Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26

will end, as it began, and has gone on, doing no
thing for the People,
What will be the course Of the neTt Administra
ton, if the Democratic candidate for the Presi
dency shall succeed! Fortunately, we are not lief
to conjecture on this head. We have it in black
and white, from the Baltimore Convention and from
its candidate himself 1t has been resolved in the
first place. by the Baltimore Convention that the
Constitution does not confer upon the General
Government. the power to carry on Internal I'm
provements and, secondly, that the peto is :" the
sovereignest thing on earth" TO thwart any action
And Gen. CAss, besides giving in his adherence to
the Platform" is known to have declared, with
superuous obsequence, that the course of the pre-
sent Administration would, if he was elected, glue
direction to that which is to succeed it. The
degree of his devotion TO the cause of Lake and
River Improvement was moreover signalized, more
than year ago, by the following e1psit letter on
the subject addressed to the Chicago Convention /:
LETTER FROM GEN. cAss
/ DETROIT, MAY 30, ls47
Dear SIR am obliged to you for your kind attention in
transmitting invitation to attend the Convention on In
ternal Improvement which will in Chicago in July
Circumstances, however, will put Of my power to be
present at that time
am, dear sir, respectfully yours,
LEW. CASs.
w. l.. WHIrISe, ESQ.
What are the precise opinions of the Wing Can
ddate for the Presidency on the eapediency of In
ternal Improvement by the General Government
we do not certainly know, though we have every
reason to presume him to favor it in every sense.
But We do know that he is opposed to the arbitrary
exercise of the Veto, by which the voice Of the
People has been stfed and their will defied on
this question especially. We know that he will
come into power upon THE PLATFORM OF THE Con-
sTITUTIoN. If the People call him to the Presi-
dency, he will serve them faithfully, and in his own
words, "in accordance sciM tie principles of the
/" Constitution as 1t acas construed and acted upon
:" By oar first Presidents, two of whom at least
/" WASHINGTON and MADISON acted so conspicu-
g Gus part in completing and framing that insru-
ment, as welas in putting Incorporation" Gen. T.
has never himself (being always in garrison, in camp,
or in the feld) exercised the privilege of voting;
but, had he been called upon at the last Presiden-
tial election to do SO, would certainly have voted
for Mr.. Clay" who, if any living man can be SO
considered, is the incarnation of Conservative Wing
principles. That Gen. t. is himself" Wing, though
not an ultra one" he has no desire to conceal from
any portion Of the People Of the United States.
Finally, we have upon the subject of the Veto
power and Internal Improvement and other OBJ
jects of Legislation in the Allison Letter. the views
of Gen. TAYLoR-every thing that we could wish
them-expressed in terms which can neither be
mistaken nor misunderstood, as follows:
"7he pover giren by the Constitution 10 the
Executive to uterpose has peto, is a high con-
seruatire pover; bmm my opinion SHOULD Ne
YER BE EXERCISED EXCEPT IN CASES OF CLEAR vIo-
LATIoN OF THE CONSTITUTION, OR MANIFEST HASTE
SAND WANT OF CONSIDERATION BY CONGRESS. In
"deed, hare thought that TOR many gears past
"Me kro,cn opinions and ,cishes Of the Executive
. hare exercised undue and injurious influence
"upon the Legislative Department ofhe Gooern-
ment; ; and for this cause 1 hare thought Our
system mas IN danger Of undergoing great
sSchange from its true theory The personal Opt
Mons Of the individual wio may happen to occu
"py the Erecatiye chair, ought not to control the
" action Of Congress upon questions Of domestic
policy; nor ought his objections 10 be iaterpos-
ed ,rhere questions Of constitutional po,cer hare
been settled By the rariouS departments Of Cor
eminent, and acquiesced in by The people
Upon the subject Of the tariff, the currency,
"Me improvement Of our great highways, rirers,
lakes, and harbors, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, AS
EXPRESSED THROUGH THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN
CONGRESS, OUGHT TO BE RESPECTED AND CARRIED
OUT ny THE EXECUTIVE"