The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-06-14


phia, is general travelling agent, as~sd BY Ms~ vs.
WsLp JsRS CoLLIWs, JAsss Dssass, A. k.ss wsllssves
e. A. EvAH 'oas T. JUDxns LooHss Joe sersos, Diseases
P. Burros, and THOMAS d. Mes.
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We perceive that several OF the southern journals
doubtless feeling the force Of the fact which we sd.
veted TO yesterday that the main bulk OF the whx party
at the North stands committed in its State organization
and action against the maintenance Of the Compromise
including the fugitive law, as 1t is. yet pro<lamias
that measure to be safe in wing hands. the ground
that Mr.. Fillmore stands pledged to VETO any act Of
Congress repeating or substantially modifying it.
Certainly cannot assume TO say what the President
might fit to do il the bulk of his party ss the
North should be able by vote in Congress to carry
into effect the anti-slavery and compromise prn.
ciples imboded in their several State platforms, and
pass bill materially mpairing or totally repeating
the fugitive law. But we are perfectly satisfied on
the point that the people of the South are dan
gerously duded and isled by those wing journals OF
that section which assure them that the law is safe
against all this open wing and soil hostility because
Of any pledge given by the President thar he will protect
it by his veto power. Desirable and important a. we
hold il to be that the administration should make clearly
manifest such purpose. yet constrained to say
that such purpose has been declared and no such
pledge given to the country by President Fillmore On
the contrary. we should be glad to any satisfactory
proofs that all the pledges and commitments which the
President has acknowledged do not, Aen taken together
point but too peHously in ap opposite direction
II is we'll known that the wing party has long made
opposition to the veto power as has heretofore been
exercised under the constitution. one of it's war-cres
against the democracy and that in the last canvass this
opposition, written down in General Tayors Allissn
letter stringeny and plainly than before, and
understood universally at the North as pledge that be-
if elected ,0ould veto the Wilmot proviso was lead
ing point in the game Of subtefuge and equivocation
which resulted in General Taylors election To the doc
nes Of the Allison letter Mr. Fillmore OF course stood
pledged and in bis first annual messagethe same decu
ment in which he expressed his acquescence the CON-
promse-he fit TO reterate those doctrines in the
following strong terms We copy his language length
relation TO the yeto and also in relation to the Com.
promise He says:
"My opinions will be frankly expressed upon the lead
ing subjects Of legislation and il (Which do antic
patel any should pass the two houses of Congress
which should appear ewcroach
the popers Of Other departments. Nth pro-
visions hastily adopted and likely produce gws~es
~,ryious and u~foyssssn should shrink duty
OF returning IL you, with my reasons. for your further
Beyond the d1< performance of these eows
f,o~a obgations both my respscf for the kgiaiss and
my Of propisty piu rsfrai~ from aNy attempt
control influence your proessdngs With you the
power the honor and the responsibility OF the legislation of
the county.
"Tbe government the United States is limited gov
IL is confined the exercise OF powers
presy granted and such others may be necessary
carrying those powers into effect and IL all times
especial duty guard against any infringement the
just rights Of the States"
Three dasses OF legislation are here enumerated to
which, in the Presidents judgment, the Veto may right
fully be applied;
The first is that which is unconstitutional;
The second is that in which Congress encroAchss on
the powers OF other departments of the government
The third is that in which Congress may pass hastily
and without due deliberation bill containing injurious
provisions.
To one OF these three classes OF laws every bill which
Pre- siden Fillmore belong; for he says
pressy that he is restrained" from any attempt TO ex.
tend his control influence upon the proceedings OF
Congress any further No other law than belong.
ing to one OF these three classes he ouch
with his constitutional objections.
And now, in which Of these three classes OF statutes
could bill to repeal or cripple the fugitive law which
should pass Congress after long and full debate and de-
claimed that Congress has not the constitutional power
repeal a statute which ii has passed. Nor could such
repeating bill encroach upon the powers Of the executive
or judicial departments OF the government its provis-
ions would indeed be deeply, fatally, unspsakab!y EN-
furious but then, if deliberately adopted, have
supposed they would be "hday, and the President
say. that they must be both hasty AND injurious in
order TO enable him to withhold his sanction. Clearly
then, in specifying the acts of Congress which alone
he says he may rightfully veto, the President has
not included among them a deliberate rereal of the
fugitive law but, the contrary. he has plainly i'm
piled that such repeating bill could not be rgh,fay
ysioed NY him. IL il should pass Congressnot hastily, bu,
after full and ample debate and deliberaon--as the
tied and solemn judgment, and purpose of clear majority
Of that body And up The mom<rio,s, alarm
isr fact Tia record, Of tie last Congress sop clearly
sseh rpssns kA osd undoubtedly hsve pansd body
Il sry hour ~ fate had been decided BY he Congressional po,
Of IA. sehx party alsn That the will be any better
on this point with the whg members OF the coming Con-
sress !. not, that know Of anywhere pretended The
fugitive law could only be passed. and only be main
tanned, by the aid Of democratic votes.
Turn now to the language Of the message with
regard to the compromise II is unquestiona-
bly, the language OF cordial APPRECIATION but we look in
van through all that the President has said this great
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