The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-23


ject, we have not seen this production surpass-
ed by any pen. We have often remarSea INC
surprising talent of many OF the Sou'hefn
editors.
From the Mississipidn.
THE VETO AND THE VETO POWER.
The Captain has backed out his enemies
Instead of "heading" him, he has hehead-
ed them. He has slain them-crushed them
broken them on the wheel. Instead OF towering
sons of war, they are now lifeless mass o! de-
capitated politicians Instead OF bulls oil ba-
shan, tossing the liberties Of the country IN the
air goring the President, believing war, ana
paving the sand with wrath, they have become
gentle doves, and now sweelly coo to the peace
and harmony of the country Instead OF starv-
ing the Government, they have filed It's Golfers.
Honest Wings, magnanimous Wings, patrioec
Wings you designed doing this all The time,
but you thought you would make one more ell
fort to "head" the Captain You made the
effort, and have most sgnally, mos, disgrace
fully failed! The Captains Toledo blade has
passed through you, like the sword of Michael,
welded against the fallen angels, and now grow
cling and biting the dust, public opinion ex-
tracts from you what patriotism could not--an
oblation OF your faction upon the affairs OF your
country The Yankees have method IN their
madness. With them the half loaf is better
than no Tread. If they have lost distribution,
they have secured high tariff. But this the
next Congress will reduce. Had distribution
been fastened upon our political system, nothing
short of civil war could have torn the cancer
out Thanks to our Presidential surgeon.-
BY sklllul and timely use OF the Executive
knife, he has cut out the excrescence IN the germ.
But for him there would have been an eternal
necessity for high Tariff, and an eternal dram
of two or three millions per annum on the re-
sources Of the South, not to carry on the Gov
ernment but to subsidize and buy up the indebt-
ed States. Where now is the appeal TO the
God Of battles of the hoary incendiary of Mas
sachusells7 Where the threat of the Epcn-
rean Senator of Virginia, archery that he
would see the Union dissolved sooner than yield
distribution? Where now the proclamation OF
the electioneerlng agent of the Lord Of Ash
land, that the majority could do Nottingham
the President must be starved into submission
Where the declarations of The Flmores, the
Bottses, Stanleys, ArnUlds, Ell id omne genus,
to w.t. all the madnen that they would never
Weld but with their lives-that to retreat was
persevere honor, though at the ex-
pense of the ruin of the country? Those
words Of treason are forgotten so far as their
effect upon the Government is concerned, but
they will be remembered by the people to en-
balm their authors in eternal infamy. There
might be some charitable enough to pardon
these expressions, on the same principle, that
madman is not held responsible for his acts,
but coupled with their deliberate effort to des
troy the veto power, they show foregone
conclusion of a reasonable design to break
down the Government itself. The veto power
is the very life of our political system-i,s
great conservative principle. 1t is the great
check designed by our ancestors so TO be) on
stock jobbing and combination of political fac
ton.
There never existed country in the world
VIII re the legislative power was conferred upon
one department. of Government, composed OF
many persons, unbrdled unchecked, by co-or
dinate branches of Government, but that it fell
under many headed tyranny more intolerable
than single despot Such was the condition
of ancient Rome, under her Senate, before the
establishment of her tribuniton power Such
was the condition Of Venice under her Senate.
Such was the condition of England IN the
,uorat DAVIS If the feudal system when neither
King nor Commons were able to control the
proud barons, who ground the people TO the
dust with cruel tyranny from which there was
no relief. And the whole world are witnesses
in modern times of what enormties the Ma
tonal Assembly of Franc were capable-a nu-
IN erous body of men acting without the cheek
of coordinate branch. Take the present
Viii. Congress, and let US suppose that there
existed no veto power in the Rxecvlive. They
selzed the reins of Government by more over
whelmng vote than had ever before been gwen
at any of our political revolutions. Tney were
buoyed up, pulled up with vanity inflated al
most to bursting their unprncipled appeal /,
to the worst passions, and the dlstrcsses
of our indebted people had succeeded beyond
their most sanguine expectations. "PolIcy,"
to wit, concedlmentof their principles and de-
signs, had crowned them with victory, and IT
was ncces ,ary that policy" should be resorted
to, TO continue their reign What were the stu
pendous schemes concocted in midnight eau
Gus, where each honest wing, yielded up part
of his conscience, to perpetuale the reign of