Washington sentinel., 1854-01-06

which it would adopt, as the editor of the
Sentinel is of the rules of syntax.
The Sentinel discovers a mares nest in the
second resolution passed by the county meeting
last Saturday. This resolution was adopted
unanimously and although the editor of that
paper was present, he made. no objection to
ITS passage. lie promises to pitch into it next
week, and to demonstrate that it is stab at
the administration" If n senator introduces a
bill to change the mode of appointing certain
officers OF the government, ii is " stab at the
administration" If one mechanic is elected
by the Senate to do its printing in preference
to another, it is a direct thrust at the admins
tration. If librarian is appointed by the
House Of Representatives, the administration
IS outraged. III hard shell is selected to sweep
the lobbies of the Capitol, the administration is
crippled beyond the hope Of recovery. If the
democrats of Butler county embody in a reso-
luton a clause of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and declare that in the proper exer-
else of a constitutional prerogative the Senate
may reject appointments without being charged
with hostility to the President, the far-sighted
ss<- sasa .+se-- In it some la
tent design-some terrible Guy Fawkes plot
to blow up the White House during full
meeting of the cabinet Fiddlesticks!
The Constitution declares that the President
shall, with the concurrence Of two~thirds of the
Senate, appoint certain officers, and the form OF
announcing these appointments is, "by and
with the ddcice AMI consent Of the Senate"
Now, these wiseacres not only deny the right Of
the Senate to "advise," but they take away from
it the right to exercise any discretion whatever,
in the matter of appointments, making it a
mere automaton to register the preferences Of
the executive.
The democracy of Butler county will not be
guided by the infatuated leaders of the New
York hard shells, who demand dissolution of
the Cabinet, nor will they follow such leaders
as the halEhedged prophet of the RossUille
Sentinel, who will, probably next accuse the
trainers OF the federal Constitution with hos
tliity to the administration, because they gave
the Senate voice in the selection of officers.
These are the resolutions alluded to in the
foregoing remarks:
The committee on resolutions reported the
following:
Whereas, our admirable political institutions are
the fruits OF an enlightened and well directed pub
lie opinion, and the same wholesome agency which
called them into existence being essential 10 their
preservation and perpetuation; and whereas this
public opinion is but the collective expression Of
the primary assemblages of the people, therefore,
RfsoiUed That in the opinion of this ting
the elevation 10 the Presidency of Franklin Pierce
and the re-estabishment of the government upon
republican principles, was an act Of duty and Of
patriotism, imperatively demanded for the preser-
vation of the honor of the republic at home and
abroad, and that to accomplish the great reforms
for which the united democracy then so earnestly
abored, il is necessary to accord 10 the present
administration cordial and energetic support
Res0tred, That the Constitution confers the
treatymaking power and the appointing power
conjointly upon the President and the Senate, and
in the proper exercise of this constitutional pre-
rogatve, the Senate may confirm reject APP
pointments without being Justly charged with hos
tiity to the administration.
Resoi,ed, That our delegates to the State con
vention are instructedto insist upon reconstruc-
tion Of the platform Of principles usually adopted
by the Eighth of January Convention, upon the
broad principles of the national democracy.
Resolred That it is highly expedent that the
democracy should renew their efforts TO restore
the currency of the country TO the condition con
templated by the Constitution
Which were adopted, and the meeting adjourned
SINE die.
w. SHELLY, President.
M. p. ALsToN, Secretary.