Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-15
From the Boston Post.
Congressional Dignity,

from the Boston Post.
Congressional Dignity.
Tho ultra wings are doing ell that lies
In thelr power TO render their country AS
ridiculous as they have rendered themsel.
yes. Their votes affirming that war az.
la'ed "by the act of Notwithstanding
men and money to the fullest extent for
IT'S prosecutlon-seeking to make one OF
1ne heroes OF the war their candidate for
[residenf' and then declaring that they
''ed IN thus voting, and that the war was
unnecessarily and TnconstitutionalIy com.
menced, places them in that absurd posi-,
nou where their blind party rancor and
reckless ambition have so often led them.
Their last effort to embarrass the ad.
minlstratlon, and to browhea. the execu.
tive branch OF the government into tame
submission 10 their will, unmindful of con.
sequences to The country, Is an impudent
a''emPt at the exercise of dictatorial DOW
er' al The hazard Of the interests and hon.
or OF the nation, and directly insulting to
coordinate branch of the government
"a branch which is more directly the
representative ofthe people than either of
the ether branches. These sapient wing.
g'eS' on the floor of Congress, speak ofthe
executive branch of the government in the
most lndecorous terms they hesitate not
TO accuse the President of falsehood.
treachery, and every offence disgraceful
to a public officer; they adopt resolutions
ordering him to do this and that; and be-
cause, in extreme cases, he exercises the
discretionary power placed in him by the
constitution, and follows the wise course
adopted by the immortal Washington un-
DER similar circumstances, and refuses 10
endanger the interests Of the country, and
to violate its honor merely to cater to the
low designs Of party hacks, q great hue
and cry Is raised at his Resumption :"
and Mr.. Schenck thinks it is time for the
representatives OF the people to assert
their rights, and to refuse to acknowledge
Mr.. Folk as their master. Let US tell Mr..
Schenck, and his coIaborers, that Ne.
Fo!k Is as much the representative of the
people as the members Of Congress that
ne was placed in the presidential chair by
tho votes of the people of the whole Tn.
Ion; and that the gross and unjus:ifable
insults offered to the President by mem
bers OF Congress, are insults offered to
the whole people, through their immediate
representative in the government We
think it is time to know whether one
branch Of the government is to be sustain
ed in gross and BLACKBOARD abuse of a CO.
ordinate branch, and in the use Of tone
OF insOlent command over it or whether
the constitution is TO be regarded, and
each branch protected in the exercise of
as legitimate PoUerS. 1t is the congress.
slonal branch that is attempting to coerce,
lntlmidate, nullify, and enslave the execu-
tive branch to destroy the balance of
power provided for in our great charter of
liberties.
The people cannot be hoodwinked by
the Violence, arrogance, and falsehood of
the wings upon the floor OF Congress, and
vii! watch that branch of the government
as jealousy as they will watch the other
branches.
Tie dignity of Mr.. Schenck and his
associates is very sensitive in their inter-
course with the president but we re.
member when Nicholas Biddle the pres.
NcHL o. CISdtuT0 OI congress. OD2nIU |
d.fed the a,"tion of Congress, and refused
to allow a com.@oittee sent to Philadelphia
TO examine the DO. ~ OF the "United States
Bank access to said books! The same
class Of politicians that Row talk about
knowing who Is to be "master," &C.,
tamely, fgnOminiouSly submitted te the
gross coh'umely of King Nicholas; anu
John Quincy Adams and Edward Everett,
who were members of that committee.
bowed to the arrogance of the bank pres.
ident with all the meekness of lambs
Here was time when the rights and
dignity of Congress were outraged by one
Of its creatures yet it allowed ''the great
financier," whose largesses covered its
floor, to pluck its beard and snap his fin
gers in defiance of its authority, without
even asking who was master. But the
question was not necessary; It was too
evident who was MASTER, Is. ,
Tho Wig Congressional Committee