Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-08-24
NI Al EeETY EsEPO Y
On the late Veto Mcssage.


read his report as follows:
The Select Committee, 10 when was refer
red the Message of the President Of the United
States returning 20 this House tie act, which
originated in it, ",o provide reTenue from i'm
ports, and to change and modify existing laws
imposing duties on imports, and fer other pur-
p0ses," with his objections to it, with inslruc-
lions to report thereon to the houae, have al
tended to that service, and respectfully report,
The Message is the last OF a series of Exec
ulive measures the result of which has been TO
defeat and nullify the whole action of the Leg
sla,ive authority OF this Union, upon the most
important interests of the nation.
AT the accession Of the late President Harri-
son, by election olthe People, to the Executive
chair, the finances, the revenue, and the credit
of the country were found in condition so
greatly disordered and so languishing, that the
first act OF his Administration was 10 call spe-
cial session OF Congress to provide remedy
for this distempeTed state Of The great body pol
iic. 1t was even then a disease of no sudden
occurrence, and ordinary maligni,y. Four
years before, the immediate predecessor Of Cen
eral Harrison had been constrained TO resort TO
the same expedient, special session Of Con-
gress. the result of which had only proved the
first of succession Of palliatiyes, purchasing
monetary relief al the expense Of deeper seated
disease and aggravated symptoms, growing dali
ly more intense through the Whole four years
of that Administration. It had expended, from
year TO year, from eight 10 ten millions Of dol
lars beyond It's income, absorbing in that period
nearly ten millions pledged for deposite with
the States, eight millions of stock in the Bank
of the United States, from five 10 six millions of
trust funds, and as much Treasury notes; and
was sinking under the weight Of It's own improV-
idence and incompetency.
The sentence OF suffering people had COM
manded change in the Administration, and
The contemporaneous elections throughout the
Union had placed in both Houses Of Congress
maorities, the natural exponents Of the princi-
pies which il was the will of the People should
be substituted in the administration of their Gov
ernment, instead of those which had brought
the country 10 condition Of such wreichedness
and shame. There was perfect harmony Of
principle between the chosen President OF the
People and this majority, thus constituted in
both Houses of Congress; and the first act of
his Administration was TO call special session
Of Congress for their deliberation and action
upon the measures indispensably necessary for
relief to the public distress, and to retrieve the
prosperity Of the great community Of nation.
On the 3lsi day Of May, 184I, within three
months after the inauguration of President Har-
rison, the Congress assembled at his call! But
the rens Of the Executive car were already in
other hands. Ey an inscruiable decree of Pro-
whence the chief Of The Peoples choice, in
harmony with whose principles the majorlties
| OF both Houses had been constituted, was laid
low in death The President who had called
the meeting of Congress was no longer the
President when the Congress met success
sor TO the Office had assumed the title, with to-
tally different principles, though protesting the
same at the time Of bis election, which, far from
harmonizing, like those of his immediate pre-
decessor, with the majority Of both Houses Of
Congress, were soon disclosed in diamelrical
opposition to them.
The first development Of this new, and most
unfortunate, condition Of the General Govern
ment, was manifested by the failure, once aud
again, of the first great measure intended by
| Congress to restore the credit Of the country,
by The establishment Of National Bank a fall
ure caused exclusively by the operation Of the
veto power by The President. In the spirit Of
the Constitution Of the United States, the Ex-
ecuiive is not only separated from the Legisla-
tive power, bu, made dependent upon and re-
| sponsible 10 ii. Until very recent period of
our history, all reference in either House of Con-
gress 20 the opinions or wishes of the Presi-
dent, relating 10 any subject in deliberation be-
fore them, was regarded as an outrage upon
the rights Of the delberatiYe body, among the
first of whose duties it is to spurn the influence
Of The dispenser Of patronage and power. Un-
Ill very recently, it was sufficient greatly TO inn
pair the influence of any member 10 be suspect
ed of personal sdbseryiency TO the Executive;
! and any aliusion TO his wishes iii debale was
deemed a departure not less from decency than
from Order An anxious desire 10 accommodate
the action Of Congress 10 The opinions and wish
es Of Mr Tyler had led 10 notifications of the
first bill for the establishment of a National
Bank, presented 10 him for his approval, wide-
lly differing from The opinions entertained Of
| their expediency by The msjorides of both
Houses Of Congress, bnl which failed 10 obtain
thai approval for The sake Of which they had
been reluctantly adopted second attempt