Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser., 1842-11-05
From the Carolina Watchman.
TO THE FRIENDS OF CONSTITU-
TIONAL LIBERTY.


Looking to the events of the present day
alone, and keeping out of view the arrogant
assumptions of power during the despotic
reign Of Gen. Jackson, and his contempt of
the public will even when expressed by his
own party, they are calculated to cast shade
of melancholy over all who love their country
and pray that its institutions may be perpetual
Casting our eyes back to the early history of
our Government, and the spirit which anma-
ted our National Legislature, we hazard the
assertion, bold as it is, that if Gen. Washing
ton had insulted Congress, defed public opin-
ion, annulIed law after law by his veto; as Ty-
ler has done, that all his popularity and keen
remembrance of his public services would not
have shielded him from impeachment. The
men who fought shoulder to shoulder with him
in their great struggle for liberty, would have
been among the first to arragn, even him, be
fore the Senate for attempting to convert our
Republican Government into despotism 1t
is matter for deep regret, that there should
| be any diversity among us as regards the law
less conduct of John Tyler; that he should
have advocates for doing that which would
| have brought the Father Of his country to i'm
parchment, expulsion and dishonor. And
taking another retrospect, we know that the
fathers of the revolution, the Wings of 1916
raised the standard of rebellion against the Sd
George. and took the chances of civil wal
rather than submit to his assumptions and his
claims to despotic authority. What were his
usurpations and claims to despotic authority
He abused his power by putting his veto on
| the laws OF the Colonies, and claimed the right
! to tax us without our consent. For the re.
peated exercise of his prerogative, and the
la1o Of,
being represented, young and feeble as we then
were, with the spirit and fortitude of freemen
the Wings. of that day encountered dubious
long and violent contest, with the greatest ma
ton on earth. The sword was unSheathed and
the scabbard given 10 the winds, and neither
the tear OF the halter or of confiscation could
arrest the march OF the army of liberty. j
thenour high spirited ancestors put every thing
at hazard, made every sacrifice, whtenec
with their bones every soil from Maine tC
Georgia, In resisting the Tyranny of Brit
!, lsh King, what ought their descendants to dt
} when the same usurpations are pracuced II
our own day and by our own Chief Magistrate
nay, worse, tor he not only exercises th'
power OF the veto more frequently than Georg
the Sd, but has done that which no British
Monarch dared do. He collected for d Il mt
: the whole revenue of the country withou
f authority of Law, and annulled. the very &C
intended to confer the authority. Can 1t b.
: party spirit that leads any portion of us blind
folded to approve in John Tyler that whicl
aroused the spirit of the revoution!-tha
which induced our proud ancestors to resis
even to bloodshed! They preferred death
2 yes, ignominious death, rather than live unde
the dominion of one man, and set us an exam
pie worthy of freemen- When there Uas n
ballot dor to relieUe them they appealed to th
, sUord. There was division then as there
now, and beyond doubt, many honest me
led away by party spirit, or by corrupt lead
e ers. espoused the cause of the King in oppo
/ sition to the rights of the people. For tn
i last hundred years the veto has not been call
ed into action, but on one occasion by Brit
ish King in reference to a Law affecting tn
united Kingdom, and yet, in this country boast
e ing of its freedom, it has become our dai!
f bread. John Tyler, by its repeated exercise
a has under his control the Purse and the Sworo
two instruments of power wholly incompat
BILE with liberty-and it has been the main pu
pose of the friends of republican freedom
n all ages to keep them separate and distinct
5, Let as adjure our fellow-citizens to stand b
: the creed that gave birth to the revolution
: let it not be said of US that we have degene
J ated and that ,ce dpp'o0e an q President M'
$ achich oar fathers condemned in King.
n When the angry passions of the presel
l. day shall subside and reason shall have r.
a sumed her empire, those who are to come aft,
# us will look with as much surprise and regr
is upon the conduct of the advocates of the We
, and its constant exercise, as we do now in ii
is conduct of those who took sides with Il
e King 1t is said by the so called Democra
l. that they did not elevate Mr.. Tyler, and tn
1t the Wings are responsible, but they applal
J. him for his conductor uniting in his perse
as the whole Executive and Legislative authori
v of the Government, for annuing by his pr
,e rogative Laws deemed necessary to restore
s. suffering country TO its wonted prosperity
Every outrage upon the Representative bot
1e calls forth their loud applause. All men al