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ANINrE RVi E W WI HI T(I E MO -
TH ER Ob' NAPOLEON.
News having just arrived in town. of
the death of the above celebrated lady,we
are m >st happy in having it in our po*c>
to ftitiMi our readers with a personal
sketch of her, from tho pen of an English
lady of high ra ik and literary distinc
tion.
I saw this rem likable and in eresting
person, for the first time, in the begin
ning of Mav, 1828, in tho gardens of the
Vigaa Palatina, on the Jbnto I’oletiuaJ
tho beautiful v.il tof Mr. Mills. Sue li id
C'>mo, attended by her son Jerum-, ex*
King of V/es’ph iiia, his wife, thePrin
ce«s Catha: ice, d t ’glrer of the King ofj
Wirtembmg, and her Chaplain, D one
do Campagnie. and iheir other attendants.
Having heaid that Madatna Mere dis
liked meeting strangers, we retired t • a
distant part <f the gaulcn, but Jerotn*
having seen my carriage iu tho coml yard,
sent to request that we should j-’in them I
and he presented us to his mmeer and !
wife. Maduiie Le ilia Sooapaite* is tali'
and sligh', biih a m st dignified and
graceful carriage; hei face is even still re.
m irkably handsome, bearing pr-.of of ? <p
accuracy of the resemblance ol Cinnva s
admirable statue of her; and afi >er par
sauifica ion r>f a Roman matron could no.
be found, than this Hecuba of the In
peri al Dynasty. She is male, and the ex
pression of her countenance is ol a sub
died and pensive c ist, unless when light
cd <.p occasional!., when her dark eve
s-'ueds for a moyieui a gleam >-f animation;
b it even when animated, her minner re,
tains its dignified composure, and she
seems born to represent the mother of
Kings. Jerome and his excellent wife
treat her with a watchful and respectful
tenderness; each supported her, and suit
ed their pace to her feeble steps, listen
ing wi h tiituDiion to her observations.—
She was dieted io a robe of rich d.ukj
g'rey satin, a bound of the ?ame m it-nah,'
worn over a lace cap, with a black blj de
veil falling over i'; and her h iir ahi
Madonna (her om wh’tn hair.) fi iism-d
one of Ih© must iireies i»g pictures 1
cv r saw A superb Caduji; re shawl,!
that loosed like a tribute from some bar I
brnic S. vcrrigii fell gracefelly over her I
sh-'uldo 3 ; her feel are sin ill and fi <ely
form- d, a. *1 her bauds adtn.ruble Oi '
presenting us. Jerome said something fl it-1
tering about the liberal politics of m . hus- i
band, and this insured us a giaci- us re-|
ception from Mid me Mere, wh > looks
on all liberal members of the House -if:
Pailiameut, as having been kindly dis. >
posed towards Napoleon, who is still thej
tlol ot her thoughts. She expressed this j
in a few ords; and when 1 told her that I
Napoleon had many admirers in England
who did justice to Ins gieat genius and ta*
leu's, she picssed my hint), mid a tear
glistened in her eye. ‘Why did ynui na
tion let mv brave son die on a rock?’
said she; ‘C odd no less terrific pris n
be lout'd? ‘B it paidon we, bear with
the fei lings ufa mother bereaved of such a
sm. I know it was not the fault of vour
nation, and I am grateful for their sym
pathy.*—Jerome & his amiable wiftj turn
ed the c vtv -is iti m o other subjects, in
which Madame Mere joined but by mon
osyilabl s; thong!) her manner was ga
Cinos and geiple, with ouch of;h.i' ffec
ti >na:e earnestness which dis'i guishes
the inannets <»f Italian ladies, and -. attic
u- icly ti ose -f advanced \ ears and high
rank. When we had n tde the tour of
the garden, walking verv slowly, n l t-»
fitigut) her, she cn'ere.d her carriage, io «>
which she was .assisted by Jereme an 1 mt
husbtnd; Jororne and his wife kissed her
baud, th* Princess perfurmi'g tho cere»
m-ruy as if a diadem circled the or< ws of
Le'.itia, and that she herself bad not
worn one. Madame Mere invited as to
vid 1 her, and at parting.'oiiched my fore
he ;d w h but lips, and shook hands with
my hnsbau 1, saying kind and amiable
things to us boilt. The gentlemen, inch)
ding Jerome, all remained uncovered un
til be - carriag’ hid driven off, when her
famil . and suite entered ihrir’s and fol
lowed her.
fiie-e was something h’ghlv scenic in
the while <-f out peeking wh tins remark
abb*-w man. Here was the mother >'fa
Ca? ii .walking amid the mins of me Pai
ne ol the ( ae ns, lamenting a sun
fame had fi eo the four qn iiters of the
pl be & foimed an epoch in the history ol
E r re ; he t tiering Jtei>s supported by
tiiu-her sou Ir-'m whose br w the'diadem
had been torn, and wh-'.now shorn of his
splend tir, reminded one ->♦ the Poet’s de
scri i.ion -f i demroned -vereign.
‘He .»h» h is worn a Crown,
V, h'u css t nKi gs. is less than mher men;
r. i J en'f'.ar exi ,»-n.sb’it, leaving blank
|i j j- a ein tie .ven?
Tl»e ' ther swpp. r'cr of Madame Mere
a'ided much to tb< i ffect of the picture.
The daughter of K ugs of the old legiti
mam stock,and al dto Half-h? reignii gr
S vereigos of our eta . she has nobly, fe
* 1 b.s sketch i cxti \ te I from aMS Journal,
apd w us made at the time to which it relc;e»
mininely, and wisely, adhered to the
fallen fortunes of her husband, resis'ed
the brilliant offers of her family, 4* shares
'he present obscure destiny of him on
whose throne she shed a lustre. There
is s -tnething touchingly beautiful in the
respectful tenderness of this admirable
P'incess towards the aged mo.her ol her
husband, and her afftctionate attention t->
hnn an<l her children, with the unaff-cted
sweetness of her manners,inspired us with
a deeper reverence for h-r than the pos
session of the inns! brilliant Crown could
have excised in our minds.
Co| >nel Tiburee Sebastiani, blither to
the General of that name, a Corsican by
birth, an I connected with the B maparte
family, told me that A/adamo Mere’s ac
cmichement of Napoleon took place in a
salon, on a carpet, on which was repre
sented a scene in the ’lliad.’ She hid
been at church, where she was taken ill,
and had only time to be brought hi'o a
s ilon, when she gave birth to a hero,
who was to create as much wonder m
modern days as did any of those of Ho
mer in ancient times. I might serve as
curious matter for specula ion to idealist ,
how far this natal con act wi'h imaged
heroes might have influenced the future
destiny of Nopole lit; and here are not
Wanting persons who would maintain dial
it hid some effect, —so t»r<.ne arb min
kind to supers itiou. Great as all rn ist
allow h;m to have been, pot bven his tai
en s would have raided Napoleon to the
eminoace he reached,h id not circumsta i
ces, over which ho hid no cantroul, ren
dered his ascen' prac icable, Col mid So
basti ini told <rs, that while her ch-ld eti
were vet in infancy, Lotilia had been re
markable f r the dignity and seii-o isses
sion of nor c!) tractor and conduct. Wall
a large family and a small income, she
prac ised 'he m is ng: I Wstß i) of ec mo
my, without ever comioscending to any
meanness; and'his piudoace seemed in
her mu. h more he result of a laudable
pride than of avarice. In latter years,
when she saw het s n ”.-’t only a king
himself, n't! -h? d:<a-)- >r of kings, widi ail
Europe I king to him as the arbiter of
aer destiny ( ho nation of shopkeepers
on'y excepted tram his worshippers,)
neither tho palace, nor income of a mil
lion of francs, tbai he assigned her, could
blind her to mo lusecurny of his p iwer,
which she saw was based upon sand,
while all others looked up ti it as built
on a rock. The ccoij -my u-geu by f»e
sight, and practised bv Letit'ii at that
period,has enabled her to suppo t her st t
tion with decent digniti, and reude. s her
old age free from the cares of pecuniary
cues deration.
With Nip ’lo -n’s qiick p< rcepti >a
and haughty m ud, it was peculiarly f r
tunato that his mothei’s ap >earaiica was
so calculated t>>'■upp nt the diguhy to
which she was called; he :a I and ibg'ui
person, gracatul carnage, dis'icg'.n-heu \
features, and cold, bin p ill© tiiaouers,
'CCiDcd fortnad to ca-i a lustra over tiio
pari sire had to fill. It is recorded of
her, thin one day, at ho Pa tee of the
Tuilleres, N i,>o eon,walking up aud d >.Vn
in ooe t<f the galleries, was app cached
by different high personage;-, who bad
the entree, and iviuciine to kiss his hand;
some of the d:ffe:e <t in>*mbeis of the In
penal fa uily were am i.ig the numoei ,
and Vladttne Mere etnered when the cir
cle was le.luced to only a lew individuals
oi the family; when she approached, Na
poleon, with a g aciou, suiiie, off)-
ed her his hand, as ue hid d no to his
sisters and brother*, but she pushed i
gen ly aside, aud holding ou' bers to be i
kissed, said in Itah tn, ‘you ate the Em !
perer, the Sovereign oi all the theis, but
you me my son.’ Nap Ie n took the
hand, and kissed it •tleciiona ely and re
spectfully, and probably tell ai the 4110-
taent ilia* this re,a'»>>f or ved bis m jlher
was worthy <•! the hign Maum wh ch she
filled. Tiie etnme .ee 11 winch Napo
leon wis raised lutgli have d zr. e i a ie>»
strong uitt'l, and rotidered gi ,ly a less
steady bead, than thm o' Letitia; b i s>u
was iei her to be ela ed Uv prO'pjri v,
nor depressed by adve si y /a N> > >
leon’s m st ptosperous days, she has’
been heaid th douu he co.-sia cy ui lor.
tune; and since lie h istal ea item a height
that tew but h m couiu hive uuaitied, i
is evident tha- she m u ns ihe sun of her
heart more than me Emperor of her
pride; he reverses of the iat.er she could
bear, but me cap ivity and exile of the
former h>s bowed her to the earth. Tim
Due de Reichstadt occupies much of her
thoughts; and, s ac© N ipolemi’s death,
they revert continually t> tin.* tmeresiiog
youth; there is s little display or flip
pancy in the manners of Leti ia, th u
conclusions are drawn m > e from the ex
pressi n of her countenance, shakes of the
bead, oi sighs, than from her words.—
Though gracious aud kind, she is not
communica ive or de noustia ive, atid
there *s a natural dignity ib ut her, th st
must ever check the incursions of curios
ity. She may wetl be called the Niobe
of mothers; for, if her offspiing have n t
, been physically destroy ed befoi e her eyes,
they have been, <>ne by one, limned from
the thrones where they had been seated.
—exiled from the scenes of thejr great’
Hess, and shorn of the splendour with
whi -h she fiad seen them surroun led,
with nu lling left them but the remem
brauce of pas'happiness to render the
present change .nor insupportable. In
religion Letitia finds her only source of
c.Hisola'ion; shb bad stood by this prop
w hen greatness courted her, and it has n t
failed her when all else lias. Her broth
er, the Cardinal Fesch, devotes much of
his lime to he:; he leads a life of gieat
privacy, and is much respected by all
who know him.
Our readers will have perceived, from
the D bate iu the Senate, on FrHa> ,tbat
Mr Webs’cr stands pledged to bring fut
ward some measure, if public opinion
shall appear to justify a movement on his
part. H iving said tha' he acts, on this
occasion, iu opposition to nobody, and
would have preferred f flowing to being
b leader in this business, he will, of course
we psesume, if he submit any measure,
propose such a one as mav be supposed
likelv to bo supported by the reasonable
and candid among the ruling party in
Congress.
For ourselves, we cannot but think, as
we said in our last, th it affairs are ap
proaching an eventful crisis.
National Intelligencer.
One of t e letters received yesterday,
states that even at the Tammany Hall
Meeting, res dutionsin favor of a Bank of
the U litod States would have been pass
ed, but for verv iotel'igiblo intimations
received from Washington on the day of
the meeting, that nothing m is' he said a
hout a Bmk until the vote in Congresson
the Deposite question should be taken,
' because the Pennsylvania Delegation in
I Congress wo-dd g-> against the Executive
on tha question, if any thing was said a
bout a -tew Bank, to bo located in New
York. lb.
DEBATE IN THE SEN ATE OF THE UNI
ED STATES.
Thursday, Jan. 30, 1834,
On New York Resolutions.
M . WEBSTER ms?, and exnre-sed
a wish to say a few words. The obser
vations of the gentleman from Nek- Y -rk
he c -nstdered as full of the m >sr porten
tons imp-nr. lie considered ihe declar.
aliens which h-d been m ule this morn
ing, as conveying the settled purpose of
the A Iministration, on the great q resnons
which n<»w agitated the public mind.
Mr. WRIGHT rose to oxplnn that
he had given his opinions, as an individu
al, and that he had noau hority to express
the views of the A I ministration.
Mr. WEBSTER said he perfectly well
understood ail the gentleman’s disclaim
ers and demurrers But it was from the
statiou of the gentleman, arid from reia*
tioi.s, that he had adopted he conclusion,
that every word spoken by'the gentleman
had been well considered, and the sub
ject of deliberation with himself and with
otheis.
Here then was an anhuciation to the
whole country* io which (wo things were
pl duly set f irth. Ist, that the present
svs'em —ifstsiem it was to becalled—or
suite of things, was to teiniin unaltered,that
i-ph'it the public money was to remain uu
der the present disposition of the Treasu.
rv, and the whole of the fiscal agency of
th B inks selected bv tho Secret iry.—
That was the fi st point. The g<>nt : e
-m in had submi ted it f> die Senat • as his
explication, and had declued his deter
minati id to support ’he Administration
in carrying it though; and ibo gr-allem m!
would n i h ive adopted the ex ’;',c-it '-n
wibpDi ktl i wing the se., tl nion;s ffthe \d
miuistratiop, concerning it. There was
•J') pl an for tho reference of the whole
m titer to Cmgiess. There seemed io
ba n > in'ention to adopt .my system on
det the prescriptiou of law. The effect
of a legal provision w-rnld be to place the
p'lb'ic deoositt's beyond the power of
didv change acco ding to the caprice of
an Executive officer, bv directing and
fixing the ol ice where th y should te
m ini. But it was u>w anno-iced lb it an
ex; erimen' ( w.is to bo t ied, and noth
ing further was to bo done until the fail
uro of ch it experiment.
There was auollior thing which be had
learned, because it was tho gentium in’s
ujonion, and he bid -he means ->i enl n’’
cii'£t his opinion, an 1 they with wh> n he
hid coefered, and with w'i on he acted,
h ive ’.he matins to enforce their opinions,
that hey iu'eod to direct against the
B ink the faults which are now everywhere
ascribed to the Governinent. 1 was to
be asser- ed here, and made the topic of
decl imaiiou every where, that, notwith
standing die removal of the depos’nes, if
die Bank bad not acted there would
have b en n > pleasure on the country. —
Fiie objec- xvas'o divert the complaint
f um the G iveinmont, and to fix h up m
th -B» ik. He saw this imeuliou in two
ie.ii r k .
Tim gentleman had said, that no hon
ors were to be gained bv the President,
from tne act which he was about to ac
complished. Thai he was to bung bick
legisla i>n t<> its origin i limits, and th i
Congress had n<» power t > ere ie a N i
tion il Bank. He w -aid not stop to in
qui c whe her Cong ess could no' char-er
a Bank in this li-tlc District, winch sh>« Id
opmate every where h ough-’iF -lie Gu
ion? Not the constitin.onal oower to
create a Bank! On woat dd this pow •’
rest? L was merely a power which was
gramed and exercised for /he purpose of
carrying its other powers i>.t • effec. A
fiscal agent was necessary for the pu pa
ses of the C -vern uent. it, could create
th it fisc d agent n aB :>k. Fnis the gentle
man had denied,& nad said 'ha' it was no!
competent to Congress to create afiscal a
gents,institutions not created by itself,but
by others,and which were without the coo
trol of Congiess.
It was admitted that the fiscal agon’
was necessary, and that Congress had
the power to employ it, but Congress
could not create it, but must take such
gents as were already created. He did
not know w heie the gentleman could find
his author! v for placing the public mo
neys in the State Banks. But, if .here
were no as the gentleman
admitted he necesssity of a Bink, the
gentleman could not hold such discord sot
opinions as to assert that Congress should,
in that c-se create a Bulk. For himself,
he confessed he was too obtuse to see the
distinction between creating a Bmk.—
for 'be use of the Government, and ta
king institutions which were already cre.i
ted. To make and to use, >o m ike and
to hire, could create no difforences, ex
ceptthat every consideration of propriety,
and expediency, and c nvenience would
require that Congress shou d make a
Bank which would suit its own purposes
and answer its own ends and not use o
thei Banks which wete not under its
con'.-o!,
On two or three other points hs wish,
cd to say a word. The gentleman differ
ed from him as to tho degree of pressure
on the country.He had admitted,thatthere
was some pressure. In large cities,he ad
milted, there m'ght bo seine, but that ev
ery where else tho pressure was limited,
would soon be over, and was greatly ex'
aggerated. This was all matter of opin
ion. It was capable of no proof or dis
proof. The avenues of knowledge were
opon to all. He could only say that he
differed from the gentleman on this point.
For the last few weeks, is he had infered
from the letters he daily received, the
pressure had been gradually increasing,
anti he saw no chance of its dminmion,
if no measures of relief wero adopted by
the Government.
But ihe gentleman hasascribed motives.
A p -litic d crime, it seems, had been
committed! The gentleman was mistaken
It was to bring the a imitpstraiion into
disfavor that the rem >val of the depos
ites «as thus Strongly ceosuredlTlie gen
tleman must hive been aware that not
vi:hst I'ldjng the great vote by which the
N - * Y rk resolutions, were carried,-.here
were many and <s ardient friends of the
Pes d -nt,as we’e io be foun I anywhere;
there had been, f r many weeks, as n
'ens'ing a debate on this subject as hid
been heard for these wenty years,and he
hadn’t heud, among dl who h l sip
pnted he A jininistration, asi- gle Seoi»
to: siy that he t.:>proved the rem vol of
dm depdsi’es. H° bi I only hoard tna
gentleman torn Georgia approach that
point, and he did no* contend tha it w>s
a wise act. The gentleman fr m Virgin
ia, (Mr. Rives,) not in his ai t n >
advocated the wisdom oi the inoasme’ He
had not met with twenty iudividu its, out
«>f Congress, who expressed an a <pi <v <i
of it—not ammg the man. thousand'
whose opinions he had heard, twen y v >
would say that it was a -vise cours r ; but
ho ha ! heard individuals -f ample
declare,that they would rathe; h ive na ie
great sacrifices 'hemselves, thin ih t th
deposites should have been removed.
Bit it was cnarged dial th > motive of
these movements on account of h ■ p ess
ore on die co'iotrv, was to b tug ue Pies
idem into disgrace. This a. g eat
mistake. Every body w;G n t a politt
cian. The mind of everv mhi tr tn.*
country was not occupied about subver .
ing one Administration.and sri ;ng uia an
other. The gentleman bad d m*' gea
injustice to the People. lie him o f
knew that great injustice was thus I-ne
t > the mem irta ists from Bosum, so ;i ©
of wh m vote verv ardient friends >f toe
President, a ol wh > could have been i ••
fi etict’d by to md! nj ’dvo as vis attn
ba'f'fi to hem.
B 1 oin relerenro to he conduct of the
B tk, he thought he heard yestetday
some lung f <>m the geutletn :ti from Pean
svlvtuia, indicative of tbu ime-'.ti >n 10
d>.ec' the hastility of the c just ;y
the B mk, on account of (he ,p ibltc dis
tio-.*. It wis he duty of ho G vero
ment ti> have foreseen he. c-ms. q.ienes of
tiie removal of ihe doposees; and g*mde
men bad no right to say that die liiS'l u
iim hid caballed agai, st th*-G'vermnent
and ijius b o ght on itself .i.e great risk
which must resul' ftom btiugingtih© whole
hostility of th© Government on its pro
::e- y nl chmacer. The G-ve’ument
h id placed itself in a:i extraoid 1) >ry p >s
siiioti "> the c an ry: Fh© law pr >vided
a protec'io 1 for the credit and currency
of dm c 'iiut.yj but we had seen tho Eve
cutivc G iverument breaking down ihe
tiatlonai currency. We had seen the la
si'rutimi assailed, w liicbjby law, was pro
vided to supply tha revenue. Wa< not
that a now c rnrse? D d ihe recollection
i.f the geu'leme.i furnish any instance?
What inslitud <n could stand against such
hosiili y? T lie Bmk <>f E 'gland c-mld
not have stood against it <1 single hou .
The Bank of Fi aoce would hive pe.~
i.-lied at the first hostile bro it h of he Ad
tpinistration. But the B ink of the (J u
ted S a es had a ell sus ained it* credit ol
der eve;y disadvantage, ind had amnio
means o sus ain it to the end. Wm
had the Bmk done? Tne ge itlemio
from New York, and he gen lemm fr«»tn
Pennsy vania, had illeged hat it was not
nee iU»»* ut he removal >f the dop si es,
that 'here vas .mv oressu'S in the c ma.
tiy li vas c.u.g -J by he latter, 'hi li
8-nk hid beg hi t<> curtail its dis iuii’s
bet u - e the tern >vtl of tne de.msi es, and
it <i time viieii it was on'y ex >ected h i
they w >ld be rem >ved. D d no the
Bmk by l iking thi* C <u;>e, prove (hat it
f>r saw correctly whit was to take place,
and, because r ad >p rd a course of pre
paration; uiorderto b eak the bio v which
was ab >ut to fall upon it, his wis to b<-
also added to the g; ive ca' 1! gne >1 i s of
fences The Bmk, it seem * 1 hid cur
tailed to th ■ atu iual of time miilions Had
»he, indeed? Aid was i 11 >’ merely ihat
amount of deposites which the Govern
inent had withdrawn? The Bmk,'hen,
had exac/ly curtailed s > much as the G >v
ernincßt had drawn awa. l orn it. N -
o'lier Bankin the World could have gone
<>n with so small a cu<tailmen'. While
ptiblic confidence diminishing all a
touii * the B tuk; it only curtailed just
as much as it had lost by tho act of ihe
Government. The B ink would have
been justified, even without the wi hdraw
al of the deposites, in curt tiling its dis
counts; gradually,and cominuing to do so
to 'be end of its chat/er. The Govern
ment had refused to recharter it its
imm <>f existence was rapidly shortening;
one of the last acts it could peifuim was
collections, and ttie process of collection
ought to have commenced, it would have
therefute, been its du:y to begin its cur
tailments.
He hoped that be had not been misun
derstood in bis remarks the other morn
ing. The getitlem iu from N w York
bad|been 1 e,>resented!as saying: at it was
no: the removal of the deposi es w hich
had caused the pub'ic distress. What he
had said, was that,if the Government had
required twice nine uiilli ns fm its ser
vice, the withdrawal vs that amount from
thg Bank, with out any inferrtiptwn of
the good understanding between the Gov
ernment and the Bank, w >uld not have
caused this pressure. Every thing turned,
on the circumstances under which the
withdrawal was made. If public confi
dence was n<>t shaken, all was well; but,
if it was, all—all was difficulty and dis
tress. ,
Again: a word on the subject of motive.
It was said by the gentletnin from New-:
Ymk, that government had no design a
gainst the B in-: hit it only desired to
withdraw the public deposites. Yet, in
the very paper submitted to Congress bv
tho Executive Department, the Bank is
described as unconstitutional —as bav'mg
broken its charter violated its ebl-g'i
tions, and that its very existence was dan
gerous to the country !
Was not all this calculated to injure
the chatacter of the Bank? Tho Bank
had its f >reign connec ions, and was much
engaged in the basinets of foreign ex
changes • and what w old be thought at
Paris and L »ndon 4 when they saw all
, th-so allegations made by tho G overn
ment agai -s a Bmk, in which they had
always reposed the highest confidence?
•Did not this injure i f s reputation ? Did it |
no- co npel it to take a defensive auitude?
The gentleman fr-’in New-York had talk
ed ab Hit the power in the country to put
d iva th • Bank ; and abou d >iug /is our
faiht ts did in 'lie time of the Revolution;
rnd hid called’on the People to rise and
o’>t down this- tn mev power, as our an
cestors had put down tho oppressive rule
- f Gen B ttain.
All this was enough calculated to pro
-1 ice theeffi’Ct which wis intended abroad
hut twn v-<rv wide of the true qaesiioi :
and ho Aoold vetHure a predict) u now,
that -he 1 >ngi»- gen lemeu p irsued the ex
peri-imo* which they devised, of collect
i 7 i)p public revenue bv th' Stmeßinks,
h* m -io no ftj.- I would they be satisfied
th i it r -uM o<r succeed. The gen leman
t'.a I sofl' rod himself to be led away by
fsisn an loss es. H,» said, -ha', when this
Bmk ex o- d. there *»ould be the same
la vs -t< ex'stod wir-n the eld Batik expir
ed,. Now; would it ti -t be the iofeibnce
of eve-v wise mm. that there would also
b • sane me >-ivmiieiico as there was
th o? tie ihe-i duew a pictnie of tilings
when the Go -o nm-’Ot found it necessary
t > charter the old Binkin 1791; which
expired : <i 1811.—
Tim wat c mio on the rex' year. Tho
Siu B inks all then stopped specie pay
and. before the war had continued
iweivo nonth», there was a pioposition
f > i Uni c-j States Bank; and his propo
sal was renewed year afer year. Who
stio n: ted this propositi m? The
i idivid-rils who hid opp so J the foimm
Bank, and wh > now desire r> h ive such
a-; institution. They took the Bank, The
■ co sri m -f the ward d not d) a;vay
he necessity for i’s c iPtflinnce. hhas
boon votifieJ, by experience, that the
Bank is as necessary in time of peace as
in war,and, perhaps, more necessary, f o
the purpose of facilitating the comm rcial
operations of the couti'ry. It had now
been alleged that wo are io be left in the
same Condition, as to laws, as when the
aid B ink expired, and, of course, ihat we
are to be subjected to the same iucouve
uiences. For the convenience of the
G •vemmeni and of the country, h’. c
must be some bank, and he should wish
to hear the views of 'he Admhlis'tation
as to this point. He was not so wed led
to this Bank as not to be willing to bear
any other plan which humm ingenuity
migb: devise, if any other fe isib e Scheme
Coutu be deyis< d
I’he Bito co retiry bad heretofore
been circuia-ed tiverv when; it met the
warns every mic; 't wasco iv mmol and
and safe. It was impossible fur Con.ress
t i enact a certain val-te on the papet of
the S ite Biiiks. They might say th it
hese B -.nks we e entil’ed m credit; but
thevemll not legist.i e them int i the
opmioi) and faith of the Public. The e
mist t ike .li-Jii ow i comse. It cDuld ne
ver happen that the N Y uk n -tes would
Ue at ,>a> value i • L uis an t, or that ’he
no e» of the Lauioana B mks would
ie at par iu N Y ok. Fee la.v had now
cunvtiiH'cd a u ulor it medium oi value
everv wii ne; and ee w aid say th u there
wisn >t to be f-Hiii i m the wiiole world
ao iiher instiiuu >:i liffh die Bank of the
U. S. There was no ms aace oi a Bmk,
Ah >se papei had spread iver s > wide a
•uoiCH'il country, a-nl was eveiy where
of such eq ial Value. H-w could it be
bat a number of Stale Batiks, reaching
i-ver 2t);0O n les of countiy, subject to be
c*Hr> Itt-d only by S ato Legislatures aud
State tribunals, without, the possibility of
auy geueiul conceit • t ac i> n, could be
m imianmd as an adequate sub-li ute for
Mich a Bank? It culd not be. He saw
in me doctrines which had been advanced
i - .day, ohly new distress and disaster,new
insecurity, aud m ie danger to proper y,
(han the country had experienced fur ma
ny years; because it was in vain to talk
about the occupations of industry unless
props, ty was made secuie, or of the value
• f lab t unless its recompense was sale.—
Bitthe opportunity would occur for re
suming this subject hereafter.
A said or tw<> on another subject. It
had been said by him, on a former, day,
tha this question did not necessarily draw
after i Atie question of re-chartenng-he
U. S. Bmk. It left hat question for fu
ture adjustment. But the piesent ques
tion involved high puli ical cons>derati as,
which he was not now about todiscu s.—
If the question of 'fie removal ofshe d- *■
poshes were nut now taken into view,
gentlemen would be bound o yo'e on the
resolutions of the Senator iro n Keo uc.
kv, as to the power which had been claim
ed and exercised. The question /hen
was not as to the B ink. But he would
iepeat, that, huwe.pr gentlemen might
fl it'er themse.ves it it sh "iid not be se
tied .hit the ded >sHes we-e to be resmr
ed,-> • hmg would be sen.ed,and negative
lesuluth ‘is uoold not tr-mq i I’Z"'be coo
ntry inm q opsence au repose. Ibe ques
tion was be! -re tn© country; all *ag;eed
that it nao3l he settled by the country.Ho
regretted that topics were mixed up with
ihe qustionwhicb could prevent it from bo
ingsubmined io the calm judgement of the
people. Yet he bad entire fait in the pub
lic Sentiment. Events were occuring dail
ly,which would make the people think
for themselves.
The industrious, the enterprising, would
see the danger which surrounded them,
and would awake. Then be should bo
satisfied. If the majority of the people
should then say there was no necessity
for a continuance of this sound and uni
versal cunency, he would acquiesce in
the judgement, because he could do no
other than acquiesce. But if the gentle
man from New York was right in his
reading <>f the prognostics, and public o’
pinion should settle down iu that way,
and it should be determined here that the
public money and the public currency
were to be placed at the disposal nf twen»
four State sovereignties, entrusted with
absolute power over the whole subject*
this he would say, that one, and not a
powerless one, of the bands of the Union
was dissolved
Mr. WEBSTER concluded with a
reference to the condition of 'he country,
' before the adaption of the Federal Con
stitution, when the States were anxious
to rid 'hemselves of the difficulty and re<
sponsibility which attached to them, in
consequence of their power over the cur
rency; and stated that the adoption of the
Constitution was desired for the purpose
of getting rid of a state of things, so justly
dpsc ibed by one of tho fathers of tha
Constitution, as an unnatural coniliton of
the couutry when the debtor was ro’
lentlessly pursuing bis creditor, and
threatening him with the ruin of payment.
A W ’& W
WEOXDSOAY.FIIB. 12,(834
j ■ 1.11 Uli Wf MT—
O’ We are requested to say that 12 or 13
Stone Masons will receive immediate employ
men at the Vaucluse Factory, Edgefleld Dis
trict, S. C.
The plnn* and specifications for the Edifice,-
of the AT dical College of Georgia, are ready
to be exmined by those, whi design to make
proposals f>r building. It is desirable, that the
propositions should be handed to the Budding
Com nitlee as soon as possible.
Rail Road St ck —The Athens Burvier, of
the Sth inst. cays that boohs for receiving
subscriptions to stock in the‘Georgia Rail Road
Cosiipary’ were opened in that p ace on Mon
day last Over half the arnout li-rited by tlis
rbarter (2500 shares) to this place ha.-e beet}
subscribed; and we are informed there is little
doubt but Hitt the whole amount will be taken
before the looks are cl-aed on Thursday n-xt,?
The state of ass .itsiu 3. Carolina, the fruit oi
in illness in the NulliS rs, is likely again to be;
come as appalling, as ths last February was ex
pected to be. Ou the 3-1 inst. 12 to 1500 Union
men met in Greenville, who were not disposed to
emigrate and leave the h.om-s of (heir fathers, .
and were as Utile disposed to submit to disfraij*
chhement by h *ir political adversaries. The
numbers that have left the State this winter,
though nothing like whit it was ihe same time
last year, is slowly draining off the best blood
and treasure of poor Carolina. The resolutions
at Greenville and Spartanbrirg simultaneously
breathe th ; same spiiitod determination to ‘ live
freemen. 1 '
The Cataract of the G nges lias attracted two
overflowing Houses iii the Circui, and will be
performed To-night again, for the Benefit o£
Mr. Debious, with other entertainments. The
perform, uces we learn will close with this week.
They have never been excelled here in their pe,-
culiar l : ne, and have, we hope, rewarded the
Manager for thj expense and trouble necessax.
■ rily encountered in their exhibition.
O’ We are requested to say, ihat Mr.
! Dgw.ns wiil take his benefit To mutrow night.
■ Extract of a letter fiom one oi oar Ktpresenta
fives in Co'giess, dated
lYa.liinglon City, 3d, Feb 1834.
The view you have taken of the Deposit Ques
tion is the correct one, and as we understand it
heie ihe real question is re charter or no re
charter—and Mi. Binney decidedly the ab.est
friend (he bank, hasiii either house, unless Webs
ter should be hrs superior,—a» a so, »lr. Webs
ter have both a minted ihat ihe removal of the
9 mdl ons of deposits, or oft vice that sum front
the Bank, cmild not p rse nave produced, tac
distress watch is aliened to exist tn the Com
mercial cities, t ut in order to do away the effect
oi this admission, which they were bound to
make in order to sustain their own charade s
for truth and cand ur, they say that the distress
arises from the want of loufideuce in the cur
rency and money market, ari lug from the f»*ar
of the c inm.mitv, that life Bank, will not be re
chartered and thereby the uni.ormity and sta
bility of the currency wiii be destroyed—and
from this they argue th ;t the Bank must be re
cbartered o* some oilier ot a simitar character
formed. The whole f their argument against
the removal is based upon the ground of a viola
tion of the faith of the Nation, a;d the effect
produced by the removal upon the quest! »u of
recharter.
la Senate th -re is a majority of about eight
against the administration, but we shall have a
m tjority ol 10 to 20 against a return of the de.-
poii s in tne Hnuse.
We had a vole this evening which, though on
a mere question of reference, was a party vote*
and a pretty g >od test, aud our m jority was IS.
It arose ou a mem -rtai from the. merchants <>f
New York, upon Hie su'uject of distress m the
money market. The friends of the ba.<k wished
to send it to a select committee, aud we wished
to send it to the committee of Ways and Means,
Where ail the oth r petitions a d memorials of
like baracter had gone—and we succeeded a<
above stated.
Upon the depasite question the vote of Geor
gia wil; d? thus—for a return of the deposites—
‘Vilde, Gamble, Foster, Clayton, 4—against—,
Wayue, Gi mer, Ccff-e, Jones, Schley, 5.
I have i vestigated the batik question with *■
some ait' nu m since I iiave been here, and am
decidedly of opinion that Congress has no pow.
er io grant a charter to such a bank, and be
•ievingso, I shall of cour e vote against it—ora
j.-turn of the deposites—and even if I believed
,h a,ik constitutional i should vote against a
return, of the d. posites, because the ank hat
acted iu u h a corrupt and shameful manner
with h; funds iu their bands—aud used its
pow rs to force the people to compel their repre
se. tatives to grant t e charter. The’ whole
movements of the friends of the bank here, and?
elsewhere, are directed to that objeej. Jjjj
