The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-12-07
The Wing View of fhc Message.

In so far the National integencer's article of YES
terday morning upon the Presidents message may be
considered expression of the view of the wing
party, it is certainly very remarkably implied confession
that the portions of that document devoted to the discus
sion of the American system" and the veto power are
overwhelming and unanswerable When wing has
nothing else to say against the crushing force of demo-
cratic argument eyposon he at least cry that
is misplaced timed and if very hard pressed he
may add, that is quite too long for his This is
plainly enough the very bad for the lntelli
gencers comments The wings would quarrel either
with the time the place of the Presidents views if
they had any hope of fading either place or time ena
bling them to make before the people satisfactory
Misplaced How plainly futile is the objection! Three
times, in the of his administration has the Pres
dent under high of his constitutional duty been
constrained to withhold his signature from bills passed
by Congress For this he has been furiousy assaed in
Congress and out OF Congress by the wings. And shall
we now be told that temperate but most conclusive
position of the principles which controlled his constu
tonal action is misplaced in his closing annual commu
nicaton TO that body? The of the nation will revolt
against preposterous pretence OF faction To the peo
plehe common constituency of the Executive and Con-
gress-the President has in due constitutional form SUBJ
mitted the of his political faith and public con-
duct Let the wings and their organ him Let
them refhe his propositions. Let them take the cons
tuition in their hands and point out they can the clauses
which give warrant for the various measures of the
system" which he overhrows, and the abrogation of
the veto power which he deprecates Ths-and all this
the people will demand OF them, and will take in
lieu OF this, trick which evades, epthets which
lign the course he has taken the issue he has made
The lnteigencer that ''the constitutional pro-
vision, which authorizes communications by the Pres-
dent to Congress expressed in terms which preclude
all idea" of such eypostons of the true public policy
the message has given This is Just whoy untrue and
even exactly opposite to the plain truth, any stale
ment can be- The constitution not only "authorzes'
the President o lay before Congress, at stated INES
information Of The state of the Union, and to recommend
such measures of public policy Gas he may deem expe
dent" but it expressly commands him to do So 1t is
merely his privilege it his high constitutional duty
And challenge the lntelligencer to deny that
either upon its view upon view of the condition of
public affairs there is the whole estate of the Union
point topic of vital concernment present
and future public policy than is this miscaed
american system y the iuioe of which the wings have
pledged themselves place beyond the reach OF the Veto
and which they preparing and threatening re-
vive and saddle upon us, through the insdious
PRODUCTION first OF the internal Improvement branch OF
When the demonstration OF the true nature and
functions OF the veto power plainly involved in any
adequa nformaton of the of the Union than
the present moment when the people of the Union for
the first and only time in their history witness the all
Unprecedented spectacle OF this high conservative power
thus torn by the ruthless hand of faction from the vi
oated page of their constitution, and avowedy thrust
into allegiance and practical abrogaton When was it
ever the imperative duty OF the President lay all
this Information Of the state of the Union fully before
Congress than at this moment when Congress is for
the first time and in defiance of the plain letter of the
constitution, about to be charged by the wing party
with the sole and exclusive responsibility and power of
gayanzisg into new and BRIEF but hdeous existence
all the vicious legislation of the exploded system"
without check or hndrance from that constitutional veto
power, which the gray fathers" of the republic, with
one accord placed there to hinder it, and which both
and aioretime in their hands and in the hands OF
their disciples hath bindered it, and always amid the
joyful acclamaon and ratification of he people, "breah
ing freer and deeper" by OF the yoke OF grevous
oppression thereby broken of great public calamity
thereby averted, and of fearful public peril thereby
capped SO much for the Integencers success in char