A very unexpected event has taken place, in the death
of the President of the United States, General HaitalsoN, within a few weeks of his entering upon office. The bustle of the election, and the Atlantean burden of responsibility which he suddenly assumed, with all the difficulties of certain internal dissensions, financial troubles, and delicate foreign disputes, proved too much for the old soldier; who seems to have been painfully anxious to acquit himself with credit in his conspicuous station. The death of a President is a new occurrence in the history of the Union; no other occupant of the post has died during the term however, does not produce the same confusion as the death ef
a monarch with us in Europe ; though, according to the theory of monarchical government, "the king never dies." By the con- stitution of the United States, the Vice-President at once succeeds to the chief office, and is succeeded in turn by a provisional officer of the Senate. There is no change of Ministers ; no dissolution of Parliament, for Congress must sit its full term, neither more nor less. Hence, contrary to the general dogma, the Republican forms exhibit more steadiness of working, even on so critical an occasion, than is to be found in the boasted limited monarchy.
The new President, Mr. TTLER, has issued an address. Having bad less time to compose it in, he is briefer than customary ; but the address suffices to declare that he will carry out his predecessor's general policy, domestic and foreign, and to develop as strong a dis- position to restrict the central power as that which characterized General Hammon. Mr. TYLER enters into a disquisition on the President's power of removing public officers, which he seems about to use pretty freely ; but he condemns it, and promises to use it only against bad servants and "partisans "; and he suggests that Congress should take some measure to restrict it in future. The motto of these last two Presidents, General Mattison and Mr. TYLER, seems to be an imitation, inverted against themselves, of the famous declaration of the English Opposition in Parliament- " The power of the President has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." There is perhaps some excusable flattery of the popular pride in this self-homiliation of the American Presi- dents; but Mr. TYLER is said to be an intelligent, temperate, and firm man, with fixed opinions, and the will to carry them through, 'without violence or perverseness. Time will show.
