Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-09-27
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TAYLOR withr 1llssiloh eaall1rs eonfesses that
he is no politician ese a politician,
his good sense would neasy lead him to
: perceive that ours is government man
aged on 2SstireI sdtiiftffe principles ffom
those governing an arln sshi6h he. la all
his life been used to- That it consists Of
three coordinate departMent each supreme e
\ in its sphere, and that one department
has any rigsht to coIashand s1he other de-
partments, like nj AID seFal commands
his 3brigadisfa AS rtn1ent acts
as checks and ba ske other, for
! |thesspecial o. Sslhe sninori-
" against tie desps6sm oelha5 n
the army a refractory s,nino'aty has no de-
fence toprotect it from oppression, and must
choose between the gibbet and implicit obe-
dience to superior orders. But our republic
is not founded on the army model. Expe-
rience has proved that without some whole
some checks on the majority and some de-
fence for the minority, republican govern
ment has ever proved failure. With
such good and honest man as Gen. Tay-
lor for President, the minority might feel
perfectly safe from the acton of despotic
majority, if he had the good old veto sword
by his side-the same that WASHINGTON
wore and used, and the same that Andrew
Jackson drew SO often against despotc ma
jorities, trampling on the rights af minori-
ties. tits said that Gen. Taylor never sur
renders. But it will be seen in his Allison
letter, that he has surrendered the sword of
the veto. The veto surrendered, the Pres
ident of the United States, whosoever he
may be, becomes a helpless, poweTless
functionary-a mere automaton to sign the
degrees of an unbridled majority. TO de-
prive the President of the veto, is to break
down one Of the main delences of the mi
nority under our Republican system. The
wings say that the veto is a monarchial
feature of our republican saystem, kingly
prerogative and hence they are in favor of
abolishing it. There never was greater
mistake. The veto power in the hands Of
the President, is the very essence of true
republicanism. The first principle Of re-
pub]icanism is that the people are sovereign
and have all the prerogatives, rights and
privileges belonging TO sovereignty. The
veto power is an attribute of sovereignty,
and cannot be taken from the SOVEREIGN
people without robbing them CT most in-
portant element Of sovereignty. If the anti
veto doctrine be correct, the sovereign pee
pie of America occupy lower ground and
have less power, than the soveTelgns of Eu-
rope, but if the democratic doctrine in re.
gard to te=tAe~Ketos sbeaASprgsssx tie sQxereis
people of America odtdpy higher ground
and hold power by hrmer grasp, than any
sovereign in the world. The chief Execu-
tive officer of the United States is the agent
or prime minister of the sovereign people
to carry into effect the veto. The agent Of
the sovereign people, who occupies the
Presidential chair, has no right to surrender
the veto-it belongs to the people, and is
inherent in the office of Chief Magistrate
No candidate for the office of President has
a right to pledge himself before hand that he
will not use it. 1t was attached to the office
of President by the Constitution to be atsed
on proper occasions and consequently the
President, who would refuse to use it Oh
such occasions, would be unmindful Of the
duties of his Office.
I have come back to the democratic party
because I am personally acquainted with
Gen. CasS, the nominee of the Baltimore
Convention, and beliere him to be better
qualified for the office Of President, TAX
ing all things into consideration, than
eng other man an America. On the ques-
ton of our Southern institutions his views
are entirely correct, or mine are all wrong
because they are identical. He believes
Congress has no right or authority to med
die with questions of negro slavery at all
either in the States or territories; and that
each and every question, connected with
that domestic institution, belongs exclusive
ly to the people of each State and each
Territory, to settle as they may deem best.
IF we, with Mr.. Yancy and some other pol
iticians, contend that it devolves upon Con-
gsess to say that slavery shall exist in the
territories, we give Congress the correla-
tive II ght to say that it shall not exist. The
true democratic doctrine, the Cass doctrine
is, that Congress has no right or authority
to meddle with the question in any way.
The people alone of each State or each Ter
ritory have that right. This is also the
doctrine of the resolutions adopted by the
late Baltimore Convention, which nominal
ted Cass and Butler. As the Constitution
, gives Congess no power over.the institution
of negro slave, either to set it up or pull ii
down, that power remains an inherent un-
delegated right exclusively with the people Of
the territory"
at has been objected to General Cass
that while Minister to the Court of the TuiI
leries, he wrote an eulogy on Louis Phil
) lippe and the royal family AS I know
something about that matter, being in Paris
when he first arrived in France, I have
come back to the democratic party in good
time to give my evidence, for what it is
worth, regarding,its candidate while abroad
Gen. Cass was appointed Minister in 1886
a few years after Louis Phillippe's access
ion to the throne, and before that monarch
l.. had showed disposition to violate the
charter ard trample down the liberties of the
French people. What Mr.: Cass said was
rather an encouragement to Louis Philippe
to keep up the character Of the good old
citizen King, and to lead him off by kind
language from assuming that of a despot,
or playing Napoleon. nfact, he said much
less in praise of the citizen King than our