Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1849-11-16
The Nlonarchical Party.


Party with the desire to establish Mo-
narchical government in this country
The charge is at once SO gross, 50 insul-
ting to the common sense of the Ameri-
can people, that we should not have
brought it before our readers, if it had
not been for the purpose Of showing
10 what straits, to what miserable subter-
fuges, that paper and its emisaries are
driven in their crusade against the Wing
party and the Administration.
This charge upon the Wings and the
President, SO full of misrepresentation,
hypocracy, and falsehood.-and with
which they became SO well acquainted
during the Mexican War as the '.fre in
the rear"--is a mere ruse to divert pub
lie attention from the misdeeds, misera-
bic blunders, and deialcations of the late
Administration and its friends.
But if there is, as the Union says, a
party in this country favorable to Mon
archical Government, it must be that
party which has ever and still seeks to
encroach upon the Legislative and place
undue power in the hands of the Exec
utive Department. Mr.. Jefferson says
that there was once Monarchical and
Republican party in the country. and we
will let him describe them in his own
language. Vol. 4th of his letters, page
$50 he speaks as follows:
"Here, then, was the real ground Of
the opposition made TO the course Of the
administration. It's object was, to pre-
serUe the Legislature pure, and indie
pendent of the Executive; TO restrain
the administration into republican forms
and principles, and not permit the Con-
stitution TO be construed into naonGr-
chg, and to be warped in practice into
all the principles and pollutions of their
favorite English models"
Again he says:
"lf the equilibrium of the three great
bodies, Legislative, Executive. and Judi
ciary, would be preserved-l If the Leg
islafure could be kept Independent, ]
should never fear the result of such
government; but could not but be unea.
sy when saw that the Executive had
swallowed up the Legislative branch"
Writing to Gen. Lafay cite, in 1923,
he says:
"The tories THAT is, the Monocra,s)
are for strengthening the Executive
and General Government; the Wigs
cherish the Representative branch and
rights reserved by the States as the bull
wark against consolidation, which must
generate monarchy"
Now can any one say, in truth, that
the Wing party have been, or are now
for strengthening the Executive arm!-
That they are for consolidated govern
ment and "for the Executive swallowing
up the Legislative branch!" Mr.. Jeffer-
son says that those friendly to monarchy
were for Strengthening the Executive"
while the true Republicans were for
"cherishing the Legislative branch. -
Now which of the parties at present
goes for STRENGTHENING the Executive
branch!" Who is in favor of control
ing the Legislative branch to an unlimit-
ed extent by the constant use Of the Ex-
ecutive VETO! Did Mr.. Polk "pre-
serve the Legislature pure and indepen-
dent of the Executive" during his ad-
ministration! And did he preserve the
Constitution from being "construed into
a monarchy" The acts Of his admin
istration, and their effects for woe, upon
the country, are too fresh in the memory
of the American people for any one to
dare to answer these questions in the af-
Fl rmative. And did not the Locofoco
party supror, him in these measures!-
Most assuredly they did. If then, there
is any monarchical party in this country,
it is not the Wing Party. Again, the
Richmond Enquirer, conducted by Fa-
Their Richie, now editor of the Union,
(surely gooi Locofoco authority uses
the following language:
sit has always been the desire Of
the Democratic Party, TO place, as far as
possible, the appointing power in the
hands Of the Executive"
This defines the principles of the par
ty, while it agrees with Mr.. Jefferson's
of a monarchist.
The same paper uses the following
language in speaking of the Wing party:
"rhe partisans Of the Wing party" it
says, Gin the House of Delegates. have
exhibited a sort of instructive adherence
of an honest and powerful, for good,
Executive"
For once Father Richie did not mis-
represent the Wing Party. They are,