The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-08-10

/ The number OF boiling Locoiocos In Mlcnl-
gan is constantly increasing. Among the num-
Der is the Attorney General Of the State, G. V.
n. Lothrop, and a regular revolution has bro
ken out in Washtenaw and Lenawee coun-
ties. I'D
KING VETo.-The North American of the
| 9Th inst. says: "When we remember that the
whole spiri; of the age is republican, and that
every impulse and bias Of the political man is
in the highest degree democratic, we cannot
but feel astonished at the impudence of Ameri-
can Locofocoism, which claims the credit of
being the best friend of popular freedom, while
venturing upon acts and publicly protesting
principles worthy only of the most loyal sub
jects-or slaves-of a throne. The browning
Inconsistency of this kind is the doctrine-for-
mally adopted as a part of the Baltimore plat
form-on the subject of the vetO-power, with
which every wouldbe democrat of the Cass
school is anxious to arm the single hands of the
President, at the expense of Congress, and,
through Congress, of the whole people of the
United States-the power of multiplying, in the
original enacting moment, the whole legisla-
tive power of the nation. A strange idea, this,
lof democracy, of popular sovereignty! A
Southern Locofoco member of Congress wound
up speech, which he made, the other day,
against the Wilmot Proviso and General Tay.
lor, by declaring his satisfaction that General
Cass would, if elected, veto the Wilmot pro-
viso." That was his idea of democracy. There
was no thought here of the people vetoing the
Wilmot proyiso, but of General Cass doing so,
in spite of the people, in case they should elect
him, at one and the same time with Wilmot
proviso Congress. And this is the way the
whole thing works. The advocate of the veto
power-the pretended democrat-does not
trouble himself TO think about the people, or a
majority of the people, as means of effecting
the legislation he desires. or of preventing that
he disapproves: he thinks only of Presiden,
Ia single mana public servant, whom he
however. arms, and is proud to arm, with the
power of an irresponsible monarch-glad to &C
icept master, upon the sole condition the mas
ter shall do him benefit.
4 1t cannot be denied that the veto power is
the monarchic feature in our republican Con
stitution, and was so pronounced by the Frank
Inns and other wise men of the convention
which framed that Constitution. That, prop
erly employed, in the extreme cases in which
it was originally meant to be employed, and tc
which it is now proposed be limited by the pure
4 republicanism of Gen. Taylor, it is preserved
} force of importance-afu function and power &c
be appealed TO in the last resort of thigh conserv
ativevalue cannot be and never has been doubt
ed; but abused,a as it has long been,b wouldbt
! Democratic Presidents, with the appreciation
of miscalled Democratic party, it is an evi
which it would be for the advantage of the PEG
j pie TO Danish entirely from the Constitutions
as il has been banished from the Constitution.
of some OF the States, without the slightest in
ljury or convenience. The veto power exist:
as prerogative of the British crown, but ha.
become obsolete from disuse. No harm has re
suited from its extinction in that mighty EN-
pire; and if king of England can administe
e his government without it, we fancy Presi
: dent of the United States might get along
j without it, just as well. There is something
It both humiliatins and shocking in the ide'
: that, in free state like ours, single man, tn
S mere factoI,- -aseut,-superintende t,--fore
man, SO TO speak; of the official servants Of tn
republic, should say to Congress, the law-ma
king power, do this and do that, as he pleases
and, at any moment. nulify and repeal its mos
solemn acts of legislation by the mere capri
cious exercise of his will. 1t is, however,
still more alarming idea, that any considera
bic portion Of the freemen Of the Union shoul
sustain and encourage public servant in sue
outrages upon their sovereignty. At every We
to, dictator from the moment, rules in tn
:. U. States; and Congress and the people ar
slaves.
The veto power is, in fact, seed Of despo
!. tism, from which the plant of danger is alread
bursting. 1t is salient angle in our line G
political forlification-a point-d'appui of tn
invisible enemy always on the watch agains
e republics, by which all kinds of undemocrati
l. innovations and kinsy usurpations may b
l. made upon the Constitution. In the battl
(which Is now to he fought between the tw