Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-26

SAVING OF LABoR, NEArNEss and Dis.
pArcn. and are pronounced by all that try
item, the best thing out
OLIVER & lELMER.
Montpelier, May Goth, 1854. si2w
Nebraska and the Executive.
The President is using all the power which
he patronage in his hands coniers upon him
b force the Nebraska bill through Congress.
livery Democratic member of the House Of
Representatives has sundry friends among
lis constituents for whom he feels bound to
secure an official appointment His re.eiec-
ION is frequently deemed to depend far more
% thus rewarding some efficient party hack,
aan on honestly consulting the good Of the
country and the will of his constituents
The Executive avails himself skillfully and
tnscrupulousiy Of this hungerng and Thirst
be after official appointments and he IS
naking his patronage the price Of votes
Cur Washington Correspondent gives one or
tFo specific examples Of the manner IN which
tbs power is brought 10 bear on the passage
Of the Nebraska bill. To see how far this
Ting is carried, it is only necessary to bear
inmind the fact that all tie appointments Of
petmasters in New York, as well as of va
ctt Consushps, &c, &C., are lothiied By
al President, and are now awaiting the votes
oimcmbcrs un the Nebraska bin.
The object aud tendency OF all this Is to
gre the President virtual control of the leg
sative action of Congress Such FREEDOM
lance of the Executive power is a virtual
sabversion of the Constitution It's form
nay remain, but its substance and reality will
ln destroyed. And Its forms will remain only
nischevious shams-convonient instruments
It Executive despotism, yet conceallng from
tie superficial view of the unrefecung
masses the chains they wear. What matter
q il 20 the Roman people that all the forms
e the Republic It's Scnates, It's Tnbunes,
IL Consuls remained for ages after the
p,wers Of the Republic had all passed into
tie hands of an absolute executive support
ed by the pretorian guards Was it any
tie less a military despotlsm And how
mich better off shall we be with an absolute
Executive, supported by party malorities,
created and controlled by the "spois" OF
administrative Office? Yet no man with
eyes to note the course and true significance
ii events can fail to see that we are tending
N this direction For more than twenty
years past unmistakable tokens of this ten
lency to an oyerblance of Executive pow
or have displayed themselves.
/ The idea has been unblushingly PROFOUND
/ 3D. that the President is to be considered
/ s,ecially and above every other department
o. Government as the representative Of the
people, and resting on their support, entitled
I 60 ,0nstrue the Constitution at his own dis
creton mpnstrous unconstitutional idea.
] 1sa
existence has been openly threatened as be.
T ing al unwise and wrongful concession 10
aristo1atlc ideas IN the framing of our Cow
erumeu. The Independence, and by couse-
1 qnence the constitutional existence Of the
JudiclurJ, has been invaded by the proposal
/ to render the Judges Of the Supreme Court
{ removable Mt Executive pleasure The Tx
ecutivc has come To be quite commonly spok-
en- eff as the Government We hear OF tha
obligation OF Office holders TO regard them
selves as servants OF the Executive, and thai
not ~ the way Of a faithful discharge Of tho
proper duties Of ohce as holders OF public
trusts Tor the nation, but by an entire deyo-
ton OF their personal aud oilicml influence Il
the promotion Of the political aud party OBJ
jecls Of the Executive, by making their Off
ces, to the utmost possible extent, a means
to this end. 1t is a well understood and set
| tied thing, that this is their tenure of Office
Not their votes alone, not their personal and
/ official influence alone. must 90 to this, bu
/ percentage Of the emolumenl Of their Office
/ TO demur at either of these exactlons Is t,
subject themselves to summary Dismissal
/ And what is worse, all sense of its enormt,
/ has pretty much passed away from the publI'
I mind II has come to be looked upon a
something quite nearly right.
All these things were undreame5 Of in th'
days OF WAsHINGTON-wOuld have been re
garded with horror. But within the las
twenty Years they have become so familiar
so much acguiesed IN as a matter Of course
that they scarcely excite a thought of the
prodigous change in the political feelings oil
the country which they imply. When the
celebrated phrase, TO the vlctors belong
the spoils,' was first inaugunted as the
doctrine of our political system, be was
thought bold man that proclaimed it
Some who admired, dared not intimate his
hardihood. Many who were eager to profit
by It's practical application shrunk from open
" ayowpg and defending it. But it is now
the settled doctrine and practice of all par
ites-if not universally approved in theory,
YET luHllAltu u pH4ltiAui lltNt11lll.
The ira,aadiats consequence of this is that
the legislation OF the country has 10 a prodl-
gious extent, came to be originated and con.
troled by Executive influence To this end
appointments are made or withheld, and re-
movals made or threatened: and the force OF
Executive influence is brought in every way
10 bear on the actions of Congress. And the
immense and every day immensely auqmen,
ting patronage of the President is becoming
an element OF danger to the independence
and integrity of the coordinate branches O.
Government to which no statesman, no wise
man, nor patriot can shut his eyes.
1t is not easy to devise remedy which
shall prove effectual. Under present circum
stances we have nothing better to offer
nothing more hopeful to suggest,-than wha
every one sees 10 lie in the mutual counter
action Of great opposing parties, and in what
ever of salutary power a patriotic independ
ent press may exert by speaking honestly t
the great mind and heart of the nation
keeping the people Informed and wakeful /
their true interests-ln guarding them agains
arts OF prof gate demagges, aud in arous
/ lug them TO indignant resistance of ever
attempt on the part of the Executive, |
override thar opinions aud heir wishes,
the power of the patronage they have place
IN bis hands.-.N. Y. Iemes.
INDIAN tPREDATIoSs.-Ba Baltimore, Ma
~. New Orleans dates of Tuesday are r.
celyed. Adyices from San Antonio stat
that the Government tram was attacked b
Indians near Fort Elwell, five teamsters XII
led, and several others taken prisoners III
wagons and contents destroyed were value
n A 4 n q
been sent in pursuit of the Indians.
The Washington Star announces that NJ
Walbrldge, NJ. c. from New York, who h.
been woa over by Tie administration on Il
Nebraska question, " has received the pron
Use Of the Honolulu eonsulship"