Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-01-07


operate on the mind of man.
The gentleman from Massachusetts, complain
ed that the Presden. Of the United States had
been badly treated and thai he himself had been
badly treated by the Wing party. He had SAID
yesterday that the gentleman from Virginia Mr..
Wlse) and himself had been much abused as
any body.
Mr.. Gushing (Mr. +. yielding the loor) said he
made complaint. He had said that the gem
tIeman from Virginia aud himself had had more
than their just share of the obloquy that fell on
public men.
Mr.. Thompson continued If the gentleman
from Massachusetts had not complained yester
day Of abuses from The Wing party, he had COM
planned befure.
IA voice ale complains nov''l
Mr. i. would 90 back to another fact. lie re
ferred TO the course of the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts at home, and 10 his circular address to
his constituents the close Of the extra session,
when he had commenced his abuse this House ;
when he had charged that u caucus dictatorship
had set II self up this House to control all leg
isa'Ion, md 10 make Presidents instead Of una
king laws. And yet The gentleman said that he
must not be rotor cd on in the same strain which
he had used.
| MIR. +. briefly referred to The Wing manifesto
at the close Of the extra session, and TO the
/ cums,ances attending 1t. Ii was the gentleman
himself, he SAID. who had commenced this war
and who had SAID that they were compelled to
!
/ The ends and aims ct peculiar chieftaIn for the
Presidency. Suppose IL was true, as the gentle
man declared, that the President Of the United
States during the pendency OF the second bank
bill did make offers to his Cabinet decline
election, and that the Cabine, advised him
inserting il IN his veto message wholly neon
gruous with the subject, did 1t follow as a matter
of course that the other matter stated TO have
transpred at that time did take place stated
by the Secretary Of War! How supremely rId-
icnlous would II have been, if the President was
coordinate department Of legislation for him 10
have announced IN his message that he
would moi be a candidate for reelection! JUS, as
well might they engraft on a statute passed by
themselves that they were not TO be considered
candidates for G. election.
Mr. L. had hoped tina, the glowing patriotism
which ran through the sentiments Of the gentle
man from Massa chusel Its IS expressed in the Log
,sature Of Massachusetts in 1891, on the subiec
OF the veto power, would not soon have been los
on the gentleman himself. He did not wish ,t
arraign the gentleman for a change Of opinions
tor, as the gen tleman himself had said, those
the least apt to err who would be guided By the
light Of experience. But il seemed to him mos
singular that the doctrine held by The pentlemar
IN 1891 on the subject Of the exercise Of The We
10 power could have been uttered by an indiviG
ual who Yesterday regarded this power mcr.
, instrument of party. But he would regard the
gentleman from Massachusetts as having Spoken
like prophet. and having predicted the conse
quences which would esult from his constln, ex
ercise of the veto power by the President Of IN,
United States. See what he said in 1884 in the
Legislature Of Massachusetts, when speaking a
bout the exercise of this veto power-of this .fac
IN the Constitution which to be felt IN tn,
contest for the Presidency in iSi1. The gentle
man says:--
! Sand here in this place. at this spot upon ,hest
heights, where tho beacon fires Of our freedom
were frs, kindled in sigh, of tho immortal field
nE ,yarI Oh, a. 6 NJ.
sachusetts, by their assembled Represer ,atives
enter their solemn protestati0n against Execu,ivt
usurPations, and organize themselves, 1t need be
: IN vindlca,ion of liberties violently assa,ed, o
their property wantoniv dcs,royed''
"Are to laud the President to the skie.
right or wrong in order tn obtain credit a Wash
} ington? Is this prlnciple?'
Ay, sir, (said Mr.. Thompson) I repeat the in
quify, Is this principle? Arc we to laud the Pre-
s,dent to the SKIES RICH, wrong, in order TO OF
tam credit, power, or place? Is this prime Iple 2
1t is not. II is insul, to the common sense c
this House. 1t is "fac,' that stands on, like
.'seIf- evident fact" in the Constitution. agains
which the gentleman from Massachusetts ma
perhaps knock out his own brains
Mr.. i. further read from Nr. Cushngs speec
of 1881 follows:-
"Are we to chain our conscience and our opin
ions the car of triumphant military chiefta in
! Arc TO kiss the mailed heel which treads upo
I our necks and trampies US into the earih9 Is th
i democracy? So have not learned democracy
If to sacrifice principles, conscience, and duty TO
the sake of influence Nth the Erecure be 'democ
s racv," DESIRE NONE OFF IT; and If the party SUE
n cess fourished before US, we may say, as the oil
i Roman did. 'Vlctrix dis placu,, sed Wet
II Catonl." In the Presidents unparalleled exei
II else Of the veto power for bu, twice using who
5 Louis l9th hurled from his throne-in his u,
l. paraHeled disregard of The opinions of the Sena
G and House of Representntires-n all this gel
e tlemen may perceive the democratic character
the President. Il see 10 it, in the language
70 the tenth resolution, the proof. of his dspos!to
to concentrate ell power in the hands Of a sins @
% individual"
n That was the language Of the gentleman fro
$ Massachusetts in 1891, continued Mr.. +, IN n
,r gard to the exercise Of this veto power The vel