The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-12
From the Euening indie.
THE VETO.

We much grathed to witness the JOY which
the Of the veto message the President
has diffused among the great body OF the people.
Every arrival of the mails, from all quarters of the
Union, brings fresh proofs of satisfaction at the manly
and patriotic course pursued by the Executive
From close perusal of the public journas-from
the genel al tone and temper of the press-a reaction
in the public mind has evidently set in. The people,
having become disguised with Wing legislation, are
now beginning clearly to understand the obnoxious
policy of that dominant section of the House, and the
game they have been playing for the last seven months
in Congress The design, the object, the motive of
Its hardness IN prolonging debates In the House, with
a view to innoculate the public mind with Wing doc
rines, promulgated in prosy debates, and kept con-
stany before the country, solely for the purpose of
nominating President in 1874, is sufficiently
obvious to the community, and the deter
mined to testify their dsapprobation OF this factious
course. In all the debates since the commencement
of the session, this crafty game of party but too
apparent and with want of generosity unparalleled
in the "wordy war; Of politics, the Democratic sec
ton of the House were voted down whenever they
essayed to join in the Debates unable to catch the eye
of "Mr. Speaker in the House, or "Mr. Chairman
in Committee-who, laboring under some strange
diosyncrasy could only afford place on the average
of one Democrat day to some half dozen OF the
Wings, who spoke with
--'a forty parson power"
and swept all before them In these debates the man
Ol VctOeS came In LOT a TeaSOnaDle SHARE VI VIC
flowers of Billingsgate" these ia mines and japoni-
cas-" which Harry Clay had woven in that "beauti-
Jul chaplet" which he presented to Congress, as a
tribute to "fair ladies " when making his valedic-
tory.
The known and recorded sentiments of Mr. Tyler,
on the subject Of distribution, would have deferred
less factous band of aspirants from wasting the pub
lie time, the public money, and their own reputation,
in an useless contest but the President was to be
headed. When we consider the railroad speed with
which the Little Tariff bill was struggled through
the House, and the attempt to gag the Democratic
minority, so as to prevent them IRON giving their
views measure of such vital Importance, we cam
not but chuckle at finding generous y opponents
trapped in their own net 1t is excellent to have a
giants strength, but it is tyrannous to use 1t like
giant saith the proverb The circumstances
which marked the passage Of this measure through
the House, call for the severest anlmadverslon The
course adop ed BY the wseacres of the Wing party,
after preparing in caucus their distribution pill for
the President, alike as unmanly, ungenerous and
unjust, marked the career OF despotsm in any
country. The outpourings of the entire party had
but found sufficient vent in the debate, when find
the 'Jupiter trn,s' of the parythe indefatigable"
Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means
rising in his place at the late hour of five O'clock T.
M. of day, and moving that all further debate on
the twelve line bill should cease in half an hour !
81 am Sir Ora cle and when ope mouth let no dog
bark" In the deiberative assemblies Of Europe, an
cent or MODERN there never more nsolent at
tempt made by the veriest dictator, with majority
at his back, to she the voice of the people, or the
freedom Of debate and yet this said Mr. Fillmore IS
the first to turn round and denounce what he calls
dctation But, thanks to President Tyler he has
exercised his high functions, in manner the most
creditabe to himself and beneficial to the community
He well understa nds that the faction who would
head him, would also rampant over the heads OF
the eope, could they but establish their power
in the country.
We have every reason, therefore, to fecitate our
selves and the people Of this immense Union, on the
frmness and resolution displayed by the Chief Ma
gstrate on the occaion Of his last veto, by the judi
cous exercise of this sautary provision in the Con-
sttuton. Our glorious Constitution has been founded
in WISDOM and the perfection of its entire machinery
was more manifest than on this very occasion,
proving the vast benefits of the checks and balances,
which its groundwork these recprocating nfu-
ences, which thus calculated to check licentious
the part Of any Of the branches Of the Govern
ment