Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-07-05

Inn. FIR consideration, for he was free
10 confess that he believed they were approaching
crisis which would shake this Union 10 i'S CIV.
Time w,uld determine who was TO yieid anu WIN "aa
r,ph, time would determine whelher tue 'e ,,'a
Tho REPRESENTATIVES of the people should PROVIDE 'ne
s a,'d means 10 carry on tins Government III lhe
wa III; . ,bourht best, long as they violated u" ~ "
.,n 81 ibe Constitution The President had told then
~, II al taken tins proyso into his own hahos ahu ''s
the Law passed BY Congress unnecessary; ana 'hr
n,ss,,op arose whether Congress should legisa'e OF
the President. .,: ,b.,
same friend had handed TO him q note stating tna'
M President in this veto message had indicated that ne
VAS willing to violate the principles oil Inc oohp'
oc by carving duties up above twenty per cent, ano
Inn, he would discriminate in favor OF manufactures
wi tho, Lc asked was there much JOY on the
,he, .d. nj the House? His (Mr. Fillmore 81 lfen"s
bonld have known that the joy manifested on Inc o1i
side of the House was not on account oi u"y r.,
involved in the Compromise act but BECAUSE WIN TUE
Characteristic principles of their party, they went ol
Tho snois Iauphter) lie again gave that party Joy
81 h conopest they had made but he intended no DIS
resnect TO the Chief Magistrate-c'Oh no. certainty
mi and lauphter)-bui, when 1t was qnestloh oe-
tween his country and the dearest interests Oh 'e P
ole or of this House the one hand, ana the Aecu
tive the other, he should not heS'u'e ~ 1Ne N''
against all usurpalion
Mr GUSHING replied generally to The assaI ants OF
the Executive lie said amongst other things, ihat me
gentleman might be right, and that thefe WAS II" "a"
far the collection of revenue: hut what, then, was the
dutv of this House: Was this the only law that could
l.. missed: He believed such 4 law as vas required
migh, be passed in an hour and that was the duty OF
the House To provide such a law
lie next commented on the observations of the gen
teman who had preceded him, with remarks on the
operation of the Distribution act, on the list oil July
fie bepped gentlemen read that ac and especially
the two causes for the suspension of dstrlbution-lhe
one state OF war; and the other the collection oil
duties above 90 per cent. But the gentleman from
New York said this great Crisis IN the ailars OF
the United States well as in the relation oil parties
and that this extraordinary message Now, lie
cared nothing for the relation of parties-[ laughterI-
and thank Heaven, the people OF the United states
were beginning to be dsabused not only OF the tyranny
of party but still that their interests we're 10 ne
sacrificed 10 the aspirations OF party men. lie orr
cared not for party but he did for the great
md material interests of the people Of the United
States But what the crisis Of which gentlemen
smoke The term "crsis was so frequently used,
and il came tripplngy on the tongue, that ne had
ceased 10 regard it for he vas of opinion, with
French writer that they might bear themselves as well
in crisis as in the interval.
He then proceeded to defend the act OF The PresI-
dent on the ground that he was CO ordinate branch
of the Government and had but discharged his const
uona duty in vetoing bill Of which he dIsapproved
He defended also, the veto power, and denied that 1t
originated with the country from which we derived
our institutions 1t no klngy function OF Europe
in which it originated, but in the Republic oil Rome,
for the defence of the people against their select bodies
In reply 10 au,on 10 England, to which gentle
man had pointed he explained that the absence of the
veto was accounted for by the fact, that the great
measures were ministerial, and never introduced
but with the understanding that they would receive
the royal assent; and their failure followed by the
resignation of ministers. The gentleman, then, was
in error his alIusion 10 English authority for an ana
ogy, when the forms totally different. But, be
thai it might, that House not sitting as Con-
veniion for the adoption Of Constitution, for the
Constitution existed, and the veto power given
by it,
lie then pursued his reply to preceding speakers, at
great length and when he concluded the House agreed
10 print the message.
And thcn the House ad ourned.