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lakes. the numerous and commodlous harbors
thus provided by the aid Of the Government will
contribute TO its safety and successful operations.
Besides there are now employed in the commerce
ol these lakes great number Of large sized and
siouIly built steamers, which would not have
been PlacedIhe by individual enterprise but for
the safety and accommodation afforded by these
haTbors. In case Of a public emergency, these
steamers can be expediously converted into eifec.
i've vessels Of war, and rendered subservient TO
military operations. Nor are the economy and
facility Of Transporting troops, munitions OF war,
and supplies, TO be overlooked in estimating the
public advantages of the lake Improvements. 1t
is also said that our best seamen are those who
have been trained in the navigation Of our lakes"
| Reasons like these avail nothing with the Pres
/ ident, nor his friends in Congress. The bills
passed are vetoed, OF, what is worse, pockele1,
and under the influence Of veto, and the atrac.
tive rewards Of office from the Executive, the
Judgment of Congress is perverted and destroy.
ed, and the people made 10 suffer. The loss Of
lives upon the lakes have not only been fearful,
but the loss in vessels and cargoes upon the ives.
tern lakes and rivers are probably not less than
/ g, ,OOU per annum. Insurance is high in
/ proportion as the risks are dangerous, and when
| It is known that The loss in boats have been for
several years eight per cent. upon the value,
some estimate may be formed Of The premiums
necessarily paid.
! Bulitis is not in the use Of the veto alone, though
this is unknown TO almost every kingy power,
that the Executive has alienaled himself above
and beyond them. He has made war Of and by
HIMSELF he has removed multitude of honest
and competent men from office, aud filled their
places with mere partizans, and often with ncom-
petenI persons. During the late session Of Con.
gress doctrine, new 10 us, was proclaimed au.
thoralvely rs Democratic, upon the floor Of the
House, and in the public press, Here is one
form Of the new creed, from leading Democra.
tic paper, the Baltimore Republican and Argus,
of January 90:
"THE EXECUTIVE AND CoNGREss.-lt belongs 10
the Erecuiire 10 manage The car ,ciih Merico.-
The supreme legislative power declared war to
exist and henceforward il was the duty of the
| Executive TO wage the war with all such means
as the Constitution and Congress placed at his dis.
posal. When, then, he found these measures
inadequate, and applied TO Congress for other
measures, HIS WILL should hare been immedi.
dteiy complied Ciih, unless it was plainly in con.
travention of the Constitution.
! This is the one man power But from the
chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela.
Ilons, we have il embodied in II still more objec.
tionablo way. Mr.. C. J. Ingrr5o says:
"That when the Congress had given the Prcsi.
dent the war-waging power, that power was as
great as the power of the Autocrat Of all the
Russias, Of the Sultan Mahmoud, or Of Napo-
leon, in the utmost elimination of his authority;
and that it was great mistake to suppose that
there was in that respect, any difference between
the sovereignty Of the European dcspot aud that
Of the United States"
Again, he says: "rho Autocrat Of all the Rus.
sos--the Sultan Mahmoud-had no more sover,
eign power, than that which was now in full ex-
crcse for wuging the war with Mexico"
| These, at least are new doctrines for a Rcpub
| lie, and they are dangerous as they arc new
! The President nominated the author Of them rs
Minister Plenipolentary TO the second court Of
Europe, soon after they were uttered, and thus
showed his appreciation Of the man and hiScreed,
The fact here, too, comes home upon us with an
irresistible force, that the Executive excrts far
more influence IN Congress over men represent.
ing from seventy 10 one hundred thousand con.
stilucnts, than even the constituency themselves.
! Thus you find the most subScrvCnt men the
greatest Iavorites of the Executive. Mr.. Inger.
soil is nominated to France; son of Mr.. Cas5
is nominated TO MAJORS rank in the army; Mr..
Dallas has relative provided for; so has Mr..
lIdsaIl of New Jersey; and Messrs. Cunningham
aud Sawyer Of Ohio, have each sons in the army
/, or navy. lnlhe appoinlmentof members of Con-
greSs to office, us predicted by Gen. Jackson,
corruption has become the order Of tho day."
Men have secured important offices by their
IL e. Il. i
the people, has become the supreme law of the
land.
:. A dcspot could not have treated tho people, or
the representatives Of the people, with more dis.
respect and contempt than did Mr.. Polk, and not
only was Congress and the rights Of the people
interered with, but The rights of the veterun off.
GERS of the army themselves in all that was said
, and lone in reference to tho appointment of a
Lieutenant General. The very proposition of
tho Executive was, in the first place, mean at.
tempt to supcrcede or TO degrade the two Major
Generals in command of the army. Congress at
the first blush was indignant at the attempt. The
appropriate committees in thetwo Houses of Con-
gross would give no sanction TO so great an act of
! injustice as this, and threw out the Presidents
recommendation and laid it upon the table,
There was indeed out one committee man in the
House Of Representatives will to give even the
President hearing in his nelarious design of de.
posing the old Iried and brave commanders of the
army. But mark The contrast of few short days
More than four score members, under Executive
dctalion, rerOce their steps, defer their own de-
lberale judgments TO tho one man power, and
under the mysterious influences of tho White
House vote first for tho Lieutenant General, and
then for Major General to command the army,
without regard to the experience of the man, his
qualifications, or erea the date Of his commSaon!I
The Senate resisted this and successfully by The
aid of Mr.. Calhoun and some of his friends and
to savo tho bill, after two committees Of confer.
ence had been appointed, and in tho very last
hours of the session, tho party are forced TO omit
an act Of ninslicn. or 10 lorego all nnlhnritv nn.