Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-08-25
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Report On the Veto Mcs sage. 4.

II The Select Committee, to whom wns
referred the message of the President OF
the United States returning 10 this ii House
the act, which orig mated in IL, $50 pro-
'ide revenue from imports, and to change
and modify existing laws imposing du-
Tres ON imports, aud for other purposes"
with his objections TO il, with ins,ruc-
lions to report thereon to the House.,
have attended TO that service, and fe-
specially report.
II The message is the last Of series Of
Executive measures the result Of which
has been To defeat and nulliiy the whole
action of the Legislative authority Of
this Union, upon the most important in
ierests Of the nation.
At the accession of the late President
4 Harrison, by election Of the people, TO
the Executive chair, tho finances, the
revenue, and the credit Of the county
were found in condition SO greatly dis
ordered and so languishing, that the first
act of his administration was 10 call IA
! special session Of Congress to provide 1t
remedy for this distempered state Of the
great body polite II was even then
/ disease ol no sudden occurrence, and of
no ordinary malignity. -Four years be-
! fore, the immediate predecessor OF Gen
eral Harrison had been constr aimed To
resort To the same expedleDt, n special
session Of Congress, the result Of which
bad only proved the frs, of q succcss,on
of paliaiives, purchasing momen,ary re-
lief at the expense oi deeper seated
disease and aggravated symptoms, grow
ing daily more intense through The whole
four wears of that administration. IL had
expended, from year TO year, from eight
to ten millions Of dollars beyond lis in
come, absorbing IN that period nearly
ten millions pledged for deposAe will,
the States, eight millions Of stock IN tho
Bank of the United States, from five 4"
six millions Of trust funds, and as much
n Treasury notes and was sinking under
the weight Of It's own improvldence and
incompetency.
II The sentence of suffering people
had commanded a change in the Admi-
| nstraiion, and the cont cniporaneous clec-
/ iions throughout the Union had placed
in both Houses Of Congress mnloliics,
/ The natural cxponcnts of the principles
! " hich IL was The will Of the people should
| he substituted in the administrations ei
| their government, instead of those whrch
! had brought The country To u condlilon
! of such wretchedness aud shame. There
was perfect harmony of prnciplc he
tween the chosen President Of the peo-
pie and this ma ority, tlnis consi iluted ~
both Houses of Congress, and the first
| act of his Administration was Ia call u
| special session Of Congress for deibe,a-
! ton aud action upon the measures Ind,s-
pensably necessary for relief TO The p,rb-
lie distress, and TO retrieve the prosperi
ty Of the great community Of the nation.
Il On the 3lst dav of May, I81l, with
IN three months after the Inauguration of
President Harrison, the Congress as
sembIed at his call But the rcins of
he executive car were already IN other
hands. BY an inscruiable decree of
Providence the chief of the peoples
/ choice, IN harmony With whose pr'ml-
pies the malories of both Houses had
heen constituted, was laid low in death.
The President who had called the meet
ing of Congress was no longer the Presr-
dent when the Congress met sue
cessor to the Office had assumed the
title, with totally different principles,
] though protesting the same al the time
! Of his election, which, far from harmo-
nizing, like those Of his immediate pre-
! dccessor, with the ma lorliy IN both
! Houses of Congress, were soon dlsclos.
ed in dlametrical opposition TO them.
The frs, development Of this new,
and most unfortunate, condition OF the
! General Government, was manifested by
the failure, once and again, Of the first
! great measure intended by Congress to
IIrestore the credit OF the country, by the
establishment of a national bank--a fail
ure caused exclusively Ivy the operation of
1 the veto power by the President. In Tho
spirit OF the Constitution of the United
States, the Executive is not only sepa.
rated from the Legislative power, but
made dependent upon aud responsible 10
II. Until n very recent period oi our
history, all reference in either Ilonse or
!, Congress To the opinions or wishes oi the
5, President, relating 10 any subject IN
deiberatlon before them, was regarded
rs m outrage upon the rights Of the de-
lberaie body, among the first oi whose
duties It is TO spurn the influence Of tho
dispenser Of patronage and power I'm
I'll vcry recently, II was sufficient great
ly to impair the influence of any men,
ber to he suspected Of personal sobser-
yiency to the Executive /; aud any nllu-
SION To his wishes ~ debate wns deemed
departure not less from decency than
from ordet
An anxious desire 10 accommodate
the action of Congress 10 the opinions
and wishes of Mr.. Tyler bad led Ia
qualifications Of the first bill Tor The rs-
iabishmem of national bank, presen-
ted 20 him for his approval, widely df-
lering from the opinions entertained of
their rSpcdiency b. the majority Of both
Houses Of Congress, but which failed
10 obtain that approval for the rake of
which they had been reluctantly adopted
A second aliemp, ensued, under n sense
Of the indispensable necessity of fiscal
corpuraiion to the revenues aud credit
, I..f tla nsauas.,l A IN syl,t..l,