The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-09-20
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Ii is among the dosmas Of party thus revolution
izing American Government that The Supreme tout'
Of the United States possesses mol only an absolute
veto upon all acts of Congress, but that s constrne-
tons of them conclusive and binding upon all ue
other departments Of Government, Including Con
gress. Let those who have wnes sed the proceedings
of the late extraordinary session, obedient to mat
dogma imagine that learned court assisted by grave
counsellors constituting meaning out Of such acts oil
Congress as the machinery before designated neces-
sarily produces IL must be much greater farce
than the impo ture Of augurs predicting fut1ity from
the eniras Of slaughtered beasts The false ines-
pretations neaculable 10 be thus hiigated INTO
law.
| proceed TO prove that forced legislation makes
laws, according TO the experience OF the hundred
days, as much fewer as they were worse President
Madison convened Congress on the oath May, 1913,
and they remained in that extra session sixiyeight
DAYS, during which time, with the usual freedom OF
dc pate, infinitely more business was done, and mn
nitely better done, than during hundred and sS
days of the late fettered session for members OF
Congress, like other men, work much better iree
than ensuyed Al that session, under MIR Clay eN'
cellenl speakershp, all the exigeneies OF were
provided for the opposition OF an able,
bold and refractory party, when party excitement was
greater, and prompt action much more necessary tan
now No restraint was put on debate All motions
and speeches were perfectly free Resolutions were
unrestricted. Petitions, public and private, were
received, as the people desired, and acted upon
There no committee of rues, continually iabri-
eating additional ieter,. MIR. Webster, by series
of resolutions arraigned President Madison for cri
minal misconduct, and the accusation was debated as
long yruent opposition thought proper 1t
voted for Of the supplies. The previous ques-
ton seldom resored to--never without great
occasion. Committees were fairly composed. The
majority enjoyed every parliamentary privilege.
The committee OF which was then, as now, mem
Der, vas equally divided bot tho parties whereas
am now put down in minority Of three 10 x.
Now, compare free with forced legislation Curing
Z LAT. h,,t
acts have been passed all told, and the two which
occupied twothirds Of the session, frustrated by
toes During the former session Of sixty eight days
fltyiye acts were regularly delberaied and enacted
compromising great variety of the most impor
tant laws, pubic and private among the rest com
plete system of complicated internal revenue,
single one oil which tax laws, the land tax, is vot
luminous, as intricate, and, IN every respect as diff
cult OF adaptation 10 general acceptance, all the
laws Of the late session taken together Such are
the fruits and proofs of free and forced legislation
spectivey. The mere method Of il without refer
ence to the matter The natural reaction of com
preston rendered one hundred and six days almost
aborve, whilst sixty eight days of freedom, under
similar and stronger circumstances of difficulty were
greatly more productive.
Let us contemplate, next, the strange and revolt
ing characteristics Of the laws made by dragoonlng
Duplicate bank bills-one DONE toiher come on
Bankrupt bill enacted into allegiance, like a BEARS
cub, 10 be licked into future shape; Distribution
bill, which is mere patering delusion, mulilated
as 1t IS OF lis productive faculties; Loan bill, the
mere basis oil the blessings Of national debt and
new funding system larger loans explicitly announ-
ced by the head of the Finance Committee and that
head IN the Senate, which 1t Is impossible to wink
hard not 10 must be followed by direct taxes
for, like the deporable State debts, they can never
be redeemed by other expedents; Revenue BILL
which taxes IN the lump, so that neither merchant
nor manufacturer can possibly comprehend its ora
cular provisions, incidentally declaring prob btgry
hOstllltles with France. when with England i
imminet the Post Office put the Custom-house
for supp ortt required the raging delirium OF up
start party madness, 10 inaugurate such measures.
Nothing but reiterated vetoes, sustaining strenuous
and judicous minority, prevented, any may
ascertain by simple computation, the cost Of the late
hundred days msrule being one hundred millions of
dollars. million of dollars day would have been
the per dem OF the late dynasty, had il not been de-
throned.
Next, let US what it has accomplished 1t has
achieved the final extinction OF all banks Of the
United States, and unwtingy restored the custody
Of the public money TO the Treasurer of the United
States, 10 whom il entrusted by the original act
of 1883, and not to the Secretary of the Treasury
usurping its control. 1t has wrung from the Presi
dent his slow leave TO contingent distribution act
destined to be rep aed 10y act Of C9ngres an early
sohie nnuence on the fall elections and ring the kne
OF expiring banks, but which, it is not pretended can
be executed without fundamental alterations So
that loans, taxes, and few bills, too Insignificant
ivi thuuitiSioh, INC poor acuitNemenls oil The
hundred days misrule, frequently yaun,ed on the
oor OF the Senate, and in certain OF the public press
es, as frightened children whistle in the dark when
courage IS oozng out at every pore, and the sweat
of trepidation starting from the forehead Thus d.
ynty Of party discord overruled party combination
| and shaped It's rough-hewn ends The cloud, only
as big as mans hand in the Presidents message
increased till IT darkened the whole horizon and al
length the storm broke forth with an intensity Of
which, fellow citizens, newspapers and letter writers
povs ht,tf nj ifnnr 10, M
distinguished members of the ruptured majority
who vainly attempted TO reason with its rage, truly
said, that what large portion OF it did wit ar
ragn the President for his hostility a Bank, the
pivot OF all their proceedings, il no better than for
the Wing party TO have foisted itself int power by
concealing their designs and that their party differ
ences, IL not reconciled will become not nslortune
but crimes, by their own misconduct.
They never can be rcconced because they are
quarres OF principles. The Discussions of that parry
are inevitable consequences Of attempting TO create
one out Of dscordant mat rails. The Presidents
first message washed his hands OF the retributye s
tce OF an lil-adSised extra session. designed TO do
what human power cannot effect. Yet throughout
the whole hundred DAYS Of yiceroyalty over him
party purposes unrelenlingly pursued in CON
tumelious disregard Of his warnings and yiews-,n- |
al lie left the first veto with much feeling de-
clared with other option than abiect submission
or the exercise Of that great trbuntian potentality
the only safeguard againt legislative d citation |
and which he was obliged 10 use against law forced
through the Legislature by caucus maiorities
which were minores Of the legislative body But
for that appeal TO the people the people themselves
would have been as much enssved as the Presi-
dent. This Union would be governed by nleriti-
mate regency, ruling with upstau tresponsbIlity 49,
Both the President and the House of Representa-
tives would be nullifed. Even the Senate was not
willing party to st least the first Bank bill We
should have had Bank government and nothing but
paper money! vast brokers shop IA the metropoIi
tan sol'tudes of Washington with branches angling
each other across rivers whose divisions do but m,j.
iipy The means OF conspiring mischief all secretly
managed by old woman Of either sex a, the seal
u 'o'ernmeht, would be necessarily deraneing the
prices OF property everywhere An invisible EN-.
pire OF Bank, like the empire secretly ruling
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