The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-05-31


and We can only observe that we have had very ia
vorable time for the sowing of spring corn and tina
up TO this time the crops look well.
| From the Ns,o Orleans advertiser
Somebody said about the time that the Constitu-
ton was adopted, that the greatest danger, it would
have to encounter, in after years, would be the en-
| croachment Of the Legislative upon the Executive.
The danger has come.
The Constitution is now the very eve OF destruc-
| ton by the Legislative So enormous an encroach-
ment has been made by it upon the Executive, thai
the just powers of the President in progress Of
| complete absorption by Congress.
The election of Gen. Harrison to be President was
the signal for the commencement of the COMPRESSION
| al war upon the Executive
So impatient became the master-spirit of this cru
SADIE to begin the work of destroying the Constitution
that an extra session of Congress called
The death of General Harrison did not interrupt
the designs of Mr. Clay and his friends Indeed, that
! event rather hurried the usurpers UPWARDS
Had MIR. Tyler quietly yielded to the majority, the
Executive power would have been transferred to the
hands of Mr.. Clay, and our government would have
been converted into=an oigarchy without RESPONSE
| bty to the people.
J Mr.. Tyler refused to betray his trust
The war against the Executive then broke out with
the utmost violence, and it is now wagng with n.y.
ena-like ferocity truly alarming to the rejecting and
| considerable
Congress, by their acts, since December, have de-
cared that the Executive is no longer an independent
and coordinate department of this government and
under the plea of curtailing its constitutional patron
| age, influence, and power, have usurped it.
| They have refused, virtually, to allow the Pres-
dent to exercise the appointing power in the selection
of the necessary officers to assist him in the admins
tration Of the affairs of the nation.
They have dictated to him what sort of persons he
shall select, and of what must be their political
| views.
They have let loose upon his head the sluices Of
abuse and denuncaon for daring to execute the Of
fee Of President according to the requirements of the
Constitution.
They have essayed with all their might to lessen
the Chief Magistrate in the eyes of his fellow cit
zens and in the eyes of the world by charging upon
| him the most heinous offences in the calendar OF
| crimes
They have held him up as traitor to party faith, as
q common lar as the meanest of his species as va
cating, unfit to be the associate of honest men,
in order to destroy the influence Of the Executive de-
| partment of the government.
They have arrogated to themselves to say HOW, the
President of the United shall construe the Constitu
| ton and execute the duties of his office.
| They have treated him with personal contumely
| when they knew he could not defend himself
They induced four-sixths of his Cabinet to betray
the confidence he had reposed in them under the fair
superstition that they were gentlemen of honor and
| integrity
| They have refused to act upon any of the Presi-
dents recommendations of public policy, thus treating
| the Executive department Of the Government with
indgnity.
They allowed him to send up to their bodies mes
sage after message urging upon them to put the coun-
try in state of Defence and provide pay the
public CREDITOR and took heed of these frequent
appeals.
They have permitted the public creditor to knock
in for months the door of the national reasury
| and 60 away unpaid. af
They have ordered the officers of the Government,
appointed by and responsible to the Executive,
swer at the bar of their bodies and to deposit in the
keeping of their committees the results Of the labors
undertaken by command of the President.
| They have betrayed the confidence of abe Pres-
dent, by publishing to the world documents which he
entrusted in secret to his council of Adjustment, in
good faith, and in accordance with the requirements
| Of law.
They have delayed appropriatng money for the
wants of the country, with the sole view of embar-
RAISING the action of the Executive and bringing into
| contempt that department of the Government.
They have violated law, by refusing to vote fixed
| salaries for the payment of Government officers.
They have established an inqusition into the opin-
ions Of appointees, and if it is found that the nomi-
for any office friendly to the President and
| his measures Of policy, they reject them.
They have removed from the Executive all discre-
onary power whatever in the discharge of his duties
and the President shall approve of the bills ques
| ton, he will reduce the Executive to the condition of
puppet, without will of his own, and conse-
| quenty without responsibility.
L ney nave attacked the usefulness ana dignity OF
the National Judiciary, by cutting down the salaries
| and emoluments of the incumbents.
| They have declared open upon the Veto pow
er, and proposed by series of resolutions to pluck it
| from the Constitution.
They lave refused to stand by the Executive in his
negotiations with foreign powers and have openly de-
clared the President and his principal Secretary unfit
| to conduct them to an honorable issue
They have repeatedly declared that peace and dis
honor preferable to and honor, while Mr.
| Tyler sat in the Presidential char
| They have, during period of nine months legsa-
| ted with the sole view of destroying the President,
and thereby transferring their hands the Executive
| power of the government
Such, such of the usurping acts OF Con-
| gress The usurpaion is not confined to Mr.. Clay
| and his friends. The Loco Foco party share with
them fully in the war upon the Executive power
A few voices only heard in those bodies crying
aloud to them to spare the Constitution to retreat from
their mad schemes; but those voices needed not.
They speak the words of wisdom, but those words
reach not the ear Of passion.
All, all will now depend upon the President him
self He has as yet the CONSTITUTE nal power of his
office in his hands. Will he part from it?
Twice has he rebuked the bold usurpers, and twice
ten thousand times will he do it again. The danger
hour to constitutional liberty has come and it is
for John Tyler to the charter of our freedom
from the invasion ofthe Legislature As sure as God
is in heaven, he will do it, and thankful Millions yet
unborn, will sing hosannas to the memory of this up
right and good man, who will have preserved to them
unmpaired our glorious institutions.
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