Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1842-08-25
MR.. ADAMS REPORT.

he Intelligenccr) by the venerable author in
lis place, and its reading was listened to with
he proioundest attention by his auditory.
As our readers have it now before them, and
vill all read it through with eager attention,
We need not say to them that it is a paper
which will not only challenge universal aten-
ion, but will become the textbook of the
army OF Wings all over the Union, from which
hey can draw wholesome draugh,s Of in
'truction to the young, and confirmation to
the old, in the principles which lie at the foun-
dation OF this Government, and upon the Con-
tinued maintenance Of which, i'll all their an
cicnt powers, its existence depends"
Counter Reports were made by Messrs. Gil |
mcr, G. J. Ingersoll, and Roosevelt, members |
of the Committee.
The whole were ordered to be printed, with !
the'biil and Veto Message, and made the order
OF the day for Wednesday IL O'Clock.
REPORT.
The Select Committee, to whom was re-
1erred the Message OF the President of the u
mted States returning to this House the act,
which originated in it, s'to provide revenue
from imports, and to change and modify ex-
listing laws imposing duties on imports, and for
other purposes" with his objections ~,
with instructions to report thereon
House, have attended to that scrvceJ J.
specially report:
The message is the last ola series of Exc
cutive 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.
At the accession of the late President IIarr-
son, by election of the People, to the Execu-
tive chair, the finances, the revenue, and the
credit of the country, were found in condition
so greatly disorlered and so languishng, that
the first act of his administration was to call
special session of Congress To provide
remedy for this distempered state of the great
body polite. 1t was even then disease OF
no sudden occurrence, of no ordinary malg-
nifty. Four years before, the immediate pre-
decessor of General Harrison had been con-
strained TO resort to tho same expcdient,
special session Of Congress, the result of
which had only proved the first of success
sion OF pallatives, purchasing momenary re-
lef at the expense of deeper seated disease
and aggravated symptoms, growing daily more
intense through the whole four years of that
Administration. 1t had expended, from year
to year, from eight to ten millions of dcilars
beyond It's income, absorbing in that period
nearly ten millions pledged for deposite with
the States, eight millions of stock in the
Bank Of the United States, from five to sin
millions of trus: funds and as much Treasury
notes; and was sinking under the weight of its
own imrroxdence and incompe,ency.
The sentence of suffering People had
commanded a change lii the Administration,
and the contemporancous elections through
out the Union had placed in both Houses of
Congress majortles, the natural opponents of
the principles which it Nas the will of the
People should be substituted in the admins
tratlon OF their Government, instead of those
which had brought the country to Il condition
OF such wretchedness and shame. There was
perfect harmony of principle between the
tt,,., iIous1 or on
gress; and the first act of his Administration
was to call special session of Congress- for
their elaboration and action upon the mea-
sures mdispensably necessary for relief TO the
public distress, and to retrieve the prosperity
OF the great community of the nation.
On the 3lst day of May, 1871, within three
months after the Inauguration of President
Harrison, the Congress assembled at his call
But the reins of the Executive car were all
ready IN other hands. BY an inscruable de-
cree OF Providence the chief of the People's
choice' IN harmony with whose principles the
ma)oritles OF both Houses had been constitu-
leo, was lad low in death. The President
VINO mad called the meeting of Congress was
''N '0'iuOHt wien Tie Congress
met "A successor to the office had assumed
the title, with totally different PRINCIPLES.
Inongh protesting the same at the time of his
election, which, far from harmoniznc. like
those OF his immediate predecessor, with the
majority oil both Houses of Congress, were
soon disclosed i'll diametrical opposition to
them. fr''''0N ~
Inc hrst development of this new, and mos,
unfortunate, condition of the General Govern
ment, was manifest by the failure, once and
again, OF the first great measure intended bv
Congress to restore the credit of the coun
try, by the establishment of a National Rank
"a failure caused exclusively by the opera
uoh OF Inc veto power by the President i'm
me spirit oil the Constitution of the United
States, the Executive is not only separated from
Tie Legislative power, but made dependent up
on ana responsible 10 it. Until a very recent
PERIOD OF our history, all reference in either
House OF Congress TO the opinions or wishes
oi the President, relating to any subject in de-
liberation before them, was regarded as nm
outrage upon the rights of the delberative
body, among the first of whose duties il IS to
sPurn the influence of the dispenser of patron
age and power. Until very recently, it was
sufficient greatly TO impair the influence ofany
member to be suspected of personal subser-
Viency to the Executive; and any allusipu to
his wishes IN debate was deemed n derarturo
not less from decency than from order. An
ANXIOUS deslre to- accommodate the action of
congress to the opinions and wishes of Mr.
Tyler had led to- notifications ,oc tJo 6r,, IN