Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-01-29
THE CHRONICLE.
MONDAY, JAN. 25, 1855.
Gov, Packers Inaugural,


Like many other similar papers, contains
much that all will approve, and yet We
will wait to see his acts; for it is by deeds,
mot by professions, public men are Judged.
q The laborcd Constitutional argument
that Governor is bound either to dpprore
scr to reto every bill, &c, brought before
him, is overthrOwn by the simple fact that
;khe Constitution expressly provides that
bills may become laws without the action
pf the Executive either pro or con, not on
By during sessions of Legislatures, but al
Do after their adjournment. 1t is doubt
less very desirable and proper that all
scts requiring investigation should be pre-
sentcd in good season for thorough Exec
.utive examination and it is equally evil
dent that the Constitution contemplates
cases where this can not be done. Nor is
1t in reason essential that an Executive
should alpays publicly give bis assent or
dissent from Legislative acts. 1t may In
some measure concern himself, and deli
cacy may restrain him, or propriety may
forbid his interference. His own judg-
ment or prior committal may differ from
the public will, and yet be may gracefully
yield, without compromising his reputa-
ton or his integrity, and permit the Leg
islative Department to perform its pecuii-
arly appropriate functions unmolested.
He may permit what he can not approve
and yet what be does not think it proper
to ueto We deem this wise constitutio.
nal provision. Had Fillmore, ,deeming the
Fugitive Slave Law under all the circum-
stances crpedient, permitted it to pass
without writing that word, so pregnant
with meauing-"ApPRovED"-hisf fame
would have been far greater; bis own
conscience, we doubt not, much easier;
and be might have been elected President.
An Executive may justly and constitu-
tionally approve, permit, or reto.
The stereotyped party professions about
banking are relieved by an original sugges-
tion that We ask our sister States, in a
friendly spirit, to suppress the issue Of
small notes. We certainly now have suf.
fcient specie for ordinary circulation, ano
if England can get along with no notes
less than e5, (s25,) } We certainly may sup
press all below $40, and we think in SO
doing would subserye the public interests.
These, with post-ofice orders for smaller
amounts, would be sufficient and very con-
venient The oft-reeommended better se-
curity of Bank issues, we wish might
make some headWay, and that no more
Banks be chartered at present.
Mr. Packer does not say whether he will
be a candidate for reelection.
The Governors weak encemium upon
the FIRST Pennsylvania President, and his
allusion to Kansas affairs, are said to be
very unsatisfactory to the National Ad-
ministration /; but our advices from Har-
risburg agree that the Democracy, as there
represented, are with Douglas and against
Buchanan on the Kansas question. We
hope this may prove true, and that they
will give expression to their views in an
unmistakeable manner.
The Governors linking together Kan
sas and Utah, is much like an attempt to
blend light and darkness; while his inti-
nations that the majority in Kansas
have manifested Decentralization to right
tiA authority" look like an endorsement
of the Border Rufian reign. All such
censures, however, can rightfully fall on
ly upon the usurpers, the ballot.stufers,
and the murderers, of the Blue Lodges,
and not upon the bona fde settlers.
On the other hand, his reference to the
fact that all the people of Territory
should have-what Gov. Walker, STAN
ton, and others have coDclusively proved
the people of Kansas did not have-"a
.fuU and fair opportunity to elect Dele
gates" and that "the people should have
an unqualified right to vote upon the Con-
siitutton,' which the people of Kansas did
not have under the Calhoun plot-these
sentiments are just and manly, and ex
press the true wishes of the people Of
Pennsylvania and Of the North. But the
people desire these correct principles ap-
Piled to the present as we'll as to "the fu-
ture"-no shirkipg of right and duty by
allowing Red Ruffanism to have its way
for hs time. They can no longer trust
the faith of the per6dious violators of the
Missouri Compromise and the engineers
Of the Lecompton fraud. Do right, NOW,
and not permit hideous wrong by the
Panic professors of doing Justly some
other time.-"Nert day tic fatal precedent