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Alao hngmdoess B:IiU(t6flei irritable.4 Ibowrrhlful, despond-" l' JifiH. od dejfictad, accompanied wi'tb Il?iiDjffin?ot of. tbe -Qervous systpm. 'Jnial feelififfs and pecotiar train o( ideas . rimjiamalmn una i fivprjvhc.!mn 'J'JjflJrtjijlMWun infinite livert?ity. The ! Lrbv'of meo are asonealio this a0iic- i 'i'mW 'f ,nsnft0f,Braie use 01 mercury, r i nhrJatlfPS, the suppression of Rome ha- ot (iff iif"Qual ; eruplon . relaxation or te?i:,;rfftfcJrnvre important organs within 1 ' liU i t ATM BNT. " ; .Th prifffpi objects of treatment are to re "f.ii(fisiiinto-streiigtben ihe body, and JUitilh ipt". which mny : be; promoted r.v r ! T!.i ii Pill? it operation.. 1 he bowels newer once tj;tiii fnrslimabl Camomile Pills,(which tetorticlatiotlne, and antispasmodic are an AtSeW of,aRy i .klod wp!J!f t0 be pursued i it by those of us in generV -ifVirnMrartftd lo a late hour in the night, P . ...i ' I Tres i V Lii -.. . , ; - aj of the republican party, who hate been j ritt minSd by social intercourse, or ex- , - .- .. r . ', r.j j ff I61iiU hbit, great excess in eating opposed to the leading measures of the pres- yirfrariWUpKdlaipdby the occasional use posaible contingency, be called on as such, dfitoHl--'XUY i0 no'hinevMrfer ge anj vote or perform otheir, act in a,f the'electionl eff President, I believed thl in thi jjfjfhb!e-rftin,eijy wmiu-u ui3iuM3 uaiciuc iiwiucutuunsici 11 uuajr up Uillcr vofed a V'1 'blessinsr fo the numerous public. J wise viewed by many honorable and palri Sfhiiars have recommended a tree B5erffnHciff;oijx.i5.oH,aoo oe .orieu o , ny ca.es it wilt greatly aggravate the ' tiildryiifii and Astonishing Facts. tr?AST?f1 AiTflRER YEARS' STAND-lu!-JMr Hpbft Monroe, Schuylkill, afflicted ach. drowsiftfsssf.reat debility and deficiency of :benervouiV j?neri;y. Mr! R. Monroe gave up fvery ibougAt of recovery, and dire despair 6at si the -coflWenajnpe of every person interested id lw exis&ncat happiness, till by accident he wtirei jfl public paper some cures effected by Df VM.EVAra, MKUIUIAtt m his com- j am, w.htcct izt of he JH i . ... : : : ( ? 'ii 7 . 7 t: ethiced him to purchase a pack-1 f,hich rpsolied , in completely feani!i e'yetjt 'symptom' of his1 disease He tiste to say fhisj motive for this declarations is, that those a Bl c1 ed w it h t h e sa m e or a ny sy ro p fctnisirailafiM hose from which' he is happily rP3ioreil ralyi likewise receive the inesiimable benefit 5. " ' ' Kt34$EiOP TIC DO M..'J.'fcl Jilhnsnt., wife DOLOREUX. l of C apt. Joseph JohnsoB, off Lyiif.. Mass 'was severely afflicted fortPt-teafs'wtih Tic Uolereux, violent pain nner-ueaoi anuivornuinwi, wuu a uurnuig peat SheuUa n5 relief from the advice of sev-p tnrf6icBi)stAor from medieines of any kind, mii.fir -commenced using Dr Evans' n.inn.c ftms rvi i nn nni i 0 in ih'j v iifr iiuirii 1 medians of I 00 Uhaiham street, and from that j liiBft tlift beirrfn? ttj amend ,! and feels satisfied if ihecfititinue (he? medicine a few days longer, n wperqerti iy cured, ueierence can oe naa n tq-the muh jof ihe above, by calling at Mrs Jjbon8 datAjKter's Store, 339 Grand street, Art.ne F. Kenny, No 115 Lewis fS blteiaoton and Jlouston sis , afflief- iJcainir WlDf tjen years with-the! following d WnljsUjAeid eructation, daily spasmodic ipasrbbdS fiinittihelH'ad. loss of iappetite, palpitation of fifHpti'iriddinese and dimness of 8ight,coutd Hhh ber VigiVt side, disturbed rest, utter in- taiiiyfif eri&avlptr in aay thin? that demanded S'for pourhfite,soraeiimes a visionary idea of. (ftGiviiiiro oil tier oisease, a w.ntmsicai aver wa tu jutiicla.persons ianid places, groundless ,ipfehft?ion of : personal danger and .poverty, f JVnpnes3at).d weariness uf life, disconten 'Jiwiijeiitde 'on every slight occasion, she iJ sh;couTd neitherdie nof livejshe wept, haied.'.dponded, and thought she ledta tmiserabfiilifei never! was one so bad, with Jqnerfr rhetiul hallucinations. ' ' - j VtKenyha!he advice of several eminent Pvsicn, bad recourse to numerous medi c',w4oni.riip obtain even temporary al lev fa auHier.diMpisincr state till her hiishand ner- uJpd.nehott,ake trial of raV mode of treatment. is nOwd'iile lelieved. and finds herself "wiijfcpaWejnf attending to her domestic af- JJUl V0VS thai Rhp ftni.ivQ a trnoH hpallh t yent fti s3ms tid J.ennyjhusbW'of the aforesaid Anhe Imay i f - - - : . IW9 BHfff fmelt4thday of December, ; J Pkter Pickney, Com. of Deeds J WMAIIJjM, wuh an Affection of the !'f ,v?,f1? -.urine high coloured, and often pfirritinaiiendd byjrelief. The a- . - fjiif imus were aiso auenuon wun eonsid .'e'ffi. oUv o7breaihinar.'wiih a sensei o a sense; oi fcs auYniWihe chesi, hkew se a great want. p.v r.'i ; ,re nervo'is system. ' i ftf ave Symplon. were entirely removed. f riiecieo ny ua m rans. Snw xil,i . . j hnng duly V lsandWynhat Weenlficae. st worn, dotn de the facts stated in the a- e, sobscrihed b't him. are in all striipt j. :iicwj!c i.niTit. WinSTCP" ; ;vl3 aSlr of Wornber. 1836. Uirii AUL Notary Public'96 nas- nngjjgrenfi Salisbury. JV.1 ft nVwIr.f r.i'm 1 I 'l. 1 CI i V- fflhiM-auv, r ? T questions ot public policy and Legislation -Great aniTflafi flatulency, disturbed rest, ner n .. , ,., .r r , iffiiaeffl. 'difficulty of breathing, tightness' which were likely to come before theSen. ..i ..rnrk'bk ihP brpaat: diw.iiresRs. nr4 ate of the United otates for its appropriate vWimtantlijyM"1 restlessness, could ' not jjie and legitimate. Action, my opinions were iaafc5flnfil position without the sensation ef fully knowrii or iif they were not so, I:Was ,rapdiniffjcijion, palpitation of the; hearty ever ready p decUre and explain' thenf to iwtresoi? ''ohttli cosliveness, pain of the slorn ih het nf rrivkbilitv. in -aiMiwer trt snv bn. H? 1 l (ired under me treatkrtiint ,f n..L. H' kP :'vvy-fI 00 Chaiharn,sireet. xew. believe to be fraught, with the direst T 1 K. iV"ln5 ,m'n ! ',arv,se 13 Centre st. to the country He has notonly again 'U I M9ri7slWlcW VTT- ?u,r Jears w th estly reconimendod this scheme, but. he Ui ' il:' i: V"J "ged its adoption in.lhe most obno y:. Pemd ateaiy thiieness ; oss of. appetite, and bjectipnahe of all the forms it has ciifes'ih)in kw- ihk'ki.iJ'..')mmni.ii Wa. l assumed.? I refer, of course, to what kl .i - . - r V avj m-r-M a aj . . m. mj r u, uasa a- . a PENDLETOX & BRUNEB " TRDITORS ' AND PROPnifeTOUS.' WM C. RIVE'S LETTER. I CisTLR Hill, Feb. 1 5, 1540 JUv Dear, Sir, : . ' ' -, . j Tou enauire of me what are rov! views on the subject: of the pending Presrdential . While my name waa recently before the Legislature, j by the act of my friends, -as a candidate for reflection, to the Senate of the United States, I declined in ahswerto various communications from members fof that body, to jjivje any pledge of support to either of the Presidential candidates, as the condition of mv election. I did bo, because. while H is clear that,uoder the Constitution, the practice of requiring of those who miht be brought totwf rd; lor. the omce of Sena tor pledges jloj support thii or that'nian fof olc mec, is'a practice fatally calculated to deslroy lhe independence of the Legislative DepatJmenl; anj lo prostrate it at The feet of the Executive power, whose inordinate growth, and overshadowing influence al ready threaten the very existence of I our iree insiituttonsf in regara to all those quiries which might be addressed to met I had moreover, 1 been very tecently - in the public service, lapd my acts in the discharge of the trnst; confided to me, which were either feW nor equivocal, nor unattended with circumstances of peculiar trial, were before the ciiultyl afiording, as it! seemed lo mCf, the mo$tf authentic interpretation? of my principles, as well as the surest guaran tee of my fdtuef course. f For aheseyajrious reasons I felt that ought not to give any pledge of support to any of the Presidential candidates, as the condition of jmyjelection to the Seuate of the United States, and accordingly declined to do so, while my name was recently be fore theJLejJislature, in connection witb the election for fthailoffice These motives of .reserve have now ceased. My name is no longer before the Legislature for that or any other office jj and as in tbe times pait, & jt has never been by any act or solicitation 01 mine, soj whether it shall, at any time hereafter, bej wH depend on the; free: will of others, not mine. And in the event, ev en, of my riame being again presented to the Legislature, by the partiality arid gener ous confidence with which mv friends and fellow - citizns have been heretofore pleased to distinguish ml. the Presidential election will have ben dletermined,and wo shall all, of necessitV.Shavie taken our eaualiand ree ponsible parts iri it, before the Legislature, according to their recent decision. or! the subject, wilI pro;ceed to the electiori pf Sen ator, of the United States. Under these cir cumstances I can no longer feel the slight est delicacy, as a private citizen, in expres sing to yooj freely and withont reserve my opinions on the r interesting question you propound to l me. 1 - Your enquiry naturally divides itself in to two branches The first is, can we sup port the reflection of the present Chjef Magistratethclse of us, I mean, who haye been in earnestjin our opposition to tie feadinijeasures and prevailing policy, lof his administration ? And this question would seerrj properly and plainly to resolve itself into another. Has he abandoned or withdrawn any of those measures, to vhieh we have beerj, and are' still thus opposed? So far from it, we have seen that, in his re cent Message to Congress, be bias again brought forward and urged' with increased determination of purpose, his now' cherish ed Sub-Treasury scheme, . which, at tpe time of his election, all his political friend" believed to! be fraught, and which we still evls earp has xiojps ey has oeeo commnntvi railed thn snerm clause, or reqtn$itionof the public does in, gold and silver al iscneme had been nrHPrmtitprf hv thfrPrei. dent, in his more recent expositions of It, and wis belie vett to be finally abandoned.by him ; but is now brought forward in bold relief, it is. nndersiood, as the sine qua non of the new politfcal alliance, which'has been announced to trie country. And the Presi dent even tells pa thai he believes no pe riod will be more auspicious'' for the Intro doction of this hard money policy in the operations of the, government, 'f than the present"-when we snow, thati in two thirds or thre e-fnurths of the States, specie is at an average premium ol ten! per cent above the common Vprvency f Most " au ipicions." indeed, for the interests of those who are the recipients and beneficiaries of j th the public contributions; but sorely not fori he i-k-iU -, . i .... .li iuu lnicresn ot ttr pvopTe;1 sfho arr Av' - ...... ........... ... ..... ; Published Weekly, at Tivo Dolts, and Fifty ts payers," immediate Or ultimate, of all these j contributions. "hi " i- 1 j a comniiance wun mis recommcnaaiton of the President, we have just j iseeb j the bub l reasury bill, witb the obnoxious ipe- cie Manser hurried through one brauch' of tnsi National Legislature, by a Dtnortt? vote, in the absence of many imfmbers, when, if that body, (the SenateA had been full and its members , had voted in' confor mity to the opinions and wiahe, either ex- pressed or understood, of their respective I States, the measure would have i been- de-1 feaied. And vet, in the face of 'such farts as these, appeals are still made, inftheinamel of a blind and ahiect nany-alleirianre.: to many wno are truly opposed to the scheme, " . I m ; 1 ir 1 ! ' tf I from a thorough conviction of its most dan- 1 gerous and fatal tendencies to support the re-election of the President, by i whose in- fluence and anti-republican conltimacy, it is to be imposed, and permanently fastened, upon the country.- - A poor atiemjlt is now made to give plausibility and effect to this appeal, by representing the Sub-Treasury scheme as a mere question of expediency, on wuich ibbu may agree to uiuer wunoui j any compromise 01 principle, j on eitner 1 side ; and this attempt is made, f too, by I those who have themselves, but ; recently I denounced the scheme, in the strongest lerras, ms uangprous 10 ine punitc uneriy, 1 by giving the President the immediate con-1 troj of the public money, putting into his j handstalund of corruption" and alarm mgly increasing Ihe power and nfliience of .bis otrice, "already too great for a republic, burely, when considerations such as these are involved, the question is one! of vital I and fundamental importance In this as- pect as a measure alike hostile to the pub-1 lie liberty, and warring upon the prosperi- ty of the country, directly and indirectly, in all its most esential interests, the Sub- Treasury project has ever been viewed by those Conservative Republicans,! who have given e vidence of the sincerity of their faith I by fearlessly and unflinchingly meeting the I denunciations which its profession has I drawn npon them. JLntertaining surh npin- ions, can tney, as nonest men, and as tree- men, so far surrender their minds and.their wills to the slavish discipline of party, as to support the re-election of a President, whose I policy they believe to be fraught with con-1 sequences so calamitous to their 'country ? I I humbly think not. i ; ; i SAnoiherdisingenuous'device fdrt entrap Plftg conservative Votes, IS foumted on 'the i .... - 1 .1 L . . . 1 . . i t" ? . assumption mat tneyuiner wun trte rnpsi- uent on out a sinsie question riven were this so, it would be cause enough fnr.the tviihrlrAwal of thtiirsnnnnrt whr'p thni.P.. tion is one of so grave and fundamental a character as the Conservatives honestlv Ihe- . . i . - . ii i J f L lieve the sub-treasury scheme to be. tint the assumption is wholly untrue.! The Con servative Republicans have differed and Still differ with the President on other: points of tho highest importance. They have seen, tnrougn tne wnoie course oi nis aaminis- trftion and in the conduct of his friends, a systematic design to build up the practical supremacy of the Executive poer, at the expense of the Legislative department, and of the people themsel ves, rhey have seen this design pursued, not onlyy the perse velring efforts which have been made to se cure to the President and his agents the custody of the public monies, through the medium of the sub-treasury scheme, but! al so by the new and alarmingdoctrine, which was broached in his annual message at the commencement of the late session! of Con gress in December 1838, that, iri the man agement of the public revenue, , he should be left at liberty to employ Banks or not Without legal regulation and at bis roe,re discretion, as depositaries and fiscal agents of the government, thus subjecting all1 the moneyjed' Institutions of the country ia his mtluenco and control. In the steady pur suit of the same great aim, they have seen a system oi party niscipune iniroaucea ana organized under the auspices of the! pres ent Chief Magistrate, the fundamental can op of which is that every member of Uhe party which brought himinto power must surrender his individual opinions5 janjd con victions on public measures, however pro foundly entertained, to the dictum -offthe President, and support whatever he shall re commend under pain of excommunication and political death for disobedience. By these means, combihed with the 'powerful persuasives of his official patronage, Ue President is virtoally invested with supreme power , JThe debasing principle has been openly avowed, as well as pracltcal!yen-i forced, that the first duty of the public (unc tlonary is to the President who sppoirits arid! not to the "country which employs himft and that so long as he renders good political ser? vice to his chief, no infidelity to his public trust, not even the grossest peculation, shall he suffered to deprive him of bis office. While unfaithful agents and public default crs have thus earned impunity and! reward. others who have been distinguished b'yi the Honest, able, and! exemplary discharge of their officialuties, have been arbitrarily re moved from office, for no othet reason than that they could not conform the private -and invoiuniary operauona oi ineir minas lo.tne standard of Executive faith, or that ihey be lieved it unbecoming the proprieties f their situation, ts publie officers, to take apatt tn ose electioneering exertions, which have, come to be considered the surest oassDort (o favof irid reenrity. And (o cipthejcH - .5 ?ax of, these bold prefnsions of Executive power, we nave seen a report solemnly nut H"u " -inumpuauiif csrnea iprouan ov Uhe President's friends in the Senate, pro- cisiming to tue uce or cay ana in contempt of the most revered oracles of the Anglo- Am eric aa liberty, the!! d trine beresv that it is both the right tad duty of Executive of-w fice holders to intenatddlt witb tbe freedom of ejections, thus sacrificing the vital princi pie of popular sovereignty itself at the shrine of this new idol of Presidential supreotrv. ' i While in these measures and proceed inea. wt have seen tbe Piesident and btsfriends pursuing with unvarying aim, as the primt- rv obiact. it would seem thsir of euorts. the fc w ' m -r " P I aangerous aggraonizeioeut ot his power. I m bis plans of national policy we have been j ronstsntly met with apggestions and recom- mendations aiming at the subversion, of es-1 tablisbed InslitutionsJ and uttterly destruc-1 tive of tbe repose and settled order of bu- siness in the affairs of tbe country, and ap- pealing to the jealousies and worst passions of society in their support. The special object to which his schemes of innovation j opto bbcu uimuij uirpcivo, 19 uojoriunaieiy 1 nw iat aniciio oiffii ino lotervets 01 so 1 ciet?, and that which requires to be touch- ed with tbe wisest Si most cautious hand- I tnt sistem ot its currency , forming the com- muu miur 07 woica 100 taoocr ana pro- pwty of every individual in the coromu- ntty is estimated or exchanged. : instead of pursuing a salutary and practical reform of existing abuses, whatever tcey may be, (an object in which all good men and patriots would heartily unite with mm,) bo has brought forward crude and anti-social the- ones, and has propogated them all with the influence oi his .bira -.office, which go to the entue destruction of that; system of credit, which is coeval with the settlement of our country, is sopeculiarly adapted to its circumstances, and to which, whatever irregularities may hay sometimes attended it, (as, indeed, what good in the ordinances of natore or the institutions of man, is not liable to occasional! abuse,) every candid and well informed mind must admit that the unparalleled ceveiopement 01 American commendations, if they mean any thing go to the entire destruction of this long estib- lished system, now mdissolubly connected I with all tbe interests, of society an i Xs the establishment, in its stead of in exclusive 1 t. ..- .- . l-. .: I PIU luu'7 currucjf, ur Buuiciumg pracit- I .a 1 1, t a nltmMiinl (a it nnar.linn m on A A m n i? - " t 7w'1'f " fV7u l . viu m uw au vi iuvui,i I property ana contracts, ana involving tne farmer, the mechanic, the tradesman, the merchant, and in short every class of men, (w,,h the exception of creditors and public I Ed Z . EJ I : i .1 i ruluctrra e"juynS HXWf 8,arie3 oa iU guv" ernment,) in one common ruin) As an es sential part of this policy, the President has proclaimed a crusade against i Institutions deriving their existence from, and respon sible to tne states atone, and in bis new born zeal has so far forgot lm former opin- ions,s to recommend to Congress the ;,eh - action of a special bankrupt lw, spplyingjj to toes institutions exclusively ann inienu ed to put an end to their existence by ad act Tl of Federal authority a measure wbicbtbuti a few years before, he had denounced injthef strongest terms, as pri 'odious and uncorjisti- tutional invasion of the rights of the States.', See his speech in the Senate of the United! States on a -preposition of Mir Branch o N. C. on the 6th pf February 1827, 3d vol. Register Con. if ebates, pi 2861 j Upon all these subjects, tbe Conservative have differed, and still differ With the Pres ident, as well asupon his Sub-Treasurjf scheme. These differences have been ikap ifested by ihem on various occasions, arid iq! a variety of forms speeches, votes and dis cussions of popular assemblies. In regard to myself I have omitted no proper occaJ aion, in both written and oral addresses' td my fellow-citizeus, to proclaim1 ; them ; and yet I have seen with infinite surprise, 'that some persons recently to cover their own change of position,! have alleged that ii had been heretofore! understood that I dif fered with the administration on but a single question mat or tue: duo-1 reasury ! p ms allegation, too, is made in the face of the notorious fact that 1 have been ! denounced by the administration press from one exl tremity of the country to the other, for daN ing in the conscientious discbarge of my pub- lie duty, to oppose and expose the divers other acts and measures of ihe President and his party hrs-rllicit and dangerous re, newal of his connection with the Batik of the United States, jkis alarmipg and janti republican doctrine in his message to Con-'; gress at tbe commencement of; the last ses- sion of Congress with regard t the discre-; tionary employment of Banks in general, as fiscal agents of !he government, at hi sole will and pleasure, without any rule or limitation of Iaw,--and finally the daring attack'made by ! his friends in he portentous doctrines of Mr. Wall's ieport on the vital principle of representative government f the freedom of elections. On this last cecal sion, I characterized the general policy. o( the administration bf what seemed to. me t be -its leading features, and declared mv conviction that on al the great qiestions of respect for the rights of the stales. limit. - Uion of Executive pitronage, -economy in the public expense, the independence oi the legislative department, acquiescence m the decisions of the mfjoritypf-and a sacred NO. 33 VOLUME VIII, f regard to the right of. election, (the mem orable land marks of . republicanism laid down bv Mr. Jtifferson, it had widelvj de bailed from every principle held and acknow ledged by true republicans. It is, moreover, well known that, at the last session of Con greSss, I opposed, to the best of my. ability, another. favorite measure of the administra tion, commonly called tbe graduation Bill, -ifpr viitually giving away to certain favor ed stales, that 'common fund of the Public Lands, derived in great part from the mu nificence of Virginia, and. in the benefit of wbicbsbe expressly reserved her equal right to participate How idle then, the. sugges tion recentlv invented, that either mvef ! V. .... - v ;... . i ' or the Conservatives in general whose dnin ions and destiny it isalike my pride to share bsve differed from the the administration on but a single question. - ; Let ua now enquire whether the President has chanoed his doHcv or oractica on lanv pf J these highly ; important question on which we have differed' with him. Some of bis nois? Dartizans have claimed for him great credit for the lavish professions of economy na maKes in nis late message to uongress. tsut wbat has been the the prac- tice, which we are much more interested in knowing than the empty precepts of his ad- ministration ( According to his own slate 1 mem,, me pueiic expenditure during the year 18ST( the first of his presidency, a- mounted to 'the sum of thirty-three millions t of dollars during the year 133S, hir says this amount "wa3 somewhat reduced,' and for the year 1859, he thinks that the public expenditure u will not in all proba- biljty have exceeded twenty eix millions of Nollars"! But this sum of twentv-six mil Hons of dollars happens to be iust the doub le of the public expenditure under thel ad- ministration of Mr. John Q. Adams, which most of us thought was so enormous! and unjustifiable as to merit the displeasure and rebuke of the people. What, however, are we to think of the President's promise of . ontinued reduction' of the public expense. when we find on the very same page of 1 his message, tho most earnest iecom- mennaiion py motto tne tavoraote consider two hundred thousand men, one half to be t in active service,!? tbe other half lo form a j Reserve,' tbe term of service to be eight 1 years, the troops to be armed, equipped and paid by the U. S., 'according to a rate i.-e . . i j t i 1 . ; oj i-ompensiuon 10 09 uxea oy law,' out in I V r.r tm i e ka ' t (I f.l.Mn "TTy V -u,uwu ui mo mi iycjj-iti.ciii ; Tbe annual cost or such a torc.e, according 10 any conception 1 1 can form of tbe Secretarv's clan, under 1 the' outlines he has given of it, could not j fail to add many millions to the public bur . .-.t . ; uens. i now speaic oniy oi ine question of expense : but in other aspects, this, roost r - - -. t ; extraordinary prfjeet,enjphatically endorsed as it is by the President, for, in his j Mes age to Congress, be says, I cannot recom mend it too strongly" to your consideration,' deserves the most serious reflection of every it friend of the public liberty.. Is not this militia force, as the Secretary - i cuooses .to can u, ortne cne tiait ot it, at leastwnicu is to be 'in active service ' recruited foi eightyears, 'stationed where ver the Secretary of war shall direct arm ed and paid' by Ahe United States, to- all intents and purpose-, a standing army, and denominated a militia force, only to avoid the instinctive jealousies which the name of a standing army cals up in the mind of every freeman. . Can such a force be called militia tn the sense of the Virginia Bill of Rights which declares that a well regulated militia, composed of the Body of the Peo ple, mined to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state," or in the sense of the Constitution of the United States which authorizes Congress 'to pro vide for calling forth tbe militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrection and repel invasions." Is there at '.his mo roent, insurrection, invasion, or resistance to the laws of the union, which would jus tify calling forth the militia into 'actual ser vice,' or if there were, would it justify em Hodving them as "recruits," for eight years term of service? No such conslitutional exiffency exists or is alleged ; and I can 4view the Secretary's plan in ho other light than as a propositon for raising a large stand ing armv, without encountering the well founded , Republican jealousies which it? name excites ; or otherwise, as a mo?t in genious device for extending the influence of the Federal Executive, by setting span t '. t r .t I . iron, me mass oijno p-op-e, thoiisanrivotin.. not fightingmen, receiving piy from the United States as militia 'in ac tual service,' andjooking opto1 the Presi- dent as 'iheir commander in chief, 7 as the Constitution, in that case, provides and di rects. I know of but one precedent for so profound a contrivance; and that was in ihe days of Ihe 'English commonwealth," so called, when that wily statesman. Oliver Cromwell, divided the kingdom into 'twelve military jurisdictions,7 just as ine secretary now oroooses to divide the United States . r. . . . '.: :.:-. nA if mtm air iv ii iir in uiiuu infneiornl fniliiarv oisi ;.!. uhvi .- uim-. --- -- . , Tot nf -Vlitta caused y of the - to be "enlisted;" or recrn.led, nnder proper , ,0 .hairind tf th. Pre.--J-r officefs,and "regular pay to he distributed a- cfr one ad Ue9 from re moog them:" which the historian says, the doab( ,f however, under ihe novl u Lord protector found lo be a most effectual bruacr)ed by Ibe present Chief Magistra' . resourre" for repressing hla political ene ! Iligh and delicate p.wer, fremf?'nfal J mi'es.hut which all reasonable men consider ireme ni --throwing aside the mask of liberty ' and the Censttiotiw, ar.d.roay -toU.i - "parcelling out, tho people intosu i..v divisions of slavery"" I hate no cV- to question the originality of the Stc tf t by .insinuating that he m3v have f'-r the hint of bis pha from so eeletr authority. Bat to return tft ihe interesting cifFiIn , . financial condition and prospects of the c . - we have jnst had a most impressive a.! , lion of lhe prrcarious and uncertain chs: executive professions and assurance! cn if. , jeel. Yoo doubtless recollect that, in l.h : sage at ihe commencement ot the sessi - n ! ( gri-ss; ihe Presidentexhibited a bh!y ing picture of the condiiiun of ihe 'Hea icrv, ations had been conducted. He to!J th :: resentativesof the people. ibere 13 everi. sin to believe, if Congress shaM keep tK? priai'tons within the estimates furnished Execul'iTe, Ihtthe outsandiojj Treasury : will be redeemed, and the public eiperw 3 : fraytd" by the existing and rnrrent rr.f sr.? 1 Treasury, without iuipusingr pva ths : any additional burthan, either ot leans cr i. rr ed taxes;" and then proceeded to desi ant 1 . great eils of a public drbl in lime cf r This message Was delivered on the mcrtj f of December, 1SS0. But Ntscia mens horainura fa'i snrtisque fit , El servare modum, iebossublnasecuno s- On the fourth day pi February fullowin-, in ! lhao six weeks after these flittering aur:: and aefore any appropriation had been cr.. J Congress excapi for their own pay, anoiler : sage is sent, communicating an apprehends 1 . fieiancy" in the revenne, and urgently calii: Congress to ' make early provisions cf c ; and adequate1 additional ' means in guarJ : public credit, and to meet promptly and fan! ly any deficiencies in the revenue from w! ?.;, er cause they mav rise' or in other wr--, another issue of Treasury notes, or a loan In other form, to .incur '; that very creation poblic debt,1 with the denunciation of nr.i. 1 had embellished his discourse at the ope:..; the session of Conzres. , I Let cs look a little farther into the Prr; .' late annual message to Congress, to sea if it ; nUbes ta the Conservatives any ground t pect a change either of policy or doctrine n of the questions on which; tbey have, with him. Does he renounce any of ihi i c gerous and anti republican claims of cxc power, which we have seen, have ben l.tr fue advanced by him and his friends? 1 from it, he has, in the ominous df-clarai: : makes in his message ''that ibe Exectniv' a componant part of the legislative puv. ; r, forth a new and by far the boldest and n; ; constitutional pretension, in behalf of Exec -power, that ever was avowed or counter.: by any statesman in this country . Where the President find any thing to give vulot t daogeroas a dogma f The very first lina ( : Constitution of the United Slates decismr pudiates it bv expressly declaring that " u'.i gislatiye powers herein granted shall ta vt in the Congress of . the United State?, : shall consist of a Senate and House cf i; sentatives." Will the President endravt -fled some sanction to this bold pretention in ; provision of the Constitution which dir. :. ; -when a Rill has pased the two Houses a' C gross, it shall be presented to the President his signatort, and if he refuse to sgn it, he r return it with his objection to the House in it originated ?M Bat this very same pro?; expressly declares that thoogh he has refits sign it, yet the Bill shall become a Jaw," v out bis signature, if twar thirds of both U over role his objections. The same prut: also declares, that if " a Bill be not return ! 5' I v" the President within ten days, after it shall been presented to ftitn, the same shall be a in like manner as if he had siloed it. T ry provision of the Constitution, then,s!.: that a Bill may become a law' wiiho n concurrence of ihe President; gives not the s! esl support to the sweeping- claim now It forward by him, that the ' Executive furr component part of the Legislative powe r;" v. that claim, as already remarked, ia most err I 1 t . t a . I j- i r tcany repuoiaiea ana conaeinned oy tho nr'. of the Constitution, which declares that 4 z.'' gislative powers herein granted" are vt:t: . tbe two Houses of Congress. l( this extraordinary declaration cf t!;p I . dent were a mere barren theory, ravoltinj t is to the understanding, it might be per r: to pass without the expression of any other f timent than lhat of special wondet' th.t statesman who had passed ihrongh a succr of public trusts to the very highest known t Constitution, should so strangely hate misf both the textjand the spirit of the " great ( ter" by which he holds his 'office, which in (ting and defining the powers attd dories cf lie functionaries, intended . to give the tV - practical security to the public liberties, i' is no empty speculation on the pari cf ihe V dent. Il shews ibe overweening anxif-tv -which he is intent on the assertion of ex : preroaiive. and ihe enlargement of hw powers, and how pron he is lo confound th " bases of executive influence over the I.5: ; live department in the practical adminisirt of ibe Government, ( which he himself by Lis tern of party discipline, has so largely cor.it ted to introdace,) with ihe sacred txt r f Constitation itself. This new Executiva r ingof the Consiitutiori was, doubtless, ir;ir and has been so interpreted by lha Prcs! : own party, to claim a wide latitude in U. and appl'cation of the veto power; for, if ' Executive be a component part of the l lative power," he would be justified in v, holding his approval of any act of LeMr on the same principles which would justif y non concurrence of any other component ; of the Legislature of the Senate or lie Represeniatives, for example, in respcctKf cidingon Bills sent from one House fo t- er. And as a mere difference of opinion ; ihe expediency of the 'measure proposed, . ver been held to justify one Huusein r-jcr: Hill nassed bv thejther; bo a like differerr opinion, under this new readmg of ihe Cn-, tion, would justify tbe President, as a " c: r . ' . i. nent nail of the Legislative rower," in ap: ; lheqoained negaiive or veto, which the Cc ; . h , f . e-tracrj - j oc-a-jo-t fo any act or Legislation passed by jWo Honses, 0f the 'expediency of whir h. mv not enienain ine same - Ta show how oitnly ! inconsistent this r. View of the application of;ihe ' Present :al t . .. .. 1 - . t. ik.t tV-.ntt i. ;ih thA .ild roahlicao oocirines, i urtu i refer yoo to Mr. JefTerson's official cpinfo seated tuGen. Washington on ihec-ns:i; .i... r n.-lr -hrtflr in 1791. if Y.hi anil vi .' w-"- . . ,.in i intended bv ihe 0nM! ym m zt. i w w v ------ t3a shield to proci ine 0f ihe Slates and of lb constitutional r ' e co orainate cr " --t ... a mnm. nf ihe government from Ine m v ! i r
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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March 13, 1840, edition 1
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