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But ii i? restriction w!ii;h I have been con-'Jei-j.-g
c.,u! j je enforced and continued, it
. wo.tld .i t alter the bank character of this
measure. IJjnl; or no bank is a question not
depending upon the duration of lime which
its issues remain out, but upon the office
whioli they perform whilst out. The notes
of the Bank of the United .States of Penn
sylvania are not deprived of their character
of composing a pari of the circulating medi
um of the country, although they might be
returned to the bank in some ten or twenty
days after their issues.
I know that it has been argued, and will
be argued again that at all times, since the
commenceir-ent of the government, the prac
tice of the treasury has been to issue its
drafts upon the public depositaries ; these
drafts have not heretofore circulated as mon
ey ; and that, if they now do, it is an inci
dent which attaches no blame to the gov
ernment. But heretofore these drafts were issues
upon banks, and the holders of them passed
to their credit with the banks, or received
payment in bank notes. The habit of the
country and habit is a great thing was to
use bank notes. Moreover, there were
bank notes of every kind in use-those which
were local and those which were general iu
their credit and circulation. Now, having
no Bank ol the United States in existence,
there are no ban)-: notes which maintain the
same value, and command the public confi
dence, throughout the union. You create,
therefore, an exomble necessity for the use
of government drafts as a medium of gener
al circulation,. and argue from a state of things
when no such necessity existed.
The protestation of the friends of the bill
ia this chamber, the denunciations of its oppo
nents, and the just horror which the people
entertain of the government bank,mav prompt
the secretary ot the treasury slowly and slyly
to lift the veil which rnaks its true features.
A government bonk may not suddenly burst
upon us, but there it is, embodied in this bill.
And it is not the least objection of a secreta
ry of the treasury (o retard or accelerate
the commencement of its operation at his
pleasure. Let the re-election of the present
chief magistrate he secured, and you will
soon see the bank disclosing its genuine
character. But, thanks be to Clod, there is
a day of leckoning at hand. All the signs
of the limes clearly indicate its approach.
And on the 4th day of March, in the year of
our Lord 1241, 1 trust that the lung account
of the abuses and corruption of this. admin
istration, in which this measure wilt be a
conspicuous item, will be finally and forever
adjusted.
Mr. President, who is to have iho absolute
control of this government bank! We have
seen, within a few years past, a most extra
ordinary power asserted and exercised. We
have seen, in a free, representative, republi
can government, the power claimed bv the
executive, and it is now daily enforced, of
dismissing ail officers of the government, with
out any other cause than a mere inherence
of opinion. No matter what may bo the
merits of the officer ; no nia'ter how long
and faithfully he may hive served the public;
no matter what sacrifices he may have made;
no matter how incompetent, from age and
poverty, he may be to gain a subsistence
for himself and his family, he is driven out
to indigence and wanl for no other reason
than that he dinars in opinion with the pres
ident on the sub-treasury, or some other of
the variom experiments upon the prosperity
of this people. But this ia not If you
call upon the president to state the reasons
which induced him, in any particular instance
t exercise this tremendous power of dis
mission, wrapping himself up in all the dig
nity and arrogance of rjyal majesty, he re
fuses to assign any reason whatever, and
tells you that it is his perogative ! That
you have no right to interrogate him as to
the motives which have prompted him in the
exercise of any of his constitutional powers!
Nay, more ; if you apply to a subordinate
a mere minion of power to inform you
why he has dismissed any of his subordin
ates, he replies that he will not communicate
the grounds ot his action. I have under
stood that, in more cases than one, the per
son acting as postmaster general has refused
this session to inform members of congress
ol the grounds on which he has dismissed dep
uty postmasters. We have witnessed the
application of this power of a treasurer of
the United States recently, without the pre
tense of his failure to discharge his public
duties, all of which he performed with scru
pulous exactness, honor and probity.
And what, sir, is the consequence ofa
power so claimed and so exercised! The
first is; that, in a country of Constitution
and Laws, the basis and genious of which
arc, that there is, or stiould be, the most per
fect reponsibility on the art of every, even
the highest functionary, here is a vast power
daily exercised with the most perfect impunity,
and without the possibility of arraigning a
guilty Chief Magistrate. For how can he
be impeached or brought to trial, if he will
not disclose, and you have no adequate
means of ascertaining the grounds on which
he has acted.
The next consequence i, that, as all the
officers of Government, who hold their offices
by the tenure to which I allude, hold them
at the President's mercy, and without the
' possibility of finding any redress if they are
' dismissed without cause, they become his plant
creatures, and feel that they arc bound im
plicitly to o'wy hi will. . .
LXY. JkXW.V-.!KthXCoverncYv into
operation, and who are to be .rargca w un
the administration of its operations! The
Secretary of the Treasury, the Treasurer of
the United States, the Register ana me
Comptroller of the Treasury, and the receivers-general,
&c. Every one of ihcm holding
his office at ihe pleasure anil mercy of the
President- Every one of them perhaps, de
pending for his bread upon the will ot the
President. Every one of them taught, by
sad experience, to' know that his safest course
is to mould his opinions and shape his
conduct soas to please the Pesident. Every
one of them knowing pcrfecly that, if dis
missed, he is without the possibility of any
remedy or redress whatever. In such a
deplorable state of things, this Government
b:mk will be the mere bank of the President
of the Uniled States, lie will he its PuF.-t-i'Ext,
Cashier and Tklleiu Yes, sir, tips
complete subjection of all the subordinate
officrrsof the Government to the will of the
President will make l.im sole Director,
President, Cashier and Teller of this Gov
ernment bank. The so much dreaded union
of the Purse and the Sword will at last be
constipated. And the usurpation, by which
the public deposites, in 1837 were removed,
by the advancement of the one and the
removal of n not hpr Secretary of the Treas
ury, will not only Lc finally legalized and
sanctioned, but th enormity f the darker
of that precedent will be transcended by a
'Hibera'te act of tue Congress of the United
States!
Mr. President, for ten Ion years we have
been warring against the alarming growth
of Executive power; but although we have
been occasionally cheered, it lias bcn con
stantly advancing and never receding. You
my talk as you please about bank expan
sion. There has !cen no pernicious expan
sion in this country like that of Executive
power; and, unlike the operations of banks,
this power never has any periods of contrac
tion. You may denounce ns you please the
usurpations of Congress. There Ins been no
usurpation but that of the Executive, which
iias been both of the powers ot other co
ordinate departments of this Government
and upon the States. There scarcely
remains any power in this Government but
that of the President. lie suagests, origin
ates controls, checks every thing. The in
satiable spirit of the Smarts, for powi-r an t
prerogative was brought upon our Amtri : in
throne on the 1t!i of .March 182 . It came
under all the uscfu', false and hyj oc. iii: il
pretences and disguise. of love of tiie People.
ilosire of relorni. and d:!ii i-.-ncc 01 im.vi r. 1.
'r .1. .,t;.-.,,...
i IIG :-Wlt.l UYlIti:-!. fun i.'-.iliih i
have had Charles the First, end now i. ivi
Charles the Second. But I again th:.:ik God
that our deliverance is not distant; and that,
on ihe 4th ot March, I P 1 1 , a great and
glorious revolution without blood and with
out convulsion, will Lc achieved.
fciMiT'ca r ok i hue 1 -,i.:nM-v e.v 1 in
search for unadulterated politeness I v.. nnl
pa.-s by all the coined aliectatinn of l!ieim.
ern schools the parlors of the grct. and
clancc at a few sketches of the ancient B.Mc
days. 1 would witness the strife bet w t i n
the herdsmen of Abraham and Eot. and
the dispute amicably adjusted by this simple
sentence, u If thou wilt take the left hand
then will I go to the right,"' etc. I would
sit down in the assembly of Abraham and the
children of Heth ; when Abraham rose up
and bowed before Sarah and a.sked fr a
Sepulchre to burv his beloved Sarah out of
his bight. I would ltsten to their answers:
''none of us shall withhold from thee this se
pulchre."' I would hear him offering monev
and Ephron saving, Nay, my lord, hear
rne: the lield I irive thee," and then rcceiv-
imr thn mnnpv unnn t)if pirnpst solieit.-ilion
1 0 c the fee ;, 0f obligation. I wo;i!d
starid ,v !ho well of the wandcrng Iil n,
while Iiebeccil hasted and let down her
nitcher. nnd drew V.'.atcr for l.is cnmcls to
drink. I would ro in the time of barl -y
harvest, into fhe field of Boaz and hear him
charge the reapers tolet t!'e damsel, Kuth,
clean among the sheaves,ana drop a hand
ful by design and rebuke her not.
Who can read these unadorned naralivcs
without wishing the spirit of those days to
return, when the stnfied fowl and the Christ
mas cake shall be ofieredas unostentatiously
as the fatted calf and unleavened bread of
Abraham and Sarah when proffers of kind
ness shall mean kindness when a promise
shall mean something put olT, and a kis3 Oi
salutation something but a betraying into
the hands of enemies when our daughters
shall be taught that taking the lowest seat
when " bidden to a feast. " and a " rising up
before the hoary headed," savor more of true
politeness than a graceful curtesy, or gilt
edged card to a modern dinner party. The
time is coining when truth shall stand before
us, disrobed of all Ifer tinsel," unadorned and
plain," in all her native majesty, then we
slnll see things as they are, and custom have
no demand for affected sincerity.
Young men arc in general but little aware
how much their reputation is affected in the
view of the public, by the company they
keep. The character of their associates is
soon regarded as their own. If they seek the
society of the worthy, it elevates them in
the public estimation, as it is an evidence that
they respect others. On the contrary,
intimacy with persons of Lad character always
sinks a young man in the eye of the public!
Tommy, have vou got the ducks in
"Yes sir." "All ot them ?' "les sir.
C?t 311. nil.
lid you count them J" 44 Yes, sir." "How
,11 v was there V One."' That's right,
"Di
man
inv bov
THE JOURNA'L,
SATURDAY, AP.RIL 18, 1840.
For want of space, we are reluctantly
compelled todefer the publication of the cor
respondence between the Secretary of State
and the British minister at Washington, (Mr.
Fox,) in relation to the "North EastBoun
dary." Mr. Fox complains that our govern
ment has openly violated the provisional
agreement entered into some twelve months
since, between the authorities
countries. AndJ e, on behalf of his govern
ment, protests against these encroachments,
and intimates that if persisted in by the peo
ple of Maine, Ler Majesty will feel it her du
ty to make such military preparations as mav
be required for the protection of her Majes
ty's rights. In reply, Mr. Forsyth denies
that Maine or the federal government have
violated the agreement referred to, and at
the same time, regrets that the adjustment of
this question has been attended with unlook
ed for delays qn the part of ihe British gov
ernment, lie desires that the whole subject
may be refer-cd to the arbitrament of a third
party, r.nd insists that her Majesty's govern
ment shall desist from all mi itary interfer
ence. Tic British Minister then refers
t'.u letter of the Secretary to his govern-
m?n, a:iJ deems it his duty to make no fur
ther reply until he can receive instructions as
to the course to be pursued.
From the tone of this correspondence, an
appeal to arms, to adjust this difivulty, is al
together probable. England has 110 disposi
tion to avoid a collision wiin 11-, and the
warlike preparations which she has been ma
king in her province, would seem to indi
cate that she has had it h anticipation. She
Ins n-w a force of 2 ),000 regu'ars in Cana
da and Nova Sc iiia, and since the rebellious
spirit which has manifested itself in her
American doninins, nuinereui forts, bir
racks, S::., hive L?ca erected along the
who'tf Cund t line. Added t this, the !;s
conl'.U which cu.'ls among a largo class ol
pcop
at !i'i::e, an:I t:u in-Teae ol iior
t:o:i. it;. ler-i a war a! l':i U ii! :i!.nsl
1 v, l"f tiio ;-cr.;;m
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1;.. g e.e.n :icat ar..i nohiliTy.
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tht n:.:kot M- r.rre: 1, arrived at .ew
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Y-iik, WO h ive f -K I 'll II'- WS to tl.C Ctil 'f
.March. Ti.-re w.s so.i.e talk of war be
tween Envl m I an.i Portugal. Lord J'h
I'ti-el hid 1 -i l b-fro I'.-irtinaien? nil the pi
iiir lit I '.en revive! 0:1 the s;iiti'Ct
1 ( l,,0 . x Am.f;.::if, ; v.:, v v,' Serving
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cussed in Parliament. I nerc is a ut iiciency
in the puld'f- retinue of England, and it is
doubtful whether a direct loan will be re
sorted to. or a funding of exchequer bonds.
A new French ministry has been constituted.
The Senaca Treaty hns been ratified by
the Senate of the United States. Il pro
vides for the removal of the Senaca Indians,
a remnant of the six nation from the vicini
ty of BuXJo, X. Y., to some part of ihe far
west. Bv the terms of the tcatv.th'v will
receive something more than onmillin and
a half acres of land, and about four hundred
thousand dollars in money. ' ' '
Mr. Webster has introduced S bill in the
senate, stallishin! a 'uniform system of
bankruptcy. f
In the IIou-io o!'Ilepie-ent itivRS, Mr. Bull,
of Tennesse, has introduced a bill to secure
the freedom 0 elections, and advocated it in
a long and able speech.
The Treasury note bill, has passed the
senate by n vote of 25 to C. Mr. Benton
voting in tjie iu?Sa,'v5
The resolution fixing the adjournment of
Congress at an early day, wns laid on the ta
ble in the senate on the 31st u!t., by a vote
of 23 to 17.
OrCANr'iiuTK.s. Our coteinporaries through
out the state, have adopted the rule of charg
ing for the announcement of candidates.
We shall follow the example and in all ca
ses, charge the sum of 1,50 for announcing
a candidate till the day of election.
Forty weddings were recently consum
mated in one of the counties of Mississippi.
"Hard times" and heavy pecuniary embar
rassments, it is believed, drove them to this
last act of desperation.
The steamboat Mail made the trip last
week, from Louisville to St. I-ouis, in 54
hours.
Some one says, that when a man has been
twice rejected by a female his feelings are
somewhat strange. No doubt. We have
known some who were only kicked once, and
they felt mighty queer about it.
We havo had considerable rain of late
and the w eather is still unsettled.
FOB THE SM.T RIVa JOUU.V.VL.
Mi, Editor: Im an old citizen. of this
county in it I have spent the most of my
days, and hope to spend the balance as a citi
zen of Pike. I have, since the days of my
youth, been an observer of passing events,
and ol" the men from whom they originated.
It has been my most ardent desire that, our
public affairs should be managed with pru
dence, and with a strict regard to the welfare
of our state and county, and such I believe,
of the t woliiR n,:iy J 1111(1 am nacnt has been the
wian of every good member of ibis commu
nity. Heretofore, we hae had no good
reafcon to complain, or at least, have been
generally satisfied; but if reports are to be
believed even when raised ty the most res
pectable individuals in our community, and
tfiose who have the best right to know, we
have been imposed upon most shamefully by
some of our incumbents in office.
-vTlnt I may be clearly understood, and
that my charge may not be considered gene
ral or tague, I come out with that boldness
which tb subject deserves, and hold up the
transgreisors if there be any, to the public
iu ihu I'ht they should be; not that 1 wish
to impiign any individual xcopr h deserve
it. It h a duty I owe to myself to oui
country-and to our free institutions. It is
a duty" that each individual in Pike county
owes to tBosc against whom the charges are
preferred, as well as it is their duty to come
out amongst the people, walk in the light of
d iv, explain the matter to them to their sat
isfaction, (if it be susceptible of such an ex
planation,) and cease to keep dark on a sub
ject that so much interests them, and so inju
rious to the honor of those concerned. The
officers to whom I allude, are the junior
members of our County Court, and the Clerk
of said court. 'I he-charge-' arc these : the
clerk is charged with having received some
three or, four times as much fees for certain
services rendered, as he was by law entitled,
and of drawing the same out of the state
treasury without a proper warrant from said
court; thereby getting the auditor into a
difficulty, who is said to have written to said
cleik concerning if, and requesting hitn to
scud immediately the proper warrant; to
which is said to have replied he had no
right to use the seal of the court in his own
private brines?. The auditor is said to
h ive thon i!i!".r:r.rj the court of the cba
duc; of their clerk, w ho is s:ii.l to have deter
mined n the arrest of their clerk; bat in
sto id "f s 1 di:i. tliey, or at le 1st two of
of them (liie smior Judge, honor to l.is
name and memory, stood on the side of the
people, their money anil their lienor, and pro
lested .--r:iin -t the proceeding,) had the matter
privately investigated, when the fact of '."raud
nppv'ireii "aslargs as life."
Tnoo, sir. are seme of the charges and
it is to l.o !"ei:e 1, they :trc tmi true; yet the
honorable court thinks it a !vis ible to keep
dark n the subject for seasons lo themselves
understood. Perhaps it would bo a Conde
scension in such exalted dignities to become
communicative to the people, who, most like
Iv in their estimation, would not be capable
of understanding such deep financial con
corns; and that it is enough for them to know
that they arc taxed at the discretion of their
honor's, and that such taxes mut be paid.
Such, I presume, must be the reasons for the
silence that prevails on the subject. If this
be not one of the reasons, w hy do we not
hear the tact declared to the w orld ! Why
do not the Judges alluded to vindicate their
honor by making a public declaration of the
case to iho people that they may become
loconcileJ I And why doe not the clerk if
innocent, and capable of shining, vindicate
himself against the charge of having pocket
ed the earnings of the people villanously !
I am very confident the cry was first
r.iised by the members of the court, and on
that ground, they are bound in honor 10 them
selves and to their clerk to set the matter at
rest by publishing the whole case to the
world. But perhaps one of their reasons for
not doing so is, that they, (the court,) do not
conceive it to be a fraud, but mere accident
in the clerk and oversight in the ourt. If
this be the ground of excuse, it is evident il
ia worse than none. But, the real objection
Oiay be, that the case looks very suspicious
and that the people will look at the black
skje of the transaction to the prejudice of
their clerk who is, by-the-byc, their very
rrrA friond " But. sir. I conceive this ex-
cuse also worse than none ; because, an in
vestigation into the records and papers ot
the court would show conclusively whether
this be the first mistake of the kind made by
the clerk; and if so, it might pass for a mis
take; because, to them we are all subject;
perhaps there can be mistakes found where
the clerk lias lost thirty or forty dollars at
one time; this would at once speak volumes
in his favor,"and the whole court be restored
to the confidence of those who gave them
the management of their money.
But the auditor's transaction may be a
ground of difficulty to reconcile with ihe
people thereby making it necessary to play
hush on the subject. There is ceitainly
something rery mysterious in that part of
the game; but mysteries may oc sometimes
readily solved but as it now stands before
the Dublic.it is no mystery considered in one
and the only light in which it is capable of
bcim? construed; it demonstrates wuiul and
deliberate fraud; and may not those who
unite in smothering, or who take upon them
selves the prerogative to investigate the mat
ter, and rcluso or neglect to publish their
condemnation or acquital, lc considered as
participating in the act T
But, sir, 1 will not intrude udoq vonr ,
tience further at this time, but may ask th
same indulgence again.- For, the present,
conclude byaying, that the calls of justice
and of duty' la themselves and to ihe tax
payers 01 mis county, are aloud lor an expl.
nation of. the whole, matter. And'sbaill
hesitate in saying, that if they are not guilty
of the charges above stated, they will, take
pleasure in their vindication; and will not
uieir aeience oe accompanied with their rea
sons for thus delaying. ' v Umenfs.
Pike county, April 1st.
Democratic Urctinj.
At a large and respectable meet'in? of lU
Democratic voters of Pike county, Mo., held
at the Court House in Bowling Green, on the
first Saturday in April, 1840, in pursuance of
previous public notice given through the col
umns of the "Salt Uiver Journal
On motion, Matthew Given-was called to
the chair, and Simeon P. Robinson, was ap
pointed secretary. The obje'et of .the meet
ing having been stated by the chairman, the
meeting proceeded to the nomination of three
suitable persons to be supported at the next
August election, as the Democratic candi
dates for the state Legislature and a suitable
person to be supported as the Democratic
candidate for the office of Sheriff of the
county: which resulted In the selection of
L. L. ill. Parsons, Matthew Givexs, and
II w.mbal Emerson, as the candidates to be
supported for the State Legislature, and Wil
liam Nallt, as the candidate to be supported
Cr the office of Sheriff of the county.
O.i motion, the chairman appointed Col.
R. Boon, Major James Davis, Chamness T.
Smith, David McAllister, Genl. F. J. Caliis,
Robert II. Allison, and John Mackay, a
committee to draft and report resolutions ex
pressive ot the sense of this meeting. The
committee after having retired a short time,
returned and reported through iheir chairman
(Col. Boon,) the following resolutions, which
weie adopted by the meeting with grat unan
imity :
1st. ll-solcrd. That a crisis has arrived in
the progress of our political history, when
personal predilections for wrn, should yield
to the higher obligations of patriotism and of
duty in an honest and unwavering support
of measures.
2 J. Jlesolo-d, That the great and funda
mental principles of government, which divi
ded the people of the United States, into two
distinct parties in 1733 and 1800, are the
same that divide and separate the two great
parties 01 tae present day.
3d. Ilrxo'ct l, That this meeting cordially ap
prove of the Independent freasurv Scheme,
a; recommended by President Yan Burcn,
lor ihe sate kcepini of the public revenue. ,
4 th. lirs'dvitt, That this meeting approve
iu the most umeialificd terms, of the Rosolu-
tions ottered by Col. lhomas II. Benton of
tiie United States senate, at the present ses
sion of congress, in opposition to an assump
tion of the .v.'r.v ih '.ilf, ly the general govern
ment, and his laudable efforts in facor of a
repeal of the tax upon salt.
5th. ll'soltr fi That the deranged stato of
the 44 paper currency," so much complained
of by the ecen;ies to popular right, has been
produced by the machinations of the Fede
ral bank party, under the delusive hope and
expectation th."t they would thereby, force
many of the honest Democrats into "their
support for office, and that they would ulti
mately steal into power, under the assumed
name of 44 TV(
Cth. AV.rotvf, That much of the complaint
of 44 hard times that we hear, is not to be
attributed so much to the ac'.s of the govern
ment, or the banks as to our own impru
dence and lack of economy. If we would
do well, we must not look either to the gov
ernment, or the banks for favors ; but should
rely more upon our own prudence and exer
tion in the business of domestic economy.
7 Ih. Resolved, That Matthew Given"
Hannibal Emerson, D. C. M. Parsons, (all
good and true Democrats,) are respectfully
recommended by this meeting, to the inde
pendent voters of Pike county, as suitable"
persons to be supported at the" next August
election, for the state Legislature-r-and Wil
liam Nally, (Democrat.) is respectfully re
commended as a suitable person to be" sup
ported for the office of She'riifof the county.
8th. llsohed, That the thanks of this
meeting be presented to the chairman and
secretary thereof, for the satisfactory man
ner in which they hare discharged the du
ties of their respective stations. ,
9 th. ItesolvcJ, That the proceedings of
this meeting be signed by the chairman and
secretary, and a copy thereof be sent to the
"Salt River Journal," and the "Missouri Ar-"
gus," for publication.
On motion of R. II. Allison, Esq. ?
10th. llesoleecL, That thia meeting highly,
disapprove of the conduct of Governor
Pennington, of New Jersey, in giving under
the broad seal of the .state, certificates of
election, to certain individuals, in opposition
to the expressed will of ti majority of the
neople of said state. -f '
On motion of Col. A. Mase, the meeting
adjourned.. . t ' l
Matthew Giv ens," Chair,
S. P. Robisson, Sec'if. , v
After the adoption of the resolutions'which '
were reported by the committee, Col. Boon
was called for, who in an able and felicitous
manner, addressed the meeting upon tin
signs of the times," and the general politic!
of the day and who, in glowing colors, poJ
m . . . L .1 L-
traved the dm unci ion ociwecn mose, wum
in "ihe olden time in the time that tried
men's souls," were indeed and in Irulh
try, who have merely assumed the name, to
hide a multitude of sins. 5
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