Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-08-27

spectful forbearance rds the Executive chief
that while he has, time after lime, annulied by
the mere act Of hrs Will their commission from thu
People to enact laws Tor The common welfare, they
have forborne even the expression Of their resent
nent for these multiplied insults and injuries
they had high destiny fulfil, by sdmln is ering
TO the People IN the form Of law remedies for the
sotierings which they had too long endured.
The Will OF one man has frustrated alt their
labors and Frustrated ali powers. The majority
OF the COMMITTEE believe that the case has oc-
Cured IN the annals % our Union, contemplate ed
by the founders Of the Consti,u ion by the grant
10 the House OF Representative Of the power to
mpeach the President Of the United States; but
they are aware that the resort TO that expedent
might, in the present condition Of public affairs,
prove abortIve. They that the irreconcIa-
bie difference Of opinion aud of action between
the Legislative and Executive Departments of tho
Government is but sympathetic with the same
d,scordan, views and feelings among the People.
To them alone the final issue of the struggle
must be left. In the sorrow and rtiica alton IN
der the failure Of all their labors to redeem the
honor and prosperity Of their country il is a
cheering consolation TO them that the ermina ton
of their own official existence ia al hand; that
they even now about TO return to receive the
sentence Of their constituents upon themselves;
,ha, the legislative power Of the Union, crippled
and disabled it may now be, Is about 10 pass,
renovated and revivlfied by the will Of The Peo-
pie, into other hands, upon whom will dcvoivo
the task of prov ding that remedy for the public
d,stempers which their own honest and agonlzng
energies have in vain endeavo red t. supply.
The power of the present Congress to enact
laws essential to tho welfare of the People has
been struck with apoplexy by The Executive hand
Submission 10 his will is the only condition upon
which he will permit them TO act. For tho en-
ac,ment Of measure earnestly recomme nded by
himself he forblds their action unless coupled
with a condition declared by himself to be on q
subject totally different that he III not suffer
them to be coupled IN the same law. Wilh that
condition Congress cannot comply. 10 this state
Of things he has assumed, as the Committee fully
believe, the exercise OF the whole legislative pow
to himself, and IS levying millions Of money
upon the People without any authority of law.-
Bot tho final decision Of this question Dope nds
neither upon legislative nor executive, but upon
Judicial authority, nor can the fnel decision OF
The Supreme Court upon II be pronounced before
the close of the present Congress. In the mean
time the abusive exercise Of the constitutional
power Of the President 10 arrest the action Of Con-
gress upon measures vital 10 the welfare Of the
People, has wrought conviction upon the minds Of
a ma ority of the Committee that the veto power
itself must be restrained and modified by an a.
ncndment Of the Constitution itself, q resolution
for which they accordingly herewith respectfully
report,