The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-03-06
DUBUQUE:
WEDNESDAY::.:::::: 6, 1850.
The Executive Platform.

The Executive Platform.
The Presidents California message and &C,
companying documents have placed the North
ern Wings who have hitherto clung to the Will,
mot platform, in political quandary. Many of
them have already abandoned their uneasy seats
and rushed forward in eager haste to secure them
selves position upon the new-or Executive
platform.
The position of the Administration upon the
slavery question is as humiliating to the whole
Wing party as it is gratifying to the Democra-
cy whose principles upon this question have al
ways been the same, always in accordance with
the spirit and compromises of the Constitution,
and always the only groun upon which the
North and South could meet in cordial friend
ship or unite in patriotic achievements. The Ad-
ministraton has been reluctantly compelled to
advance toward this democratic ground, but in
stead of advancing boldly and fearlessly to this
true position, the Cabinet has had recourse to
the by ways and stratagems of error-evsn to a
violation of the elementary principles upon
which the Executive powers are founded
The Executive platform is a little above and
beyond the Constitution and recognizes doc
trincs from this lofty position, unknown to the
citizens of the United States and unseen by the
crest of mankind" The President, under the
influence of this high seated position puts the
law and the Constitution beneath his reach and
arrogates to himself the power of creating new
office unknown to the books and Of appointing
a functionary to fill the same, giving him two
sets of instructions to limit him in the discharge
of his duties, one oral, which is placed beyond
the reach Of common men to know, and the 9TH
written, which was intended to be shown
when occasion required. We do not know by
what name to distinguish this new office, but in
looking back to the annual message of the Pres
ident we see him referring to the ''rest of man.
desirous of preserving relations of amty. Now,
as the people of California did not yet belong to
the United States nor to any other nation we
suppose he must have referred to them and in
this light if we cannot give this new Office To-
cal habitation, we can at least give it 4 name,
and we therefore suggest that T. B. King be styl-
ed Ambassador Minister Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Extraordinary to the rest of Mankind
This however, does not relieve the Executive
from its embarrassment. High as the Admins
tration has taken its seat the murmurs of disap-
probation from the throng below is vibrating in
angry accents above and around its head, and
twenty millions of voices are denouncing the
usurpations by which its first official acts have
been characterised.
This sending of Mr.. King to California as the
ostensible bearer of dispatches is now before
Congress and if the Executive gets off with
mere censure and rebuke, he is lucky man.
We find no fault with the people of California
in their efforts to become State of this Union
nor with any individual who may have used his
influence to promote her admission, but we pro-
test against the Executive interference with this
or any other Territory previous to Legislative
action-we protest against the creation of new
Offices by the Executive-we protest against the
assumed right of the Executive to give oral in
structions to any public officer, the nature of
which is concealed from the other and co-ordi-
nate branches of the government. Had we the
power, as we have the will, we should be inclin-
ed to compel the attendance IF T. Butler King
before the bar of the House to state precisely
the nature and tenor of his verbal instructions.
This is our platform.