The Arkansas banner., 1844-10-02

and circulate them in the South. The lives of Mir. Clav. l am told, can be bought at 70 cents the volume; buy them, and let the anu emanciDators as well as emancipaors read them; and then let them say if they are ready to join the emancipator in striking down the veto, to turning the President into MT. Clay s one term loaler and ocnger. For myself, l am opposed to MT. Clay, because ] consider him dangerous politician to the whole ot the American States, and especially to the Southern and planting States. But throwing the peculiar Southern interests aside, winch am certain he will, if President, greatly lm- pair, as friend to free government, lam oP- posed to him. He proposes to destroy the veto power, and put the issues of life and death, the rights ofproperty and persons, ln- to the hands of an unrestralned and uncheck- able majority in Congress. Mir. Jefferson very iusly deprecates such tyranny as MT. Clay proposes to the people of the United aes to accept at his hands, in place ot that framed by the patriots who won theIr liberty. He says: .sWhat is 1t to me whether my lIb- ertv is in fhe hands Of one tyrant, or that of an hundIel tyrans; government ot an un- restra ned majority, was not ihe government we fought for"
 More fully to illustrate Mr. Clay's project of destroying the veto power, let Us inquire 'iato the nature of government. and asceflaln what is free and what u tyrannleal govern menf. Government, in the abstract, may be said to possess three attrbutes--lpgislalive, executive. and judiciary. When all these powers concentrate into single individual, ] he is a tyrant. because he has no law but his own will. When they centre III the hands of many, 1t is still tyranny, and that o the worst kind-it is an irresponsible tyranny But when these three attributes ofgovernment are distributed among separate bodies of ma gistracy, that is, the legislative to one, and the executive to another body of maglstracy. and the judiciary to a third body of magls- tracy, each acting in it's separate and distinct sphere, as cheeks and balances on each other neither being capable of action without the assent of the other departments, the govern- ment is free and republican; for without the as sent of all three of these bodies of magls- tracy, the life, liberty, or property oi no cl- tizen can be taken from him. The legisla- ture cannot make law without the assent ol the executive and the law, when made cannot be enforced without the consent ol the iudiciarv A written constitution Is the written will of the people, and IS the su- preme law; by 1t the citizen has certain un- alenabe rights, of which no legislature can divest him. Yet how can such constitution stand, or these rights be preserved, if all pow CT he vested in an irresponsible legislature. that nav be created by any party or faction i in State that shall gain the ascendency. In l other free Safes than our own, such as Eng 1 land is. these powers are vested in natural ol physical bodies. The King yields the exec utiye, the Lords check she Commons. and the Kng checks both Here is but incom- pete freedom. for if the King, Lords ant l Commons pass law. the Judiciary boune to enforce 1t. It is not so with Us. We aFt the first people upon earth thai ever attempt ell to partition the powers of government by a written constitution. to which all the depo- sitores of power shall bow and hence, of al l the people upon earth, are we bound to teach our citizens to reverence and respectthe writ ten will of the people in our organic law l The King has his army, the Commons the people. and the Lords their fee simple estate; in their offices, and thus all are capable o resisting encroachments on their respective departments; but our constituents have nc physical power, and are only omnipoten from their sanctity in the minds of the peo pie. Hence 1t is that we should consider ou constituents as our political bibles, and no allow every ruthless innovator to lay vlolen hands upon them.
 My countrvmen, does not history shed fo Us one unchanging light upon this subject ever announcing this truth, that everys ire government that has lost its liberty, did so b, destroying the veto power in the Executive Rome destroyed her tfibunes, that were, il her times of freedom, vested with the veto and thereby lost her liberty. England des troyed her veto by arresung her King, and
 usurper and tyrant brought her monarch tt the block. and then filled his throne. Th' ] Jacobin clubs of France persuaded that cred ulous nation to deprive their King of his ve 10, and to concentrate the powers of govern I ment in q Congress, one and indivi>ible ant for this act of folly, in placing life, liberty and property under the popular branch o government-the representatives of the peo- i pIe-degeneraie France lost her liberty, ant after shedding rivers of blood and tears, took refuge under the calm of despotism. The ,Jacobin club in France, destroyed the veto and liberty, and will not the Jacobin clubs or Clay clubs. of America, by destroying tho veto destroy liberty Is itnot true, that like causes produce like effects l, therefore call upon all whigs who love liberty more than Clay-all who world rather be free un- der a written constitution, than slaves under Clay-to ponder well his movements against the constitution of the United S.aies-the binding link of the States-the sheet anchos of our safely, and the chart of American lib efty-before they turn all life, liberty and property into mere Clay.
 But Mr. Clay will give you Bank of the United States. Yes, Mf. Clay has galvanized this old hobby, and has mounted II, whip and spur, for the Presidency. lam opposed to MT. Clay and his hobby both. My first objection to a Bank of the United States, as fiscal agent, either 10 regulate the currency