East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-06-09
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HOW EASILY REPUBLIC CAN BE MADE A MONARCHY.
"If measures can mould governments, and If an
uncontrolled power Of construction IL surrendered to
those who administer them their progress may be
easily foreseen, aud their end easily forctold. A
lover Of monarchy who opens the treasures of cor
ruptlon by distributing emolument among devoted
partsans, may at the same time be approaching his
object and deuding the people with professions OF
rcpublicanism lie may cOniound monarchy and
republicanism, by the art of definition. He may
varnish over the dexterity which ambition never
fails to display with the pancy Of language the
seduction Of expediency, or the prcjudices Of tho
times and he may come at length to avow, that so
extensive a territory that Of the United statos
can only be governed by the energies of monarchy;
that il cannot be defended, except by standing
armes and that it cannot be united except by con-
ISOLATION.
Measures have already bocn adopted which may
lead to these consequences. They consist
In fiscal systems and arrangements, which keep
host OF commercial and wealthy individuals i'm
bodod and obedient to the mandates of the reasuryi
"In armies and navies, which will, on the one
hand enlist the tendency Of man TO pay hommage
to his fellow creature who can feed or honor him;-
and on the other, employ the principle of fear, by
furnishing imaginary Instructions under the pre-
text Of preventive justice;-
an swarms Of officers, civil and military, who
can ncuc cate political tenets tending to consolidation
and monarchy, both by indulgences and seventies,
reason;-
I'm restraining the freedom of the press, and in
vestng the executive with legislative, executive,
and judicial powers over numerous body OF MEM
"And that we may shorten the catalogue, in es-
tabishing by successive procedents, such mode OF
constituting the Constitution rs will rapidly remove
every restraint upon federal power
Let history be consulted; let the man of expert
enco reflect; nay let the artifcers Of monarchy Dc
asked what further materials they can need fol-
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WHERE LAW ENDS DEsPoTIsM BEGINS
"Another object of the Constitution take to be
such rs is common to oil written Constitutions OF
FREQ Governments; that is to fix limits to delegated
authority, or, in other words, to impose Constitu
tonal no trnints on political power. Some, who es
toem themselves Republicans seem to think NJ
other security for public liberty necessary, than Z
provision for popular choice OF rulers. II politca
power DO delegated power they entertain little teal
| Of its being abused The peoples servants and Ia
vorites they think may DO safely trusted. Ou
| fathers certainly, not Of this school. They
sought to make doubly sure, by providing
in the first place, for the election of political agen
by the people themselves, at short intervals, and
in the next place, by prescribing Constitutional re
straints on oil branches Of this delegated authority
It is not among the circumstances of the times, mos
ominous for good, that diminished estimate ap
pears to be placed those Constitutional securities
A disposition is but too prevalent to substitute per
sonal confidence for legal restraints to put trust II
men rather than in principles; and this disposition
being strongest, ms it most obviously is, wheneve
party spirit prevails to the greatest excess it is no
without reason that fears entertained OF the ex
iscnce Of spirit tending strongly to an unlimited
il it be but an elective Government
hold. Gentlemen, that strict submission, by ever
branch of the Government TO the limitations an
restraints Of tho Constitution, is OF the very esscnc
Of all security for the preservation OF liberty; an
thpt on one can be true and intelligent friend {
that liberty who will consent that any man in publ
station, whatever he may think Of the honest Of hi
motives, shall exercise or enact an authority aoov
tho Constitution and tho laws. Whatever Govern
ment is not Government OF Laws, IS despossn
let il be called what it may Webster.