The Georgia mirror. (Florence, Ga.) 1838-1839, August 11, 1838, Image 2

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For my sake be upon thy guard. These spa cious corridors will echo thy words w ith double three, and we'll be overheard if thou dost speak so loud.—But why is this? thou tremblest like a leaf! why be alarmed without a cause ? the deed s not done. We have only talk'd ol it as yet and -can easily tetract. Queen. Retract! no; I’ve undertaken it, and will accomplish it—to-night—this very hour! — Away all other thoughts but this determination ! JLike birds of prey at uight upon dismantled tow ers, where walls arc bare and chambers desolate, — so let it sit amidst the honors here, — {laying Iter hand upon her heart! and goad me onward to the deed ! That damp; that dagger too; give me both. I'll go. Remain thou till I return. And if throughout this gallery thou hearest a groan be thou assured it is the echoed .gasp, the dying cry, of him that /Jia-se ■ killed. •(lie gives her the lamp and dagger—she exits cau tiously into the King’s chamber.) Lot. She goes to kill the king—to 'shed her husband's blood! The crown, the revenues and kingly power will all be mine, secured by oaths and bonds to me and my posterity forever! En joy the thought, exult oiy towering soul, lie glad amidst the tlow of blood, be glad ol death and triumph iu calamity! Hark! (listening at the door) his groans; his dying groans; I hear them, now, and they reveal the bloody truth. ’Tisdone ; nor is the guilt and stain of it on me! Tim cruv/n-thecrown! ’tis miue! 'tis! mine! re-enter the Queen lioleutlv agitated, with the dagger.] Queen. Who’s there ? oh!!! ; Lot. Is it done ? Queen. Didst thou not hear ? Heard'st tliou no? the rattling in his throat—his agonies, his lamentations, erics,—his cry of murder, murder ess, and blood, as o'er him came the last cold sweat of death*. Oh, what a wretch I’ve made of myself.' I've damn'd and doomed myself to guilt, remorse and hell. I've mix'd the remnant of my life with gall, and poisoned every hope 1 , n,< ituvbut 1 I’ve wreck’d my earuoy Hopes virhiu a sea of blood, and dare not look for hap piness beyond the grave,—but must hereafter drag along my life in misery, and hell, dark hell, and its remorse expect when death demands me! Lot. Nay, never mind the future, but bless thy influential stars if w e escape,—if we are not detected. The King has left no lawful heir alive to reign, and now hie diadem belongs to tjiee. Queen. To me ! belongs to me 1 Lot. It does; the crown is thine; but by the t'ahqne law ebon'll be deprived of it. u ill ess— Queen. Y\ hat, wilt tliou wed a murderess, * Lotha'tre ? whit wed the guilty widow of a man who dealt the blow that took her husband’s life ! Behold—see here—this dagger stained with the King’s blood! Lot. But where’s the lamp ? Queen. The lamp! (she. appears confused and a'-i' md.) I have forgotten it. ’Tis w ith the King, ) I r ‘collect—l {daced it on the table by his side. Lot. It must not remain there. Ik, in, at ottce—go—quick and bring it forth, Queen. No,—not I. Wliat enter yonder chamber where lielies? Expect it not-—of me. I could not gaze again upon those snow-white sheets, bedaub'd with gore ad midst the fearful agou.es of death—on which indelibly is crime. I could not brook again the sight of him, to see his sightle ;s eyes that gazed on me so dreadfully their last! No, I'd rather die ; die on tire spot, than cuter yonder door ! Lot. Though not go ? Queen. I cannot. Lot. Then I must. If it were left, and bur ning as it is. the inquest that will be held upon his death would require no stronger proof of who -it was that murdered him. •(he treads softly towards the door, and pushing it slowly open, enters the chamber.) Queen. No, I could not look again upon the havoc 1 have made ; the thoughts of it alone are terrible ! When l approached the chamber where' Jut lies, remembrance softly told her southing tale, and mercy for a moment check'd my step*;. I hal ted at the door, but waver'd not. I raised the latch as if a thief to steal, and crept beside my husband's bed. The glare of the light L cauied (.wakened him—he spoke, and kindly asked me what unusual rare had kept me up? when r.i staiifly—-j»s quick as gleams the lightning’s flash— I drove this dagger to his heart, and felt his blood gush into my thee ! lie groaned—struggled—fix'd his ghastly eyes ou mine—fell back—and died ! (re-enter Lothairc, with the lamp—he appears disordered and wild, looking behind him as if afraid of being followed.) Queen. llow now, Losthaire ? thou’rt pale as Led. Pale, ara I ? T have seen enough to turn me pale-—enough to turn the white rose red. Queen. What, what hast thou seen? Lot. Seen!. I’ve seen what thou hast done'. The murder’d king, as there Jie lies stretch'd out upon his gory bed—such a sight! Queen. Oh!i Lot. But come—go wash fliv'hands. There’s here and there a spot of blood on them. TUv tface is sprinkled too. Away—there’s not a mo ment's time to be lost. Here’s the lamp—fc keat w ith thee. (giving tht lump into her hand.) Queen. This -dagger tho’—what shall be alone •with in v ere it unluckily found upon us, it would at once betray our guilt. Lot. (live it to me. I’ll bury it. (exeunt sep <2 T ntehj.) {Scene 2.—A grfliery in the Convent-as before, 4he morning alter the storm. Euter the two monks meeting.] Ist SI. Well met. Tlow goes the time ? 2d M. The sun is up, and,nil his way two hours goee. An awful uight and an uncommon tempest. Ist M. It was. But see, the Abbot comes - this way. (enter St.T’ierre Duval, the Abbot.) 2d M. Good uarrow, holy father. Abbot, Peace be with you. Good morrow, "both. A fearful night pass’d. Ilow slept ye? Ist Mr I could notslecp— -2d M. Nor I. Abbot. It men like ye cannot, liow fares the -v retch who has within ills breast a secret crime ? liow tares the murderer on such a night, ’midst . his conflicting thoughts and guilty fears ? But ■ hark—f noise heard within) there's someone knocking at the gate. Perhaps a weary traveler who lacks a little food anil rest. Go; see who it .Jij dO'l wha? he wants, (exit the Ist Monk. 2d M. At times last night, the rage of the i storm was such, I almost feared these battlements would fall around us. They say that trees were wrenched up by the roots and houses were blow a down—that desolation mark’d the lightning’s vi vid stroke, that nature fought a civil, war, and ruin followed it. Stranger still, they say, at in tervals the moon shone out between the dense dark night, as red as blood, men and women talk ol it ; speak of other times when storms like this pass’d over the world, and mention murders that were doi^. (re-enter the Ist Monk.) Abbot. Who’s at the gate ? Ist M. A man that desires to speak w ith tliee. His hasty looks foretell of fearful news . IU said he had no time to spare, and bade mo haste. Abbot. Admit him. (exit Ist Mon!:.) 2d M. His looks bespeak fearful tidings, our brother savs. I Jiopc the beldame’s prophecies are not fulfilled. 1 hope of murder we’re not dooraed-to hear. But see be come?.—- (enter Montalt followed by the Monk.) Abbot What, my old and honor’d friend, Mon talt. Peace be with thee. How wears thine age ? B't why is this? Thy features indicate a dreadful talc that thou would’st tell to me, hut feeling se ms to stifle utterance. Thou wouldst, but enu’st not speak. What’s in thy boswn tjiat tluuii graspest ? Mob. This—‘belnrld it—a dagger— (producing the one that Lothnire received from the queen subsequent to the regicide.) Abbot. ’Tis stain'd with blood. Mon. It is—with the royal blood of France— the blood of him who yesterday was king! Abbot. Is.the King dead ! Mon. He is—-murdered ! murdered ! Abbot. Ob, Heavens! (The Abbot and Monks pause with their hands clasped.) But when, Montalt 1 when, when was this butchery done ? and who's the regicide ? Mon. ’Twas done last night. But question me no more about it. My bursting heart's too' full to answer thee. Abbot. But the murderer ? Mon. Nay, ask me not. As yet I dare not say whom 1 suspect. Wait awhile aud time will dis close it all. Abbot. But when did it occur? Relate the facts as they are known to thee. Mon. No, St. Pierre—l've not the time <o spare that it would occupy, for I must back to cover? 9gain. But ere lgo remark—there’s blood ■ upoi> the blade. As thou cfuist see and testify; and these m»i too; his stain'd with blood and with dirt. Abbot. Tt is, Montalt. Mnn. Remark the .hour I brought it Ik ic, and, if thy country's law should. call on thee for evidence, in court, remember it. Produce it there in its polluted state, and testify what thou hast seen and heard. Abbot I.w ill. M«n. Then here— (giving the dagger into the. Abbot's rare) take it. And ye, ye’ll swear to this; wilt thou ? (to Ist JMordc.) Ist M. 1 will Mon. And tliou? (to 2 d Monk.) 2d M. 1 will. Mon. Fare ye well then, till ye are called upon—called by the laws to bring (he murderes of your king to light, to shame, the scaffold, and to death Farewell. Abbot. Peace he with thee. Farewell. (JZx r.Mtt sipurately..) To be Concluded. The dead dancers.-—A paragraph copied from a French Journal describing the death us a geu tleman while waltzing. is going the rounds of the newspapers. Tbe-inck!en t *reruitids usuf another which is said to have occurred in this city many years since, and which might furnish the ground work of a fashionable tale of horror. Miss—, a young lady of beauty and accomplishments, but of a disposition perverse and exacting, was betroth ed to a French officer who had been placed upon the half pay list from being incapacitated for ser vice by a musket ball which he received in his breast, and which ltud not beei! extracted. Gap tain—*v»s .ana elegant waltzcr but owing to the state e.f his health he could never take more than one ar two turns upon tlieikior without being o vercome by exhaustion, and indeed lus physician had expressly forbidden him to share iu that ex citing .Unuoc. Waltzing though subsequently written out of fashion by the authors of Srflmagun di, was at that time nearly as much in vogue as at present, and Miss , who affected te be a lead er of ton, was one of the first always to join in the graceful whirl. .'Partners, however, were not ea sy to be obtained unions when foreigners were present, and it chanced one-evening that Miss-. . entered a ball-room just w hen Cnpt had w alt zed a few turns and overcome with the exercise, was about retiring from the room. The lady was provoked at having arrived too' late to secure ‘her lover for the first dance, and with a want of con sideration truly unfemkiine, laid her hand upon his arm to detain him passing. Poor Monsieur ,though pile and sinking, liafl too much-of sthe Frenchman about him to resist the appeal. He begged . short respite, however, which was granted, while the careless girt rattled away with the beaux wlnrhad clustered around her as she leaned upon the arm of her silent lover. After a very brief time, asiugle quadrille oulv having inter vened, the waltzing couples were called to the floor, aud the thoughtless .Miss——hurried her partner into the gay ewele. The'band struck up. The dancers moved, and the time enabled the invalid Captain to get through the first round w ith appa rent ease. He seemed, too. to gather life as the time of the music quickened, and the waltzing moved faster and faster; nay, lus strength was so renewed, that lie soon tired out the other couples. The floor was left to this single pair ; and now SO swiftly did they whirl around, that the musi cians in turn had to follow them with the most rapid execution. The gaze of tlic whole coni pauy was fixed upon this eccentric pair, velien sud denly tlie face of the isdy was seen to turn almost of a purple color, while tlie features of her part ner worked as if affected by some liidious -spasm. Her eyes rolled with an anxious, appealing look, while his became fixed w ith the stare of a man iac. Her arms fell listlessly by her side—bis seemed to contract like hinges ofbon about her person ; which, folded in his embrace, was flung —with the last move of the delirious and dying man—a corpse upon the floor. The horror-struck spectators sprang to the assistance of the unfortu nate lady, butshe was already g ne, aud her lover expired before she could be released from his arms. An examination of the officer’s body prov- THE €>; E 031 Cal A MIRROR. ed that his death ensued from the dropping in-! wvr.lly, upon a mortal part, the bullet he had so long carried about him; and, iu the sudden delirium of his death-agony, he had wrought some injury to tlie lady by the horrible compressions in which he held her. — New York Mirror. Apprentices When serving your apprenticeship, vou will have tine and opportunity to stock your mind with much useful informatiou. The only way for a voting man to prepare for future use fulness is to derote himself to study during his leisure hours, —first be industrious in your busi ness: never complain you are obliged to work; go to it with alacrity and cheerfulness : and it will heroine a habit which will make you respected and beloved lv your master or employer: make it your business to see and promote his interest; by taking care of ills, you w ill learn to take care of your own. Young race, at the present day, are too fond of getting rid of work ; they seek for easy and lazy employments ; and frequently turn out to be poor and miserable vagabonds. You must avoid all wishes to live without labor, labor is a blessing in stead of rt-curse,it makes men healthy, it procures them food, clothing, and every other necessary, and frees them from-every temptation to be dis honest. Next to your hard labor, you should be constant in improving your mind. You can never hope to rise to a respec table standing in the world, w ith out long tiers, vering and constant application to duty. When you read you must not throw away your time reading novels and romances, you must study natural and moral philosophy, geography, history and the arts. Let not-a lar T e hook dis courage you or a long history or other works pre vent vou from reading it through. AY hen you have read, reflect upon the principles you have perused, revolve them in your mind, and endeavor to understand-their meaning and utility, so that you mav read aud apply to ail ordinary purposes oflife, ii you do not mi-let stand and comprehend what you read you may as well let reading alone. You have to deny yourself the amusements enjoy ed by most young men if you would prepare your self for being a respectable old man. Moderate Drinking. —Do not say that T exag gerate yonr exposure to intemperanee Let no man snv when he thinks ofa drunkard broken in health and spoiled in intellect, “I can never so fall.” He thought as little of falling in his early years. The promise of his youth was as bright as yours; and even after he had began his down ward course, he was as unsuspicious as the firm est around him, and would have repelled as in dignanlly the admonition to beware of Lateuipo ranee. The danger of this vice lies in its almost imperceptible approach. Few who fall by it, know rrf its success. Youtli does not see or sus pect drunkenness in the spar kling beverage which quickens its susceptibilities of joy. The invalid does r.ot see it in the cordial which his physician prescribes, and which gives new tone to his debil itated organs. The man of thought and genius detects no paralysing poison in tlie draught which seems a spring of inspiration to iuteliedt and ima gination. The lover ol social pleasure .little dreams that the glass which animates conversation will ever he drunk in solitude, and will sink him too low for the intercourse in which he now de lights. Intemperance comes with noiseless step and binds its cords with a touch too light to be felt. This truth of mournful experience should be treasured up by us all, an<l should influence the habits and arrangements of domestic and social life in every class of the community. North Carolina is opening for herself new sour ces of point and enterprise by working up her own products. We extract as follows from the Fayetteville Observer: Comma flfgfd* —Three -years ago, tlie mer chants of North Carolina were in the habit of bringing from the North an immense quantity of cotton yarns, generally of a wretched quality., upon which the consumer paid not only all the charges of a double transjiart.ition to and from the North, but a heavv profit to the Northern Manu facturer. Since that time the numerous Facto ries put in operation, in this State, have not only stepped the importation of yarns, but produced a surplus for exportation. We have heretofore noticed the shipment ol" n Factory in this place ; and on Saturday last there nfrived here 10,000 lbs. from <rm establishment, in the interior, on.its way t > flint great mart, where all things find their val ue and a ready sale, New York. The period can uot be distant .when -the entire demand for cotton cloths as well as yarns, in North Carolina will be supplied bv North Carolina industry.—Nothing could contribute more to -the independence and prosperity ol the State. 'There is no business, which, w.ll conducted, yields-a better return than the cotton manufacture, and no place better .adop ted for its success than Fayetteville.” New York ou tlie 4th nit. was visited with all sorts of a row. It commenced on the part of some Irishmen who fell in with two sailors, and beat them almost to death. The noise brought a number of the native Americans to the assistance of the sailors, and the shouts of the Irish soon brouht an increased number of their countrymen. The fuss commenced about 2 o’clock, arid by 4, -it is supposed 50Q.P persons were engaged in the scuffle. With the assistance of about 2dQ watch men the row ended about 8 o'clock. It was re ported that three men were lulled, -acd a great number or: both sides were seriously injured. Sev eral of the police officers also received much injury. On Monday night, the 6th inst. the town of St. Marks, E. F. was put in commotion by a most shocking occurrence. Some time during the af ternoon, a report was circulated, that a man' nam ed Brown, occupying a small house in that place, had sworn vengeance against some of the citizens. Whereupon, about 6 o’clock at uight, two or three citizens, accompanied bv some steam boat hands, repaired to the house of Brown, and found his doors closed. Some angry words ensued, when the door was forced, and two or three persons rush ed into the house. Blown was armed with a bowie knife, measuring 14 inches blade. The result was, he succeeded in clearing his house, in doing which, two of the assailants were killed, and a third desperately wounded. Brown has siuco had a hearing and fully acquitted. A beautiful Thought. —One of onr brother Edi tors very wisely says, that if beauty be woman’s weapon, it must bo feathered by the Graces, point ed by die eye of Discretion, and shot by the hand of Virtue.— St. Louis Bulletin. Mr. J. Maclzel, the celebrated automaton chess player, died on the 21st ultimo, onboard the brig Otis, on her passage from Havana to Philadelphia. From the Georgia Messenger. Asa con, .July '24th, 19.‘18. Gentlemen: In the Messenger of the 19th inst. you invite the Congressional Ticket, nomina ted by the State Rights Party, to make “an avowal of their views upon the engrossing topics which are now agitating the public mind.” Your right to make this call is unquestioned, and the obliga tion to respond imperative. Indeed, for myself, such a call was not only desirable, but necessary. I am happy to he able to invite the people of Geor gia to the consideration of my opinion-, upon the topics referred *o, without subjecting rav myself to the imputation of being indelicately obtrusive. Necessary and desirable, because I am not willing that my opinions should be subjected to miscr.n struction; and I am solicitious, that the voters of our State should go to the po'ls with accurate knowledge of the sentiments of those who seek their suffrage. The exposition which 1 propose to make, shall be brief and candid. I shall make no attempt to establish by argument, my ow n po sitions. For lam not come to convince others of the rectitude of mv sentim nits, but simply to de clare them. 1 shall attack no opinions wantonly, variant from m v own. I have no cause to plead— no party to build up, and I trust, no hostility to appease. Asking charity as to opinions upon subjects about which the greatest and best have differed, it is peculiarly proper that 1 concede it to others. The convictions of my own mind, are such as are satisfactory to myself; whether they so far harmonize with the opinions and interests 9f my fellow citizens, as to justify them, in commit ting to mv keeping Foe honorable and weighty trusts which devolve upon a representative in Con gress, is a question to be determined by them.— And that it will be wisely and justly settled, I have the strongest guarantees in the wisdom and cn ligkteued magnanimity of the people of my native Stale. If the -views lam about to express are at variance with the best policy £>f Georgia, 1 will only say, that it is by no means to.o late lor me to witlidraw from the canvass, giving place to some .one of the many able sons of the State who may be more fortunate than myself, iu estimating Jh.ev interests. The engrossing topics about which you have spoken, arc those which arc connected with the currency. And the most vital of all these topics, is the question, whether the Government shall be separated from the Banks. This is a great ques tion—the greatest no\v ripe (hr.adjustment. .1 Ipon the correct adjustment of it. l am satisfied depends the future permanency of /au system of Govern ment- It lias grown in interest since the country found itself out of debt; and possessing a vast surplus revenue, with the prospect .of rapid in crease. The surplus revenue has created the magnitude of this question. Until the custody of it became matter ts moment, wc heard but little said about the obligations of the Government to furnish a currency to the country on the one hand, or the right of this Banks to ask Government pat ronage on the other. Yt the South, I have been in the hahit of believing, that nil parties have uni formly -eouceded, that an union of fed.eral power with the monied institutions of the country, would be disastrous to liberty, and fatal to us particular ly. A wedding of the sword and the purse is one of those abominations which Republicans learn to hate in the nursery. Hence, when Gen. Jackson, by his pt t Bank policy, assumed control over the public funds—when an intimate an I irre.q > Tide connexion was first formed between tiie Govern ment and the local Banks, the usurpation, (for such it in truth was,) met with the stern denunci ations of the party to which we, gentlemen,, be long. We did well to denounce it. Fora more resist less instrument of power has not, nor in my opin ion, will not be devised. An instrumentality com bining the authority of .the Government—its swel ling revenue and official patronage, with the capi tal, directors, debtors, dependents and stockhol ders of a train of associated Banks, reaching from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf, and wielded by an Executive of overwhelming popularity.. This combination was of searching and sweeping pow er; and tlie greatest danger resulted from the fact, that it penetrated so easily and efficiently, tlie States, contioling their currency, their improve ments and their politics. The very excess-of the sy stem dissolved it. Too eager and bold a use of this rod of power, shivered it in the hands of Mr. Van E-urea. The Whigs of this State et once de clared the doctrines .of the divorce—denied the necessity ox right of mo-med and political unions, and unfurled anew, the banner of State Rights. The head men and chiefs of the party assumed the position,that Government should be separate from the'Banks. So Thought o-ui segntors—sac hems, whose wisdom was wont to guide The action of the council house. I thought with tlre-ia. 1 .think with them still; and -shaH scarcely eharage my mind until the .constitution of my country is. altered, 1 do not'belicve,however, that it is possible to devise a plan, by virtue of w hich, the Government! will be w holly divested of influence over the cur rency. So long as it has money to receive and dis burse, (and particularly if it should control a large surplus,) it will exert more or less of influence upon the monetary affairs of the country. This influence, too, results from a combination of mo ney and political power. The Government brings into the money niarketthe influence of an always responsible dealer, and competes with all others, upon greatly the most advantageous terms. She is clothed with the attribute of perpetual solvency; and with a supposed (at least,) moral rectitude, which w ill not permit her to do wrong to any body. So far as the connection is incidental, and results from the obligations of the Government to collect and disbursethe revenue, I cannot see how, upon any plan such connection is . avoidable, But so tor as the Government seeks by legislation, to con trol the currency; or to control the bankiag insti tutions through its deposites, or to unite the polit ical power with money, through the agency of a National Bank, or its equivalent, an independent Sub-Treasury, the assumption is unholy, wanton and demoralizing. The whole obligations of i’ne Government touching money matters, are to col lect its own dues in such currency as w ill pay its own debts. As trustee for the people, she could do no less; being herself a depository, she can do no moie: and such arc the obligations of everv individual in the Luion. And both the individual and the Government are protected against individ ual loss, in as much as both may expect specie for their dues. One ol the most necessary duties of the Government in relation to the currency, is to Ft it alone. But by all tlie means which tlie Con stitution has placed at her disposal, to foster such institutions and sm interests as haw a controling influence over it. F is certainly no part of the rights or obligations of the Government to furnish a good currency. And when this idea is practica- bly illustrated in our country, we shall see an over shadowing and constantly expanding federal pow er. sustained by the money patronage of ih e Gov ernment. Reduce the revenues ol the Govern ment to its wants, and this subject w ill be disem barrassed of its chief difficulty. To this point the South should strive to bring the revenues. And so soon as the pledges of the compromise are ful filled, a!! southern effort should bo directed to the accomplishment ot this, to us, so necessary an object. The mere receipt and payment of the revenue, together w ith the temporary custody of a few mill lions on special deposit, will scarcely be nn object great enough to stir the ambition of parties, or tlie av.ir.ee of Banks. No, it is the million's of the surplus and tin Government, credit which the Banks desire. It is the annually quadrupling mjj; lions which a few years ol peace and prosperity will pour into the Treasury, which stimulates the Government to seize and wield them. If is our pciiii v to make the Government poor, and to keep it so ; to make the States rich and to keep them so. V* hat avails it to ils of tho minority State-;, that the Treasury overflows with opulence ? My. pay three-fourths of tlie revenue; and not one dollar, scarcely, reaches us in a beneficial form Our wealth centralizes power—money power—,; the North; and the control of our money wall cen tralize pci.tical power at Washington. We must ever be in the minority; let us seek safety in the rights of the States, and the wealth and indepen dence of the S: lies, as antagonist principles of all Nationalism, it is oitr interest (and who will de ny the paramount obligation te protect it,) so to reduce the fiscal strength of the Federal Govern ment, as to make ils money neither the instrument of ambition orot avarice. It is most singular to observe that there are lViiios in these latter days, who maintain that the Government must not only take care of its own money but that of every body rlsp. Mr. Web ster, for example, whose great mind has ever la bored with giant strength at the work of aggran dizing the Federal Government. He is a Nation al Republican indeed. No doctrine ot late years, is, to my mind, more alarming, than that which assumes the right, nay, the duty of Congress to provide and control tin? currency. Another sin gular tiling is, that of late, only of late, banking capital has asserted the right to be fostered by Go vern merit endorsement. I hope that we will yield neither to the Federalism of Alt'. Webster, or the cupidity of capitalists. TLe Go# eminent and the Banks have not been and cannot be constitutionally lioked together;— the object, therefore, is not so much to effect ! separation, as to prevent a union. How this sev erance shall be maintained* is a matter of no little difficultv ; hut is surely of little real consequence, compared with the great principle involved. It lias been assumed by the present Administration that tlie independent Sub-Treasury bill provide; the means of -a total divorce. I do not think .<u. Either it relies upou an exclusive metalic circu lation— and does, in truth, propose to bring us back to an Age of l ard money— an age of Bronze, truly—or this is but ad eai tamtuiv, and Govern ment checks, deposiinty drafts and treasury bills are to constitute tjie c-orr-er. y. If the former, then it wages war upon ah State ln .titndons, par ticularly those of the frouth: paralyzes com merce—impoverishes the country, and arrests all the improvements of theses: c«d places the only inoti -y of the cot.: try within tlicontrol of tlie Executive, or wi tli is virtually tire same thine, under the .eotHrel of his tongrc.-.-aonal majority. If it and, signs ilie latter, 1 should fear, nay, 1 be lieve, that the Sub-Treasury will prove but anoth er name for a Treasury Bank; whose bills, sup planting a'H other circulation, would become the currency. Stu bit might not, perhaps would not be, at first* Such, however, 1 believe, in the grad ual development of the plan, n«d in the necessary working of the scheme, it would become. Anie talie.cti'ircnvy for I his •vast land, with its rich soil and immense commerce, and urresiimated great ness of destiny, is really too absurd an idea for so ber consideration* I hare -no idea that the en lightened friends of the Sub-Treasury ever con templated such a thine, i urn not a Sub-Treasu ry man, therefore. Nor can I favor*the almost exploded conservative system : because of the fact that-,it places the selected banks at tho mercy of the Gov. and endorses their bills with the Go vernment patronage. It is a system of favoritism, by wlilc.il the .bills of some of tlie banks will be depreciated,tinderf (Alters enhanced in value. It would enable the Government at all times to control powerful and obedient political tools; ami would clothe jt with virtual custody of the public funds. It is nothing in favor of this scheme, that the banks to be favored may be. selected by law, for the majority in Congress are, as a general rule, subservient to The Executive. I lmvefreen, from early life, opposed to a Na tional Bank. My best reflections-aud most care ful investigations have confirmed the opinion, that Congress lias no power to charter a Bank. I have long been committed upon this subject, and nay judgement now asks no relief from such committal. Opposition to a National Bank lay deep in the elements of our party organization. We shall to vain expect the respect due to consistent poli ticians, if we become the advocates ol a Na* tional Bank. We cannot escape from our princi ples if we would. 1 would not, if I could. The follies or corruptions ol the Administration —t! ie severe reverses of the times—wretched disorder of the exchanges, afford no excuse for abandon ing those principles which appertain to us as a party. The world may change around us, but our principles remain the same. Experiences at® good rules of conduct, when they fall in I’’* 1 ' 1 principle, never otherwise. I fotm my opini i ’t' s without reference to present evils. I hove been endeavoring to look to what ought *6 be the ] )rr ' manent policy of our cnunti'\ These troubles will soon cease, and it would be indeed a pt*>» that they should hkvc given rise to any measure, or system of measures, at war with the Constitu tion. * think it is safe, at all hazards, to confine t.f Government within the hints prescribed to it ) the Constitution; if other powers are to the happiness of the people, yvhy, let them e confered in the manner provided by that tnent. A National Bank would serve necessar.) to maintain the fckmth in its present state of po' in eal aud commercial depreciation; to elevaj e ; confirm and widen Northern supremacy. combined power of Government, capital anden ' merce, would pour wealrh into the great cities of the Union, whilst ours would wither they have done, in t)ic shade ofahnost colonial peudence. I atn no enemy to the just pr°sf fl • of the North. 1 father rejoice in its accunnw* = greatness; but 1 will not concede, for its ad' tage, one jot or ,tlie title,qf th,e interest of •>') 0 State, beloved as it is, beyond every other a I tis assumed that a National Bank is ■