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Editorial
March 25, 1835
The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
What is this article about?
Editorial harshly criticizes the 'Panic Senate' for siding against U.S. interests in foreign affairs with England and France, delaying domestic appointments and justice, obstructing fortifications, and passing bills to entrench officeholders and favor the Bank of the United States, while praising the House of Representatives.
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THE PANIC SENATE.
The Nullifying Bank papers are engaged in lauding the late Panic Senate for their acts at the last session of Congress, and casting censures on the House of Representatives.
What has the Senate done?
In relation to our foreign affairs, they have sided with a foreign Government against their own country, and refused the supplies necessary to protect the national interests and honor.
After rejecting one Minister to England and having seen the People make him the President of their own body and the second officer of the Union, and after rejecting another who the Representatives of the People had deemed worthy to be their presiding officer for a series of years, they have finally, at a moment when our relations with France may make it all important to have a Minister in England, refused to the President an appropriation to pay him, and thus taken upon themselves the responsibility of deciding that none shall be sent!
They thus refuse to the President the means of adjusting our foreign difficulties by negotiation and also the means of defending his country against foreign aggression.
In relation to our domestic affairs, by not acting on the nomination of Mr. Taney until their official existence had terminated, and then indefinitely postponing it, they have left the States of Maryland and Delaware without a Federal Circuit Court for a whole year, to the delay of justice and the great injury of the People.
By repeated rejections of competent men until they had no longer power to confirm, they have left the State of Mississippi without a Surveyor General of Public Lands.
By their obstinacy in opposing the Executive and House of Representatives upon the subject of our relations with France, they have deprived the Government of the means of putting our fortifications in a state of defence, and even of progressing in the usual mode with their improvement and armament.
They have passed a bill, rendering permanent, as far as they can, all office holders of the Executive Department, and erecting them into an interest independent of the People; in which scheme they were not seconded by the House of Representatives.
They have passed a bill "to change the organization of the General Post Office," creating useless offices, and requiring the performance of impossibilities; and the House of Representatives is abused for not acting with them!
They have passed a bill to regulate the Deposite Banks, artfully contrived by the friends of the Bank of the United States to make the public money a burden to the States Banks, instead of a benefit and force them to give up the business-thus creating an apology, if not a necessity, for the re-establishment of the Bank of the United States, and the House of Representatives is abused for not making itself the dupe of this artifice!
Such are some of the acts of the Panic Senate in the last moments of its existence. The two latter measures we shall briefly examine hereafter, with the view of making plain the positions we have herein indicated.
The Nullifying Bank papers are engaged in lauding the late Panic Senate for their acts at the last session of Congress, and casting censures on the House of Representatives.
What has the Senate done?
In relation to our foreign affairs, they have sided with a foreign Government against their own country, and refused the supplies necessary to protect the national interests and honor.
After rejecting one Minister to England and having seen the People make him the President of their own body and the second officer of the Union, and after rejecting another who the Representatives of the People had deemed worthy to be their presiding officer for a series of years, they have finally, at a moment when our relations with France may make it all important to have a Minister in England, refused to the President an appropriation to pay him, and thus taken upon themselves the responsibility of deciding that none shall be sent!
They thus refuse to the President the means of adjusting our foreign difficulties by negotiation and also the means of defending his country against foreign aggression.
In relation to our domestic affairs, by not acting on the nomination of Mr. Taney until their official existence had terminated, and then indefinitely postponing it, they have left the States of Maryland and Delaware without a Federal Circuit Court for a whole year, to the delay of justice and the great injury of the People.
By repeated rejections of competent men until they had no longer power to confirm, they have left the State of Mississippi without a Surveyor General of Public Lands.
By their obstinacy in opposing the Executive and House of Representatives upon the subject of our relations with France, they have deprived the Government of the means of putting our fortifications in a state of defence, and even of progressing in the usual mode with their improvement and armament.
They have passed a bill, rendering permanent, as far as they can, all office holders of the Executive Department, and erecting them into an interest independent of the People; in which scheme they were not seconded by the House of Representatives.
They have passed a bill "to change the organization of the General Post Office," creating useless offices, and requiring the performance of impossibilities; and the House of Representatives is abused for not acting with them!
They have passed a bill to regulate the Deposite Banks, artfully contrived by the friends of the Bank of the United States to make the public money a burden to the States Banks, instead of a benefit and force them to give up the business-thus creating an apology, if not a necessity, for the re-establishment of the Bank of the United States, and the House of Representatives is abused for not making itself the dupe of this artifice!
Such are some of the acts of the Panic Senate in the last moments of its existence. The two latter measures we shall briefly examine hereafter, with the view of making plain the positions we have herein indicated.
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
Foreign Affairs
Economic Policy
What keywords are associated?
Panic Senate
Foreign Affairs
Congress Acts
Bank Of The United States
Deposite Banks
Post Office
Fortifications
Taney Nomination
What entities or persons were involved?
Panic Senate
House Of Representatives
President
Mr. Taney
Bank Of The United States
England
France
Nullifying Bank Papers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of The Panic Senate's Actions In The Last Congress Session
Stance / Tone
Strongly Critical Of The Senate And Supportive Of The Executive And House
Key Figures
Panic Senate
House Of Representatives
President
Mr. Taney
Bank Of The United States
England
France
Nullifying Bank Papers
Key Arguments
Senate Sided With Foreign Government Against U.S. Interests And Refused Supplies For Protection
Senate Rejected Ministers To England And Refused Appropriation, Hindering Negotiations And Defense
Senate Delayed Taney Nomination, Leaving Maryland And Delaware Without Federal Circuit Court
Senate Left Mississippi Without Surveyor General By Rejecting Nominees
Senate Opposed Executive And House On France Relations, Blocking Fortifications
Senate Passed Bill To Make Officeholders Permanent And Independent Of The People
Senate Passed Flawed Post Office Reorganization Bill
Senate Passed Deposite Banks Bill To Burden State Banks And Justify Re Establishing Bank Of The United States