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For the Register DANIEL WEBsTER's OPINION OF THE POWER

 OF REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.

 MT. EDIToR-'The following is an extract from speech delivered at Worcester by the Hon. Daniel Webster shortly after Gen. Jackson became Pres- dent of the United States. The power of removal in the President then is very different thing from what it is now, and is the position of the honorable gentleman. The extract is striking illustration of the difference of precept, profession and practice so striking indeed, that he who runs may read.

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 "You will remember, sir, that the constitution says not one word about the Presidents power of removal from office. It is power raised entirely by construction. It is constructive power introduced at first to meet cases of extreme public, necessity but it has become co-extensive with the Execu- tive will, calling for necessity, requiring ex- gency; but te be exercised at all times without con- trol, without question, without responsibility When the question of the Presidents power of removal was debated in ths first congress, those who argued for it limited 1t to extreme Cases, they sad might arise in which it would be absoiaeiy necessary re- move an officer before the senate could assembe.- An officer might be insane, he might abscond; Sir, from these and other supposabe cases, il was said, the public service might materially suffer- if the Pre- sdent could nut remove the incumbent. And it was farther said, that there little danger of the power heinz abused for party personal objects No president it was thought would ever commit such an outrage on public opinion. Mir. Madison, who thought the power ought exist and be exercised cases of high necessity, declared nevertheless, that if the President should exercise the power when not called for any public exigency, and merely for perso nal objects, he pouid desets 10 be impeaohed. By very sinali majority, think in the Senate by the casting vote of the Vice-President, Congress decided in favor of the existing power upon the grounds that have mentioned. Granting the power in a of absolute and clear necessity, aud denying its exis- tence every where else."