Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1858 — Jackson vs. the Democracy. [ARTICLE]

Jackson vs. the Democracy.

'l'll; 1 present Democratic party decilarvd it treaj son so oppose,even in fair and manly discussion, j thef doctrine of the Drcd Scott decision. YVhat- ; ever the Supreme Court decides oil any question |-is-final as against all questions thereof. Conj gross, the President, and the sovereign people are at! to obey in silence the mandates of that tribunal oil whatever subject. No matter how • j history, to the Constitution, to the- aspirations ! of the popular heart, and to the advancing des-tiny-of mankind, its decision may be, the De- ; moo racy call it treason to question their souud- ! Ticss) or to refuse the obedience that Slaves only 1 ran render to the irreversable behests ol’their opi pres'oors. Let modern pretenders to Democracy learn to hate their position and despise tlieni- ! selves by comparing it with that of the old ! hero of New Orleans, who declared in his veto | mess ige of July 16, 1832, that other men had | consciences to govern their actions in reference j to the Constitution, besides Judges of tlie Supreme Court of the United States. He savsf ‘• If tie- opinion of the Supreme Court covered | the whole ground of this act it ought pot to ecu- | trot film co-ordinate authorities of this government. Tiie Congress, the Executive and the Court, j lnn.’t: each he guided by its opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer wito taki‘3 an i oath to support the Constitution, swear.s that he j will -support it as he understands it, anil not as it is understood by others. It is as much the 'dutr of the House of Representatives, of the Senate and of the President, to decide upon tlie constitutionality of any hill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the Supreme Judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision. The opininn of tlie Judges has no more authority over ■Congress, than the opinion of Congress has over the .lodges; and on that point, the President is independent of both. The authority of tb-' Supreme Court must not, therefore, lie permitted to control Ihe Congress, or tlie Executive- wh*n acting in tlveifi Legislative capacities; ]>u’t to have Only such iuffueiice as the force of their reasosi iiigiihay deserve-”: — Jackson's Messages. Mow the o!d Resolute would have spit upon a Democrat'v I ike that of tile present day—a Democracy sa net inning the “divine right” of tho J udges, and enjoining silent and unquestioning obedience to their decrees. /Phis indeed, is til* climax of [lartizaji degradation—the last ation of tlie blind idolaters ol official supremacy. Indianapolis Journal (Ls” New Ilavon is in danger hf being shorn of her glory. The long rowi of venerable tiles which have given her the name of the “City of Elms,” am dying from the poisonous vapor that escapes from the lenkv gas pipes. No less than twenty fine tree*, thany of them a quarter of a century old, have recently been killed from tljis cauco oh Wooster I’lace ahnio: