Holly Springs gazette., 1843-08-25
From the Southron.
GENERAL BROWNS ADDRESS


GENERAL BROWNS ADDRESS.
We see that Gen Brown is trying to fol
low in the wake of MIR. Van Bur@n.-Llke
Mr.. Van Buren, he considers the law ma
king power In the government of the United
States, TO be the President, Senate and
House of Representatives. In our republ-
can simplicity, we had thought that Con
gress, consisting of Senate and House OF
Representatives, was the law making power.
The constitution, article /, section |, declares
that
"AIl legislative powers herein granted,
"shall be vested in a Congress of the UnItcd
States, which shall consist of Senate aud
House of Representatives"
To this provision. MIR. Van Buren and
the General have added the President. Ye,
these men have the impudence 10 call them
selves observation-disclosures of the rights OF
the people. Mr.. Van Buren, (of which,
however, we will not accuse the Genera
Is we'll verstd in the theory of the Eng iIsh
ns.Iluiion by that theory. and in practice,
The parliament of Great Britain consists OF
| King, Lords and Commons. When IN
,ffice, Mr. Van Buren, considered himself
very inch King and felt himself so high
| iy exalted that he could not conceal his
belle I that he was in the place OF King
| entitle to the same consideration and hav
ing like power and pIeregatlves; and bold
ly claimed, like the English King, 10 be "A
pant Of tie legislature. For this aud olher
errors at the election of 1910, the good pco-
pie ofthese United States said TO MIR Van
Buren that they had no further use for HIM,
and refused 10 re-elect hin 10 the office oI
President OF the United States. After this
rebuke, ii was not 10 be expected that any
such claim would again be set up Oar
General however, wishes 10 show his bold
ness, and now again, protesting to be dena'
0crat. set up the king among US. He had
better strike this assumption ON his address
or drop the name of democrat. Ga show
ing that part of the Generals address 10
some of our friends, we were reminded oi
what has heretofore beel slid. that the
General could not be held responsible. as
that was not his opinIon-that IN preparing 9
for she present canvass, be turned over The
old files of the Giob-, which he preserved
during his congressional career, and tiudIng 9
Mr Van Bufen's message IN winch IS this
assumption, and taking everything IN such
"A document to be as gopd as gospel. ne al
once inserted il in his address. As this ex-
PLANTATION did no credit to his head, however
nmight show MS confidence in his leader
we were not disposed 10 adopt III but as odr
frienis were obstinate and insisted that this
was the true expl pl4nation. we remained la dp-
Discontinued the perusil of the addf esS, until
we arrived at the next paragraph. IN the frs
sentence OF which we find the following
words y;
The government of the United States
"ought 10 confiae lis operations TO the par
poses Of It's creat'on--and doing tals II
"scHI tegisLate on such subjects as all the
States are equally interested in.
We no longer remained in doubt we then
granted that il could not be otherwise Tran
that he was led by the opinions of Mr.. Van
/ Buren, Cor in this last quotation his lgnor-
ance OF the frame and structlons of our
government j. made manifest Will the
General tell us what IT IS he calls the
government of me United States2 We had
thought it was made up OF the Executive,
Legislative. and Judicial depa tneats. with
the officers IN each,-that great body
which was organized under the fedetal
constitution-and in that capacity. represe1-
ted the people and the State. In this. how
ever; we are wrong. ifthe General is right
for he scenes to consider the government
to be, the President, the Senate. and the
House o. Representatives He had before
said the legislature was the President. the
ASenate. and the House of representatives.
And then. in the sentence being commented
upon. says. the gorernmrnt will tsgistate
on such subjects as al. tue States intrres
ted m the consequence is that he proves
to his own satisfaction that the govern nent
is the legislature. consisting ofthe President
Senate and House of Representatives Ia
the form of syIogism. the argument stands
thus The law making power is only yes
ted In legislature. consisting o. President.
Senate and House of Representatives; the