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 .Neto Orleans advertiser
Somebody said about the time that the Constitu-
ton 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. ft4t
The Constitution is now on the very 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 was called.
| The death of General Harrison did not interrupt
the designs of Mr. Clay and his friends Indeed, that
| event rather hurried the usurpers EDWARDS.
Had Mr.. Tyler quietly yielded to the majority, the
Executive power would have been transferred to the
hands of MIR. Clay, and our government would have
been converted into-an oligarchy without RESPONSE
| bty to the people.
} Mr.. Tyler refused to betray his trust.
The war against the Executive then broke out with
the utmost violence, and it is waging with hy-
ena-like ferocity truly alarming to the rejecting and
| consderate.
| Congress, by their acts, since December, have de-
cared that the Executive is no longer 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 Presi-
dent to exercise the appointing power in the selection
OF the necessary officers to assist him IN the admlns-
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
hce OF President according to the requirements OF the
Constitution.
They have essayed with all their might to lesser
the Chief Magistrate in the eyes of his fellow cti
zens and in the eyes of the world by charging up0r
him the most heinous offences in the calendar Of
| crimes.
They have held him up traitor to party faith as
common liar, the meanest of his species, va
catlng, 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
| indignity. & ttt
They allowedh him to send up to their bodies mes
sage after messege urging upon them to put the
try in state of defence and provide means to pay the
public creditor, and took no heed of these frequent
appeals S
They have permitted the public creditor to KNOCK
in vain for months at the door ofhe national treasury
and go away unpaid.
| They have ordered the officers of the Government
appointed by and responsible to the Executive to
swer at the bar OF their bodies and to deposit in the
keeping of their committees the results Of the abors
| undertaken by command of the President
| They have betrayed the confidence of 3he Presi-
dent, by publishing to the world documents which he
entrusted in secret to his council of advsemen in
good faith, and in accordance with the requirements
| of law.
| They have delayed appropriating 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 inGuisition into the opn-
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-
onay power whatever in the discharge of his duties,
and if the President shall approve of the bills ques
ton, he will reduce the Executive to the condition of
mere puppet, without will Of his own, and conse-
| quenty without responsibility
They have attacked the usefulness and dignity of
the National Judiciary, by cutting down the salaries
and emoluments Of the incumbens.
They have declared open war upon the Veto pow
err 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 were preferable TO and honor, while MIR.
| Tyler sat in the Presidential chair
They have, during period of nine months, egisla
ted with the sole view of destroying the President,
and thereby transferring to their hands the Executive
power of the government.
Such, such are some of the usurping acts of Con-
gress The usurpation is not confined to Mr.. Clay
and his friends. The Loco Foco party share with
them fully in the upon the Executive power.
A few voices only ale heard In those bodies crying
their mad schemes but those voices are needed not.
reach not the ear Of passion.
All, all will depend upon the President him
self He has 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 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.
From the Harrisburg Inteiiigencer.