Martinsburg Gazette

The Veto,—We have lately had occasion to advert to the free use by the Executive of the Veto power, in cases not calling for it. Since doing so, we have further evidence, in the following fact, of the familiarity with which he is disposed to avail himself of that extreme and extraordinary power.

Among the documents recently laid before the Legislature of Ohio, by the Governor of that State, is a letter from R. T. Lytle, Esq, late Representative in Congress, dated from this city, March 14th, in which, speaking of the boundary question between Ohio and Michigan (or the United States), the writer speaks of a conversation which he and Mr. Hamer had that morning had with the President upon the subject: and says:

"The President has determined to make this a prominent point in his next message—and in answer to our apprehensions as to the probable admission of Michigan into the Union, by a coalition (the result of a common jealousy) between the Northern and Southern States against Ohio, without a settlement of this question, he declared his fixed determination to apply the veto to any bill which should make it a State before the settlement of the boundary difficulty."—Nat. Int.