Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-06-30

Advertiser. 10 on a visit to WasAineton, whence he
indiies epissles home. ehoek full Of glory. Never
WAS there 80 happy fellow. lie Is stalled a, the
White House, SEGA all the big folks, and is hale
fellow well met with Ashbur,oa aud Webster, ,as
President, George Washington Tyson, Mr. Joha
Jones, and "the amiabe aud hospitable boysl'
lie is so lGSsh Of his compliments, that he de-. cot
even spare the female portion Of the lamily-n the
hands Of one OF whom, by the way, If the Govern
ment was entrusted, wo should have hundred
fold better administration Of affairs than NO now
have.
Sssrugs's notions OF public affairs nrc mere
eehos of the "bis bugs" in whose midst he is, aud
some OF them, on that account, deserving OF no.
tiee. We have heard il intmatod for some time,
that the acting President would rather govern with
out the checks imposed by the Cons,itutiop-that
he liked TO lavish the public money without &C
courtabilty--and tina, he was restless under the
watehlul eye OF Congress. But we did not sup
pose he had carried his madness the pitch Of do
string to dispense with Congress altogether
This was very favouri,e mode of governing with
tho infatuated Stuarts-for attempting which, one
OF them Justly paid the iorei, of his head. and an
other was driven in disgrace from the Throne Of
his Fathers. We believe there is enough of that
the freedom of Britain ex,ant in this nud, to visit
with like penalty any similar attempt, which may
be made upon the liberties Of this people.
We annex an exirae, from the letter of this Ex-
ecutive dcpendant-writien in the very recesses OF
the Palace, and if no, dictated 10y, certainly echo
| ing the sentiments Of Majesty.
at is plain that the time has come when the Ex-
ccutye must resist the oncroachments of Congress,
an Il N N N N
| the battcments OF the Constitution, and bid de-
hanec to the Legislative usurpers. Ii is now seen
that tho Constitution is defective IN omtting TO pre-
| scribe some measure by which the representative
might be checked in violating his trusts. As II now
stands Congress may overun the institutions OF the
land, may be guilty Of high treason, aud they can
| only be reached through the ballot box every two
and six years. The conduct OF the present Cone
gress proves 20 my mind clearly the wisdom oil that
feature in the British Constitution which gives the
| Executive the power TO dissolve the Parliament
whenever in his opinion, their deliberations threa-
ten TO niurc the interests OF the nation IN order that
the people may pas, upon the course OF their Repre-
sentatives. Were this the case with us, at present.
how speedily end would be TO put 10 the faction,
which now preying upon the vltals OF the repub-
| lie. Every day proves to me that our Executive IS
not strong enough, that the great and imminent
| dtnger TO our Institutions lies IN the overaclion OF
the Legislature, that mos, neeting and irresPonsl'
Die feature in modern Governments"
Bs MIR Tyler's sudden change from jealous
champion of Distribution to a bitter opponent, al
though in keeping with his vacillatins character,
was yet too sudden and total even for him. Some
other cause must be found for it, and that, it is
said, has been ascertancd. The Land Money,
which was to be distributed on the Is, day OF July
among the States, has been squandsred by the Ad-
ministreon, and there are no funds in the Treasury
10 replace it. This we take to be cousin german to
high crime and misdemeanor under the Constitution;
and 1t was proposed TO conceal it from the knows
| ledge Of the public by repeating the Distribution
Act, before that act should take effect
I9e Tho Enquirer's Free Trade theories do
very we'll upon paper and might do very well in
practice, il there were any possibility of reducing
them to practice. But there is the rub. Ii we
open ports TO the products Of all the world that
will not open foreign ports 10 our products You
will still have only n one. sided Free Trlde-ihe
entire burden Of which, we shall have TO endure
England and France will have good market for
their fine Broad cloths and Silks and Wines, until
they reduce us to 6ankrupicy-but we cannot see
in what way are TO be benefited, with our
Wheat, Tobacco and provisions roting upon our
hands, or crcumnayigatins the Globe in vain quest
of market.
Free Trade, such a. Adam Smith commended,
might be very beautiful thing and highly con-
ducve to the welfare of the civilized world-but
no such thing does exist-nor is there any probn-
biliiy that it will exist until the political and social
institutions OF Europe arc subverted.
! IUTs The publication OF the Independently is
suspended until next week-arrangements in the
mean time are going forward to convert it into a
! laiIu nonrr