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The people will know then what they are taxed for. Rut so Ipng as
the revenues are avowedly collected for defraying the expenses,of the
Government, they should be sacred to that end. If in this way a
portion of the funds of the nation be useless, it may operate as an
inducement to make the taxes as light as possible, which in its turn
will relieve the people, and keep the Government poor; and by
keeping it poor, keep it honest, free from corruption.
The greatest objection or one of the greatest objections to the de
pbsite system, in either a National Bank or in State banks, is that it
•gives tn the banks the use of the Government funds. Being given
Ho the banks, the use of these funds is virtually given to the business
•Community. The business community, so long as it has the use of
them, will not be anxious to reduce the revenues. It will prefer high
taxes, and favor the accumulation of a surplus, because by having the
use of the funds to sustain its credit, it gets back more than it is ob
liged to pay tn taxes. This part of the subject, Mt. Calhoun, in his
speech of February Wlh, has set in a clear light, and his remarks
deserve to be read and pondered well by every freeman. The policy
of our Government should be to make taxes as light as possible,
consequently to look with distrust on all measures the direct tendency
of which must be to iu< rease them.
ft may also be maintained, with some plausibility at least, that it is
for the true interest of the banks themselves to have no connection
with the fiscal concerns of the Government. Nobody, we presume,
is hardy enough to contend that the banks should control the Gov
ernment. It has never, we believe, been the intention of the people
to place the real government of the country in'the hands of the bank
corporations. They have, we believe, always intended that the Gov
ernment should maintain its supremacy, and follow its own interest and
that of the country, regardless of the special interests of the presidents
and directors ot banks. In case the Government maintains its su
premacy, the amount cf its funds, the time, place, and extent of its
appropriations, must alway s he matters beyond the control of the
banks, and also matters which they may not always foresee, or be
prepared to meet. Government will have it in its power to disturb,
whenever it chooses, their nicest business calculations, and thwart
them in their most cherished plans. It may call upon them for its ;
funds, when they are all loaned out, and when they cannot be called I
in without great detiiment to the business operations of the common- j
ity, often not without producing a painc, financial embarsment, com
meicial distress.
Il there be but one bank, or if there be one mammoth bank, it i
may, perhaps, profit by panics, financial embarrassments, commercial :
distress; but die bunks generally cannot. Their interest is one and
the same with that of the business community; it is best promoted ■
by sustaining credit, by keeing the waters smooth and even, the times •
good and easy. They ought, then, to be free from all connection
with a partner over whose operati >ns they have on control, and [
who may choose to withdraw his investments at the very moment
when they are most in need of them. It is altogether better for
them to trust to theii own means, ami keep to their proper vocation,
than it is to mix up their interests with those of the Government.
The history of the late deposite banks may be thought to afford some
evidence of the truth of this.
From the Fincastle Democrat.
THE MALIGN INFLUENCE.
“These remarks satisfies us that the moneyed influence of the
whole land, from one extremity to the other, was arrayed against
ahis all important measure, —(the Constitutional Treasury Bill,) and
that the deblois of the banks were to be forced to oppose the bill,
•or be ruined by the sale of their property. The writs were filled up,
•and the indebted members of Congress, were warned that if they
opposed the will of the banks, that if they would not sacrifice their
predilictions in favor of the measuie, —if their love of liberty, and
the best interests of the nation should predominate over their regard
for the will anJ wishes of their creditors, that their property should 1
be thrown into the market, ami by its sacrifice, that their wives and
children would be reduced to poverty.”
Tne influence was doubtless felt tot ic fullest extent here portrayed
by the editor of the Democrat; but the mode in which it was brought j
to bear was in >re insidious, though not less potent. The agents did
not assume quite so bold a tone—their experience taught them more ,
discretion. I'he sterotypr warning of every agent, so far as our in
formation extends, was in about these words: “ Sir, if this bill
PASS, OUR, AND EVERY OTHER BANK WILL BE COMPELLED TO WIND
UP ITS BUSINESS IMMEDIATELY.”
This was a general observation—but it was fully understood by
every one to whom it was addressed. The trembling debtor heard
it,as hears the condemned criminal the bell which summons him to
execution. In such a state of things w.is it to be expected that pa
triotism, however pure, could stand the trial ? Who will look to the
Constitution or to the interests of Government or a people, when
a starving family stands naked before his eyes making its piteous
apfieals for bread ? We call upon one high in office — and to a South
ern Senator, his endorser on notes to the amount of thirty thousand
dollars, to say whether language of this import were not spoken in
Ins ears during the pen lency of the bill ? We appeal to another
member of the same body to say whether he did not tell us that “ if
the hill passed he would be ruined ; as the Lank to which he was a
debtor, had determined in such ease, to wind up its business? The
Mine call might, with equal propriety,be made on, at least, one hun
dred and fifty members who voted fur or against the bill ?
Such was the mode in which the malign influence was brought to
bear cn the question ; and we put it to the calm judgment of every
thinking man in the country to say, whether such a state of things
can end in good to the Republic ? It cannot. It will undermine
dur institutions—sap the foundation of the public virtue—corrupt the
Government, and destroy the public liberties. Every precept of
common sense—every dictate of common patriotism cries aloud
against it. If reckless and ambitious men must have ladders to
mount into place and power, let them take some other than this.
The evils which must result from this dangerous connection of the
POLITICAL and the BANKING POWERS are too tremendous
to be trifled with. The man or the party that advocates such a con
nection is the deadliest enemy of the Constitution—of the Govern
ment, and of the banks. Observe to what mad excesses this politi
cal banking organization has already hurried its advocates. The
last Winchester Republican—a leading Federal paper in Virginia,
in some remarks on the resumption of specie payments, has the fol
lowing commjnts on the course of the Government in relations to
the banks :
“ It is hoped, however, now that there have been such clear and
decisive manifestations of popular sentiment in all sections of the
country in opposition to its reckless experiments, and that Congress
has refused to lend its sanction to them, that it will cease its warfare
upon these institutions, and permit them to go on quietly to fulfil
the objects for which they were created."
“ Cease its warfare upon these institutions, (the banks) and
PERMIT THEM To GO ON QUIETLY TO FULFIL THE OBJECTS FOR
WHICH THEY WERE CREATED!!!” Was there ever such
midness and delusion !—Were the banks created to hold and trade
upon the public fuu Is? Do their chatters confer the-right to con
vei t the treasures of the country into so much banking capital for
the use of their stockholders ? Where they, in any, the least degree,
created by the States as agents of the Federal Government ? And
is the separation, a force from the unauthorized connection between
them, to be construed as an act of positive “ warfare upon these in
stitutions." Can any man iu his sober senses talk thus? Neither
the State constitutions nor the State, laws—nor the Federal Consti
tution ever authorized the unhallowed and dangerous Union ; nor
was a Federal agency ever contemplated as among the “ objects,"
for which they were created. They have rightfully no more to do
with the Federal revenues or the fiscal operations of the Federal
Government th in the editor of the Republican himself. And what
would be thought of him were he to contend that the Government
ought to put the public revenues in his hands, to be used for his pri
vate benefit; and, that, if it did not so do, it would be making
“ war" on him ? He would, in such case, deserve to be pul in a
mad-house—and would probably be so disposed of. And what bet
ter right have the banks to demand the same unwarrantable privi
lege ? None under heaven. And yet, we are gravely told that, to
refuse them this boon is tantamount to a declaration of war against
them! Nay,—worse than that—this it is substantially a "separa
tion of the. (rone.mment from the people," an “ union of the purse
and sword," a “ dangerous and despotic assumption of power," a
granting, as Gov. Ritner expresses it, “to the. Federal Executive
THE ENTIRE CONTROL OFTHE NATIONAL WEALTH,
and of the WHOLE AMOUNT OF SPECIE IN THE COUN
TRY, and the consequent power to affr.ct an lwtrA.n to its own
rcßp.sr.s ALL THE CAPITAL AND CREDIT OFTHE
WHOLE UNION !”
Now, we ask any man possessed of three grains of common
to say if all this is not the most bald and despicable jargon that
.ever disturbed the human understanding ? Is it not clear that this
party are even now prepared—in their wlid and reckless mania, to
put both Government and people under the dominion of privi
leged corporations? And will the free people of this country submit
to it ? THAT IS THE QUESTION. — Washington Chronicle.
{From the Savannah Georgian.]
RESUMPTION.
The Savannah Banks, we presume, are ready to resume, and
all the Georgia Banks are able and willing:
Resumption of Specie Payment* by the Charleston Banks..
—Tire following it from the Charleston Patriot of 24th inst.—
I here can exist no doubt, from the arrangements now in pro
gress, that the Banks generally at the North will resume spe
cie payments about the period designated in Gov. Rimer’s
Proclamation, as that prescribed for the Pennsylvania Banks
—to wit, on the 13'h of August. The commercial reputation
of Charleston requires that she should move in this matter si
multaneously with the Northern Banks.—An understanding
with the Georgia Institutions can be obtained in time to effect
the object. I here can be no apprehension of disturbance hy
anticipating the period fixed upon at the late Convention.
Our Bank* have since greatly strengthened themselves, and the
designation of a certain time for the resumption will have a
tendency of itself to lower the exchanges, while the act of re
sumption will restore that general confidence which must be
followed by calling into immediate activity those large pecu
niary resources now lying dormant on deposit in the various in
ctitutions. Mr. Biddle cannot hold out against a general de-
termination to resume, and we have little doubt that before the
expiration of the period fixed in the Proclamation of Gov.
Ritner, that he will have sufficiently strengthened himself front
his funnds in Europe, the proceeds of his shipments, as to be
able to resume, in common with the other banks in the country.
From (he Richmond
THE GOVERNMENT REPUDIATING ITS OWN PAPER.
The following transaction will speak for itself:
[a copy.]
Post Office Department.
Draft No. 5323.
To J. J. Coddingtott, P. M. at New-York :
At .sight, pay to Arthur Nelson, or order, one thousand four hun
dred and .’wenty-four dollars and fifty cents, and charge to account of
this Department
AMOS KENDAL, P. M. General.
sth July, 1838.
Charged ; G. K. Gardner,
Auditor P. O. Department.
$ 1,424 50.
Specie or Treasury Notes tfifinie.'l. — Having to pay to the Gov
ernment two duty bonds amounting to abotn 8 1,930, we offered to
day to Thomas Nelson, Esq. Collector of this port, $ 500 in specie,
a Treasury note for SIOO and the above draft of the Cover illiienl
for $ 1,424 50. 'The draft was promptly refused by the Collector,
who stated that be had no authority to take such claims against the
Government in discharge of claims due to it. We will, therefore,
give the market value for the specie or Treasury notes. How long
will a people who once called themselves free and independent
submit to such tyranny 1
DAVID ANDERSON, jr.& CO.
July 12. 1838.
Remarks.- —“ Tyranny,” indeed ! What wrong has the Govern
ment done to David Anderson, jr. and Co. T It bound itself to pay
Arthur Nelson a sum of money in New-York. He had no tight to
demand payment any where else. He assigned the draft to David
Anderson, jr. and Co. who saw and know that it was payable in
New-York and nowhere else. Os course they had no right to de
mand pavinent any where else. Had payment be°n refused in New-
York 2 Not at all. Hail they ever presented- it for payment?
Never. But because the Government will not consent, for their pri
vate accommodation filmy not having been its original creditors, but
having procured this paper in market, knowing where it was payable,)
to transfer its funds from New-York to Richmond, they call it “ ty
ranny !”
What makes this conduct the more contemptible is, that in or
dinary times, the warrants and drafts of the Government never
have been receivable for public dues at all, and under no cir
cumstances have they been made so receivable, until they had first
been presented to the place where payable, and payment refused.
In 1837, Treasury warrants were made so receivable after having
been so presented and payment refused. There never was a time
from the days of Washington down, when Messrs. Anderson & Co.
could have paid duties in Richmond with Treasury warrants on New-
York without first presenting them in the latter city ; and there never
was a time when they could make such payment with Post Office
drafts under any circumstances. Yet they would have the country
believe, that some new course lias been adopted, and that some un
heard of “ tyranny" has been practiced upon them !
What do men deserve, who raise this false clamor against the Go
vernment, because it will not render them special favors at the
expense of the people? Do they merit ridicule or scorn? But it
is in character with the Federalism of the day. It is not surprising,
that men who are seeking to overthrow the Administration to get the
public money for their own private use, should wish the Government,
in addition to transport it for them to any place, where they may be
pleased towant it. But “ will a people who once called theiusrlvesiree,
submit to such” imposition? Will they pay taxes merely that David
Anderson, jr. & Co., may have the use of the money, and then be at
the trouble and expense of sending it to Richmond from New-York,
or New-Orleans, Maine, or Missouri for their accommodation ?—-
Globe.
TO THE UNION PARTY.
It is a great and glorious principle which binds us together,
a principle no less sacred thaii that which engendered, created,
and doth perpetuate our freedom and happiness as a people ; a
principle which was agitated in the stormy days of the revo
lution, and had its consummation in the ever hallowed epoch of
’76.
This principle is before us in al! the greenness and purity of
its youth, and in all the luxuriance and glory of its manhood.
Like the sun in mid-heaven, the beauty and glory of the dav,
so stands the principle ot Union, elevated above our pathway
of life, shedding its brilliant rays in advance of our footsteps,
gleaming upon the darkness of our withering prospects, and
lighting us cheerfully onward to the goal of peace and pros
perity.
In all works where durabilily and strength of structure is
considered, it is proper and essential that the purest cement
should be applied. So with a party which would form itself
upon a solid foundation, and which would essay to withstand
the fierce tempests of discord and collision, it must be bound
together by a common principle, united by a kindred spirit, and
sustained by a unity and sympathy of feeling.
I he cause which you have espoused, the cause of Union, em
braces all that has been described above ; and von, as the mem
bers of that cause, are battling under the broad banner of vottr
country’s beacon-hope, and should leel inspired bv the breath
of liberty. The mantle of your revolutionary fathers has fal
len upon your shoulders, and beneath its ample f rills you should
feel nerved and strengthened for every opposing conflict.
Your cause is good, for it was purchased with struggles,
l blood and death ; and after the battle smoke had cleared away, i
i and your ancestors had been buried, the form of a Washington
| arose, clad in the habiliments of political salvation, and placed
| itself before you, the harbinger of hope and promise. His I
laws were given—his precepts divulge:!—his virtues imparted ;
I and the Cnion, based upon his gigantic eflorts and holy prin
ciples, bids fair to remain forever.
Democracy was the cardinal feature in the system of our first j
I Ge.ieral and President. The wholesome dm*trine im ideated !
| by the savior of America, both by precept and practice, was
■ contained in these few words : voxpopuli, vox dei.
And do you not feel yourselves bound by every considera- ;
tten of veneration for your ancestors, and regard for vottr own
peace and prosperity, to adhere closely and vigilantly to the
great principle of republicanism which rims throughout the
sacred Constitution oi these United States ; mid which marks
in broad characters the declaration of our National Indepen
dence? What stimulant can we offer you in the ‘ work of pa
tience and labor of love ?’ ‘The Union must be preserved,’
, was the declaration of that great and extraordinary man, whose
• suti of life is sinking behind the shades of his own Hermitage j
and where is the patriot whose bosom fires with the love of
country, who will not catch up the dying strains of the hero’s
I song, ami swell it to ear.h’s utmost bounds!
in the ear ol the Union party of Georgia do we blow the
trumpet's blast, ami we would that the sound might perforate
. very heart and startle every spirit. It is the day and hour in
j which exertion must be made, mid the cry of ‘ Watchman, what
I of the night,’ should reverberate from post to post.
j In carrying out the great and fundamental principles of the
I present administration, it well becomes every freeman to look
to his democracy, mid see that it yield not to the monopolizing
spirit of the age—to his republicanism, and see that it be not
■ iiiirtiire.l with the aristocracy of thrones and despots,—and to
his patriotism, and see that it lose none of its lustre, as it shines
amidst the brilliant constellation of republics, empires, and
' worlds, for
‘ ’Tis freedom's banner w aving o’er ns.'
The Union party of the South hasan immense weight of res
ponsibility’ to sustain. That great measure of divorce, w hich
is to cut off from the general government, a multitudinous
host ot banks, with all tlieir corrupt and pernicious influences,
is to be maintain’ d, the fatal doctrine of abolition is to be ttp-
I rooted in its germ, and the deadly sirocco, nullification, is to b<>
circumscribed within reasonable bounds. There is no time
then for a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty to slumber.
Let every independent voter lift his eye upon the great scene
before him, and survey its magnitude. Let the Union party
bestir themselves for every political conflict, whether national
or local, and the victory will be theirs. Let Washington, Jef
ferson and Madison be your file leaders—let a democratic re
publican administration be vottr glory ami vottr pride.
The good old Republican motto of “ Principles not Men," is re
versed with our opponents. They go for certain men, no matter
what their principles; and they go against certain other men, no
matter what their views or opinions on political matters maybe.
(See Recorder, Whig, &.r.)
The ease with which the Georgia Whigs put on and off their po
litical opinions, reminds one of the metamorphoses seen at the Thea
tre, where the same individual that one hour fills the character of a
flaming patriot, the next, is transformed into a cunning note shaver,
or perchance, a highway robber !
A year or two ago our opponents were most immaculate State
Rights men—Nullifiers —staking every thing upon principle—and
counting names as mere straw ! There was something sublime in
this: though wo regarded them as visionary enthusiasts, led away by
their feelings, we could not but respect their apparent sincerity and
devotion. “Principles, not men, was then their cry.” Who would
then ever have dreamt of seeing them so soon abandoning their high
ground, their proud and distinctive character, for that of grovelling
politicians ? Is it possible that this appearance Os devotion and sin
cerity was all assumed? We fear it was! They have abandoned
almost every position they then occupied—every principle they then
professed ! Then they went for principles not men—now they go
for men, regardless of principle. Opposition to the present admin
istration—or rather opposition to the present incumbents—to the of
fice holders—is the only principle by which they cohere. Snb-Trea
surv or no Sub-Treasury—Bank or no Bank is not the question
with them. The only question with them is, “ W ill you help turn the
present inbumbents out of office and put us iu ? If you will, you are
one of us, be you nullifier, submissionist, tariffite, or sub-treasury
man. If yon will not, you are not one of us !” This is the lan
guage of our oj.’punets. 'I his is the ground they have chosen, on
which to battle for power and patronage. The public good is not the
object of their association, of tlieir struggle, of the deadly conflict in
which they have embarked. Itisa political adventure : a piratical
crusade against the government, and against the best interests of the
country. It is a game in which they have nothing to lose, and much
togain. It is a stake worth playing for. If they succeed, the ho
nors of office and the pationage of government, aye, the whole re
venue of the country, are theirs ! It is a noble prize, and valiantly •
will they contend for it.
Plain yeomanry of the country, will you place the destinies of the
nation, the fate of posterity, in the hands ot reckless politicians and
political gamblers?— Macon Telegraph.
STATE RIGHTS and UNITED STATES RIGHTS.
of Ogutott.
‘ I'he friends of the Union are our friends,and its enemies, out enemies.'
TUESDAY riOUMVt;, AUGUST 14.
Inion Democratic Republican Ticket.
FOR CONGRESS.
Gen. J. W. BURNEY, of Jasper. ] Dr. J. G. McWHDRTER, of Richmond,
Hon. ALF’D IVERSON, o/ Muscogee, j Gen. CHAS. 11. NELSON, of Cherokee,
D. C. CAMPBELL, Esq. of Bibb, ROB’T W. POOLER, of Chatham,
Gen. B. G RAVES, of Newton, Col. J. S. PATTERSON, of Early,
JUNIUS HILLYER, Esq. of Clark,
UNION NOMINATION FOR BALDWIN COUNTY.
At a meeting of the Union party, held at McComb’s Hotel on Sattir
■lay the 11 th inst. the following gentlemen were nominated to supply
the place of the former nomination, all of whom had deciiued.
GEORGE LEEVES. Senate.
CH XRLF.S D. HAMMOND, ) „
RICHARD ROWELL, tj Representatives.
THE CONTRAST.
The I nion Ticket for Congress is composed of men entertaining the
same principles in regard to all the leading measures of Government.
I hey advocate a strict construction of the Federal Constitution, and
deny to the General Government, the exercise of any power not spe
cifically delegated to it.
1 hey oppose a tariff for protection—lnternal Improvements— and a
national Bank by Congress, because the entire jurisdiction over these
questions is reserved to the’States.
They are decidedly in favor of separating the Government fiom the
Banks, Ist, because the connexion has already proved disasterous to
both, ami secondly, because the tendency of such a union leads directly
to consolidation.
If the alliance between them continues, it will strengthen the power
of the Federal Government, while it will, in the same ratio, diminish !
that independence of the States, which forms the great safeguard of our ;
liberties.
Such a Ticket, the Union Party presents to the people, united in op
position to every encroachment of Federal power.
On the contrary, the Whigs present a Ticket, united upon no common
principle, hut mixed up of all the elements which arc to be found among
the existing parties of the day. Some for the Sub-Treastny— some
against it-—some for a National Bank—some Conservatives, &e. &xc.
How can a party united upon common principles support such a I
Ticket? and yet their presses cro calling out fo.'htallv.
It is time for the Union Party to put on its armour and march out iu ’
its full stiength. Ihe day of trial is at hand, and let it be remembered,
that “ Uniled we stand, divided we fall."
EXCHANGE.
Upon no subject has the public mind been more abused, or the sober !
reason of the people so much disgusted as upon that of the currency and
exchanges.
The Federal-Bank-Whig press, has labored with a recklessness and
perseverance seldom equalled, to fasten upon the Government, all the
evils which have grown out of overbanking, overtrading, overspeculatin"-
and over living, for the sole object of alarming the country into the sup
port of a National Bank.
The difference of Exchange between different points of the Union
have all been ascribed to the measures of the Government, and the re
medy—the great regulator—-a National Bank, has been as steadily held
up as theinfailible nostrum, the “ king cure all,” of ail our diseases and
ditficulties.
Ihe Southern merchfinti who (or nenrly eighteen months p<isr, h<is
been compelled to pay from eight to fifteen percent, for Northern funds,
is told, that this tax has been imposed upon him by the Government
that her refusal to recharter the United States Batik, has brought all this
mischief upon the country, and until it is re-established, times will grow
no better.
Such is the slang with which we have been drugged from day to day»
and week to week, but the time is close at hand, which is destined to
falsify all the predictions, and to prove hy stubborn fact, that the rate of
exchanges depends alone, upon the con duct of the local Banks; and
that whenever they fulfil tlieir obligations to the public, in good
faith, exchanges will comeat once, to their proper standard ; because
when all the banks redeem their notes in specie, the rate of exchange
between any two given points, is as easily ascertained, as the freight of
a bale of cotton—the rost of transportation being the only difference. I
1 o place the matter in the clearest point of view, let us suppose that I
a merchant of Milledgeville owes a debt in New-York. He collects '
the amount in the Bills of the City Banks, and calls upon them foi ex
change oti New-York. They answer, we cannot draw. Well, says the
merchant, if you cannot give me New-York funds lor your bills, I must
take the specie. He receives it, and ships it—pays freight and insu
rance, which we presume would no! costovorone, or one and a quarter
per cent., and there is the rate of exchange between Milledgeville and
New-York, whenever the Banks redeem their bills in specie, and upon
the same principle, may it be estimated between any other two given
points.
The banks in Georgia, will, in all probability, resume in about fifty
days, and as a proof that our position is correct, we learn that exchange
is already coming down, and if they do resume, and continue to meet
their engagements as they should do, we predict, that before the first day
of next November, their will he no complaint i i Georgia, about the rate
of exchange; and if oi:r predictions prove true, it will then he seen, that
the high rate which has been paid since May 1837, was not caused by
the acts of the Government, bat by the refusal of the Banks to redeem
their promises; and if half as much exertion had been made to biin"
the Banks to a sense of their duty, as there has been to convict the Go
vernment of bringing down a groat calamity upon the country, the evil
wotdd have been cured much sooner than it will be.
Laying it down, that the true rate of exchange between any two
given places, each paying specie, is no more than the cost of transport
ing gold and silver from one to the other, we venture another predic
tion. which, if it proves true, will affird a practical illustration of the
principle laid down—ft is this:—lf Geogia resumes in October, and
Alaba .aa and Miss : ssippi. do not, we predict, that while Georgia gets ex
change on the North at a reasonable rate, it will nearly or quite main
tain its present standard in the other two Slates named, until they re
sume, and that when they resume, exchange will fall in proportion to
the expense of transporting the precious metals ; and thus the whole
maltei will be regulated without the aid of a National Bank.
Let the States commence a system of reformation in the local institu
tiitions—let them search out the existing defects and apply the remedy,
place them upon such a footing, that they dare not violate their faith
to the public, and they will be valuable to the country. But as long as
the present system prevails, of expansions, contractions, and suspen
sions, tho currency mid exchanges must be necessarily deranged.
Give us specie paying Banks, and we will ensure you exchange at a
fair and reasonable rate.
The Government has been accused of making war upon the Banks,
hut the story has already grown stale and threadbare, and while on this
j subject, it is duo to tho Banks generally, to state, that the charge did
' not originate with them. It was a device of Federalism, Whigism, and
j National Bankism, to alarm the State institutions, and draw them into
the support of the federal party; but the Banks understand it. and wil|
think and act for themselves.
Tho course ol the Administration towards the deposite Banks,
stamps the seal of falsehood upon it. In May 1837, those Banks having the
custody of the public revenue, found themselves, iu coinmou with all
others, unable to meet their engagements, and the President was com
pelled, on that account, to call an extra session of Congress, for the pur
pose of devising the ways and means to meet the liabilities of the Go
vernment, and the course which he advised in regard to the Banksliold
iug deposites, was of a chaiacter so mild and forbearing, as to entitle
him to their gratitude and respect. That policy has been since, steadily
pursued, and no deposite Bank has been harrassed or embarrassed by the
General Government.
Neither the President orchis friends desire to war upon the local in
stitutions of the country, because they believe them to be, under proper
regulations, a public benefit; but they profess the doctrines of State
Rights, and act upon them. They maintain that the incorpoiation of n
Bank by Congress, would be a palpable infraction of the Federal Con
.’itutiou, and aii open violation of the reserved rights of the States; and
bei.'eving therefore, that the States have wisely reserved to themselves,
the en tire jurisdiction over the subject of Banking corporations, they
would le'Rve it entirely to their management and control, askin ' only a
total divoiT.e and separation from an impolitic and uiiconstitutioual con
nexion.
What more Joes the Government ask? Nothin*—she only claims
the humble privilege of managing her own affairs, leaving the Banks to
do likewise, and to this ;t will sooner or later come. The public mind is
awake to the subject, and troth and reason must prevail.
The Administration and its friends desire to see tho State Banks pros
oer, and they confidently believe that with the necessary reformation of
the latticing system-—such reformation as will make tlieir paper circula- j
tion the t.' ue representative of gold and silver, our widely extended couu- I
try will contain R> 3 soundest currency a.nd the cheapest exchanges, of any j
other upon tho Globe’.
PARSON OF CHEROKEE CONVICTS.
The Governor has pa. doncd aii the Cherokee Indians, (twelve) con
fined in the Penitentiary, witi. a vietV to their emigration to the west.
They left this place a few days Since, SllKtcr the charge of one of their •
countrymen, employed, we presume, by the conimi?uding General, to
conduct them to tho rendezvous at Ross' landing.
“STAND BY, AND LET OLD CHATHAM SPEAK."'
First and foremost, the Banks of Savannah have resolved to resutMe
specie-payments on the first day of October next. May their example
be followed by every Banking institution in the State, and then we shall
have no more lamentations over the currency and exchanges.
The spirit which now animates her people is distilled in a short time,
to give a new impetus to enterprize aud wealth.
The vigor with which the great Central Rail Road is pushed forward
into the interior, gives promise of a new era in her affairs, and must in
a few years, elevate her to a high rank amoug the commercial cities of
the Uuiom
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Office of the Darien Telegraph, August 4, 1838.
It is with mortified feelings that we have to announce to our readers
that we willdiscoutinue the publication of the Darien d'elegraph. for the
present.
Our friends may be assured that it is no slight cause that leads its to
this course. When we say, that if we do not do so, our house will be
burned—our helpless, innocent children and beloved wife, murdered—and
the few gallant friends toe have, sacrificed— and that property would be
destroyed iu the city, that fifty years would not replace—we say the truth.
But enough, at present.
Those who are indebted to us will please make immediate payment
to the persecuted editor. C. MACARDELL.
(E?“ Our exchange papers will please not to discontinue their corres
pondence.
THE CHEROKEES.
We have just seen a letter from Calhoun, Tenn., stating the fact, i
that Gen. Scott, had contracted with John Ross for the removal of the i
Cherokees. He (Gen. Scott) stands pledged to Ross iu the amount of
three hundred thousand dollars, to enable him to employ wagons and
pay other necessary expenses. We further learn that this arrangement
has created considerable excitement at the Agency, especially among the
Cherokees, a great number of whom, having declared a decided prefer
ence to be removed by the Government, and are altogether averse to
trusting their destiny in the hands of Ross; perhaps but too well ac
quainted with bis penurious nature, to anticipate a plentiful supply for
themselves and families, while on the road to Arkansas IF. Georgian-
“ We would take this opportunity to request our friends to examine
their own opinions in regard to the sub-Treasury scheme. That scheme
as we understand it, is one thing, as Mr. Van Buren seems to understand
it. another. We do not believe we can be brought to see it with the
‘‘lights” of Mr. Van Buren, nor do we believe that the Sub-Treasury,
as the State Rights party would mould it. will ever be put to a fair trial
by the present Administration. They *rce too deeply wedded to then
own corrupt views, to abide the direction of an honest party. If it were
established to-morrow, according to a plan on which our whole party
would not differ, we doubt if the Government would adhere to its prin
ciples.”
We extract the above from the last Georgia Journal; and we beg the
reader to examine it attentively; for if he does, he cannot fail to disco
ver a decided indication of shuffling in the ranks of our opponents on
this great question. The same disposition to mystify—to he sub-treasu
ry men. aud yet not be sub-treasury men exactly—to advocate a divorce
—and yet object t.r every plan proposed to effect it—was manifest among
the Journal’s friends at the recent commencement; and we doubt not
that this is the course to be adopted in order to retain both divisions of
the nullification party, and make them act together. But we ca.ll upon
them to come fonvard with a plan which they will support. We call
upon the Journal to let us know how he would “ mould” a sub-treasury
project; and we can then tell him whether Mr. Van Buren’s friends will
agree to it or not. The plan of the Administration is before the world
—let the nuliifiers of Georgia agree upon theirs aud present it, and show
wherein lies the difference. Let the people see your true position, gen
tlemen ; if your views are honestly entertained, you need not fear that
they should be known— Southern Banner.
From the Washington Globe.
The “ Spirit of Ike West," an energetic Republican paper
of Illinois, presents some most happy illustrations of the “ dis
tress" of the present times for want of a National Bank, com
pared with the “ prosperity" of former times, when the country
was blessed with a National Bank, and also with a Federal
Administration. From 1819 to 1826, which included seven
years of United States Bank rule, and two years of Messrs.
Adam’s and Clay’s administration, it gives quotations of the
price of produce, and shows that the prices are about two, or
three, or four times higher in this season of distress than they
were in that season of prosperity. How desirable it is that the
Republican editors generally would look into their old files,
and give such quotations as are given by the Spirit of tbe
West in the following articles:
GLORIOUS TIMES OF THE UNITED STATES
BANK.
Cyrus Edwards, the candidate for Governor who “glories
in Federalism,” tells the people of Illinois, and puts his elec
tion upon it, that he wants to see “ revived the glorious times
of the Bank of the United States.” What say you, farmers of
Illinois? Do you want to see those times revived? What pri
ces did you get for your wheat, corn, and pork, in 1821, when
the Bank of the United States was in full career? An old
resident, and one of the most respectable of our citizens, in- j
formed us yesterday, that in 1821 our produce in this State sold j
as follows:
WHEAT- —three hits a bushel.
COHN—one bit a bushel.
COWS—-four dollars a head.
PO UK—one cent a pound, payable in old Stale Bank paper
which was fifty per cent. BELOIV PAR!!!
All this was during the “ glorious times," of the United
Slates Bank, as Cyrus Edwards calls them, and which he avss
he wants to see restored !
Compare these times with the present, which Cyrus Ed- i
wards invites you to put down ! Wheat is a dollar a bushel!
Corn, fifty cents! Cows, fifteen to twenty dollars a head !
Pork, three to five cents a pound !
These are the times present, which you yourselves, people
of Illinois, contributed to bring about by sustaining the Demo-|
cratic policy of ANDREW JACKSON and MARTIN VAN ;
BUREN! Yet Cyrus Edwards bewails this policy, by which j
you receive three times as much for your produce as vou got
in 1821. He says that it is “ a policy tbe desolating effects of
which are passing with a hurricane violence over the land !! ”
J’ RACT IC A L 1L LUST RAT IONS.
’time past vs. time present.
“ Glorious times of the United. States Bank."—Cyrus Ed
wards.
Extract from the Vincennes Price Current, April, 1824.
“ Flour $2 per barrel. Bacon 3 cts. per pound. Bank U.
S. Stock, 118 dollars for 100 cost.”
high—Hour ami bacon low.
“ / want to see these times retired."—Cyrus Eduards.
“ Desolating effects of a policy which is passing with a hur
ricane violence over the land."—Cyrus Edwards.
I Extract from the St. Louis Price Current. June, 1838.
j “ Flour S 3 per barrel. Bacon 8 a 10 cts. Bank U.S.,
(Stock, no sales.”
(t?*Stock low—flour and bacon high.
Cyrus Edward’s Bank of the United Stales policy-—Keep
flour and bacon down, and lite people poor, and Jet the stock
dealers gat rich.
Mr. Van B uren’s policy—Keep down the times of the
Bank of the United States', when the farmers got; but hall
price—and keep up the price of Gacori and flour,.that our far
mers may thrive.
THE TABI.ES TURNED.
Mr. Biddle once had the grace to speak of the men in pow
er us “ fugitives liorn the penitentiary,” and of the people who
placed them there as a “ rabble rout,” destined to be “scourg
ed back to their dens,” in his own good time. The same Mr.
Biddle is now classed, not among the fugitives from, but tJie
inmates of, the penitentiary, and by the recorded vote of a de
cisive majority in both branches of the National Legidature.
Ihe House ol Representatives on Saturday, among other
things, passed Mr. Grunby’s bill making it a felony, punishable
fide and imprisonment, to reissue the redeemed notes of the
defunct United States Bank—a practice which Mr. BidtJle has
continued for mouths and months to pursue, in utter disregard
ol all moral, if not legal obligations. The bill, having before
passed the Senate, has now become a igw—and that too, with
the assent, tacit or open, ol some of his more scrupulous abet
tors ! Such was the general reprobation of Mr. Biddle’s course
in this matter, that oi all his retainers and sattellites on th?
floor ol Congress, none, save such men as the braggart Wise,
S. S. 1 rentiss, (the new member from Mississippi,) and Jenifer,
had the effrontery to attempt a justification. On tiie contrary
the Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of
Commerce states that “many W higs did- not think itexpedient
to oppose the bill.” Indeed, almost the entire burthen of de
fending Jlr. Biddle and his “ resurrection notes,” fell upon
Air. Wise, who is reported to have threatened speaking through
the whole of the remnant of the session, at the hazard of de
feating all the bills behind, unless this verdict against swindling
and imposition should be suspended or laid aside! z \nd in
this spirit he resisted the bill to the last—voting in the affirma
tive on its final passage for the purpose of moving a reconside
ration, which he did, but without success, being voted down in
all stages of the bill, after having been repeatedly choked oil’
by the liberal use of. the previous question.
So Air. Biddle stands recorded on the journals of the Na
tional Legislature, and by the confession of some of his own
partisans, cis guilty of acts deserving of the penitentiary, in the
reissue of his “resurrection notes.”— Albany Argus.
Question. —Why did the Federal party in Pennsylvania shout for
sliin-pbsters in 1837, and wbv do they shout for specie payments in
AiJswer. —They desired to make money by cheating an honest
people it? 1837, and they wish to secure an honest people’s votes to
elect a Federal Governor in 1838.
"Taking the Lend,"-—Mr. Biddle has taken, the last day cr
grace allowed him by the' Governor’s Proclamation, mid induced tho
smaller banks to postpone tiiS resumption from the first to the thir
teenth of August next! Huzza ibi'the “ Regulator!”
A New Method of Making Bools and Shoes.— A man in New-
York has invented a new way of manufacluring boots and shoes,
which is thus partially described: Ist. The whole lower portion, or
sole and insole, of the boot or shoe, is made with but one seam, in
stead of two, as at present; thus increasing the facility and durability
of the manufacture. 2d. The boots and shoes are much more beau- ■
tiful in appearance during their whole wearing, in consequence of
the upper leather being turned from under the foot, and inserted in
a peculiar channel cut in the insole, which prevents the upper lea-.
(her both from cracking and wrinkling, and thus increasing the value-.,
without enhancing the cost of the. article. 3d. By dispensing with the
inseam, the boot or shoe is rendered far more easy to the foot, thus
preventing corns and bunnions; and there being no welt requiring
scraps to fill up the hollow space between the sole and the insole,
which is now occasioned by the welt, the part on which the foot rests
does not become irregular and uneven, nor is the sole so soon thrown,
out of place, and unequally worn away.
TRUE DEFINITION OF LOCOFOCOISM.
The advocates of equal rights contending against the schemes of
those who, too proud or too lazy to work, arc eternally contriving
plans how to make other people do it for them—such as with banks,
ostensibly created to relieve the people, but truly to promote the in
terest of the stockholders and directors. Such as with railroadswith
banking privileges, demanding of the Legislature a law to compel
the State to issue bonds, and borrow money to build the road for the
stockholders, and let them have all the profits. Opposition to these
schemes of trickery Js called locofocoism.
Four Funny Fellwos—Theodore Cibber in company witlr three
others, made an excursion. Theodore had a false set of teeth—a se
cond a glass eye—a third a cork leg—-but the fourth had nothing in.
particular except a funny way of shaking his head.
They travelled in a post coach, and while on the first stage, after
each had made merry with his neighbor’s infirmity, they agreed at
every baiting place, to effect the same singularity. When they
came to breakfast they were all to squint—and language cannot ex
press how admirably they all squinted—for they went a degree be
yond the snrperlative. At dinner they all appeared to have a cork
leg, and their stumping about made more diversion than they had
done at breakfast. At tea they were all deaf, but at supper, which
was at the ‘Ship’at Dover, each man resumed his character, the
better to play his part in the farce they had concerted among them.
When they were ready to go to bed, Cibber cried out to the waiter,
‘ Here, you fellow ! take out my teeth. ‘ Teeth sir ?’ said the man.
,Ay, teeth sir. Unscrew that wire, and they’ll come out together. ’
After some hesitation, the man did as he was ordered. This was
no sooner done than a second called out-—‘Here you! take out my
eye.’ ‘Sir,’ said the waiter, ‘your eye?’ ‘Yea my eye. Come
here you stupid dog, pull up that eyelid, and it will come out as
easily as possible.’ This done, the third cried out —‘Here you ras
cal ! take off my’ leg.’ This he did with less reluctance, being be
fore apprised that it was cork, and also conceiving that it was his
last job. He was however mistaken: the fourth watched his oppor
tunity, and whilst the frightened waiter was survey ing with rueful
countenance, the eye, teeth, and leg, lying on the table, cried in a
frightful hollow voice—‘Come here, sir—takeoff my head.’ Turn
ing round and seeing the man’s head shaking like that of a manda
rin upon a chimney-piece, he darted out of the room, and after
tumbling downstairs, lie ran madly about the house as if terrified out
of his senses.— -Flower of Anecdotes. *
MARRIED,
On Tuesday morning last, in the Methodist Church, by the Rev. Mr.
Moseley, Mr. Charles Eaton Ryan, to Miss Mary Ann Buffington,
all of this city.
At Rockingham, in the State of Vermont, on the morning of the 22d
July, by the Rev. J.B. p ratt, Col. John Bozeman, of Haynesville, Ga.
to Miss Sarah B. daughter of Doctor Noah Pratt, of the former place.
A CARD.—The Union party of DeKalb county are requested to
jljL meet in Decatur on Tuesday, the 4th of Spetetnber, tor the pur-,
pose of nominating candidates to represent them in the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State Legislature.
MANY CITIZENS.
THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION PARTY of Meriwethercoun-.
ty are requested to meet in Greenville, on Friday, 21th hist. for the pur-,
pose of nominating candidates for the next Legislature. A general at
tendance is solicited. MANY VOTERS. .
NOTICE. —To Jesse Loyall, Charles W. C. Wright, Wm. White,
Henry George. William Goolsby, Graves S. Wilson. John R.j
Dicken. I'homas B. Rivers, Henry Miller—Also, Edward Y. Hill and.
Joshua Hill, as individuals, and as Attorneys at Law for Peter Cobler
and others, Frederick Ragland and Gilbreth Simonton, aud William V.’
Burney, Merchants end Partners trading under the firm and stylo of
Simonton &. Bmney. all of the county of Jasper and State of Georgia :
Greeting—You, arid each of you, are hereby notified, that Lhave ap-.
• plied to Greene I). Brantly and 11. L. McGregor. Esquires, two of the
I Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Chambers and State of
i Alabama, for the benefit, of the Insolvent laws of said Slate of Alabama,
and that they have appointed the 13th day of September, A. D. 1838,
for me to appear before them, at the Court-House of said county of
Chambers, between the hours of 1(1 o’clock A. M. and 5 o'clock P. M.
of that day, then and there to file a schedule of try property and ef
fects. and to take the oath of Insolvency : when and where you can ap
j pear if vou think proper. Yours &c.
I August 11 30—3 t. THOMAS J. DUNOM.
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.—WiII be sold on the first Tuesday
in November next, at Fayetteville, Fayette county, agreeable to
’ an order of the Honorable the Inferio' - Court of Jasper county, when
| sitting for ordinary purposes, the west half of LOT No. 155, in the
I sth district formerly Henry county, belonging th the estate of George
I W. Wright, late of Jasper county deceased.
j Augustll 30—ids. JOHN PRICE, Adin’r.
HP HE Subscriber offers himself to the citizens'of Hancock county"
I JG as a candidate for the Representative branch of the Legislature.
August I I 30—te JAMES R. WHALEY.
I GEO 11(11 t. Carroll County.
]' " OOK AT THIS THlS’—Personally came before me. John Hcl-
J, dihrtind an acting Justice of the Pence for said county, Marga
' ret Welch, and, after being duly sworn, deposeth mid sayeth, that acer-
I tain promissory note given to her, assigned by John M. P. Clinton, of
the amount of ninety-three dollars and fifty cents, duo the 20th of De
cember, 1837, given some time in the slimmer, sairie year, and that is
all the promissoiy note that ever was made, between them, andthatsaid
note is cither lost or mislaid, so that the deponent cannot come at the
same.
Sworn to, and subscribed this 27th of May, 1838.
MARGARET WELCH
JOHN HELDIBRAND, J. P. * j nl y 3-24