Worcester daily spy

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as to whether discretionary power was not vested

in the president, Mr. Schurz added that, if those

senators would turn to the debates of the senate

in February, 1859, they would find that Presi

dent Buchanan had asked for discretionary

power to protect our citizens in transit over the

isthmus of Panama, and the senate had indig

nantly refused it. It was most audacious to con

tend for it,—that was the logic of it,—that the

president had power to steal the war-making

power away from congress

The fact was, President Grant had fallen into

a mistake, supposing that he was the United

States of America. The doctrine that the pres

ident could commit belligerent acts without au

thority of congress ard give as an excuse tor it

the condition of things in Hayti and Dominica,

was the most absurd, mischievous and anti-re

publican doctrine ever advocated on the floor of

the senate. When such doctrine was boldly

enunciated, it should be sifted to the bottom.

It smacked veiy strongly of what was called in

France personal government. The senator from

Massachusetts, Mr. Sumner, had been com

plained of for bringing the matter to the atten

tion of the senate, but, in his, Schurz’, opinion,

he deserved the gratitude of the whole countiy

for so doing.

But the supporters of the president seemed

to have admitted the constitutional argument to

be against them, and they had fallen back, as a

last iesort, upon the weak and dangerous sup

port of precedent. The only one referred to in

our own history was that of the acquisition of

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Worcester daily spy. (1871). Worcester [Mass.], 1871-03-29. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021205/1871-03-29/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Worcester daily spy, 1871-03-29.