Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-06-17
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which the Constitution has been put already
makes this question Of difficult solution We may have
the Constitution the attributes and functions Of free
representative Government but 10 question OF great
whether for many sad and long past they have
not been construed and administered by the socaled
"Agens Of the People" according the forms Of royalty
There but kinds OF powers that bcGovernments
OF Will and Governments OF Law That power in the To-
deal and Of the State Constitutions denomnaed the
power, which conlcs tho authority TO stub
and deny the capacity Of tho people judge o their
and when Of right legally demanded have those
repelled by the single act Of irresponsible agent
thers feature in system, and especially from
the in which has been abused Of late year,
rble contemplate The advocates OF this power, after
has been exercised upon the people, and often in the
cruel and insulting terms, proclaim Il Q wholesome
conservative power and necessary to arrest has egsa
ton. But the sbsurdty Of this position abuse Of
and insulting the understanding II the President in
such circumstances these better qualified judge Of
the peoples than they themselves, he likely to
be always: unless going contend that when
the people such laws that they bcsde themselves
and the President alone know IT, and he himself only
and when they pass such laws he shall approve,
their has returned and that then they longer
nation of unutes, but that the President crazy. But
their Fright mnd., and all passed by Congress
to be be- law, the President raay direct why
through oil the forms Of Legislation to obtain them'-
why not confer the whole law-makng power ut once into
the hands OF the PRESIDENT
ask again-Are we Republic still, or is 1t all in
nams1 IL the Executive has the power, and he to use il
when he peases resist and annul all laws made by the
people, by and through the forms OF the Constitution dis
guise II n we may, our Government atrer all is not de
Jure, de fdeto Governments OF IVi and not Gov
enmeni OF Lar' IL tits sui eontended that oil political
power IN TINS country Is derived from the consent OF the
governed ask now can ha' nc when one single man can
LOOK seventeen millions OF American iFeemen (Ae they
fee mo sueh silence ana SUBMISSION In iher appeals TO
Jusnee ana the principles OF 'heir Cohsnunon. Mr. Ma
dson supposed hee ~oud De more TO tear In our complete
system OF government IRON anarchy IN the body than V
ranny IN me mead tha' the people, from revolutionary
ehoehes woua DC more aoe 10 encroacn upon 'he Ike
euuNe mah ue Executive upon me people. But whathas
pee" "'e % our "'e a heen years.
nave n'' nee 'ea's OF u'' "aoson oeeh most sadly re-
'eHea' "he" aPeoPe oeeo"e 70 sct'e ana mean rs 10
''e"'' quo ~ VI HesPo"s power !" .he person OF nlin
"0 'e' HA'e " anu mol 70 MAKE the
s"s all power WI" s'o" escape ITO" the" hands ana Gen.
''e IN 'ne Executive arm anu 'he government by CON-
mon consent as fauiek Henry predicted, will pass of n
splendid Monarchy" But is there from these
wrongs and njurcs-none from these dreadful appehen
sionsl Must we plunge the spear OF Notification into the
very breast OF e "oNerheh'-ot' III dread revenge sus-
pend the Pesiden; in the air and Perfoaie his body with
bullets discharged by injured men through ten thousand
muskes or fall back upon our reserved rights and rect
y these wrongs through the bailoLboxi Fall back The
power yeiwth US peacefully to e1pe the Cloths and the
Vandas from where they have desecrated with unhoy
hands the temples OF our a'hers Have we lost all shame1
"here lives one oil nose who won, who redeemed and
who made and exalted this Nation, and gave IL name
amonc the Powers of the earthr and who iuses these
arbitrary nc,.1 And shall their exam,Ie M, s;nI. ,
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oui Wv" ~ oea' 'he 'asn o' one man
In the exercise oil this desponc power But the day oil So
Tenn reiributon must come, and that shortly One