The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-03
THE ORGANS OF THE WING ORGAN

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THE ORGANS OF THE WING ORGAN.
The TibuatiOn of the lntelligencer this morning
really ludierous 1t appears that that journal has
hear! "runOr of an intended veto of the river
and harbor bill" From this "rImOr" the IntelIi.
gencer saseIy and pteously infers, that sit would
really seem that government is fast dogenerating
into mere quadrennisl elective despotism" Ger.
tany, we shall not attempt to such logic as
this, which finds It's premises in a rumor, and leaves
its conclusion in a solemn absurdity.
In the Judgment Of the Intslligencer, the veto
power which the constitution has lodged in the
President is "one-ma power, unsuitable in ere.
public" The founders Of our institutions thought
otherwise. They regarded the veto power as pre-
rogitive conferred upon the President in his charac-
ter as a representative of the whole people, and TO
be welded at once in defence OF the constitution,
and in protection Of the rights Of mlnoritles. The
share of the Executive in legislation stands upon
precisely re same general reason Of policy, that
which Vldes the legislative power into two houses,
constituted upon wholly different basis Of repre-
sentation. The House Of Representatives has one
constituency. The Senate has another con stituency
And the President has third constituency, dis.
nct from either Of the Others The will of each OF
these constituencies is represented in every law
which passes both houses of Congress and receives
the Executive sanction Taken together these three
constituencies make up close approx to
the entire popular will. And precisely with this
object substantial right Of veto upon any law was
given TO each Of the three coordinate branches of
the government, which must concur in every act OF
legislation. To call the presidential veto Zone
man power, is just absurd it would be TO call
| ,he S.~~.. "6fty-fnnr--~sn Powvr." Ia either
case the power Is popular power, delegated and or
ganiEed Oy the constitution But this circumstance
is most remarkable-that whether it be "one-man
power' not, the veto has almost always been ex-
erted in such manner as to prevent that one man
from securing to himself more patronage and power
Mr. Folks veto to-day, for instance, arrests the
power Of Speeding near one and half millions of
dollars, under his eye, with a corresponding num-
Der of officers boards, who could be subject to his
patronage.
The intelligencer finds another enormous eriev-
ance IN the passage through tho Senate of the consi
tutional treasury bill It makes out this bill to be
very strange thing; not only an "offsprng of alb
J.
ready tried and renounced." Two or three DAYS
ago. the lnelligencer attributed the nav tariff to
the Baltimore convention and to the Father Of Evil
1t refers the constitutional treasury to the Baltimore
convention exclusively for ts parenage With &C
customed wing tenacity of purpose in opposition to
the popular will, it cannot tolerate the idea the the
government Of the United States should separate
ueal baplf nd 1ob,
enues!
But these two minor groans of the lnelligencer
in respect to the veto power and the constitutional
treasury are lost in its deep-mouhed and long drawn
moaning about the tariff On this latter subject the
wing organ becomes painfully imaginative. Here
is one specimen ofits visions:
off then, protective duties are to the advantage of
one capitalist, (who could however, live without
them they are of vastly mere relative advantage
to perhaps hundreds of poor, in each mandatory,
who could scarcely iins, even, without them, and
about whom, at any event, they double, and triple,
and quadruple all the security and comfort, and re-
spectability of life.
ITO Judge more surely Of the fact which we are
asserting let any one look at the comparative con
don of the laboring poor in those quarters where
the protective system has reared up these artificial
employments, and in those other quarters where it
has not, In the former, you ace all busy dligen,
and well paid; the women as probably occupied as
the men, in proportion to their strength, and the
very children either at work, or at school, upon
funds which the surplus OF their wages has in
reality often supplied No rags, ,pretchedness,
melancholy cabin, hoErooeSs and nth floor Of mud
taered troop of toid children about ii, sad mother
looking half fari,ine-siruck 10 be seen occasionally
Through the dismantled door or broken ,oafB her hus
band probably gone fishing ora hunting becau he,
the sole worker for the family cannot get employment
! mn inffs he do r7fn
ton familiar to every body, Of the poor Of all those paris
Of the country iohere The benefcent action Of the system
pe speak has not yet created emptoyments. Among
them the habitation is such "a scarcely defends
from the weather; the ralment is scanty, coarse,
unsulied to the season. and full of rents patches;
the food itself is bad insufficient, and always I'M
certain for the morrow; and FIVE dollars at time in
money is thing no moro TO he dreampt Of than the
possession Of the Bank of England. Add to all
this the ssddeat Of human deprivauons-the abb
sence Of nearly all hope Of ever lettering their con-
| dton. This the situation of the poor-of those
who have no, farms OF their own-over nearly the
whole country where manufactures have not yet
sprung up. Except their color, and some few gen.
eral signs Of belonging civilized life they very
little better of than savages"
The legislative philosophy of all this is thoroughly
wing, and may be summed up in single sentence, az
follows Let government tar he poorer casss, withOuf
stint in order TO take cfs capitalists, and then the
capitalists oil be TO take psrygOod Of ht poorer
classes The people ofths country have not learned
either their rights or their interests. Willing as
they are upon all occasions in which their love OF
country is appealed to, to come forward with their
contributions either Of blood or of treasure for the
common defence, the people yet believe that the
best financial service which the government can
render them, is to leave them as much possible
untarsd, and to leave their empoyments to their
free selection. They regard this as decidedly pref
erable to being taken Of by capitalists whose
fortunes built up either by legal restrictions or
legal bounties, Sentiments Of this character are