The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-19

We know of no speech delivered during this
session of Congress, in which the present princi-
Piles and policy of the adherens of the Adminstra-
ton clearly and succinctly set FORTH than
they are in single remark made by Mr. BINGHAM
on Tuesday. While advocating a bill which was
designed to clothe the President with extraordi
nary powers, he said:
"The true theory of our government is that it rests
upon the will Of the whole people, and this bill merely
unetters the hand of the Executive and the viii of the
millions
Palpably false and glaringly inconsistent as this
proposition is 1t is, nevertheless, very plainly in
dicative of the motives by which the dominant
faction in Congress is now governed. The dema-
gogues who have attained to power, have deliber
ately made up their minds TO do whatever the
people of the North will sanction; and thew are.
therefore, constantly seeking for some plausible
excuse for regarding popular clamor with the
same respect that they would pay TO the lawful
bidding of the majority Hence these VAGUE
phrases about the twill OF the people" Those
who resort to this clap-trap, know, as well as av
body else, that the twill of the people" is bind
ing upon no man, save when ascertained and ex-
pressed through the modes provided by the Con-
the minority of its rights, and leaves il helDIcss in
the hands of the majority at the very moments
when it most needs protection; and that all laws
are nugatGry if representatives or rulers are to
comply always with the popular demand
which is preferred the loudest or the latest
But it is because the supporters Of the Admnstra-
ton have deliberately determined to trample down
the rights of the minority that they now appeal to
the twill of the people," 1t is because they are
conscious offs purpose TO overthrow the Constitu-
ton that they are so anxious to find some iustiica-
ton in 'higher law" 1t is the will of the
Northern people that the Republican Congress de-
sires TO execute and the objects at which the North
ern people are aiming are in direct violation of the
Constitution. Therefore the hand of the Execu-
tive must be unfettered by the removal of those
restrictions upon the action of the President
which, ever since the foundation of the Republic,
have been regarded as the best safeguards of the
people and the surest barriers between constitu-
tonal liberty and arbitrary power
But the Republican party, when it suggests that
the Constitution must give way when
ever the popular voice insists upon a
violation Of its provisions, forgets altogether
the position in which it thus places ITSELF
If the "will of the people, means merely that the
views and wishes fthe majority are to be carried
into instant execution without regard to the forms
OF law or the substantial requirements of the Con-
su'utlon, then Mr. LINCOLN holds his Office by a
very Insecure tenure. There is no doubt that tbe
people OF the country, if an expression of their SEN
tlments could now. be elected, would bur him
from his place Tomorrow When he was elected
he received only 1855, 200 votes, while his COM
petitors received ,S24 S74 there thus being non
ular majority against him of nearly one million
votes. Now there can be no doubt that every one
OF the millions who voted against Mr.. LINCOLN
would be glad to sweep him and his Cabinet from
power, and substitute honester and ADLER men in
their places; and it may also be safely affirmed
that many of those who gave him their suifrages.
would now willingly depose him. IT, then, the
Republican party has the respect for "the will of
'the people," which it processes, let it remove
MIR. LINCOLN at once from Office The official
records OF the Government show that a majority
vr nine nunureu ana slXIy-sIX thousand citizens
protested in November against him and his doc
trines. Instead, therefore, of ''unfettering his
''hands" by the destruction of the Constitution.
in order that he may be enabled to carry ont the
wishes Of the people of the North let Congress rather
disregard the constitutional provision which has
permitted the representative of the minority TO
assume control of the Government, and ask him to
defer to ''the will Of the acho7e people, and resign
At all events, let Mr.. BINGHAM make the proposi-
ton to remove the President, and thus prove the
sincerity of his desire to consult 'tbo will of the
millions" about which he pirates so nuentIy.