The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-26

The Lexington Observer finds it very easy to admin
lister the government by abolishing the check vote o
the Senate and the veto power OF the President The
last appears have been for time abolished by the
wings; but the other is rather new idea.
sour victory (says the Observer is certainly triumph
worthy to be celebrated by the first pens the country
and believe that the four years will fully Justify
the hopes INDUCED and the joy felt 1t is, in fact
the first time the wings have had chance to exhibit
their capacity for government They mserably
cheated of all the fruits of the great victory of 1910
by the shameful teachery of John Tyler, and since Their
the wings have been poweress They hare po1Oer IN
the Executive and Legislature branches of the government
for suppose tie Senate wW scarcely make aetious OPP
position toe popular M clearly manifested If it shall
choose to do 50, however, that body will most certainly
be revolutonzed the forms of the consttu
ton will permit But we hope better of the Senate. We
think wW yield to tie force of public sentiment, and moi
avail itself of its present slender majority to defeat the
wishes OF the country. But whether it shall not the
great power which brought General Taylor into
the presidency will most unique sonably sustain him. SO
long he acts up to the principles which he avowed
and upon which he elected TO the presidency.
II is amusing hear these wings talk of Gen. Tayors
having avowed his principles" when the only principle
which he avowed during the TO submit him
sell the control of Congress- and to abandon his own
veto over their acts But here the Observer abo
shng the whole control of the Senate the acts OF
the House and thus resolving the whole power of the ad
ministratve government into the uncontrolled action Of
the House of Representatives We had supposed the
sttuon to have appointed Senate to correct the acts Of
the House. and President to revise the acts of both
But the Observer improves the idea of aboshng the veto
power, and extends his demolition to the Senate
the great representative of the sovereignty OF the States
And as to the point of fact, how does this wing organ
establish the force OF public sentiment" either as to the
President or the House The President appears to be
elected by minority of the popular votes and as to the
House. so far as the elections have gone, the majority
depends upon the "a votes of New York; and it is
orous fact that of the wings elected there the
representatives of popular mnortes, produced by the
odous feuds between the banburners and the hunkers
The Observer, therefore, asserts this monstrous and
unconstitutional doctnethat the representatives OF the
State soveregnties are yield all great questions to
the representatives OF the peope-even too, when the
majority of the last do not represent the majority OF the
peope-and when the Senate exhibits present majority
of u to Ia democrats These indeed positions.
They can scarcely be called conservative-to use the
fashionable whig slang of the day. First the President
is to abandon his conservative constitutional power to
Congress- and then one branch of Congress is TO abandon
its conservative constitutional power to the other What
are we coming 10 next What reading of the con-
stiution are these wings going to give us "Wha'
bloody scenes has Roscus next to act !"