40 THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. 



not always easily ])evfovahle eitlier Ly eloquence or 

 ].)y reason. An 1 during the progress of all great 

 measure.^^, including especially foreign negotiations, 

 which require to Lc left undisturbed in tlieir prog- 

 ress from gennination to maturity, he is subject to be 

 goaded almost to madness every day by vicious in- 

 teri)ellation.^, not only on the ])art of members of the 

 O])position, but even his own supporters in the House 

 of Commons. 



IIow ditVerent is the s])ectacle of government in 

 the United States ! Here, the President, — that is, the 

 Prime ^Minister of the sovereign people, — is jdaced in 

 power for a fixed j)eriod of time, during which he is 

 politically independent of faction, and can look at the 

 temporary passions of the hour with calnuiess, so as 

 to judge them at their true value, and accept or reject 

 their voice according to tlie dictates of public duty 

 and the command of his conscience. Neither he nor 

 any of the mem])ers of his Cabinet are subject to be 

 badgered by factious or unreasonable j)ersonal inter- 

 rogation in either house of Congress. 



Moreover, the House of Kepresentatives does not 

 ]n-esume to set itself up as the supei-ior either of the 

 President or of the Senate. Nor is the Senate in the 

 condition of l)ein!:i: terrified from the discharire of its 

 duty by threats on the part of the President or of the 

 House of Ilejn-csentatives to subjugate its free will at 

 any iuomcnt by thrusting into it a batch of twenty 

 new administration Senators. Least of all does the 

 House of Kej^resentatives presume to posscsH and c.v- 

 ercise the powers of a constituent national convention, 



