The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-06
From the Mobile Register and Journal.

We publish to-day the report Of Mr.. Adams from
the Committee Of Thirteen, on the Presidents Veto.
1t is signed by the ten whg members of the committee
We have also the minority reports of Mr.. Gimer for
himself and Mr. Ingersoll for himself and Mr. Roose-
welt, which shall give hereafter. We thought at
first that it might be eIpedient to delay the publica-
ton of the majority report till could give of
the reports at the time; but examining it at
tentivey, we satisfied that no particular exeron
is necessary to counterac effect 1t is altogether
production TO which every candid mind that has
made itself acquainted with the current political his
tory suggest Immediately many and wegkty OBJ
jecions. Its temper is too violent, its tone too pas
sionate and declamaory its language in several parts
too coarse and abusive its reasonlngs too loose, and
its facts coored too highly by personal resentments,
and its objects too obviously partisan in the lowest
sense of craftsmanship to produce much effect among
reasoning people.
1t seems hat majority Of the committee is Of
opinion that the has arisen Contemplated 1.-THE
founders of the Constitution by the grant TO the House
of Representatives of the power In iMPEACH THE
PRESIDENT of the United States ); but they think that
in the present state of public affairs resort 10 that
expedient might prove abortiye" This is saga
cious inference from the state of parties in Congress
il is surprising that the same sagacity did not per-
ceve in the additional reason furnished by the
mittee in the very next paragraph, for abstaining
from impeachment, a refutaton of their own chief
grounds for assailing the President Mr. Adams says
for Them they that an irreconcileable difference
of opinion and of action between the Legislative and
Executive departments of the Government is but
sympathetic with the same discordant views and feel
ngs among the people, To them alone the final is
sue of hi. struggle must be lef Herein is express
ly abandoned all claim that the Wing measures, OBJ
sructed and vetoed by the President have any clear
support among the people, and the question is ex-
pressly left where the President himself leaves it, for
the determination of the discords among the depart
ments of Government, by the decision of the people
If Mr.. Adams had not been blinded by party passion,
he must have that, in conceding that these dis
puted questions and discordant views exist among the
people, sympathetic with those which separate the
President and Congress, he gives up totally all
of accusation against the President for violating the
public will and then what becomes of all the decla-
nation with which the report overhows, claiming for
Congress to be the exclusive "exponents" Of public
opinion, which it was unparalleled wickedness in the
Executive to resist The appeal to the people" is
what the veto and ditto proposes-and we shall see,
and have begun to see, in the results Of elections
what sort of judgment that tribunal will give on the
| issue.
1t will be that the Wing portion of the COM
mittee recommended The aboshing o}the Veto po,cer-
| When Mr. Clay made this proposition in the Senate
Mr. Adams, in the House, rebuked it strongly as in
voving :" a dissolution of the Union" The differ
ence of opinion between these Wing leaders even
wider than those unsettled points, in relation to the
great treaty which they pledge themselves to prove
upon each other before their coalition in 1925, and
the rapid change of position, and marvellous facility
at compromising difficulties is more marvellous
litica interests of Mr.. Cay red in the House of
Representatives, the same proposal, which, when Of
fered by Mr.. Clay in the Senate, he had proclaimed
to be an attempt to destroy the Government
The House of Representatives voted on this reso-
luton, and it failed for want Of two-thrds vote
which the Constitution requires for The adoption of
resolutions for constitutional amendments The whig
party, with few remarkable exceptions, voted for
aboishing The peto power-the democrats unanimously
against it. With them several wings voted openly
We notice in the list Of noes the names Of Barton
of Virginia, Gushing, of Massachusetts, Irwin, of
Pennsylvania, Mattocks Of Vermont, and Marshall
| and Pope, of Kentucky, (Whigs.) Two three
others known to be against the measure, but they
did not vote. The ayes were So the noes 90, fly
sir absent Mr.. Marshall, of Kentucky, tried to get
the vote re-consdered, and spoke vehementy against
the adoption of this as Wing measure, and being
+" forced into line to support what he could not APP
prove" But the majority of the Wings adhere to
the Point-and have adopted opposition 10 the reto pou
er as one of the principles of whiggsm for the
ing contest