The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-19
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, Is4s.
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dfuice nave IN all ages been resOfteu 10 as neds vi
efecting what could not otherwise be accomplished or
all the which have been carried on by the an
clients, that of Troy is the most famous lasted for ten
years against OF the most powerful lnvasons known
to history and, but for the want of patriotism, might
have made a successful resistance The Greeks 10 eff
feet by sratagem what neither their strength Prov
ess could attain poetry tells us, constructed huge
tsooden horse, filled with armed men, and placed ii before
the gates of Troy. The Trojans came out 10 ad-
mire il. and gaze upon its mighty proportions II was
proposed to carry it within the walls OF the city )
but then, now, there some jealous lover OF his
country and her institutions who doubted the safety OF
doing so, thinking perhaps it scheme on the part
of the enemy get possession OF the city Others thought
differently, like Eneas or Antenor, and insisted il was
gift from the Greeks. This generosity and kindness
from an enemy who had been laborng for ten years TO
destroy their city could not be understood and the fear
was expressed conveyed in the caption But the horse
was admitted-men at night poured out of its capacous
recesses-and, " Ilium fuit," Troy no that
once proud and opuent city was laid in ashes.
The history of Troy is full of instruction to the de-
mocracy of the present day 1t warns them to beware OF
the wing party in the professions which they making
for the sovereignty of the people. In the convention
which framed present constitution, find that party
earnestly and for aught know, honestly endeavoring
to make strong central government-an elective mon
archy in fact Then they in favor of giving the Ex
ecutive well the Legislature, large and ample pow
They were for removing power as far as possible
from the people They dsrusted the capacity of the peo-
pie for self government and in favor of restricting
their privileges and rights within the least possible lin
its The democrats, or those in the convention who
trusted in the people, and not willing to establish
government on basis like that against which they had
successfully struggled opposed all propositions Of
monarchca tendency, that predicated the idea
that the people honest intelligent, and capable
of self government Our present glorious constitution.
under which have lived happily for seventy years,
the result
But the members of the convention who sought to
mould the government, possible, after the
fashion of the English model, well convinced were
they that the constitution not strong enough, and
that something else was necessary, besides patriotism,
to the attachment of the people to it, adopted,
il went into operation, loose construction of its
provisions, and endeavored to engraft thereon substan
tally the same powers which had been rejected in the
convention. Mr. Alexander Hamilton, at the head OF
this political school Secretary of the Treasury, took
the lead. and to him indebted mainly for the first
BANK THE UNITED STATES. After this, like powers,
based CONSTRUCTION, and not on the letter or
spirit of the constitution, claimed and exercised
by others entertaining Hamiltons views expressed in
convention and afterwards. 1.-The alien and sedition
laws were necessary consequence of this
between Mr.. Hamilton and the elder Mr.. Adams; and
may be the starting point and these the patrons OF
all that batch of unwise and unconstitutional
which the wing party has obsnately and pertina-
ciousy sought nfct upon the country for the last
fifty five years.
We have drawn this brief sketch with view to show
that the wing party has always been the party of POWER
that they were so in the convention which framed our
constitution; were when that constitution was first
put in operation; when General Jackson was
elected; have been since, and nop, not
wthstanding the grossly false and hypocritca preten
sion they make to being considered, all at once, the
friends of the people and of popular sovereignty, in
effort to get President of their choice, who will not
veto any measures that may pass Congress during his
administration Not able to get power and keep it by
any OF the heretofore relied on, consequence OF
the presidential veto they have determined TO drop old
issues, and for time to direct all their energies to the
removal of this obstacle from their path Afterwards
bank tariff, internal improvements, with all the corrup-
tons they bring along with them, will follow, and the
people themselves will not be able put them down.
1t can hardly be necessary for to enter into defence
of the proper exercise of the qualified veto the hands
the Executive The friends of arbitrary power in the con-
venton insisted upon making absolute not qualified
power. But they failed in their purposes And the egt
mate descendants in political principles of those who are
for extending the powers OF the federal government be-
yond the designs of its trainers, and the spirit of the
constitution, attempting strike down the quail
fled power itself, because it mptples the chances of
efecting their objects-because it will enable them, by
means of SMALL temporary, and perhaps accidental ma
joy in Congress, to carry out their views in the face Of
the Executive temporary majority even for one term
OF Congress may enable them asen upon us an alarm
ing and powerful corporate bank, which it would take
years, tremendous exercise of power on the part of
the people, 10 shake off, The wings are aborng to smooth
the way for their encroachmens on the constitution it.
SELF by shamelessy aboishing another of its provisions
defining the powers of the Executive 1t is idle to con-
tend that who claim TO preserve the exercise of the
qualified veto, are the friends of Executive power The
reverse is exactly the fact They who wish to reduce
the President TO cipher in order to carry out their ia
vorite and gigantic views of usurpaon, are in fact pur
suing the very course which is calculated to extend the
powers of the federal at the expense of the
rights of the States Every increase of these powers is
especially calculated to enlarge the powers of the Execu
tive II is the Executive which is to carry them out
1t is the Executive department which regulates the ma