4red. That it is. to us. a source
ot constant humiliation and regret ;
the 'Duress has not received that
aid and co-opeeation from the acting
at President which w'asdue; that we
would not forget that, at first, the
questions were new and difficult, and
the emergency sudden : but we would
remind our representatives that the
office ami duty of the President is, to
execute the lawsand not to defeat
them ; that hasty error is one tiring
and a deliberate attempt, by the Ex
ecutive, to thwart ai d defeat the nee
essary measures of the law-making
power for the restoration oi the Un
ion is entirely another and different
thing; that wh m such an attempt
is per istent it liecomes a Irigii crim
which calls Uribe firm exercise of
the ext r< me power of the i-'m-iiiu: ion
—tbo last civil remedy of the state;
that the people, in this country, are
sovereign in the last resort, and haver
the constitutional power to make and
unmake Presidents, and they expect
their representatives, when the ..aid
ty of the Republic requires it, to us
fearlessly e,xcrcise the power to
make as to make.’
lit solved, That while the necessary
burdens of taxation are greater than
ever before, we tequiro the most rig
id economy in the administration of
affairs, both of the nation and of the
state: yet we also know that the
strength of the nation is in the na
tional fail h ; that the loyal millions of
this land were in earnest when they
declared that they would put down
the rebellion at whatever cost; and
they will never consent to repudiate
the debt which was incurred to meet
that cost.
