The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-11-06

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4 6. lr (. led lorigeo
son, and 1, cut TO death
Now, treaso III alien canno
commit. These ,,ions, not only be
cause they owed AZ - NO another Govern
ment, but bccauschy there nor any wher
else could they be converted into citizens, ex
cept BY the joint xIr,ue Of the laws Of tn
United States (which had not been extende,
to them) and theirscsEn free consent, (whicl
had not been given y The execution, there
fore, wos mere maraSr II they were prisoner
Of war, no. sitizens;saaa II they wore citizens
then, treason againss flo United States bein!
an offence not equitable excdfs bya court Q
the United States, these victims, tfied,. convict
ed, and put to death Nj sham tribunals, W Gre
so many American citizens murdered. ID.
T. The Executive has, in New Mexico and
California, attempted to create citizenship Of
the United States, apart from the Constitution
Of the United States,gof which he had dealt
out to them but fragments; aclizenship con-
sisting only apparently in forced oath Of al
legance, privation of the protection of oul
laws or tribunals, tie cial franchise Of be-
ing tried for treason by any body that Colonel
Price or General or Colonel somebody else
should appoint, and the inestimabIe immunity
of living under military law. &
ASST, however, ALL benefits were matters
notof right, but of his grace, he has granted
no such citizenship mother quarters equally
entitedto it, whereby perhaps it comes that
nobody has there beer hung or Shot by Execu.
tive authority.
8. Organizing governments and instiuling
laws as he liked, all officers for the territories
which he had erected hoe been appointed by
his authority, and by The same authority has
been fixed the compensation Of such officers,
and directed how the means Of paying them
shall be raised.
TO- He has, in many Of these cases, added
such civil employmonts 10 the military or ma
val commissions which officers previously
held; emulation Of trusts and a mixture of
services altogether foreign to the maxms of
our Government. ~
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H.. He has not asked ayyxs Legislative acts TO
egalize the Offices and salaries thus created
nor has he ask ed any Senatorial confirmation
If his appointments to such Offices. "a
IL. He has, of himself, constituted courts
n New Mexico and California; but the appeal
rom them,if any, obsioasly iicsto himself
md not to any coursr &c United States.
I3s He has raid directed q revenue
Sssd lin q SeSs, & u jessss s's ii i h;s
egal powers must lie i1ss Etowod BY some
reaty in a, foreign jurisdiction; or accruingI
,ponthe high seas (the common property Of
ii naions) over our own citizens and ships
r within such temporary Jurisdiction as arms
ave created for us in a foreign country, which
ursdic ton, however, must cnure subject on
y to that common partition Of power under
which, by the Constitution, all powers taken
aust jointly vest in the legislative, judicial,
nd executive, not exclusively in the last.
ID. He has appropriated the revenue thus
raised as unlawfully to the use of
rmies, to make them independent for their
upport of that power Qhe Legslative) on
1hich alone, by guarded provision, the Con-
tilutiou has made them dependant. ass' i
The preceding enumeration, formidable as
appears to be, is far from comprehcnding all
he usurpations and Prescriptions of power by
lie Executive arising out of his original sin Of
lie war. Those comprised in the Proclama-
on prepared by order of the President, print
4 here and sent to General Taylor to be dis
ibuted in Mexico, are of themselves enough
found an impeachment upon, if impeach
ent Of President, or a Presidents Minister
ere in this Government within the range of
'actical possibility. Yet, whilst the Demo-
attic Party in Congress had majorities in both
o uses, no inquiry was permitted TO be made
to any of the abuses of power by the Exc
rive And when such inquiries have been
ade by the present Wing House of Repre- SEN
tives, they have in almost all important cases
zen made in vain. We refer to such cases {
that of the call for Mr.. Slidel's instruc- l
ms, for the particulars of the negotiation
nh Santa Anna before the war, &c. Up to }
is momenf, fol example, Congress. is kept in c
norance, though the Information has been :
He'd for, what disposition has been made, by a
Q President, of the money levied and collect q
in Mexico by his sole arbitrary
lus has the President seized upon not onlyl
6 sword, but the purse Of the nation, both of n
itch The Constitution forbids him to handle i,
to tonch. He has, in one world, in the o
me and under the ensigns of Democracy, as
med all the attributes ola Monarch, as much I,
usurPcr, in doing so, as that Mexican tyrant D
lose usurpations Of power the Executive
used to proclaimed to the Mexican people il
the main ground Of our invasion of the ter b
Olies of that Psyer. xelss siss. = on D
such is the psss of lie adherence to
Ind DEM Wneipies;sby which, sc- d
-dingtoY 30 Mr. Polk has entl- 6;
d binsss md glory! So stuict- B
his the Constitution Ii
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- emoeraiic sway re
- %eleciion of Mr. su
IA the hopes Of the III
81 Such arc the
a. ice Of which at the II