The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-26
THE PRESIDENTS VETO OF THE INDIGENT-IN-
SANE BILL.--SENTIMENT OF THE PRESS.

THE PRESIDENTS VETO OF THE INDIGENT-IN-
SANE BILL.--sENTIMENT OF THE PRESS.
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FROM the Southern Argus,' Houston, Miss
The Presidents message, vetong act passed by Con-
gress making grant of public lands the several States
the benefit of the INDECENT insane is before and much
regret that its length will prevent publishing it entire
The praeworthy object for which the bill intended and
the sympathy necessarily excited doubtless have aid
ed materially in its passage for to mind its unconstu
tonalty and inexpedency hardly questionable.
The President contends and with convincing force argu
ment against the passage of this precedent
in its future requirements
The objections this bill stated by the President at
length, and they seem, to mind nsuperabe bar
rers to its final passage by Congress Ii was returned the
the Sd of this month. 1t is believed that
majority In its favor large enough insure final pas
sage The attempt will doubtless be made So but can
only be regarded failure in the present view of the
ter, and in face of the vote given.
From the Wheeling (va) Argus
There appears be inclination the part of the
wing press raise the hue and cry against the
power whenever democratic President performs duty
which the constitution imposes upon him. in refusing give
his assent to law that in his opinion is unconstitutional
This method of ndeayorng to bring reproach upon party
whose Presidents have avoided their duty in this
circumstances performance, anti
quaed and has often failed to accomplish desired
that it is strange that the veest old ogy of hehig
party who has spent his life in the discipline ofhat party
witnessed the fragments into which M has been
shattered and by the principles of the party put
down and forever buried by public dsapprobaton should
this day attempt breathe vitality into the exploded idea
that the power despotc power" Scarcely
any provision Of the constitution has been fully discussed
brought prominently before the people tho country
than has this The greatest champions the whig
aE.ua I.aa
and abuse to bring odum upon the constitution and have
met with signal failure in every instance To knowledge
there not instance record in which President has
used the power that he not sustained in 1t by the pop
uar voice at the time and which subsequent events
not proved the wisdom Of When the bill granting re-
charter of the United States Bank presented TO General
jackson for his approval and refused statesman
President abused for the exercise Of the
called "despotie power" than he by the whig party
and triumphanty sustained by CRATE
fu constituency, whom he rescued from the evils which
would have pressed upon them had the been de
stroyed by the executive From that day present
have several Presidents resored to the Of the pre-
vent unconstitutional legislation and with like results The
latest instance the veto Of President Pierce upon the in
appropriation BILL which published yesterday The
old song is to be sung again and TO the tune al
though IL has become unpopular and threadbare from
quent We observe that the wing press nothing daun
ed from past experience have opened vocy upon the
ident for having done good With what it win
terminate remains TO be seen, but viii the pre-
dicon that the end viii be such all others have been
under similar circumstances and that after the smoke
subsidized the prudence Of the President win be manifest
the Boston Transcript, twhig)
The Transcript says President Pereos veto message
that Il sis exceedingly well written" and further There
can think be question in regard the general sound
reasoning the President upon the question Of the
relative rights powers and duties Of the States and Of the
federal government"
From the Hartford Times.
The President takes high and sound constitutional ground
ON this question: and though the object Of this bill had the
sympathes Of his heart he could consistently sanction H.
as u contains erroneous principles.
Prom The Augusta (Me) Age, May II.
The constitutional question involved In the bill Il discussed
with great cearnes and ability The views expressed in the
message in harmony with those Of the fathers Of the re-
public and with those sgnay enforced by Jackson and
sustained by the democracy Of the country in theory at ea
from that day to this. This il an earnest that the nu
schemes FOR squandering the public domain which
are session after session. pressed upon attention Of Con
gress, win find little favor with the Executive.
From the Coventry Weekly K,nuessp NAV 10
II necessary for this journal TO reerae as IL ba.
done again and again its fixed belief that in all matters
government II Is only by strict construction Of that cops
tuition look for the continual prosperity and perma
Of free institutions We concur IN every syllable
Of President Perce's message.
But we bring our remarks 10 close The evils that arc
nseparabe from this bill such inevitably attend
all others like Congress may oversep tho
limits Of that power which has been granted to II by the fed
era constitution In view the Of President
Pierce in regard to this matter has been that Of statesman
and spatrot and viii receive the unqualified approval Of
almost every democratic press in the country.