The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-12-15

Gen. Washington (Which had nearly ex.
pired before the President himself was
born) down TO tho present day, with the
exception Of his own and that Of his three
immediate predecessors, which, for the
sake Of unity and identity, we shall term
the Veto Dynasty. We do not by any
means question the right of the President
To place before Congress elaborate ESSAYS
on the nature of Government in general
aud Of our own Constitution in particular
but we deny that he has any more right
TO do so than any other individual in the
community, and especially for The purpose
oil casting impuiatIons, ms be has done,
upon the integrity and patriotism of those
great men of our Revolution, of whom
hardly one is now alive TO rcpel the wanton
outrage. The honored dead at least might
have been spared the SANDER from such a
source, of having conspired TO Withdraw
power from the States aud the People,
land By construction 10 approximate our
Gorernmen, 10 ihe European models" &c.
And BY rhom is this unfounded reproach
hazlrdedl By President who, in con.
tempt Of all the rights of the People, as
represented in Congress, made War upon
a neighborIng nation, under his own mere
power Of Commander Of the Army and
Navy, and usurped variety of other pow.
ers, having no warrant IN the Constitution
eren by construction +; one Of which This
Message itself very cool.y disc!oses 10
Congress, in the passage informing them
OF the amount of . military contributions
collected in Mckee," tho sums of such
money disbursed By his order, the amount
received into the Treasury, and The sup.
posed sums yet remaining in the hands of
the Collectors Of his own appointment;
all which powers have been usurped by
him without authority of Law or Consti
tuition, and solely By construction, thus ap.
proximating 90 use his own language this
Government to The European models, a
though he were our Sovereign Lord and
hing. All these mere party topics, in.
GLIDING the areumen, worthy Of Minister
of the English Stuarts or of the French
Bourbuns in favor of the arbitrary use Of
the Veto power, are, we repeat, wholly
misplaced in the Message, and can be re.
garded with no greater (but with rather
less respect than would the republication,
at this day, Of an equal number Of columns
of tie electioneering editorials Of the gov.
eminent paper during the late Fiction
l pom such arbitrary doctrines as these the
People have set the seal Of their condem.
nation, as well as upon The Administration
which has upheld them, and which now,
though wrlhing in The agonies Of approach.
ing dissolution, cljnss 10 them with more
than parental fondness.
Upon the business par, Of the Message
we have little remark at present to make.
The particulars viii, we presume, receive
he requisite consideration a, the hands of
Congress, and from US hereafter more at
eniion than we can now hcs,ow.
II is gratifying and consoIing reflcc.
ton for the opponents Of the Executive
misrule Of the last three or four Years,
that, IN the course Of events, he President
has himself not ouly been compelled 10
abandon his purpose of overrunniag and
oil Mexico, so openly avowed in
his Annual Message Of las, year, but has
wen sobered down his rage for penetrating
nto The vtals Of that country to such
evel OF common sense as TO implicitly
to the conyicrioa TO which all
he efforts Of the " bigs had hitherto failed
10 bring him, but which ia now fairly con.
essed IN his Message, that Tranquility
Al home, and peaceful relations abroad,
constitute the true pefmancp, policy Of our
country" and that War, the scoarge Of
Nations, sometimes becomes inevitable.
Dut is altrays 10 be aroided rhtn n ran BE-
lone consistently ruth The rights and honor
{ he Nation"
These are truly Christian aud Humane
sentiments. We are proud to be able 10
ldd, that they arc cardinal principles Il
he Wings, whose hearts this homage to
he m, though at SO late an hour, by the
chef Magistrate Of the Nation, must I'll
With joy and sladncss.