Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-05
THE ADMINISTRATION AND IT'S ORGAN,
ONCE MORE.

sion again 10 trouble our reauers WIN TIE Auln-
nstration its Organ but an article in the Union
Of Saturday leaves us hardly any choice in the
matter.
There are three points in the article to which we
refer that seem to deserve some attention, and
which, in their order, we shall dispose of as briefly
as we can.
First The application of the term 4Federal press
and Federal party" to that great CONSTITUTIONAL
Party, now undoubtedly the majority of the People
of this country, whose present acknowledged desig
nation is WING. We notice this deliberate misre-
presentation now, the rather that this same term
Federal has been SO frequently Of late applied
by the organs of the Executive to the opponents of
their high Tory doctrine and practice, that it is per-
haps time it received some serious notice, instead
.of the contemptuous silence with which it has here
tofore for the most part been treated by the Wing
press. The Tory doctrine and practice which are
peculiar characteristics of the present Adminisra
ton and its organs, to such extent that with
out them its whole existence would be vacuum
its entire history blank Ieaf-are those which
refer every essential power Of Government to the
Presidential authority; which claim for it nearly
all the Prerogative powers that in Monarchica Co.
vernments belong to Kings-includng the War
making power arrogated to the President, and ex-
ercised by him in every particular, only partially
excepting that of raising and paying armies and
navies-but which in the Constitution Of the United
States are effectively denied to the Executive
branch of the Government, that Judge TUCKER, of
Virginia, in his Notes on Blackstone, when he comes
to review the Prerogatives Of the King of England,
sets it down as matter of course that the very idea
of Prerogative power has, SO far concerns this
Republic, no existence. Honest man Could he
but have lived to this day, to witness the exertion
of this supposed extinct power, in the exercise, by
the President, of the Prerogatve of establishing
Governments in foreign countries, and not only
laying taxes in them, bat approprating the proceeds
of such taxation to paying his Army and his Navy,
what would have been his sensations at finding
the Revolution and all its influences swept away,
and himself again living under right Royal
Government
But to come to this term Federal aud to show
how rdiculously inapplcable, in the actual relations
of parties to each other, it is to the great Wing
party of the United States, or to ourselves as the
humbest Of the asserters of its principles against
the Toryism which regns in the palace and radates
from its precincts What the distinction be-
tween the Federal party and the Republican party,
as they respectively termed themselves when that
distinction existed and marked the line of division
between the two great parties in this Government
Instead of undertaking ourselves to define it, we
will take the definition we find it laid down by
authority to which, however it may confound
him, the veteran of the " Union" must defer and
submit. We bring THOMAS JEFFERSON into Court
In Letter of Mr.. JEFFERSON to JOHN ADAMS
dated June 81, 1913, we have the following brief
account of the origin and principles Of the Federal
party and its antagonist:
1.-The terms Of Hhig and Tory belong to nau-
raj as well as to civil history. They denote the
temper and constitution of mind of different ndi-
'yiduas. To come TO our own country, and to the
times when you and ! became first acquainted !:
we well remember the violent parties which agi-
: taed the old Congress, and their bitter contests.
There you and were together, and the Jays and
the Dickinsons and other anti-independents were
arrayed against US. They cherished the monarchy
of England, and we the rights OF our counrymen.
When our present Government was in the new,
passing from Confederation to Union, how bitter
was the schlsm between the Feds and .4nhes. Here
you and were together again." But as soon it
: the Government was put into motion, the line Of
division was again drawn. We broke into two
parties each wishing to give the Government a
different direction; the one 10 strengthen the
most popular branch, the other the more perna-
nert branches, and 10 eTfend their permaaence.
Here you and separated for the first time and
as we had been longer than most others the
public theatre, and our names therefore were more
familiar TO our countrymen, the party which
sidered you as thinking with them placed your
name at their head the other, for the same rea-
son, selected mne."
Now, without one word of commentator the
case needs none: it is clearer than light itself.-we
put to our readers, and to every reader within the
bounds of the United States Texas to the Nueces
included,) this question Suppose the Washington
Union to represent the Administration party, and
the National Hteuigence to represent the Whig
Opposition party, which Of the two is the Federal
organl Certainly not this paper, the +" National
lnteligencer," which stands up for the authority Of
Congress, and desires to strengthen and maintain
it, but the Union,' the amplifer Of the Executive
power, and the organ of the President in all attempts
to dragoon Congress and force il to submission 10
the Executive will.
II there be such thing in this country as Fe-
derdi party, as there is certainly party acting
upon Tory principles, the Washington Union is
its representative and organ.
Secondly OF the Tory principles to which we
here refer, perhaps the most incompatible with pub