Lynchburg Virginian

Internal Improvement Bill

We have been quite amused with the very facetious article in the Kentucky Enquirer, occasioned by the approval by the President of the Internal Improvement bill—A bill in no respect dissimilar in principle to that celebrated Maysville Road bill, which was vetoed on constitutional grounds. Nevertheless, the Enquirer speaks in quite laudatory terms of the President's hand which has arrested the U. S. Bank bill. Pray, was this vigorous hand palsied by the fear of the consequences which might follow its rejection, while at the same time against the Internal Improvement bill? Besides, what credit does the President deserve for vetoing an unconstitutional measure to-day, if he has approved another yesterday? And will the Enquirer be good enough to tell its public the grounds of its continued confidence in this pusillanimous though sly demagogue, by his contradictory conduct, to which neither his oath nor his reverence for the constitution to secure to constitute a barrier: He either regarded the Maysville road bill as constitutional or otherwise. If constitutional, then he assigned other than the true reasons for rejecting it, if unconstitutional, then he has approved another bill, similar in character to it, in violation of his oath of office. We should be pleased to see his friends release him from this dilemma.