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fries, it win su-ip >*pfl tint soma further tract*-, hr pVc r **
niu-.h desired by tin niw State?, might priufenfly be off
ered. A fc-.v such liave been advertised; Bift sufficient
time after due notice, have not yet elapsed to realize any
thing from them.
If ths fourth instalment of the deposited with" ttoi States
he deferred, and the difficulty in seasonably transferring it
he thus removed, yet. being chiefly in the custody of blinks
not paying specie, it is manifest tint it cannot be idimcdU
utely realized in funds suitable to meet the esistlng appro
priations. If it b ; not deferred, some further provisions
will he still more indispensable to enable tUc Treasury not
only to place it with thfc'States, but to pay till the public
creditors and officers fn a satisfactory manner, until the
duti -* now due fnmi the nlcrchants. o’ - .,! t^e funds now in
thcdiscontinu -d depositebunks, can. jc Collected. It is trite,
that a resort to the States f >r rof\„„l in g portions of the lar-" e
sums already deposited with ‘,iicm, would also r ntaiu h.v i a 'v.-;
iTut under the limitation” ofthc art of.Time, lout), j* vvoiild be
vury slow in its^ bperarimi, and, if coiri|>lie a y^th would
prove entirely’* nsufifeiont to answer such an urgent occa
sion as tb'r present. During the ensuing quarter, the whole
amount that could be legally recalled would not exceed
six hundred and fifty thousand 'Hollars. lienee it seems
expedient, either in .aid or exclusion of a requisition on
the States, as maybe dee'ned most suitable by Congress,
to provide some temp' Jr ary resource, until enough of the
fourth instalment, or other means in the Treasury, can he
rendered available to discharge all the pu' lie engagements.
It need not he a loan, or an increase of taxes of any kind;
«s the General Government, in respect to its finances, what
ever temporary embarassment the recent Convulsions in
commerce and banking may have create^ j s far from hav
ing any just cause of despond-eum” J t j 4 neither over
whelmed with a national debt j I19r " destitute of largo pe
cuniary resources on hand ; but entirely free from the former
it is so amply supplied with the latter, as to have ia the
Treasury over ftirty millions of dollars, and eight or ten
millions more in bonds, which will soon become payable.
Hut a large portt.g,, being in depositc with the States, and
the reside^* c 4 |iof]y jii banks and the bands of merchants
under the difficulties before named, in procuring promptly,
and in a legal currency, the amounts of money which are
needed, some collateral aid fora short period, till a suffici
ency can be collected, appears to be judicious, if not indis
pensable.
It is fortunate that the energies of the country generally,
tire not paralyzed, nor its prospects clouded by any great
physical calamities: and hence its immediate wants can
without doubt, be provided for ip. various ways.
One mode would be to authorize the issue of Treasury
notes, receivable for all public dues, but without interest.
These would differ from the drafts or checks now in use,
only as the latter are given for immediate payment, ami
drawn on persons and banks having public money sufficient
to meat them: and, consequently tbo holders must be ex
posed to the trouble and expense of presenting them at
the places .where payable. Still they are nearly on a par
with specie. In the present deranged state of bank pa
per and exchanges, and in the favorable coudition of the
General Government, by his ample resources and exemp
tion from pecuniary liabilities, to impart the greatest confi
dence in respect to the redemption of such notes, it is prob
able that they would readily be taken at par by most ot the
public creditors. Especially would this be likely to hap
pen, provided they were issued in denominations as low
as twenty, fifty,and one hundred dollars: and not in too
large quantities, but used only in anticipation ot the accru
ing revenue on occasional emergencies, and to a limited
amount.
Contrary to expectation, should the department, during
the present delinquency »f many of the public debtors, be
exposed to such very large calls, and collect so little reve
nue, as not to he ablo, by both tbo above notes and drafts,
to meet all engagements in a satisfactory manner, it wouid
be desirable that the President should possess a contingent
authority to cause Treasury notes to be issued, bearing an
interest not to exceed six per cent.
Specie could always be raised oa these for the public
creditor, when he preferred it. lint as notes bcaringmurh
interest wouid soon cease to be used in circulation, (and
if they should not, would, a* a currency, be troublesome
in the computation of interest, and too strongly tend to ex
clude specie from the country,) it might be advisable not
to make them receivable, at first for any public dues, but
only to resort to that measure afterwards, when it should
be found convenient for redeeming them.
In connection with the issue of any Treasury notes, it is
believed to be wise to make ample provision for their early
redemption. This could he accomplished by enacting,
that when the money on hand in the Treasury and the Mint
available for public purposes, may exceed a given amount
of four or five millions, it shall be the duty of tha Secreta
ry of the Treasury to cause these notes (securing priority
to any on interest) to be redeemed to such an extent as the
surplus may exceed that sum and what will probably be
needed to defray current expenses. It being believed that
a reduction of the tariff, and suitable regulations concern
ing the sales of public land, ought at a proper time to be
put in force, so as to prevent any large and regular accumu
lation in the Treasury, the department would respectfully
propose that in case of any unexpected excess beyend the
sums above specified, it should merely be invested, in a
temporarv manner, in safe State stocks, at their market
rate, subject to be sold again whenever the proceeds shall
be wanted to discharge oxisting appropriations.
.An additional consideration in favor of these measures
is, that since the payment of the public debt, which absorb
ed any occasional surplus of receipts, it is impossible, ac
cording to the views expressed in some previous reports
from the undersigned, that, with resoarces of revenue so
fluctuating as oars, and sodjpendent on commercial pros
perity, and fiscal operation should be long continued with
ease," vigor, and uniformity, without some such regulator as
it power to issue and redeem Treasury notes, or to invest
and sell the investment of surpluses. By any other course
we shall constantly bo exposed to great deficiencies, or ex-
Besses, with all their attondent embarassments. If de
puting the excess with the States, subject to be recalled to
supply deficiencies, the pecuniary profit to the whole Union
will be no greater, while such a course may involve us in a
•erics of vexations demands on them, accompanied by va
rious dangers, both to them and the General Government;
and, in the mean time, it is feared will, in many instances,
tend to excite excesses and evils similar t« seme of those un
der which the country is now suffering.
f. OS THE SAFE K23
MONET IIEHE-
trlNG Ot THE rUBLI
AFTER.
Th* arriflo-cricats For keeping the public money, which
had been ia successful operation for a few years previous to
tho T>Msa«v of the deposite act of 1336, became partially
embarrassed by carrying into effect some of its provisions.
Bui the enfitreement of them all, where not entirely per-
r, was in seasonable process in May last, when the
Department was compelled by the Uei 'ogive notice to such
of tbo selected banks as bad suspended spLCm nayinents
that th-y could no longer be considered a* general d-’p.^sj-
torics of the public moneys.
A list is annexed of all before employed in that capacity,
which have been discontinued.
After due inquiries-to- procure other depositories, in con-
finrmity to the act, the Department has completed the ap
pointment of only one. This, and four more that have not
suspended, with one that has resumed specie payments,
(making six in all.) constitute the present bank deposito
ries for general purposes.
During the inability to obtain speoie paying banks' at
other points, the Treasurer, being required by the closing
part of the 3th section of the act, to keep and disburse the
public money according to the laws before in force, has
done it in conformity to the very’ wide discretion winch ex
isted when no rules were i:i force, that had been prescrib
ed by Congress, except to “keep"’ and “disburse the
same” under the general superintendence of the Secretary
of the Treasury. A part of it lias, therefore, been kept in
special deposite in this city, a portion of it m the mint, and
the residue with the officers collecting it until it was want
ed for public purposes, or until it accumulated in such
sums at any point as not to be, probably, wanted there for
such use. In the first case, it has, fiom lime to time,
been applied to the payment of creditors, by draft
on the collectors or receivers;, a'id in- the last,- thc-
oxces.s had been directed to be temporarily placed with
banks not remotely situated, and in special deposite for
safety, until wanted for expenditure clsevfheVe, or un
til some new legislation shall take place in relation, to-
it.
Under these circumstances, the Department would re
spectfully suggest some provisions which maybe more spe
cific, and’ may be required for the safe keeping and dis
bursing of the public moneys.
In the present condition of the Govcrnmentand-thc-coun-
try two systems are proposed, either of which, it isr believ
ed, may be practicable and adequate to the exigencies of
the crisis. One is, an enlargement and adaptation of the
system partially employed since the suspension of spe
cie payments, so as to make it answer all necessary pur
poses. This could be effected merely by assigning to
our chitting officers and establishment* some additional du
ties.
'Ehe-Ti-easurer, at the seat of Government; the Mint,
with its branch at Ne\v-OrIeans, and another which has
been contemplated, and is- much needed, at New-York, for
other purposes; collectors of the customs,and receivers of
money for the sales of land, as well'as postmasters, might
all be directed to keep-in safety, not. only the public money
collected by them, but all actually placed in-t heir possession,,
by transfer or otherwise. As fiscal ageuts, they might also-
be required to pay over and transfer it for strch-piibiic pur
poses as may be authorized by Congress, and under sucli
regulations as the Treasury Department from time to rime
may prescribe. Indfced the third 1 section of the post office
law of 1825, with the bond'taken under it as to the agency
of the postmasters, is, perhaps, already sufficiently broad
for thatclassof officers. At points like New-York ■anef'a
few others, where a likelihood existed that the sums would
permanently be large, but which, under a reduced revenue
and expenditure, would seldom occur, authority might be
given to appoint the clerks now acting as cashiers or tellers
under the collectors and receivers,, or other more suitable
persons, Jo act as keepers and; paymasters of the public
money, lint they should be made independent of the col
lectors and receivers, andi placed under the like tenure-of
office, aud under suitable-boil Is.. Additional means of safe
ty, tutd such additional but limited.compensation to any of
the above officers, might be provided aa-tha increased risk
aud labor might render just; bat in only a few cases would
those last be much augmented at any place.
Taking the year 1334 as furnishing a specimen suffi
ciently large of th® piobabfe-bjjsiucss in future connected
wild? (he §o*fral Operations of the Treasury tfepart-
uAitttj-lfiib, «t course, not including the separdte establish
ment of the |*ost office, tho whole nUinbei- of warnuils issu
ed In that year was a little unde? five thousand, and, though
differing much in actual amount; dvet-Agiug about five thou*
sand dollars each. This wtiuhl be less than twenty war
rants a day, and hence would tequire less than one rcrday
to be paid in each twenty-six States They differed, in fact,
from four per day in this.District, and two per davin Ncw-
York, which were the highest tH'oibers, to only one per
week in several of the States, The business ot each office
daily, or even wfiehlv, '.u making pavmcntsof the drafts,
would, therefore- be very lit le. If more than one drift
issued on u warrant, the business would be increased in that
proportion, unless the whole payments were reduced,
as is probable, hereafter, to sixteen or seventeen millions
yearly.
In regard to the risk, five millions in the Treasury at
any one time, if all placed in the hands of collectors and
receivers, would uot, on an average, exceed *20.000 with
each of the present number.
But if the amount, besides one million in the Mint, was
chiefly in the hands of half the present number, which
would approach nearer to the probable result, the sum with
each would still be less than most of the existing bonds of
receivers ; a.-i-l when exceeding theirs, or those of the prin
cipal collectors, the excess, in most cases, could be readily
prevented, or reduced, by being drawn out to pay creditors,
or be conveniently transferred to t lie Treasurer of the Uni
ted States, at the seat of Government, or to the Mint and
and its branches. Until one of the latter is authorized at
New-York, the substitute before mentioned, of one of I be
present officers in the customs there ns an iml -pendent
keeper and paymaster of tbo public money, could be a-
dopled, and, if deemed prudent, be extended to any other
similar place.
In this mole, the present number of officers connected
with the collection ami disbursement of the revenue
throughout the United States, need not be at all increased.
Nor will it become necessary, except in a few cases, to aug
ment their compensation. Twenty or thirty- thousand dol
lars a year would probably cover the whole additional ex
pense of every kind.
The other system to which the attention and considera
tion of Congress arc respectfully invited, is a new organi
zation, by means of commissioners or receivers general,
to gather tlic collections to more central points, and keep
and disburse there a large portion of tbo public money, or
such as could not be kept safely and expended convenient
ly in the hands of the collecting officers. Such an organi
zation might be at only three or four of the most important
points, or it might bo made more extensive, and tbo num
ber enlarged to eight or ten. This could be arranged, in
all essential particulars, substantially in the manner which
is now in very successful practice in some of the most en
lightened and opulent Government's of Europe, and as was
urgently recommended by this department as early as 1790.
The only material difference need be, to pay out more of
the money near the places where it is collected, rather than
first to transmit most of it to the seat of Government. This
organization of fiscal agents would he advantageous as a
separate establishment for this business alone, and as an
independent check on most of those collecting the revenue.
But it would require some addition to the present number
of officers, and in the first instance would more increase
the public expenses.
But the whole addition of principal officers need not ex
reed ten. Nor would the increased annual expense to the
Government probably amount to over fifty or sixty thou
sand dollars, as the system would enable both the War and
Navy Departments to dispense with several of their agents
for making local disbursements. The danger of any losses
will be nearly the same under both plans. Jt is impossible
to conduct the affairs of Government, or the ordinary
transactions of society, without trust and risk of some kind.
But one great object, wherever pecuniary confidence is re
posed, should always be to require the best safeguards
which appear reasonable ; and in either ef these systems,
as hereafter explained, the amount trusted can be more ea
sily kept from becoming excessive, and the hazard of los
ses, affecting tbo deposite agent by bis lending or trading,
be fully obviated, by the strict prohibition of both the latter,
under severe penalties.
Our direct losses from either collecting or depositc a-
gents, have always been comparative small. Those by the
former, it is believed, have not equalled those by the latter,
though the latter, being banks, have usually in the end paid
most of their depositc*. The losses by tlic former arc al
so supposed not to have exceeded one-fifth of those on the
bonds of merchants for duties, and probably not one-eighth
of those from the purchasers of public lands, under the
credit system.
Occasional and strict examinations of the money on-
hand, where large in amount, would furnish a strong safe
guard beyond tlic character of the officer, and tlic proper
ty of himself and sureties, and which it might he provid
ed should l>e made by a committee of Congress, or in any
other mode deemed most eligible to constitute an effectual
cherk.
The plans which have been explained as to fiscal agents
are suggested for consideration, under a belief that either is
appropriate in the present posture of affairs; that they re
quire but slight changes in our existing laws or usages;
and, whatever objections can be adduced against them,
will, at the same time, be found to possess many signal ad
vantages.
They will not so much as some oilier modes of keeping
the public money, expose the Treasury to disappointments
and delays, through a dangerous partnership of interest,
or the use of that money for private or corporate purposes.
As the vicisitudcs of trade or speculation affect the persons
who borrow from the public hanking depositories, the evil
consequences must sometimes inevitably reach and embar
rass the Treasury itself. Nor, on the other hand, will
these modes, like our former one, cause frequent injury to
those who, trading on the revenue of the Government, arc
subject to he most pressed to refund it, when least able.
It is believed likewise, that the funds of the Treasury can
be always more readily commanded in a legal currency,
and tlic hopes of its creditors not defeated, nor its faith vio
lated so often, if the money is not loaned out, other in full
or in part, hut, as in other countries, is retained in specie or
its equivalent, and in the actual custody of officers exclu
sively fiscal. In other countries, tlic public money is be
lieved to be seldom, if ever, chargeable to the Treasurer,
till it is cither paid over on some draft, so that he can get
credit for the payment, (and which mode is practised some
what in England, as well as here, and extensively in
France,) or lodged,not in deposite in any hank, hut in his
own possession at the seat of Government. In the former
mode, the systems now proposed, and especially tlic first
one, would operate so as to disburse at each point most of
the public money collected near, and would thus enable the
Treasury to command its resources with less delay; the
money not being previously paid over at some distance,
and to a separate set of agents, as has usually been the
practice here in the use of hanks; nor much of it trans-
o or ted inconveniently to the capitol, as has usually been
t l ltJ "cractice elsewhere. This mode would thus possess
one oV ttid Greatestexcellencies in any fiscal system, which
is to pay over quickest to the public creditor, and with the
least official complex:^ whatever is collected from the pub
lic debtor.
Besides these advantages, others would he, that tlic mo
ney in the Treasury, under both ot the plans submitted,
can always he more easily kept down to moderate dimen
sions hv reductions in the revenue, and by temporary in
vestments of an occasional surplus, as there will he no an
tagonist interest connected with it, wishing for loans and
the use of surpluses, and thus co-operating to prevent a re
duction.
The existing establishments and officers, whenever con
venient, would be employed without a double machinery,
or the organization of a new system of agents. Execu
tive control would be diminished rather than increased by
them, because any additional officers will be selected, not
by the President alone, nor the Treasury Department, as
the Banks now are, but virtually be designated by Congress,
and the principal incumbents appointed by the consent of
the Senate- They would also remove all grounds for ihe
’objection sometimes urged' against the former system, that
iffie Executive alone exercises an extensive patronage and
great moneyed influence through a host of hank presi
dents,- (Krectors and stockholders, scattered through eve
ry section, of the country; and selected without the assent
or check of either House of Congress, in any particular
case, and making loans of the public money fan consi
derations merely political or official. A very wide disc re
tion will he tlius restricted, and a prolific source of s\is"
picion. and 1 -imputation of favoritism and partiality he en
lirely stopped.
The officers under the plans proposed, will likewise 5c-
amenable exclusively to the General Government, and not
be embarrassed, like the officers of the hanks, by conflict
ing duties and interests- in-respect to the 'States, nor in
volved in those collision's, jealousies and recriminations of
ten attendant on that position.
flic independent and lmrmonious action of each Govern
ment in its appropriate sphere will thus be more fully se
cured 5 . The local institutions, as a general principle, will
be left to the care and uses of the several States which
establish them, without interference on the part of the Ge
neral Government, and to be regulated or. discontinued,-
as deemed- most useful,- under their own State policies,
and most conducive to the original purposes of their own
creation. Nor would any general monied corporation,
aside from the grave de-abts-v.-hich exist as to both its con
stitutionality and general expediency, have been likclv in
such, a crisis as that of the war of 1312, or perhaps that
of last spring, to- have proved a much safer public depo
sitory, than those local institutions. Though, more conve
nient in form for fiscal purposes than they, and free from
sonic objections as to want of symmetry "and accountabil
ity which obtain against tiiem, yet, if chartered on usual
principles,-and judging: from experience here as well as
abroad,- it must have felled, in a trial like those, to have
sustained either oOr pefcrtfiiary operations or its own,, in
strict good?faith and in due vigor.
Without entering.into details to illustrate this position
it is necessary to notice ouly the single circumstance .-that
the Bank of England, during a severe- war, suspended
specie payments near a quarter of a century, and that
neither of the two- United States Banks- existed so as to
be obliged-to cheounter such a peril.- But since the last
spring, the notes of the second one,^ to the amount of se--
veral millions, have been allowed, to sink into the mass-of
irredeemable and depreciated-paper, though issued under
all the. liigh securities and-sanctions of a charter from the
General Government,-and-with very large funds still under
contract. Id Vc'dccta these note's in specie and on demand.
The systems which have been proposed in this report, if
adopted, fcould not bo expected to continue entirely ex
empt from losses by that unfeimfulness or casualty to which
r.Vi trusts in human affairs are exposed. But they may
be surrounded with strong safeguards, ami would very pro
bably soon he enabled to answer in a satisfactory manner,
every purpose of the Government in its condition so differ
ent in many respects from that which formerly existed,
aud which was the paramount cause urged for the incor
poration of our former two United States Banks. Its fi
nances are not now burdened with a notional debt of from
seventy to one hundred and thirty millions, and besides
our ordinary expenses, with the annual payment, on ac
count of principal and interest, of from 10 to 16,000,000,
to be first widely collected, and then transferred and
disbursed at only a few points on the seaboard. It is now
with a vearly revenue reduced from thirty and forty mil
lions to near twenty, and probably soon to be only sixteen
or seventeen, and with a course of expenditure which can
readily he diminished so as not much, if any, to exceed
the revenue in a natural state of business. In large sec
tions of our country, and in such a state of business, this
expenditure happens nearly and very conveniently to
correspond in amount with the receipts in the same sec
tions.
Wc are, likewise, reposing in peace, with very supe
rior means of communication, whether by mail or person
al intercourse, and with a greatly increased and increas
ing portion of gold in the currency, to render distant
transfers and payments more easy. It is manifest,
therefore, that our fiscal concerns will he greatly lessened
in amount as well as difficulty, unless we shall he visited
by wars bud other scourges, involving us in debts and em
barrassments of an aggravated character, and which, for
tunately, no sufficient reason appears for anticipating at
an early day. _ ....
Under the proposed arrangements, the transfers from
certain points could be often effected, when required by
the department for public purposes, not only with ease, but
so as greatly to fecilitate the domestic exchanges, in the
mode of employing drafts suggested in a subsequent por
tion of this report. In a more natural and ordinary state
of receipts aialexpenditures, like that in 1834, the trans
fers required to a great distance would not exceed two or
three millions during the year; and almost the whole of
them were, at that time, in such a direction as to yield a
profit, rather than he expensive to the hanks which made
them.
If the Treasurer were required to receive payment in
advance, at certain convenient points, for all lands sold, as
has once been the construction of the act of 1820, the
probability is, that very soon all the unfavorable transfers
rendered necessary would become quite unimportant in
amount,and less expensive than the transportation of specie
and paper has been heretofore, from the distant land offices
to the nearest deposite hanks, before much of it was paid
to the public creditors. It will be seen that, by these
modes of keeping tho public money, it would not he indis
pensable to employ any hanks, as a prescribed part of the
system, although it might sometimes be convenient to use
them as individuals do. and as subordinate fiscal officers
often do in other countries, for the deposite and transfer of
large sums, and particularly for special deposites, when
looking merely to safety and an early occasion to use the
money.
No act of Congress, until the charter of the lust Bank of
the United States in 1816, required the public money in
the Treasury to hr kept on deposite in any bank whatever
The whole subject w as left to the ck-serctisn of this depart
ment. Even that charter permitted the Secretary of tho
Trcasuryto remove the deposites from the Batik of tha Uni
ted States, when lie thought proper.
In the supplemental report from this department, in
1334, on the kcepingand disbursing of the public money,
n state of things like the present was adverted to and con
sidered. Tt was observed,.in regard to sucli an occurrence
that it will then become necessary to devolve these duties
on some receiver or collector already ia office, or on some
safe agent not now in office, as has been the practice for
years in this country in paying pensions ot convenient
places, near which there was no State Bank or branch of
tlic United States Bank, and as has long been the usage
in some countries of Europe, by hawing the revenue in cer
tain districts chiefly received, kept and transmitted through
private agents and 1 brokers.
But it was added, that “ though the fiscal operations of
the government could, undoubtedly, still proceed through
tho personal agencies before mentioned, u:.d without any
banks,.State or- National;, yet it would be at some inconve
nience and increase of expense, unless remedied in a man
ner that may hereafter he developed, and would not, in the
opinion of this-department, and.in the present condition of
things, be so eligible a system as the present one; because
banks, though exposed to some dangers and civils, and
though not believed'to be necessary for the fiscal purposes
of any government, and much less of one in the present
happy financial situation of ours, are frankly acknowledg
ed r<‘>he in. many respects,, a< class of agents economical,
convenient and useful..
The use of State busikshud then been adopted 1 and was
proceeding satisfactorily. For more than two years after
it continued to be in successful operation, so far as regard
ed both convenience and safety. But now, most of the
State banks have ceased to pay specie even for their own
notes-, and many have paid out, if not issued, small hills,
so as not to he in a situation either to he retained or to be
come fiscal agents, hi conformity to the requisitions of the
depositc act. A few others, who are in a legal situation to
be selected, decline to- receive the public money un
der some ef the conditions prescribed by tho act.-
Nor is any National hank in existence, or, independent
of its inexpediency in a political view, supposed to be cap
able of bc-rng established constitutionally. Hence it i=
respectfully submitted to-Congress, undvr all the above
considerations, whether the early adoption of one of the
plans proposed is not proper, aud would not be highly
conducive to the public interest.
CONGRESSIONAL
Wednesday, Sei’te.mber 13, 1837.
the control of officers and trustees deemed by the stock
holder exceedingly skilful, and bound by both law and
IN SENATE.
Mr. Bex ton presented a memorial from Dr. Fcutcli-
wanger, of New-York, proposing to furnish the Mint with
new dies for cent pieces, accompanied with specimens.'—
The memorial was referred to tlic Committee on Finance,
and ordered to he printed.
Mr. Wright, from the Committee on Finance, reported
a bill authorizing the issue of Treasury notes. Head a first
time, and ordered to a second reading.
[This hill authorizes the issue of Treasury notes to an
amount not exceeding millions of dollars, and of de
nominations not less than $100, and provides that the notes
he redeemed by the United States, at the Treasury, after
one year from their date, to bear interest for the said term;
rate of interest to be fixed by the Secretary, not to exceed
six percent, per annum ; the faith of the United States to
lie solemnly pledged for the redemption of said notes.—
Also, that the notes he signed by the Treasurer of the Uni
ted States, and countersigned by the Register of the Trea
sury ; separate accounts of the number signed to he kept
by each officer, as a mutual check. These officers are by
this section also authorized to cm loy such additional clerks
as these duties may render necessary, their salary to he fix
ed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Section 4th authorizes the Secretary to issue these notes
to pB creditors of the United States who choose to receive
them ai -'ar, aud also to borrow money on the credit of
such notes.
Section 6tli enacts that such notes shall every where be
received in payment ot all duties, taxes, &c. and for public
lands.
Section 9tli makes it felony to counterfeit said notes, and
fixes the penalty on conviction.]
Mr. Wright, from the same committee, reported a
bill authorizing the postponement of the payment of duty
bands. Read once, and ordered to a second reading
[This bill provides that the extension of credit for duties
now outstanding shall be six months from the time the ori
ginal bond became due; aud making the condition in each
case to depend on the same conditions as to additional se
curity, interest, &c. prescribed by the -Treasury Depart
ment to the extension of revenue bunds since May ; aud
not to include any bunds where the parties have not given
additional security, or made part payment,-or arc (by the
proper officers of the Government) considered insolvent cr
unsafe security for their bonds.
Section 2d provides an additional credit of six months
granted on all bonds which may be given during the period
of one year from and after the 1st of October, 1837. Also,
that, where the security in any bond postponed is satisfac
tory,-the principal and sureties shall not be disabled from
being the same for other bonds, though the first bond be
not yet paid.]
Mr.- Wright also reported from the same committee
a bill adjusting the remaining claims on the late deposite
banks p which, was also read, and ordered to a second read
ing.
[Section 1st - provides that the Secretary of the Treasury
be authorized to withdraw the public moneys remaining in
any of the late depositc banks - i« as convenient a manner
io"thcm-as may be suitable to the interests of Government.
No hank having met, of which- shall meet the requisitions
of the Department, to pay any further interest tliuu that
required by the deposite act of" 23d June,1836.
Section 2d provides that, m case of neglect or refusal on-
thc- part of thte hanks to comply with tho requisitions of
the Secretary of the Treasury, then such hanks shall be
sued at law,-unless bond, with security, he given,, provi
ding for payment in three instalmentsthe first instal
ment after two months from the passage of this act; the
second-, after five months, und the remainder after eight
months from the same period, interest being paid at tint
rato of- six per cent, per annum from the time of default,
-and-damages to bo paid accruing from protests or other-
causes.]
The special order of the day, being tlic bill to postpone
the 4lh instalment of the deposite to-the States—
Mr.-CATHOUN said he hoped- that this bill would not
now he acted upon. It was his-wish that no action should
be had on any of these measuresproposed by the Commit
tee-on Finance, until a-repott bad been made. He hoped,
therefore, that the chairman of the committee M r. (Wright)
woakl- consent to a-peslpoucment until-ull the contempla
ted measures sbould liave been reported.-
Air. Wright said he had no strongdesire upon the sub
ject-other than tb'Ckperiite, as far as was possible,-the bu
siness- before die Senate and Congress. He was not a*
-ware that any bills yet- to be reported by the committee,
would affect tlie question on the present bill; he, however,
felt no strong desire to press this Hill in particular, as he
hoped the committee would complete the business before it
to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Cai.Uous, the hill was then postpon
ed until to-morrow; aud
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Speaker stated, that having considered tlie extent
of the resolution adopted by the House on Alonday, touch
ing the course of its business, and compared it with the
16tli Rule of Order, which requires the calling for peti
tions, he hail been constrained to come to the conclusion
that it was his duty, under that rule, to call the House, In
states, for petitions; but that, if any should be presented
which had no immediate relation ts the special subjects re
commended in the President’s Message to the attention of
Congress, at its present session, the House could cuter in
to no action concerning them, hut. that they must, as ‘of
course, lie on the table until the period of the regular scs-
sio?on the first Monday of December next.
Under this decision, tho States were thereupon called
on for petitions, and a very few were presented which had
no reference to the currency; while a number were offered
which did relate to that subject, and the prayer of which
was either in favor of, or adverse to, the establishment of
a National Bank ; and which were referred to the Commit
tee of Ways and Means; several of them were ordered to
be printed.*
PROPOSED ISSUE OF TREASURY NOTES.
Air. Cambreleng, front the Committee of Ways und
Means, reported the following hill:
A BILL to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen
tatives of the L nited States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the President of the United States be, and
lie is hereby authorized to cause Treasury notes, not hear
ing interest, for such sum or sums as he may tliiuk expedi
ent, hilt not exceeding, in the whole amount of notes issu
ed, the sum of twelve millions of dollars, and of denomi
nations not less than one hundred dollars for anv one note,
to he prepared, signed, and issued in the manner hereinaf
ter provided.
Sec. . And be it further enacted, That the said Trea
sury notes authorized to he issued by the first section of
this act, shall be reimbursed and redeemed by the United
States at the Treasury thereof, after the expiration of one
year from the dates of the said notes respectively. The
reimbursement herein provided for shall be made at the
Treasury of the United States, to the holders of the said
notes respectively, upon presentment; and in case of pre
sentment and non-payment of said notes after they become
due, the holder or holders shall he entitled to receive inte
rest at the rate of five percent, per annum from the date of
demand of payment; and for this reimbursement, accord
ing to the provisions of this act, the faith of the United
States is hereby solemnly pledged.
Sec. . And be it further enacted. That the said Trea
sury notes shall he prepared under the direction of the
Secretary of the Treasury, and shall he respectively sign
ed, on behalf of the United Slates by the Treasurer"there
of, and countersigned by the Register of the Treasury; and
that those officers respectively shall, as checks upon each
other, -and to secure the public safety, keep separate, full,
and accurate accounts of the number, date, denomination
and amount of all the notes signed and countersigned by
them respectively, which said accounts shall he carefully
preserved and placed on file in^he Treasury Department;
and also similar accounts, kepi and preserved in the same
manner, of all the said notes redeemed, as the same shall
he returned und cancelled; and the Treasurer shall further
account, quarterly, for all sucli ndtes delivered to him for
signature or issue by the Register. The Treasurer and
Register of the Treasury are hereby authorized, by and wiM.
the consent and approbation of the Secretary of the Trea
sury, to employ such additional temporary clerks as the du
ties enjoined upon them by this section may render neces
sary, the compensation of each clerk so employed: to he
fixed by the Secretary.
Sec- . And be it f.ur-tkcr enacted, That'the Secretary
of the Trcusnry he, and he is hereby authorised, with the
approbation of die President of the United States, to
cans* to he issued sucli portion of said Treasury notes as
the President may think expedient, in payment of debts
due by the United.Sttitcs-to'sucli public creditors, or other
persons, as may choose to receive such notes in payment
as aforesaid at par.
Sec: . And be it further enacted, That the said Trca-
rury notes shall he issued payable to order or bearer, as the
said Secretary, with the approbation of the President, shall
direrr; and shall lie transferable by delivery, it made pay
able to hearer, and by the endorsement of the original payee
if made payable to order, without other or further assign-
meat or evidence of a transfer of propertv.
Sec. . And be it further enacted, That-the said Treasu
ry notes snail he every where received- in payment of all
dues and taxes laid by the authority of the United States;
;of all public lands sold by the said authority, and of all
debts due to the United States ot any character whatsoev
er. And o:i every such payment credit shall be given for
the am >unt of the principal and-interest, if any should ac
crue und r the provisions of this act,-which,, on the day of
such payment, may be due on the note or notes thus given
in payment.
Sec. . Anl be if further enacted, That the Secretary
of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and direct
ed, to cause to he reimbursed and paid the principal and
interest of the Treasury notes which may be issued by-virtue
°f this act, at the several time or times whe» the same, ac
cording to the provisions of this act, should h« thus reim
bursed aud«puid- And the said Secretary is further autho
rize'! to make purchases of the said notes at a price not ex
ceeding par, for the amount of the principal and" interest
due at the time of purchase on such notes; and so much
of any moneys in-the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
as may he necessary fur tfiat purpose, is hereby ap
propriated^ for paying the principal and interest of said
notes-
Sec. . And be it further enctc'ctT, That aisunrof-
thousand dollars, to he paid out of any money* in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is
hereby appropriated, for defraying the expense of pre
paring, engraving, signing, and all other expenses inci
dent to the issuing of the Treasury notes authorized by this
act.
S. c. . And be it'further enacted, "Flint if imiv person
shall falsely make,forge, or counterfeit, or cause,urprocute
to be, falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or willingly
aid or assist iu falsely making, forging, or counterfeiting,
any note, in imitation *f, or purporting to be, a Treasury
note aforesaid ; or shall falsely alter, or cause or procure to
be falsely altered, or willingly aid or assist in falsely aher-
ing, any Treasury note issued a* aforesaid; or slut'll pass,
utter, or publish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as
true,any false, forged, ore luuterfeiu-dnote, purporting to
be a Treasury note as aforesaid, knowing the same to he
falsely forged or counterfeited ; or shall pass, utter, or pub
lish, or attempt to pass, utter, or publish, as tine, any false
ly altered Treasury note, issued as aforesaid, knowirif the
same to he falsely altered, every such person shall beefeem-
ed and adjudged guilty of felony, and, being thereof con
victed by due course of law, shall he sentenced to he im
prisoned and Kept io hard labor for a period not less than
three years, nor more than ten years, and he fined in a sum
not exceeding five thousand dollars.
POLITICAL.
FROM THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER.
Messrs. Editors:—When a man who is not a candidate
for office says yes, and when he is a condidate says no, to
the same interrogatory, we have a right to draw our own
inference, as to whether he tells the truth, us well as to the
motives which influence him to prevaricate. Gov. Schley,
in the fall of 1830, upon the discussion of the Preamble
and Resolutions of Messrs. Wood and Murray, in the
House of Representatives, was charged by Air. Charles
Jenkins, his colleague, with being a Federalist, and op
posed to the late war with Great Britain! How Judge
Schley answered this charge,-the extracts below from his
speech, in reply to Air. Jenkins, will show. He was then,
it will ho borne in mind, a Representative from Richmond
county, and no candidate for office. Four years afterwards,
when he was put in nomination for the highest office in the
State, these same charges were reiterated and taken for
granted. How he replied to therr. after this short lapse of
time, the extract* from his answer to a letter from Mr. Gide
on Holsey, will also exhibit. Mr. llolsey writes, “you are
charged with the sin of Federalism in its most odious form,
to wit, an opposition to the late war upon principle—the
consequent result, of a belief of the correctness of the va
rious doctrines, of the then Federaj,party
Ef.tracts from tlin speech of
William Schley in reply
to Air. Jenkins on the dis
cussion of the Preamble,
&c.
“Previous to the declara
tion of War, lie (Schley)
was opposed to the measure
on principle" “Atthetime
when the question of war or
peace agitated the country,
that young gentleman (Air.
Jenkins,) was probably in
the nurse’s arms, and could
not positively know any
thing that transpired then;
it was true that he"(Scliley,)
was then called a Federalist,
and it was equally true that
he (Schley) was opposed to
the war on principle." “In
regard to the charge of Fe
deralism, lie would remark
that many others as weli as
himself were then called Fe
deralists who now professed
to he Republicans.”
Extracts from Wm. Schley’s
answer to the letter of Air.
Holsey in 1335.
“ I never was a Federal
ist in the vulgar acceptation
of the term.”
“ I was opposed to tlw de
claration of war before that
declaration was made, not
upon principle, because I
always said that we had
abundarire of cause of war
against England, hut upon
the ground expediency.”
“I do most, positively de
ny therefore that I was op
posed to the war upon prin
ciple.”
Sec. . It any person shall make nr engrave, or cause,
or procure to be ma le or engraved,, nr shall have in his
custody or possession any metallic plate, engraved after the
similitude of any plate from which any notes issued as
aforesaid, shall have been printed, with intent to use such
plate, or to cause, or suffer the same to be used in forgin'”
or counterfeiting any of the notes issued as aforesaid ; or
shall-have in his custody or possession any hank note or
notes, engraved and printed after the similitude of any
uotes issued as aforesaid, with intent to use such blanks
or cause, or suffer the same to he used in forging or coun
tej-feiting any of tho notes issued as nforesid; or shall have
in his custody or possession any paper adapted to the
making of notes, and similar to tliepa;>er upon which anv
such notes shall have been issued, with intent to use sucli
paper, or eanse or suffer the same to "be used in forging or
counterfeiting any of the notes issued as aforesaid, everv
such person, being thereof convicted, by due cotirso of law
shall he sentenc 'd to be imprisoned, and kept to hard labor
for a term not less than three nor more than ten
years, and lined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dol
lars.
Sec. . Aud be it further enacted, That the Secreta
ry of the Treasury he, and he is hereby, authorized to
make and issue, from time to time, such instructions, rules
and regulations, to the several collectors, receivers of pub
lic money, depositories and all others who may he authori
zed to receive the said Treasury notes on behalf of, and as
agents in any capacity for the United states, as to the safe
keeping, disposition, return, and cancelling of the said notes
so paid t », aud received by them respectively, and as to their
accounts and returns to the Department of all such receipts
as may seem to him best calculated to promote the public
interests and convenience, and to secure the United
States and the holders of tlic said notes against frauds and
losses.
Sec. . And be it further enacted, That it shall lx-,
and is hereby made, the duty of the Secretary of the Trea
sury to cause a statement to be published monthly of the
amount of all Treasury notes issued or returned in pursu
ance of the provisions of this act.
The bill was read twice, and referred to the committee of
the Whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. AIkrcer, from the Spec ial Committee on the stand
ing iules of the House, made a report, in part, and the
report was ordered to be, printed, and made the special or
der for to-morrow.
FROM THE MACON MESSENGER.
“ A REFUGE OF LIES.”
If ever this prophecy was truly and literally carried out
in our day, it has been by the Van Buren papers of Geor
gia, during our present political contest. Their resort,
with scarcely an exception, in assailing their opponents,
has cither been downright falsehood, or the most wilful
perversion und misrepresentation of facts ami documents.
Week after week have they exhibited detached sentences
of a Message of Air. Gilmer, by which -means thev were
enabled to give it an entire different meaning from the ori
ginal. They have falsely charged him with endeavoring
to build up privileged classes, by an effort to exempt the
students of 1- rnnklin College from military duties in time
of war; they assail him with an impudence scarcely to he
believed, for doing that in which they and their candidate
had participated; charged our party with being allied to,
and leagued with the Abolitionisis; that we would, if in
our power, at once stop all internal improvements; and as
the consummation «f impudence and hardihood, lliey
have endeavored to make the public believe that their fe
deral blue-light Governor is a “democrat of the Jcfcrso-
nian school !
Their last and' most iTi-sperarc- effort at falsehood" and
misrepresentation,-is now to pervert the testimony of Capt.
Meriwether, and impugn thevcracity of all the command
ing officers of Maj. Cooper’s Battalion, in the Florida carn-
paign, and other individuals substantiating their claims on
the State, for necessaries purchased under authority of the
Governor, for the comfort of the sol die r3-
To show to wl.at despicable and miserable shifts they
will resort to hide the facts, (and mislead tlie public mind.)
when they have been made as clear as frequent publication,
and the testimony of honorable men, whose veracity was
never before questioned, could make them, we will give
the following article from a correspondent of the Colum
bus Sentinel, (for the Editors appear to have more pru
dence than to claim the parentage of that which they-know
to he absolutely false, although they lack the moral princi
ple to refuse to he tlie medium to circulate the falsehood of
others.)
“ Air. James A. Aleriwether, of Putnam county,- Ga..
has come out in a lengthy attack against Gov-. Schlcy, charg*
ing him with high crimes, misdemeanors, &c., and the “ Co
lumbus Enquirer’’ says he lias “ nailed” tlic Governor to
the counter, slap dab. All the people round about in these
parts are respectfully requested to notice tlie aforesaid
publication. The Enquirer praises it mighty high, and it
may therefore be worth their attention, peradventure it
may induce some of them to vote for Air.- Gilmer, espe
cially those of the “poor soldiers” who were in the habit
of burning “ sperm candles,” wearing “fine boots,”
“ broad-cloth coats,” and eating “ b "dinners,” and
swigging the “ champaigoe,” horse. For farther parti
cular, please call on
Billy Barlow, over the way.”
A correspondent of the Telegraph says:
“ In the name ol God, what patriotic man—what citi
zen of Georgia could ever liave supported Gov. Scliley for
office again, had he allowed such claims, sucli charges as
were made by Capt.- Meriwether. Such a course would
have been fraught with ruin and bankruptcy to the State,
as the-Uiiitcd'Statej-woiild-never recognise charges so ab
surd and monstrous. Who ever heard of a militia Cap
tain clothing his soldiers- in superfine Broad-cloth coats at
thirty dollars, pantaloons at fifteen, and hoots at ten r and
feeding his men oil bologna sausages at fifty cents per lb.,
tongues at seventy-five, aud Fly market beef at twenty-eight
dollars per barrel.”
The editor of the Telegraph savs?
That Gov. Schley shouicf refuse to pay every just and
reasonable account contracted against the State, especial-
lj by patriotic A oluntcers who went to defend their conn*
u . v against murderous Indians, is a charge so improbable,
so absurd, as to carry its own refutation along with it.—
What motive can he have ? What is it to him l The mo
ney docs not conic out of his po.-ket when paid—nor stay-
in it wiicn refused. We cannot and do not believe that
any proper account has been rejected. If Captain Meri-
w ether s expenses have not been paid, they must have been
such as were not-mithorized by law, and this is ahundant-
a sufficient reason that their claim* should be rejected ctr
But it is asked by these kennel presses, what mm-
could Governor Sc hley havc in tQ ^
counts 1 Why, w,th su:h a innn as GovernorSchlev t ij*’
was reason enough. He made no contract of Toy £!?
with any one ,n this place, without making objection!,:
the reasonableness of the several charges. HeVuspe^
the honesty ot all with whom he had anv dealings : hT*
continually murmuring and complaining of exorbitant J**
ces, and imputing improper motives to them. Gov. SchU
is a man of such callibre, that he would assume more e*.
dtt in jewing a merchant, or beating him down i„ lrf
charges, than by any act either civil or military which 1
high-minded and patriotic functionary couid he emulous,
achieving:. .
[CTDUTIES OF MANAGERS IX MAKING A\n
TRANSMITTING ELECTION RETURNS,
The superintendents at the several precincts in each
county, on the day of the elections by them held, and at t|«.
places of holding such elections, shall count out the votes
by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the poll
certified under their hands in the character in which thev
presided; which shall be scaled up, together with a list ef
the names of the voters.
On the day following, one or more of tlie superintendent*
at each of the respective precincts in tlic several comnfa
shall assemble at the court house, (bringing up the n-tnriH
from their respective precincts,) and, together with the ma
gistrates who presided at the court house, or a majority of
them, count, compare, and add together the several” re.
turns, aDd certify to the Governor the result of the elec
tion for the county.
The returns brought to the court houses from the p rc .
cinets, us well as those made at the place on the day of the
election, should he transmitted to the Governor with the
consolidated return. The following may serve as a form
for the certificate to accompany the consolidated retun-
viz: —
Georgia, ) We, the presiding magistrates amt
County. ) superintendents of an election held at
the court house, and at the several precincts in said countv
on the second day of October instant, for a senator and
{one, two, or as the case may be) representative,-to repre
sent said county in the next General Assembly, dbeeitifv,
that we have compared, counted, and added Sogether tfe
votes given at said election, as ascertained from file morns
produced by the superintendents at the respective places
of holding elections in said county ; for which it appears
that (Zieie stale the namesof the candidates, and the lum
ber of rotes given to each) as will appear by reference to
said returns herewith transmitted.
This certificate should he signed by at least one of the
superintendents from each place of holding elections in the
county, in the character in w hich they presided, if a justice
or a freeholder, let it he so stated.
In counties where there are no precincts, the presiding
magistrates will certify the result of the election, and trans
mit the same to the Governor, taking care to enclose the
tally sheet, und a list of the names of the voters. The
following is a suitable form for such certificate, which will
also serve as a form for the returns made at the precincts,
with slight variations to suit the case, to wit:—
Georgia, ( M e, the presiding superintendents tf
County. ) an election held at the court inns* in
.said county, on the second day of October instant, fen one
{two, three, or four) representative, to represent said
c. u t . in the next. G. n ml Assembly, do certily, that, up
on counting out the votes, it appears that (Acre insert the
namesty the candidates, and the number of votes given
to each) which will he seen by reference to the enclosed.-
statement of the polls. Acts of 1830, 105.
Ti.e returns of the election for Governor must he certifi
ed in the same manner, and accompanied by a list of the
names of voters and statement of the poll, or tally
.sheet, as directed in the election for members of. th«
General Assembly, varying the certificates suit theease.
OCP The returns of the election for Governor shall U
sealed up bv-the presiding Justices, SEPARATELY from
other returns, and directed to the President of the Se
nate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and transmitted to Ilis Excellency the Governor. Cos,
art. 2, sec. 2.
As mistakes are sometimes made in the direction
of these returns, it may not he amiss to suggest a feint—
Hon. President #/ the Senate,
and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
1 Care of His Excellency the Governor,
Milledgeville, Georgia.
The return should be mailed immediately; but if no mail
passes to the seat of government within seven days after
, the election is determined, tho superintendents shall em
ploy a special messenger to carry the same; in which rase
the postmaster’s certificate, respecting the untimely de
parture of the mail, should be procured, and sent by llie
messenger, who shall be paid by the Governor for such see
:viec.-—Daw. Com. 178.
FOR the SOUTHERN RECORDER.
JO THE FREEMEN OF GEORGIA.
Fellow-Citizens 2 Aou will be called upon on fee firrf
Monday in October, to give your vote for Governor for tlie
term ot two years This is the first office within the gift
of the people, and if be who asks it should have his clsimr
scaned, he cannot grumble. With this principle in view/
I propose to draw the parallel between the two candi.iatej
w ho arc now before the country for this responsible office.
I will go as far back as they were best known. This
w ill embrace the period of tlie late war with Great Britain
and the United States. First, I will begin with George Ik
Gilmer, a rid shew impartially which course he pursued ia
this second trial of our country—a trial through which our
country passed with as much difficulty as she did through
tlic Revolutionary struggle—a trial which made torvism
rampart in the halls of our legislation, and even threatened
the destruction of the noblest government on earth—a tri
al which made the Jefferson’s, the Madison’s, the Mot-
roc s, the 1 inckney s, tremble for the fate of our beloved
\\ hat part in this struggle did George R. Gil-
“Brevity the soul of wit.”—TheI'enitsvlvania Tele
graph thus justly sums up tlic recommendations of the
President’s Ale»sage;-—
“ Specie for the office-holders and Bank paper for the
people.”
The following, in Mnrryott’s best style of dry huinor,
was inscribed by him in the Album at Niagara Falls :
Upon a patient and careful examination of the -Falls
colled Niagara, I have come to the conclusion, that if any
person was to-be taken down in them, he would be in con
siderable danger of receiving serious injury. F. AI.”
It’s a capital_fcit on those poetasters and- witlings who
attempt to immortalize their names »n association with
tlie mighty wonder in- magniloquent hexameters 0r unmean
ing doggerels.
jj proven. See Gov. Schley’s letter—also Alaj, Cooper’s
in last Telegraph.
It is charged, or is left, to bo implied by all these wri
ters, that Capt. Aleriwether purchased the articles nam
ed : such as Sperm candies, Bologna Sausages, Pine Ap
ple Cheese, Champagne, &c., while by referring to his
letters and tq other facts that have been published, it lias
been distinctly stated, over and over again, that he never
rendered a hill for any such articles—that all he claims
pay for are necessaries for his soldiers, such as the Go
vernor had authorized him to purchase, and sucli as the
Governor himseif had paid for in Milledgeville—that the
statements of both editors and correspondents are wilful
and palpable falsehoods.
If a bill has been rendered to the Governor for these
articles,-why docs he not inform the public by whom it
was rendered. If Capt. Aleriwuther’s accounts, and the
accounts of all the other Captains of Maj. Cooper’s Bat
talion, which nre unpaid, arc not for proper articles, why
not puolish that feet, instead of saying that somebody bas
charged the State for certain articles not known as sol
dier’s rations or clothing. Perhaps it may he the Govern
or himself orHen. Sanford, who has made such charges.
Let the public know who the officer is and reject the hill.
But by Wiiat rule just and correct accounts are rejected,
been use improper ones havc been presented by other in
dividuals, is past all our knowledge of transacting business,
or of justice.
No evidence has been given, or can be given that Capt.
AI.’s accounts are improper or extravagant, or such as the
Governor has not paid. Why, then, are they rejected?
There are a few convincing facts that can be easily ar
rived at in this vicinity, and to those who know, and have
jf/lsoiiictliiii2 in these matters, we will refer for evidence
ot the luxuries and extravagance of our volunteer officers.
Let any man who wishes to know the nature of the ac
counts which are unpaid, apply to Edmund Russell, Craft
ifc Lewis, John L. .Jones, John Rutherford, Pinckard &
White, Wm. P. Rowland, Patrick & Alartin, Wm. H.
Btirdsall, E. B. AVeed, Robert Kclton, Smith, Rogers
&. Co. Geo. W. Price &. Co., H. B. Hill & Co. merchants
of our city, who can any day be found, and ask them if
they have accounts contracted by the officers of Alajor
Cooper’s battalion, and charged to the State for Cham
pagne IV iue, Bologna Sausages, Pine Apple Cheese, Beef
Tongues, or Flymarket beef, or Broadcloth overcoats, at
$ 30, or Pantaloons at $ 15. We think they will find that
some of the Indigent soldiers have got the poor luxury of
a blanket and a cheap overcoat, suited to the inclement
season at which the volunteers embarked for Florida; all
■which were patriotically furnished at front ten per cent,
above cast, down to the actual cost of the goods.
Let them also ask Messrs. H. J. Shotwell if the Me
dicines they furnished the volunteers, were Pine Apple
Cheese, Fly Alarknt Beef or Champagne wine? if that is
the rcaso.t why they havc not been paid ?
Let them also inquire if these luxuries of the camp pre
vented the Surgeon who accompanied the volunteers to
1- ferula, from being paid ? Or was a surgeon too great a
luxury for sick soldiers, to be paid for by Gov. Schley.
Lot it also he ascertained the cause why the Governor
refused to pay the Bibb Cavalry for subsistence for them
selves and, their horses until they joined the army? Did
they feed their horses on Bologna Saugages, Pine Ap
ple Cheese and- Beef Tongues ? Was this the reason
that the food for the horses; or even the men, could uot be
paid for ?
Wc are informed that our prudent* Governor has given
them to understand that- they paid too much for their pro
visions, ( which was $5 for a soldier and horse for two mud
9 half days on a forced march; and obliged to procure sub
sistence where, and at whatever price it could be found,
or to go without it.) If .this be too high a price, or
Jibov® the ordinary, coat of & soldier's rations, wqi that
country.
mer act ? Did he desert his country in the hour of dan
ger ? Did lie lie down supinely and see the ships of lb*
enemy ride in sight of our coasts, refusing to take anv
part! No, fellow-citizens, he girded on his armur and
marched to the scene of danger; and there he remained
so long as his country required his services. During this
period of gloom in our country’s history—fees thronged
without, and torys within, some of the purest patriots in our
government despaired for our republican institutions. And
had they- not good cause ? The most powerful nation on
earth had landed mvriods upon our coasts, leaving nothing
in their course but wide spread desolation. In this second
trial, George R. Gilmer was found among the defenders of
his country.
I no.v prupose to review Gov. Schley’s bis'orv, maki g
no statement unless it can be proved by hundreds' of living
witnesses. Gov. Schley then lived in Louisville, and his
course w as too conspicuous not to leave a deep impression
upon the minds ot the people. That that impression was
made in consequence of his rancorous hostility to the admin
istration of Air. Ma lison, none can doubt. He opcnlv de
nounced the government—he denounced all those sage*
who controled it, and brought it to a happy termination.
He vilified the republican party on one hand, whilst be
lauded to the skies the Federal, on the other.
Fellow citizens, what proof have we that Gov. Scliler
did use his utmost efforts to aid the Federal party in that
contest ! What proof have we that he was with the Fede
ralists heart and soul ? IVhat proof have we that lie war
a supporter of the Hansons, the Pickerings, the Russel',
who used every effort to break down this then infant Re
public, and scatter the elements of Union to the four
winds ! It is ample to fix this charge. I will leave it W
the candour of mv readers to say, whether the proof is not
sufficient. Gov. Schley knows it to be true—-ho dare fl«l
deny it.
During the struggle, which is well kuown. the citizen*
ot our country, as our arms would be triumphant, would
make public demonstrations of their rejoicings. Sucli was
frequently the case in Louisville. Ami 1st the rejoicings ai
our countrymen at the success of our arms, both on sea and-
land, Gov. Schley was never known to participate—lepf
himself wholly aloof. And when the patrotic citizens sf.
Louisville on the annunciation of the great victory of X**"
Orleans determined to illuminate their houses—-when oas
general burst of patriotism seemed to pervade the cite,
Gov. Schley seemed wholly indifferent to his country—f lte "
—neither did he participate, nor was his house illuminated-
I would now ask, is not this sufficient proof to show Gov.-
Schley’s adherence to the federal party? But there is
plenty of other evidence to fix the charge upon Gov.Scbler-
I will only mention the fact of his naming his son after th*
great “martyr of liberty,” Hanson, the Editor of the Fe
deral Republican, whose tory principles, strenuously adro*
cated in the city of Baltimore, and carried to such an ex
tent, that the people rewarded him with a coat of tar and
feathers. Such was the man who Gov. Schley believed to
be a martyr in defence of civil liberty, and such was tk*
man in honor of whom he baptised his son.
People of Georgia, choose ye which you will take. Tfe .
question is now presented to vcu. Will you take Georp
R. Gilmer, or will yon take the present iucumbcut, Willis®
Schley ? The issue is now made up, aud it only require' j
you to give your suffrage. Pause and reflect, 1 hese®® 1
you, before you coinpromit the rights and character of Ge° r "
gia. In the hands of Air. Gilmer we havc no reason to f car *
in those of Gov. Schley we have much reason, from his Bar ’
row and contracted feelings. TALBOT- -
FOR THE SOUTHERN RECORDER.
TO THE PATRIOTIC VOTERS OF ALL PAR'/IE* ^
THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
The course which Governor Schley baa pursued in
holding payment from the soldiers who labored and udk®
in the 1* lorida campaign, has been universally execrated .
the citizens of onr State. And what else, we ask,
be expected from the honest yeomanry of onr country^
His Excellency’s doom has been pronounced ; »nd et*
few more weeks roll, around, we shall find him dri«*“ ,
to retirement—retirement more becoming bis w 3 * „ ^
seifish policy, than to be at the “ gubernatorial
our State. I would ask, for brevity’s sake, wbat apo««
bus Gov. Schicy offered for refusing t« p*y t ^ ie - ..
soldiers in the late Florida war ? It i* obvious ao* ,
Governor must give an answer to this question, when,
ed by the bravo soldiers. He replies, Over-coat*'
too much—they did not come within the
law,—pine apple cheese, champagne, ***> .v? g*.
te. could not be paid for, because it was a War