The Daily Madisonian

THE FINAL BLOW.

Ever since the day the President vetoed Mr. Clay's Bank bill—an act which alike preserved his consistency and his country—it is known to every intelligent man that every expedient in the power of the ultra Whigs has been resorted to, to crush the Executive power—that they have not hesitated to employ any means to effect their object, even when, to strike the President, it was necessary that the blow should also fall upon the People.

It now appears, from certain hints in the Federal organs, and also in the Globe, that the final blow is to be the most terrible of all, and which will not only reach the People and the President, but the Constitution itself.

It is currently reported that a proviso will be appended to one of the appropriation bills, to the effect that no money shall be paid to any officer who may be appointed during the recess.

Thus is the power of appointment, conferred on the President by the Constitution, to be abolished by the expiring Clay Congress!—A Congress that has refused to entertain any proposition for the relief of the People, which the Constitution made it the duty of the President to recommend, is now about to close its partisan labors, (if the report be well founded,) by laying violent hands on the sacred charter of our liberties!

We had thought that the present Congress had done enough already to appease their animosity toward the President; we thought that they had already accumulated more sins on their heads than they could well atone for before their outraged constituency—sins of commission and omission in reference to the People's interests—but we were not prepared to believe they would resort, even in a fit of desperation, to an assault on the Constitution of their country.

Nor can we yet believe that the attempt, if made, will be successful. A sufficient number of members, lost to all public obligations, and to the value of the good name of their children, will hardly be found to sustain such a diabolical measure. And, if it were consummated, its effects would only be felt by those who perpetrated the act. The powers and duties of the Executive are defined in the Constitution, and that instrument the President has sworn to support.

Knowing full well that the Chief Magistrate is beset with thousands of subordinates whose only study is to contribute to defeat his measures and thwart his purposes, it is no wonder that the ultra Whigs would aim to protect these efficient emissaries! And the Globe, alarmed at the idea of Republicans being appointed to fill their places, which might possibly lose it some Democratic votes when a printer is to be elected, expresses a holy horror at the idea of making "changes" after the adjournment of Congress.

This honest solicitude for the retention of ultra Whigs in office, is manifested nearly every day in the Globe; and we doubt not—the editor is haunted every night by the ghost of Mr. Webster retiring from Washington. The Globe could not survive such a calamity, were it real—provided it was followed by the advent of some distinguished Democrat.

But this "final blow," if it be struck, will only be a self-inflicted fatal stroke to its perpetrators. Not one appointment the less will be made in consequence of it. The Supreme Court would soon hold an inquest over it, and record a proper verdict.