights man par ednncHcei by man so very serupu-
uns about the Constitution that in this very Report he
as gmyey lbsnrly argues show that The DELAY Of
The House in considering The vetoed bill and ohieehms
oi the President was niraction of that instrument
hair splitter ol the mlnuiest dimensions and sky-
serarar who dwells in the most airy attitudes of Cen
srncii0n Construed aud CONSTITUTIONS Vindealed,n io
can immense danger 10 the Constitution in referring
a Nctoed Bill. aud Presidents objections to Select
COMMITTEE, the pfayc3i maHne Of reconShlcrnp as the
Constitution re1uresbut whatever To The lrcisla
1.-Two independence and public liberty, in the habilua an
uunont Of the Legislative will hy nau! Poor man
he las made himself more rdicnuns than the kecnest
satire or the most onyenomod wit could have made bim
The individual. Mr Editor who. al tins siape Of our
political experience, apwehonds danger from Tho en-
If tie Legislative power and rearts thai az
The true point from which the public liberty IS TO be nva
ded, rather than ifom ilo Executive is either enlisted
s an Executive meenary. and in that case to be exc
Grated asa traitor to liberty or his lud too ieebH To
prsp great subjects. and form upon them safe and on,
conclusions To dread or affect ia dread 4,
tbs moment the ehcTuachnons and hostile designs Of
Congress, when that body is Frustrated and uuafe 10
perform IFS most inds tsabe onetpms bat to see and
10 he able 10 see nothing alarming nothing por'enous IL
The seven league strides Of the Executive towards des
potic power beinys mind too cornp, be respected
r oo s"bscrvieni IL he trusted imbece deserve
The compliment ci'eonIuting It's misconceptions