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Foa THE SOUTHERN TtLiORAf Ht
VMCLOCDED Hunts,
1 sing of tunny hours
Why speak of any others ?
Such ai were pas.' J in bowers
To poets dear, und lovers.
Full many a beauteous form
I saw with fond emotion,
Ere yet one adverse storm
Had (wept across life's ocean.
The smiles of beauty 'hrill'd
My heart, beyond all measure;
The cup of joy was fill'd
W.th ev'ry earthly pleasure.
Then came the blasts of death
Of wo W.-i desolation!
The fair, the brave resign'd their breath,
And all was consternation.
All, for awhile was gloom ;
We muurnV o'erthe departed,
Sent early to the tomb,
Bereft and broken-hearted.
But consolation carjle :
They left a World of sorrow ;
And now, unheeding earthly fame,
They (rait a glorious morrow.
SttBMhine succeeds the gloom,
As pleasure follows pain;
Fresh flowers around us bloom,
And all is bright again !
Thus, 'mid the storms of life,
The sunshine of the soul
Will sheer us, thro' the strife,
And every care control.
Count those bright hours alone,
Replete with joy and gladness;
Why should wu sigh and moan,
And steep our souls in sadness?
If blissful hours on earth we've past,
By ourl-rcator given;
The heart sincere may hope, nt last,
For brighter ones in Heaven. O. (f.
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feCENES Ot THE IftTE.lIPEBATE.
Ill MANIAC
liain'd in his prison's solitude,
Aud long a tenant there,
fit, but wilil, the maniac stood
Tw'stintr hi; silvered hair:
or seem i to need or ee the nmn
icrce :iasn'Q ins strain'u ami nery eve
A vivid, searing glare;
is brain a dark, a clouded sky
And Frenzy's strife was there:
is burning heart with lory beat,
nd bounded in Us tempest-scat.
is blue awoln veins the heated stream
Of life ran curd line; through;
nd in his glaring eyeballs gleam
Miot Hashes ol Ins woe :
r'', rm his knitted brow enthroned,
at Madness. Sadly now ho moan'd,
Maud now it seem'd Hell's furies rose
'& To combat in bis tnrht ;
he writhing pain the'homd throes
The motion for the fight
fee breast convulsed the rolling eye-
tnch'u teem ana howl ol agony.
Pressing his frantic brain ;
.. A . I . . J
Warr'd on himself again;
lore nis panting Dosom oare,
nirrnv li t- i ri i-iii iw itp
I Sternly on vacancy ;
And fury now his heart-string rent,
' A lightening rends the tree ;
(One desperate struggle- 'twas the last
And the stern muniac'stpirit pass'd.
Why mi he thus? why was he there?
The morning of his life
Was landless, promiseful and fair ;
Unknown to him the strife,
; Aed straggle, which too often thrust,
Young manhood's spirit in the dust.
Why was-ns tlms?-Yon mother ask,
Whose cheek, are thin and pale,
At,'hending o'er her needle-task,
1 fehe fears her strength may fail :
And trembles, lest her little lluck
May feel Want's separating shock.
Her little flock ! the ragged ones
Thatslfiver on hor hearth!
Longing for earlier summer's suns,
To bfinj them summer's mirth.
Ak her or them one, or the whole
mwjvfL;n hhiiui inae uliii
They'll point thee to the potion fcdtr.'
W. D.
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'um i:n iM:ms,
From the Cincinnati Mirror.
THE COHPUO fUSK.
A TALK FOa "THIS LOVrtAS."
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Midsummer's Sight Dream.
When persons have arrived at a certain
period in life, it is astonishing with what
grasp habits cling to them. You may rec
tify a crook in a sapling, but you can never
untwist a knot on a grown up tree. Cross
grained it is, and do what joii may, cross
grained it will remain. Speakina of knots
and cross-grained things nuts me in mind nf
v4 at
t knotty tVb'id I once had. People ;.re
very much mistaken, by the way, when
they sny that old bachelors are crusty, They
are not crusty that is, if you have a crust
of bread, or a crust of ice in your mind for
they arc of a hardness or iconess from rib
to back hone, and therefore no crust about
them. That they are knotty, I admit; and
if you have ingenuity to untie one who has
been in the habit of consulting his own will,
you may ns wen not despair ot hudim? the
jiiiiosupucr s sione vet, .is vour sagacity is
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fully up to the discovery of any thing.
Vp, l had a knotty Inend, named Will
rompkius, who never perpetrated but one
pun in his life, and that was when a certain
lady told him once that he was the most
knotty fellow she ever saw. Will, with a
eer m his left eye, replied that she was
more notty by half, as he had been beseech-
ng her to get ready lor the ultnr and bridal
for the last six months, and every time he
fked her if she was it idy, she replied that
she was not not not. And that, contin
ued Will, is evidence enough that there re
more nots about you than there are about
inc.
" You want me to gat ready for the bri
dal and the altar, do yon, Mr. Will Toinp
kins,,J replied the fuir one; " 1 will let you
know tint Lm neither a horse nor a cul
prit, and tlLrgore I will not-have a bridle
in my moutPi, t,ra halter about my nock."
1 forgot to descrilio this couple, and I
therefore have got for to do it, us the old
ballads phrase it. Will was three and thir
ty; corn-fed and corpulent with tell-tale
marks of red o the extreme end of his nose
fond of the sex, and consequently of good
living and a lover of j,ikes, and his own
way of doing things. Will had a streak ol
waggishncss in his flesh hi natural lymph
was all turned to g mJ humorand was al
together unequalled for the hoartiness of
his laugh, Which emotion would cause his
cheeks to be lifted up to the almost total
eclipse of that little gray luminary, his eye,
which would twinkle in the shadow cast
upon it, in a manner provocative of the
most ludicrous glee. How did Will manage
to preserve his celibacy? Ah! thereby
nangs a taie, which, it yon win give me
time, riUell you. But 1 must describe Miss
Susun Hatttliorn first. She was twenty-
five single ladies never get into the se
cond quarter of a century she had a black
eye, which Will told her looked like Venus,
because it was bright and cold; and he used
to Worship it every evening, as they do the
evening star in Persia. Miss Hauthoin's
cheek was like ojse-of those roses which are
always u blooC-hcr brow was white, like
a lily hsif was red, like a bon ay -suckle;
und thus rtlch for the botany of her face,
w hich, like an eglantino blossom, was fair
and delicate, and wholesome to look upon.
There was an attachment subsisting be
twtcn Will and Miss Haul born, of some
years' standing. The people wondered why
matrimony, dr a squabble, of some such in
teresting issue Was not for'ij omiug. In
vain did they attack either of the parties
thcro was a crotchet somewhere, but
what it was, was the question which no one
could answer. All the girls thought it nvist
be Miss Maujliorn's fault, and all the men
suspected Will. Thus were the sexes by
the car. Many wura the ingenious specu
lations as to the cause, which wore set
afloat, as month after month rolled away,
and Will visited Miss llauihorn, and she
did not change her name. Nobody suspect
ed them of a Platonic attachment, as neither
of them were poetical enough for any thing
of that nature. Might it not bo romance?
Is there no room for romance about an old
bachelor's head, or an old maid's heart?
The truth is, people tire not aware that ro
mance plays around a brow that has a wrinkle
in it, although some of the most romantic
beings in the world are those who have sur
vived the " equinoctial lino of nfe," thirty
years, and have preserved their single bles
sedness without a flaw. Did you never see
an old bachelor, with a few gray hairs light
ly sprinkled over a silver crown, talking
about moonshine and Moore's melodies, sen
timent and sonnets, to a lady with a wither
ing blossom on her cheek, While she sighed,
and fidgctted, and brushed, as his words
stole unconsciously to her honr. ? Did you
never sec any thing of this kind? Then, 1
can tell you that you huvo never witnessed
the most interesting oxhibifion of roinance
which is indicated in human actions.
Will and llii llauihorn took their own
time to arrange their affairs, and the world
wondered on. Public curiosity does not net
like a spur on these ancient folks. They
are deliberate on the serious business of
matrimony, and they are not to be forced
into it precipitately by any amount of scan
dal and small talk that a generous public
can bring to bear upon them.
Among those who wondered most at the
dil itorincse of our hero and heroine, was a
lady by the nime of Mary Warlnnd. It was
her opinion, that if they meant to marry for
the sake oi the happiness which Was to re
sult from the connexion. It was high time
they were about it. Miss Wat-land was a
faded bcatitvuf thirty that is to say, twen
ty -tivei Rumor, which UQVer lies, averted
that, about ten years previously, Will had
offered himself to, and was rejected by Miss
Wa.-land, who at that time had an ey'o on a
nnval officer, who was flourishing like a
moin about the bn inacv of hr i,r.i,u-
and getting singed at every turn. The lieu
tenant was suddenly calied away to the
service, a ad Miss Warland, after' sobbing
and languishing for a week, turned her eye
with a mollified expression on Will. But
Will, like a philosopher, had already begun
to besiege another lady's affections; and
Miss found ou, too late, that she had com
mitted a sad blunder, when her hopes of on
officer induced her to consign Will to all the
pains and penalties of unrequited iove.
Judge of Miss Warland's surprise, then,
when Will, ten years after, asain returned
to her, with visits most flattering for their
frequency. She fancied she saw in his at
tentions, indications of a genuine pns.Mon in
its ineipiency. She forthwith made up her
mind that she was wiser titan she had been
before, and that if Will, like the prodim
son, after years of wandering abroad, should
riturn to her house, she woold extend both
her arms, and give him him the embrace of
a hearty welcome. Her heart had expelled
its love for military glory, and renewcdthe
luimauoii3 oi us younger onys, wnenever
Will favored her with his presence. Our
hero visited hor frequently, and a'tended to
nil Iicr pleasures with wonderful assiduity
for several months, and the town begin to
think that the affair between Miss Hauthorn
and himself was out that is to say, that he
had got his walking papers and that Miss
Warland would, after all, be the chosen ob
ject of Will's heart, and the depository of his
most sacred altections.
Suddenly, Will deserted Miss Warland,
wheeled rightabout, and resumed his atten
tions towards Miss Hauthorn, who had evi
dently pined away as long ns Will made his
devoirs at the shrine of her rival. There
was a mystery in all this which people
could not solve, and which you, fair reader,
cannot solve. Shal1 I do myself the plea
sure of solving the aff iir for you?
Bearing Miss Hauthorn s age in mind, it
will not appear singular if she was a little,
just a little, squeamish, and quite fastidious.
She had a few prejudices, which seemed to
her to possess unconquerable force. For
instance, she Would have died, rather than
have dwelt under the same roof where a
kitten inhaled the breath of life. Next to
her hatredof kittens, was her hatred of to
i .i c c i
uucco particularly oi segars. Fine pro
tested it would kill her to iook upon the
mouth of her husband smoking like a foul
chimney of a damp day. Now Will, of all
thngs, loved n fragrant segar, and next to
it he loved Miss Hawthorn, and Iks lovod
his own will belter than the will of any body
else. A dilemma is now easily imaginable.
Miss Hauthorn had engaged herselt to n il
before she was nware of his failing; and
one night, as he was about Saluting iter in
most affectionate manner, she shrunk back
from his embrace, and fainted! She
came to, and assured Will that it was the
odor of his breath, tainted with pestilential
segar smoke, which hud caused her syn
cope. She besought him to forsake the fil
thy practice, and he promised her that he
would not! bhe was vexed, and has
tily declared she would never marry him,
or sutler him to take any liberty with her,
until he had desisted from the practice of
smoking.
Here, then, tliey were at issue. Alas!
says the poet
Alas ! how sligllt a cause may move
Distention betwixt heiwto tteiU love !
They exhausted their powers of eloquence
and argument on the question of smoking.
Neither party flinched from theiroriginal po
sition. Thus they courted and quarrelled,
for two yoiis. One night, Will, whose pa
tience was well nigh exhausted, went to
seo Miss Hauthorn, us usual. The lady re
ceived him, as she always did, with kind
ness. For ail hour, they talked over the
affairs of the neighborhood, and then Will
told lier that he hud made his mind up to
one thing. While the lady libtened with
groat attention, Will deliberately drew from
his pocket a match arid piper, placed a se
gar in his mouth, made tire and lit it.
" Now, Miss Susan 1 want you"
said he, with a p iff at every word "to
give me a hnai answer, wm you accept
me "s 1 umr
" I will not, so long as you arc so filthy g
to smoke.
" Is that final ?" said Will, puffing.
" Yes and. your impudence is most un
exampled," "farewell," said Will, and off he started,
with a volume of smoke wreathing about his
head.
Several nights went arid came, but Will
came not. Miss Hauthorn scarcely knew
whether to laugh or cry, at what she termed
his obstinacy. Sho was not a little alarmed,
when tidings reached her that Will, instead
of shooting a bullet through his head, was
engaged in the very silly business of shoot
ing darts at Miss Warland's heart. Gradual
ly the flower fadeqfrom Miss Hauthorn's
cheek, and the lustre frfsook key eye, and a
pain gathered in her breast. She thought
she would have the consumption, and be
come the victim of a broken heart. Never
was maiden in So sad a plight! Should she
give way? No; the mere thought of smoke
WKS insufferable. She would discard Will,
she thought, so she would; and then she
shed a flood of tears to moisten and keep
alive her resolution!
One day) as she was lamenting her dis:
colisolnte condition. Will came upon her
sejarless! He tola her his affections were
all her's with the exception of a moiety,
which belonged to segars and if she was
willing to tiike him with his infirmities, he
was at her disM.sal ; if not. Itewould take
her rival, Miss Wurlatid Shetuld him her
mine1 was fited, irrevocably, nn J then burst
into tears. Will Ciuhl bnive f!c battery of
her vocal eloquence, but there was a path is
in her teirs, which unmanned him, and he
lelt her. In an hour after, she received a
pink billet.
"Dear Susan: I will meet you halfway.
I will compromise our difficulty. ! now
smoke six per day I will come down to
three ne after each meal. I will die, or,
what is worse, marry if you do
not agree to this proposition.
" Your's, ever, Will."
This proposition wrought a miracle, and
the quarrel ended in smoke. The chasm
between the lovers was bridged. Miss Hau
thorn s visage amended hourly. Miss War-
land was left in the lurch, and Will nuffd
aw ay, ana fancied the form of his inamorata
in the smoke which wreathed above him
Eg fear of further difficulties, they pro
coeUed to tho issue with commendable ex
pedition, and in a fortnight Wjl! led the
blushing damsel to tho altar.
t. h. s,
MR. WEBSTER'S SPEECH,
In tiik Skate or the United States
Concluded from our last.
Iho President of tho United States, sir,
nas alluded to this loss of the Fortification
Bill, in his message at the opening of the
session, and he has alluded also, in the same
message, to the rejection of the vote of the
three millions. On the first point, that is.
the loss of the whole bill, and the causes of
that loss, this is his language:
"Much loss and inconvenience have
been experienced in conserjuence of the
failure of the bill containing the ordinary
appropriations for fortifications, which pass
ed one branch of the national legislature at
the last session, but was lost in the other."
it the president intended to say that the
bill, having originate I in the house of re-
preseniatives, passed tho senate, und was
yet afterwards lost in the house of repre
sentatives, he was entirely correct. But he
has been altogether wrun-'lv informed, il
ho intended to state that the hill, haviu..
passed the house, was lost in the senate. As
i have already slated, the bill was lost in
the house of reoresentatives. It drew its
last breath there. That house never let go
its hold on it after the report of the commii
tees J conference. But it held it, reUiined
it, and of course, it died in its possession
when the house adjourned, it is to be re
gretted that the president should have been
misinformed in a matter of this kind, when
the slightest reference to the journals of the
two houses would have exhibited the correct
history of the transaction,
I Metif aioMr.f jsaiilej)l tailuLposJit
posed grant of the three millions, for the
purposo of stating somewhat more distinctly
the true grounds of objection to that crant.
These grounds of objection were two:
the hist was that no such appropriation had
been recommended by the president, or
any ot the departments. And what made
this ground the stronger was, that the pie
posed grant was defended, so for ns it was
defended at nil, upon an alleged necessity,
growing out of our foreign relations. The
foreign relations of the country are en
trusted by the constitution to the lead and
management of the executive government.
The president not only is supposed to be,
but usually is, much better informed on
these interesting subjects than the houses
ofepngross. If there be danger of rupture
with a foreign state, he sees it soonest. All
our ministers and agents abroad are but so
many eves and ears and organs to commu
nicate to him whatsoever occurs in foreign
places, and to keep him well advised ol all
which may concern the interests of the
United States. There is an especial oro
priety, therefore, that, in this branch of the
public service, congress should always be
able to avail itself of the distinct opinions
and recommendations of the prosidenfi The
two Houses, and especially f'.ie House ot
Representatives, are the natural euardians
oi me reopie s money. J hey arc to keeii
it sacred, and to use it discreetly. 'J'hev
arc not at liberty to spend it where it is not
needed, nor to offer It lor any purpose till
a reasonable occasion for the expenditure
be shown. Iow in this case, I repeat
again, the rrcsident had sent us no recom
niendation for any such appropriations; no
iwpartmcnt had rcoomendedit; no estimate
had contained it; in the whole history of tho
se.-ci'inkfrom the nwoiris: of the first dav.
down tbtS o'clock in.the evening of the last
day, not one syllable had been said to us
not one hint suggested, showing that the
rrosident deemed any sach measures Ei
ther necessary or proper. I state thistrong
ly, sir, but I state it truly. I hiute the mat
te'r as it is ; and I wish to draw the attention
of the Senate aud of the country strongly to
this dart of the case. I say again therefore,
that when this vote for the three millions
was propsed to the Senate, thcro was noth
ing before us showi that the President re
commended any such appropriation. You
very well know sir, tint fids objection was
immediately stated as soon as tho message
from the House was read. We all well
remember that it was tho very point put
forth by the honorable member from Ten
nessee (Mr. White,) as being, if I miy say
so, the butt-end of his argument in opposi
tion to the vote. lie said, very significant
lyiktttltary forcibly, "it is not asked for
by those who best know what the public
service require.-'; how then urc we to pre
sume that it is needed?-' This question,
sir, was not answered then i it never has
been answered since it never can be ans
wered satisfactorily.
But let me hero again, sir, recur to the
message of tho President. Speaking of the
loss of the bill; He uses these words:
"This failure was the more regcttod, not
only because it nocessnrily interrupted nnd
delayed the progress of a sy stem of national
defence projected immediately after the Inst
war, and since steadily pursued, but Uo be
cause it contained a contingent appropriation,
inserted in accordance with the views of the
executive, in aid of this important object,
and other brnches of the national defence,
some par" ions of which might have been
most usefully applied during tho past sca-
son.
Taking these words of the message, sir,
and connecting them with the fact that the
President had mada no recom nda'i n to
Congress of any such appropriation, strikes
me they furnish mattor for very grave re
flection, rhe President says that t'.iis oro-
posod appropriathw was "in accordance
with tr views of the Executive;" that it
was "in aid of an important oVject ;"and that
some portions ol it might have been most
usefully applied during the past season."
And now, sir, 1 ask, it this be so why
was not this appropriation recommended to
Congress by tho President? I ask this
quction in the name of the Constitution of
the United States, I stand on its own clear
authonty in asking it; and invite all those
who remember its injunctions and who mean
to respect them, to consider well how the
question is to be answered
Sir, the Constitution is not yet an entire
(lend letter. I here is yet some form of
observance to its requ;rements; and even
while any degree of formal respect is paid
m it, i must i.e permuted to continue the
quegiion, why was not this appropriation re
commended I It was in accordance with
the President's views; it wag for nn impor
tant onject; it nngnr nave neon usefully ex
pended. The Presdent being of opinion,
nereiore, mat me appropriation was necos
nry nno proper now is it mat it was not
recommended to Congress? For, sir, we
nil know the plain direct words in which the
very first duty, of the President is rmpoied
by the Constitution. Here they are:
He shall from time to time, irive to the
Congress information of the state . t" the
Uni on, and recommended to their considera
tion such measures as he shall j idge neces
sary "ml expedient."
Afcr ennuinerating the pomcri of the
President, this is the first the very first duty
which the Constitution gravely enjoins up
on him. And now, sir, in no language of
aunt or reproach, in no language of par
ly attack, in terms of no asperity Or ex
aggeration, but called up by the necessity
of defending my own vote npon the subject,
I now, as a public man, as a member of
Congress nere it mv place, and as a citi
zen who feels as warm altchment to the
Constitution of the country ns any other
can, demand nf any who may choose to give
nji answer to this questions: Why was
not this measure, wutcrTrrE mTiWrf
rl.'.T A1I?Q TIT T III' TilAltlKn ...... ... . .
DECLARES THAT HE THOUHT NECESSARY
AND EXPEDIENT, RECOMMENDED TO CoX-
oress?" And why am I, and why ore
others -members of Congress, whose path
of duty theCiinstiution says shall bo enlight
ened by the Presidents opinions and com
munications, to be charged with want of
patriotism and want .f fidelity to tho coun
try, because we refused an appropriation
which the President, though it was in ac
cordance with his views, nnd though he
believed it important, would not, and did
not, recommended to us? When these
questions ore answered, sir, to the Satisfac
tion of intelligent and impartial men, then,
and not till then, let reproach, let censure,
let suspicion of any kind rest on tile 'twenty
nine names which stand opposed to this
appropriation.
How, sir, were we to know that this ap
propriation "was in accordance with the
views of the Executive?" He had not so
told us formally or informally. He had det
only not recommended it to Congress, or
eithor House of Congress, but nobody on
this floor llad undertaken to speak in hi be
half. No man got up to sav, "tho Presi
dent desires this, he thinks it ridcessary, ex
pedient and proper." Bat sir, if nny gen
tleman had risen to sny this, it would not
h ive answered the requisition of the con
stitution. Not at all. It is not a hint, an
intimation, tho suggestion of a friend, by
which the Executive duty in this respect
is to be fulfilled. By no moms. The
President is to make n recommendation, a
public recommendation, an official recom
mendation, a responsible recommendation ;
not to ouo bouse, but to both houses : it is to
bo n recommendation to CoripreKs. If, on
rccciviug sudh recommendation, C ingress
fail to pay it proper respect, the fault is
theirs, if, deeming the measure -necessary
and expedient, the President fail to rec
ommend if, the fault is his, clearly ; distinct
ly and exclusively his. This, Sir, is the
constitution of the United States, or else J
do not understand the C mstitution of the
United States. Does not every roan see
bow perfectly unconstitutional it i tint the
President should communicate his opinions
or wishes to Congress on stich srive and
important subjects, otherwise than by indi
rect a;id responsible recommendation;!
public and open recommendation, equally
addrcisodand equally known to all whose
duly calls upon thorn to act on the subject?
What wodld be the state ot thing if he mi'dit
communicate his withes or opinions private
ly .to members of ono house, and mako no
such connnunicaton to member of the oth
er? Would not tho two houses be neeessa-
rily put in immediate collision ? Would
thev stand bn equal footing? Would thev
Imve equal information? What could ensue
from such a manner of conducting the pub
lic busiuess bat quarrel: confusion and con;
tlict? A member rises id the House of Ron-
resen' olives and moves a very large ap
propriation of money fo military purposes.
line says ne noes upon hxcutivo recom
mendation, where is his vouchor? The
President is not like the British King, whose
mimsttwe and secretaries are in the tttmv
of Cotrinvolis, and who arc authorized, m
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certain cases, to esprees the optafcrna nad
wisbe of their sovereign. We here ma
lung's servants, at least we hare aoo
kriowa to the constitut or, Coagresa can
know the opinions of toe President oaJy a
he officially communicates them. It would
be a curious inquiry in CitW House, wkea
a large appropriation i moved, Kit Vera
necessary to atk whether the mover repre
sented the President, spoke his sentiments,
or, in other words, whether what he propo
sed were "in accordance wi h the vi.
hc Executivor How could1 that be iudWeS
,u. .,,ijf u ueiongs tor rartyisnot
nu.m unique enougn lor mat. By the airs
he give? himsein Many might assume airs,
if thereby thoy could give themselves stick
importance as to be esteemed authentic ex
positorsofthe Executive will. Or ia this)
ill to be circulated in whispers? made
-lo.vn to meetings of party men? intimated
through the press? of Cofflrminfeirfea'lM Ml
other form, which still leaves the Executive
completely responsible? So that while the
Executive purposes or wishes to pervade
the rank of party friends. influonc ik
conduct, and uoite their efforts, the open,
direct, and constitutional respotisibiiitr is
wholly avoided. Sir, this is not the coOsti
tution of the United States, nor can it be
consistent with any constitution which pro-
tesses to maintain separate departments in
the government.
Here then, sir, is abundant ground, in my
judgment, for the vote of the Senate, and
uure i migut rest it. uut mere is a so ario-
ther ground. The Constitution declares
taht no money shall be drawn from thu t.
? iry but in consequence of appropriations
made by law. What is meant bv "nm.
prtaMiMi Does this language not mean
that pirtK'ular sums shall be asiiiffned. by
iw, to particular objects? How far thin
pointing out and fixing the particular objects
shall be carried, is a njiestion ih it cannot
be settled by any precise rule. But "ia.
cifie appropriations," tint is to say, the de
signation of every object for which monev is
voted, as lur as such designation is practi
cable, haj been thooaht to be a most im-
p ortant republican principle. In times past,
popular parties havo claimed great merit
from pjyasin to carry this doctrine much
'lrWfeT, "d io aunere to it much more stnet
V than their adversaries. Mr tuifann
especially, was n great advocate for it. and
held it to bs indispensable to a safe and e
conouv.cil administration and disbursement
of the public revenue.
But what have the friends aod admirers
of Mr, Jefferson to say to this apprapria
lion? Where do they find, in this proposed
grant of three millions, designation of obi eat
and particular sad spocific apalicatiou of
money I Hive they forgotten, afl rXtoil
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nnd wholly abandoned, oven all pretence.
ir specinc appropriation? If not, bow
could they sanction this ? L nt me recall its
terms. They are that "the sum of three
millions of dollars be and the same hereby
is, appropriated, out of any money in the1
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be
emended in whole or in part, under the dl
reckon of the President of the United States
for the '?ilitary anuria val service, iiicludihir
fortifications, ordnance, and to increase the
navys provided such expenditures shall ho
rendered necessary for the defence of tho
country, prior to the uext meeting of Con
gress. In the first place it is to be observed, that
whether the money shall be used at ail dr
not, is made to depend on the discretion of
the President. This is sufficiently liberal;
It carries confidence far enough. Bat if
diere bad beea,oo other objections if the ob
jects of tho appropriation bad been uiiti
ciontly described) so that the President, if
ne expended it tor purposes authorized by
the Legislature and nothing had been left
to his discretion but tbe question, whether
an emergency had arisen in whjch the au
thority ought to be exercised, I might not
have lolt bound to reject the vote; There
are some precedents which might favour
sucli a contingent provision; though tbe
practice is dangerous, and ought not to be
followed except iu case of clear necessity
Bat the insurmountable objection to the
proposed graut was, tb i t it specified ho ob
jects. It was as general as language could
make it. It embraced e- ry expenditure
that could bo called either military or natu
ral. It was iacludod ''fortifications, ordi
nance, and increase of tho navy,' but it
was not confined to these. It embraced
the whole general subject of military scr
vie. Untie tho authority of ;.& a law,
tho ".'resident might repair ., Ships, build
ships, buy shifts, enlist seamen, and do any
thing nod ovcrv thing else tuudkkjg
naval servico without restraint or control
He might repair such fortifications as he
saw fi(, and neglect the rest; arm Such as ha ,
saw fu, ami neglect the arming of others; or
build new fortifications whenever be abuse.
But these unlimited po ors ov er the fortifi
cations and tho navy constitute, by no
means the most dangerous part of the pro.
posed authority ; Iwcause, uuder that author
Ity, his power to raise and employ land for
ces was equally nbsoluto ami incontrollod.
lie might levy troops, embody a new army,
call out the militia in numbers to suit hk
own discretion, and employ them as he saw
fit. ,
Now, sir, dosjs o.ir legislation, under our
Constitution furnish any precedent for aU
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We make appropriations for the tmy.
and we understand what we are doing, be
cause it is "the army," that is to say, the
array established by law. We mike ap
propriations for the navy; thwy, too, srefor
'the navy," as provided for und established
by law. We make appropriation for forti
fication, but we say that fortitientkaw, sJssVe
wo asaign to each its intended amount of
the whole sum. This is the usual cour r