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Tur VETo PowER.-Mr. Clay talks with his h.b;tual naccuracy when in his Baltimore letter. he .,, inc veto power Gan odious but obsolete vestige If -.,.l ,,eroeatye." The veto was never royal .,,.,o,a,;ye nor can it be said to have ever been

 mower odious to the people. In it's orlg'n' It was mower conferred upon the Tribunes of the people, at uer;od when the populace of Rome were struggling against the encroachmsnts of arisocrats.

 Any book on Roman antiquities, or even the abrdaed histories used in the schools would nave l

 f,rned Mr. Clay, that when the common people oi Rame afier mourning out their blood like water m de-

 fence of her grandeur found that the patricians were dsposed to tr,mpe wit naughty insoence upon tner r;ghts they retired in body from within her llm'ts'

 sn,ed tbem of electing officers who should have the 1oxer and whose duty it should be, to protect them from the nvasions of their spoilers and oppressors' These officers, five in number, were called riounes' and their chief function consisted ia arrestng the massage of laws which they might deem injurious to line ulebeians by 'rising from their seats and pro n,uncins the word veto-I forbid" How Mr. Clay can twist this privilege of the peoples representa- tses into a royal prerogatise, surpasseS our under standing. .;..a.. of the Roman nation of the improper or pestent use .f ,h, Trbunitia power. Whenever it was exercised it was done for the good of the majority when me proud spirit of the nobles tempted them to wrong the raor firm inc soldier his lands, from the honest craftsman his rghts-when they sought to narrow the sphere oi thsir fee actionhe sacred veto was interposed and shs encroaching disposition of the wrong-doer rebu- ked. =.

 We cay the same thing of the exercise of the Veto @ Power by the Presidents of the United States. The men who formed the constitution, no doubt. intend' ed he Veto as safeguard the liberties of the peo- pIe. To protect he Executive from ihe aggresslons

 of inc legislature to give him qualified control over basty and imperfect legslaion to enable hp to refer dou6aI measures back to the decision of the constt- uents of both were the objects for which the Veto po,yer was adopted. Hamilton in the Federast, spesks of it, to this effect. 'lt establishes" he says, I saiu,ary check upon the legislative body, calculated to suard the community from the effects of action' preciptatory, or any impulse unfrendy to the public go0d."

 Ose thing relating to the exercise of this power, is especially toe be remarked. Not since the origin

 of hs government, has it been used without cause or without producing salotary effects Indeed, IS to be deeply regretted, that it has not been more Ire que ny exerted in correction of the abuses of excess I've and pernicious legislation. .A-New Y ork Post