The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-04-11
L Jackson Document 80 Political
Venality in High ed T..

| L Jackson Document -. Political
VenaIity i'm High PIaces'Rcbuked ed
! The protest Of President Buchanan against the
action of the House Of Representatives in the
adoption of resolutions to investigate the con.
duct ofa co. ordinate branch of the Government
on unspecifad charges, the accused being him
self the Judge, must tell with chilling effect on
the majority, composed of material the most
discordant, who, setting all rules of justice at
defiance, passed them.
The House of Representatives have no power
over the President, except in preferring articles
OF impeachment, in which case the Senate, as
the Judge who are to try the case, are upon
oath or afiirmation and the Chief Justice OF the
United States, as the highest law officer Of the
Republic, presides.
The resolutions Of Mr. CovoDE; which we
denounced at the time of its passage, as gross
assumbtion ofpower, has no parallel, save in
the Senate resolutions which condemned Gen.
eral JACKSON unheard, for removing the depos-
its from the United Statss Bank, and which
were afterwards exp1nged from the journals Of
the Senate.
AS man and an officer, President Buchanan
has nothing to fear from any investigation
which malice may dictate or partisan heart and
partisan perjury forward. life Of unstained
honor-a purity Of character, OF which no Pres
ident ever showed a greater will be a gnaran-
tee against any assaults Of partisan malice
Confne the investigation to charges made, and
the worst criminal in the land cannot be tried
on any but specific charge, and our word for it,
President BuchanUn and the Administration
will not only welcome it, but will aid in making
ut as full. as free and extensive as the most Bit
ter OF its enemies may wish, and this will be
done with confident and we'll founded belief
that, despite the ingenuity of the enemies Of the
President, such an investigation will rebound 10
his credit and to that Of the Administration.
Since the day that Gen. Jackson retired from
the office he so ably filled, no President has
ever met with more shameless abuse than Pres
ident Buchanan. Indeed we doubt if Gen.
Jackson or Mr.. Jefferson or Mr. Madison, tie
three best abused of the Chief Magistrates, al
though they met opposition at every step-en-
emies who were bitter, malignant and relentless
spurred on by heated partisan malice, ever re
ceved, during the eight years each occupied the
Presidential chair. as much bitter abuse as has
fallen to the lot of President Bnchanan The
>landerers Of the former were men who sought
to but them down for political cause.-the sian.
derers ofPresident Buchanan are actuated by a
double sp,te-polticlan hostility bein. added to
thwarted ambition. Those who urge them out
were few months since professed Democrats
asking office at the hands Of the Pres sident.--
flis refusal to bestow place and power on dis
honest and corrupt men, has added their bitter
uess and their malignitv to the Opposition, and
on this we found the belief that President Bu-
chanan is the best abnsed President the country
e9er had.
The protest, as published by US on yesterday
in the Telegraphic column-imperfect as it GER
tainly is, and full of errors, is document that
commends itself to the good sense and the pat
riotiSm of the honest of all parties. Among the
men of the Opposition who, unblinded by party
zeal are willing to do an opponent justice, there
are none that we have met or heard OF who fail
to commend it as right in principle and fitting
rebuke to iutemperate malice, while among the
Democracy it IS a subject of graduation that
we have President who. like Gen, Jackson,
dare take the responsibility and check madness
and fanaticism in high places, aud whe is able
to give to the country Protest worthy Of that
addressed to the Senate, on a similar occasion,
by the last ofthe Revolutionary Presidents
Nat. Dem.