President Buchanan has earned the lasting gratitude of the American
republic, by nobly vindicating the highest office in the commonwealth against dangerous encroachments attempted upon it by party inp1 wIght form—that of politico* sett; I question not to be despatched in haste, and we *airan • more at leisure. Meesitokilejthe event will be found corded amongst our intetigenee. Unable to carry out cer jeets, finding themselves successfully opposed by the Governmen the members of a party in the House of Representatives adopted a resolution proposing inquiry into various administrative mat- ters. Some of these subjects were properly within the cognizance of the House of Representatives ; but the Committee appointed was to investigate charges against the President, of having been influenced by corrupt motives to arrest the progress of certain laws, either in their enactment or their execution. The charges were vague ; the House even refused to listen to a member who demanded that the accusations should be rendered specific. They originated, indeed, with Mr. John Covode, a violent Abo- litionist, we believe, elected among the very miscellaneous repre- sentation of Pennsylvania. President Buchanan calmly points out the utterly unconstitutional and irregular character of this spurious judiciary thus set up. The charges are not specific, the tribunal of inquiry is to be directed by the accuser, and the whole proceeding is a violation of the express laws of the consti- tution ; according to which neither branch of Congress has any jurisdiction over the President, save in the form of regular im- peachment, upon specified charges, advanced by the representa- tives before the Senate, the Chief Justice of the United States presiding. Appointed by the peoples of the sovereign States, entrusted with the safeguard of the constitution, to be trans- mitted uninjured to posterity, Mr. Buchanan, in language calm and eloquent as Washington himself might have used, repels the encroachment, by wholly denying the legality of the asserted jurisdiction.
Mexico remains in a state of utter anarchy. Juarez, the soi- disant Liberal, is still master of Vera Cruz, and Miramon, the leader of the Opposition, has not been put to flight as was re- ported. The United States men-of-war seem to have acted in the interest of Juarez when they captured the two steamers be- longing to the Miramon party, but much obscurity hangs over the policy of the United States Government in this quarter. In the meantime, the welfare of the subjects of every power is at the mercy of ihe not over-scrupulous partisans on either side.
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