The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-23

they do when they suspend law BY their single viii
Our system Of government in almost every respect differs
from the theory of that Of England Our President
sponsibe to the people through Congress Our senators
are responsible to the people through the legislatures
both cases the responsibility absolute that Of h,
representatives of Congress.
The Courier and Enquirer has attempted to read The
authority of Mr. Madison upon this subject We supPO
will not affect 10 lay claim to being very expert in law
or constitutional selections 1t has introduced extract
from the opinions of Mr. Madison TO which it has given
very perverted application The object OF that great and
good man was to show that the restraining power the
House over extravagant and useless appropriations all
the power that was needed to protect the government
against abuses He never thought of the usurpatOn Of
such immense power as the black republicans claim
for mere party purposes He meant that designing
leaders of ambitious and desperate party might endan
GER by the usupaon of such power as new claimed the
safety of the 1t is well known that the whole
tenor of hiswrngs to the effect that the executive power
had been SO limited make the most harmless orpub
injury OF any of the coordinate branches and that one
other hand the House of was the most dan
gerous because the most powerful and required to be
watched with jealous vigilance. Dir. Madison never
changed these opinions They were shared by Mr. Jeer
son. Mr. Madison expressed himself often, and at length,
upon this subject We have only room, in the limited ex
tent of an editorial for single quotation from his wri
tings lie says:
Where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly
which inspired by supposed influence over the people,
with intrepid confidence in its own strengh Whch SUI
dcienty feel all the passions which actuate
multitude vet not 80 to be incapable OF
suing the objects of its passions by means which reason
prescrbes it against the enteprsng ambition Of this
department that the people ought to indulge all their ea
ousy, and exhaust all their precautions
He also says of the legislative department that II can
with great facility mark under complicated and Indirect
measures the encroachments which it makes on the CO.
ordinate departments"
1t must be borne in mind that he wrote this before the
history of the sngepower legislative system of France
existed which had been the supple instrument of shedding
so much blood
Under ordinary circumstances it might be task to our
readers to follow for few paragraphs in the exam
inaton of law question: but in this instance we think
will be different At any rate we do what we conceive to
be our duty in stating very briefly, but as much at
length as would be proper in the editorial article of
daily paper the constitutional question, which stands
opposed to the usurpaon of the House OF Representa-
tives and which still stands in front of the usurpa
ton which is being attempted to be perpetrated while
we write 1t was but little while since that looked
out and the flag of glorious Unon of the thrtyone
States with thirty stars in its horizon waving
over the Capitol The thought flashed quickly upon US
that beneath that flag the party whose emblem was flag
of sixteen ruling in the ascendant the patriots
of this land tramplng the constitution beneath their feet
and attempting usurp the whole power OF the govern
ment If they prevail civil revolution has taken place
in this country which makes constitution nulity II
what we hear to-day by telegraph is true, of which We
neither vouch express opinion there has been con-
cert of action between the adjournment of Congress and the
in Kansas have enough TO believe that the
spirit of hugsm has entered deep into the hearts of the
leaders of the black republicans They want blood
Butchery must be done They want blood because they
see that their cause is sinking Another martyr and
haps they might rekinde their dying hopes. We could
not but pause at this startling reflection and say Who is
there in this land of the South who does pot feel proud Of
his democratic friends in that great NORTH who have
rayed themselves against such wicked and terrible comb
nations To do this has required the that braced
the hearts of our ancestors in the of revolution
But they their descendants They stand, many OF
them upon the ground upon which their fathers
fought and as significant Of that which to bewe say
he ground upon which they conquered Cheer on Cheer
on our gallant frendsl The victory viii be yours and
you will have the glory. .
We were led into our comments in the first Of this
article by the malignant assaults which, perceive have
been made by the backrepubcan press upon the Pres
dent for calling Congress together The to ell their
abuse had been fully made by the facts stated hereto
fore We have now added what we believed to be the
constitutional of the case and that completes the final
answer But foremost amongst the black republicans Of
the press to assa the President has been the Courier and
Enquirer That maligns his motives and msstaes the
law Albeit had any very great faith or fear Of
that champion Of backrepubcanism either in peace or
war, in religion, politics or law.
II seems TO be willing now as when represented at the
Philadelphia convention with its party to risk the country
for the sake of the Of their and with this
snguary grotesque pictorial upon its face while that
party assaing the constitution In the House. the
Courier has attacked the President on Of his
sage and its allies have been shedding the blood of their
achievements.
We do not wonder At their assaults. The President
stands in the way Of their reasonable purposes Tb
to them Is offence which they cannot forgive While
their hearts tester with fires, and their path multi
plies with crimes his course draws after H. more and
more every day. the increasing appreciation Of his
countrymen Their future, when all these scenes havC
passed away will be melancholy; their memory, after
DEATH more 20. II will rest a dark curtain upon The
highway Of their friends But the memory Of these deeds
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