Commenting with great power, at the time, upon the new use of the veto-power in all its forms by President Jackson, Mr.Webster declared its tendency was "to disturb the harmony which ought always to exist between Congress and the Executive, and to turn that which the Constitution intended only as an extraordinary remedy for extraordinary cases, into a common means of making Executive discretion paramount to the discretion of Congress in the enactment of laws." It was literally making the extreme medicine of the Constitution its daily bread.
An example set by so strong a ruler as Jackson, especially in the establishment of a practice so congenial to man's natural love of power, was certain to be followed by other Presidents.

It was followed so vigorously indeed that the forty years succeeding Jackson's advent to power presented a strong contrast with the forty years that preceded it.

The one began with Washington, the other ended with Andrew Johnson.

Mr.Van Buren, though in all respects a lineal heir to the principles of Jackson, did not imitate him in the frequent use of the veto-power.

But Mr.Tyler on nine different occasions ran counter to the action of Congress by the interposition of his veto.
Mr.Polk resorted to it in three signal instances, but neither General Taylor nor Mr.Fillmore came in conflict with Congress on a single measure.