The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-05
OUR COUNTRY FIRST.


To the mad excuses of party, much OF the
evils that now ruinously Cypress our country,
may, with truth, be ascrbed. Their disuacting
influence has pervaded all ranks and conditions
OF society, and no where has lis baleiul effects
been felt more disastrousy than In the Halls oil
Congress. It's TO that part Of our Government
that the country looks mainly for relief from all
those evils that can be reached and counterfeit
ed by Legislation. This is their peculiar pro-
vince, prescribed by the Constitution, and made
imperative by the highest obligations of duty
These responsible functions have been shame
fully dsregarded, al time when every great
interest of the country was ruinously deranged,
and when suffering millions were looking and
appealing to Congress for relief, well knowing
that il could come through no other medium.
To fight the battles of favorte candidates for
the Presidency, TO throw fre-brands far and
wide through the land, and 10 place every prac-
iicable difficulty in the way of the Executive,
have been the chief objects of the Two last ses-
sons of Congress.
If The great benefits for which Government is
instituted, are TO enurc TO the People, II must be
by an efficient and faithful appropriation of the
means prescribed by the Constitution-the-l lie
Stimate and harmonious action Of the co-ordi-
nate departments of Government.
The President has between two and three
years Of his term unexpred, and if this
war upon him is TO continue, to the exclusion OF
more worthy objects, the country must expect TO
remain in its helpless and PROSTATE condition
for at leas, that period. The President has his
official rights under The Constitution, and he has
duties to perform under the solemnities of an
oath The one he has shown his unilinching
firmness 10 maintain, and the other, scrupulou>ly
TO observe-so that coercion, in submission to a
factious spirit on the part Of a CO ordinate branch
of the Government, will be among the greatest
improbabi.ities. With singeness of purpose
which we deem worthy Of all praise, the Presi-
dent has consulted the popular will, and has d.
rected the measures of his administration in
consonance with that will. If that spirit is to
be met correspondingly, it must be by the inter
vention of the P, ople; rebuking delinquency
wherever it is 10 be found, and taking power
from those who have been fathless to their
trust.
is vain for the country to expec, the benefits Of
healthful legislation when lis necessities are dis
regarded by those who have the remedies in their
own hands, and stimulated by impunity, persevere
in bold outrage upon the rights and interests Of
their constituents.
Since the Independence of this country never
has it stood more in need of the faithful and patr
otto exertons of all the departments Of Govern
ment, than at this time. A deranged currency
meagre revenue impaired credit, bankruptcy
and ruin to an Unprecedented extent, en,erprs,
Paraly wed, all the great interests OF the country
languishing, and the vast resources of the ia
ton as unproducive as if they were unknown
=. 1890 oo"7,uvia'rona are dppcaIIng 10 the re
gularly constituted authorities of Government lo
help; and all this catalogue Of calamiles ar,
within the reach of the prompt and etiecua re
needles of wise and harmonious system of lie
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