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the celestial word*, mercy and forgiveness! As
the sounds died away. she rose and bent her
weary steps alone towards the village, trusting to
that I’rovidence which bad hitherto sustained
her, to guide her steps : her heart was almost
broken, she thought of the happy home she had
left, for one who had abandoned her. Where
were the parents that used to smile upon her, in
-her early days ? Gone. Where are the gay
companions of her joyous hours? Gone, all gone!
friends aud foes, all on earth had gone, and lclt
her fate. She wandered on till towards night,
when the gathering clouds and her tottering steps,
reminded her that she was without food or shel
ter. Fortunately a cottage was iu sight she
reached it, fainting, and sunk upon its threshold.
Its charitable inmate, on beholding her, conveyed
her into the house, gave her some warm cordial
and put tier to bed. lu the morning Annette wa
much recovered.
“Here,” said she, drawing from her finger a
wedding ring, “take this, a poor recompense to
you for your kindness. Thou golden circlet, re
membrancer oi plighted vows; 1 thought thee
once the tvpe of joy, that, like the rainbow, pro
mised brighter days to come; thou hast tornied a
link of a bright chain that has onthralled me to
misery ! Farewell! 1 would thou couldst have
' lain with me in mv grave, for there only canst
thou redeem thy pledge;” then kissing it she
placed it in the old woman’s hand.
“And so it shall,” said Dorcas, the old woman’s
name, “I will see thy wishes fulfilled, and may it
prove a passport to’thy happiness hereafter; if
you are content to partake ol nty hutnble dwel
ling, vou are welcome. You can assist me to
spin ; if you do not know how, you can soon
)pjtm; for my heart feels for you, and 1 aui w il
ling to instruct you.”
Annette thankfully accepted the good woman’s
offer; her thoughts still wandered m the hope
that by remaining Dear the village, she might still
watch aud guard from evil the destroyer ol her
peace in this world. A few weeks passed over,
when Dorcas, who had gone to the market town,
resumed much fatigued.
“Here, dear,” said she, “take my cloak ; I have
staid longer than usual, but i was attracted by
the look of one of the housebreakers whom they
hid just arrested; he was caught breakiug into
Mr. Howard’s house last night; I really neversaw
a handsomer looking tnan than the one they cal
led Wallington; I cannot believe him guilty,
however, our judge »s a good man. and every n>er
cy will be shown to him;” she went on talking,
when not receiving any answer, she turned aud
beheld Annette lying senseless.
The assizes came on; the court was unusually
crowded ; some of the persons taken up for bur
glary were requitted, while others were condem
ned. .* -
Last came Henry Wallington; when he was
a>ked whether he plead guilty, or not guilty, lie
replied in a firm tone—“ The offence for which
1 stand charged, I plead gulty, and would that
that were all! I should rejoice, and on my bended
kness return my everlasting thanks. Lured by
ambition, I forgot the laws of heaven and man;
one vice begat another, till villainy reigned tri
umphant over my heart, sundered the ties that
bind the human family together, and I became an
outcast and a robber! The being I had sworn to
piotect and cherish, I spurned and abandoned,
devoted her to destruction, betrayed her confi
dence, and violating every bond of faith, truth,
and virtue, drove her to despair and destroyed
her. her heart broken form has haunted me to
madness, and made me feel that 1 am indeed a
most guilty murderer /”
Overcome with emotion, he sunk down, and the
judge pronounced his sentence— death !
He was borne to his prison, a terrible example
of perfidy and falsehood !
The village church was again opened. The
reverend minister stood at his altar, while the
bride and bridegroom knelt at his fee'; there was
no need to ask for witnesses this time, for Mr. and
Mrs. Howard stood there to give their daughter
away. As Francis and Emma Montague were
departing from the church, they sauntered through
its cemetery, a rose bloomed at the head of a
grave, which was covered with a plain slab ; they
advanced towards it, and read :
REPOSE IS PEACE,
ASSETTE WAI LINUTON..
\ gsa tins Jonathan who had long been pay
ing attention to farmer C—■ —’ daughter Sally, in
vited his dearly beloved to ride to the store with
him. They arrived, and after looking at all the
pretty things, said Jack, “ Mr. draw me a glass of
gin and sweeten it well with molasses.” It was
done, and Jonathan swallowed it at a draught, then
smacking his lips, lie turned around and thus ad
dressed dearly beloved, 1 say, Sal, that was
darn good, why don't you buy a glass for yourself.
Climax. —The following eloquent speech was
made not long since, by a young limb of Black
stone, to a court and jury in one of the eastern
counties of New York.
“ May the court please, gentlemen of the jury,
the defendant in the case, with all the fury of a fiend,
emerged from the dense wilderness like a roaring
lion, and in his gigantic strength, he seized my cli
ent, by the collar, aud and tore his shirt!”
Courting among the Faculty. —A yoking physi
cian while on a friendly visit to a famiigpn this city,
with whom he was intimate, said to a young lady, a
member of it.
“You seem unwell, Miss. What is the matter!”
“Are you a doctor, and cannot tell. Feel my
puise,” replied the lady.
' “T do!” *
“What do you prescribe!”
•“A husbaud.”
'‘Where shail I find him?”
- “Here, if you will accept me!” exclaimed the
£.on of Galen with an enthusiasm worthy a poet.
Thetwo;»re now one. The lady is called Mrs.
Doctor—What would you give to know?”
Jaw Breakers. —You must be phlebotomized,
a pompous physician to a poor invalid. I
can’t—indeed, I can’t, replied the sick map, I
toll you, you must be bled rejoined sir Pompous.
To which, the other answered—well, you may do
that, but I’B be hanged if I will submit to t’other
thipg, .. .
"Girls lookhere. —The member-* of the Dubuque
(Wisconsin) Lyceum, composed exclusively of
bachelors, have passed the following resolution:
“Resolved, that early marriages are conducive to
happiness ” At the last advices there was hardly
an unmarried lady oLaPX reasonable age to be
found iu that vicinity—and the swains were impa
tiently waiUDgrfortlie next batebofemigrants from
the Fact,
From the Cob embus Sentinel Herald.
SKETCHES, AD LIBITUM.
fit HORATIO WALDO, ESQ.
The Revival. —lt was a bright moonlight eve
ning, and cool breezes which returning autumn
had'introduced, plainfully invited me to walk forth
and enjoy their luxuriant sweep.. In the course
of my rambles, my ear caught up the sweet strain
of a heavenly song, which seemed to issue forth
from some retired spot, consecrated to a service
separate and distinct from the usual round of
earthly pleasures, unsanctified enjoyments. I
paused and listened; the music rose and swelled,
higher and louder, as though the spirit which
gave it forth was acting uuder the influence o( a
more than ordinary excitement. I love music—
and in whatever path it meets me, it holds me as
by enchantment; yielding therefore to its per
suasive tones on this occasion, I followed its direc
tion, until I found myself at the dooroi the sanc
tuary, sacred to the worship of the Lord ot Hosts.
The Methodist were singing. There is a peculiar
sweetness in those spiritual songs w hieh are inter
woven with the service of the Methodist Episco
pal church. Like the blessed gospel itself, they
are adapted to the taste and understanding ot all ;
the poetry is simple, unadorned, and lull of that
pietv which reaches and moves the heart; (he
Inusic is like virtue herself, unobtrusive, but
pensivelv sweet and enamoring; it reminds one of
the songs of the shcpbetvls, as in oldou time they
coursed their shining wav over the plains ol Judea ;
there is iu it all. a moving energy, vitality, and
life. The song died away, and a blast from the
gospel trumpet announced that a herald of the
cross wa« upfcn the walls of Zion. Behold then,
in his person.thc venerable form of the Bit hop him
self— n nun upon whose head bleak winds of many
a whiter has blown—who has long travelled that
‘straight and narrow way which leads to life nnd
bliss,’ w hose heart is right, and whose head is fil
led with knowledge. He looks over his flock, and
regards them with feelings of unutterable love,
for they belong to his divine master; the holy
bcok is open before him, and he proceeds to des
cant upon its revealed and sacred truths. I know
not which can most completely sway and absorb
me music or oratory. There is a ch;*m, a power
and influence, in both, which is irresistible. The
graces of elocution-—the fine modulation of voice;
the speaking eye— the eloquent mouth—the noble
person and earnest enthusiastic manner of a pub
lie ipcskftl*, wbon uuitoilt oro porounoivc t foif iMp
and captivatiug. The venerable man to whom al
lusion has been made, possesses many of these
prerequisites, and perhaps enough for the sacred
desk; but in an eminent degree did he seem to
be master of that kind of eloquence, which con
sists in thought, and which glows out from the
soul, rich and mellow as the western heaven, when
the sun sinks dowu into his golden bed. That
speaker is eloquent, whose thoughts come gush
ing up from the fountains of his soul, as the spring
boils from the base of the mountain, and whose
elocution stamps the seal of sincerity and earnest
ness upon the sentiment and doctrines which he
promulgates. Such is the style of eloquence
peculiar to Bishop Andrew. Ilis discourse was
argumentative, earnest, solemn, and affecting; ami
as he expounded his text—‘if the Lord be God
follow him’—in strains of holy eloquence, there
was palpable ‘moving of the waters,’ and an awful
‘shaking among the dry bones.’ The old travel
led the long road of retrospection, and sighed
over the many errors and faults by which it was
marked; the yontig awoke as from a dream of
pleasure, to know the great first cause of their ex
istence and to ‘remember their Creator in the
days of their youththose who bore the Saviour’s
name mourned over their cold indifference to his
cause, and the hitherto reckless and unthinking
sinner, found himself translated from a lawn of
green and verdant beauty, bestrewed with flowers,
to a mountain of barrenness, which burned like
Vesuvius, and was crumbling beneath his feet.—
The invitation went out from the man of God,
bearing the message of his Divine Master, ‘Come
unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and
I will give you rest,’ and the scene which eti
sued might challenge the pencil of an angel.
The rush to the altar of prayer was strong and
noisX as the battle of the Philistines, and every
banner that waved, bore the impressive insigna,
‘victory cr death.’ The parent and child, the hus
band and wife, went up together, and knelt side by
side as petitioners for pardon; the Christain shouted
for joy, and the sinner laughing at the jest, or
frowned at the mockery, as lie was pleased to term
it; but overall this thrilling, enrapturing nnd aw
ful scene, the wing of Divine Mercy was evidently
outspread. The half stifled groan of the mourn
er fell upon the ear with the heavy, startling sound
of the midnight gun as it booms i’roin the enemy’s
camp; but high in the ascendant rose the joyful
shout of the liberated capitive, who stood erect,
with loosened chains and fetters knocked off, to
proclaim the peace and liberty of the new birth—
as a bird just freed from its cage, his spirit soared
and sung as it went, giving to its unfledged wing a
broader and a bolder sweep, as it coursed away
from the bitter realities of the past, to the unseen
glories of the future; while the old warrior from
the camp of Israel, beholding the fire and zeal of
these fresh recruits, raised a shout for the God
of battle, and looked well to his own shield, breast
plate and helmet. Thete is a beauty and bright
ness In that scene which develops the nobler and
diviner attributes of man’s moral and intellectual
nature. Philosophy, science and poetry all es
tablish the immortality of man, and exhibit him
fitted and destined for a higher and more glorious
state of existence. Intellect is immortal; genius
may live, and shine, and blaze forever, beauteous
and resplendant as the light of eternity; but fet
tered and clogged as it is by mortality, how op
portune and timely that refreshment which comes
through the instrumentality of a revival of all
those influences which will guide its energies into
direct and pure channels of activity, labor and
hope, suited to the dignity and aspiration of the
God-like soul. Franklin, the great philosopher,
prayed ere he flew the kite by which he control
led the lightnings of heaven, and Kirk White, the
poet, struck the last note of his sweet and touch
ing lyre to the glory of God. Reason may light
her lamp .at the altar of religion, or it may not
burn; and the fires of genius may fail to illumine
the darkness of death; but the light of immortal
ity can never be extinguished. A revival of ‘pure
and undefiled religion* in a community, should be
esteemed as a jewel of rare and invaluable worth,
for it will forever remain like the tower of Pharos,
whose perpetual light streams over the darkness
of an Egyptiau sea. .•
REV. JOHN WESLEY,
Whose deep penetration and insight into cause
and effect has made his sayings appear prophetical,
has the following remarks in his sermon "on the
Use of Money
“None can gain by swallowing up his neighbor’s
THE aEOfttiU MIRKOft.
substance, without gaining the damnation of hell.
Neither may we gain by hurting our neighbor iu
his body. Therefore, we may not sell any tiling
which’tfiids to impair health. Such is eminently
all that liquid fire, commonly called drams or spi
rituous liquors.- Jt is true, these may have a place
in medicine; they may be of use iu some bodily
disorders {although there would rarely be occa
sion for them, were it uot for the uuskillulness of
the practitioner.)—Then-fore, such as prepare and
sell them only for this eiid, may keep their cou
i science clear. But who are they ? Who prepare
> then* only for this end ? Do you know ten such
distillers in England ! Then excuse these. ‘But
all who sell them in the common way, to any that
will buy, are poisoners general. They murder
' his Majesty’s subjects by wholesale, neither do
their eyes pity or spaie, They drive them to hell,
like sheep: and what is their gain ? Is it not the
blood of these men’ ? Who would then envy their
large estates and sumptuous palaces?—A curse
is in the midst of them : the curse of God cleaves
to the stones, the timber, the furniture of them.
The curse us God is iu their gardens, their walks,
their groves ; a fire that burns to the ncthennost
hell. Wood, blood is there ; the foundation, the
the floor, the walls, the roof are stained with blood.
And canst thou hope, O thou man of blood, tho’
thou art “clothed ill scarlet and tine linen, and far
estsumptuously every day,” canst ihou hope to de
liver down the fields of blood to the third genera
tion ? Not so for there is i God in heaven.—
Therefore, thy name shall be rooted out. Like
as those whom thou hast destroyed, body and
soul, “thy memorial shall perish with thee.”
From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
ECROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE.
London, July 19.
Revival of Business—-Spxinish Cruelty to a Captive
IVo man—Waterloo Road Murder — Victoria ,
something of herpersnnul appearance.
The news from America has had the effect to
aid in the general revival of business. Every
thing here w ears a much happier aspect. The
Coronation Being over, and the splendid enter
tainment given by the Corporation to the distin
guished.foreigners, who represented their Sove
reigns iii that event, the public mind is becoming
more business-like. In the manufacturing dis
tricts, too,.it is truly giatifySng to witness the de
gree of activity that is advancing, with no mea
sured steps. Money is very abundant, and public
confidence is assuming a most cheering tone of
permanency in regard to prosperous and whole
some trade.
Perhaps you may observe in some of the papers
a most brutal occurrence in Spain—an event of
the wicked war which has raged in that depressed
country so long. The substance of this heart
rending account is, that aCarlist officer's wife had
fallen into the hands of the forces of the Queen.
She was commissioned to carry intelligence of
Zabrano's movements against the Cariists When
she fell into the hands of the Queen’s forces, they
had her tried by a Court Martial and she was or
dered to bo shot. They then paraded her thro’
the streets, when the brutal populace fell upon her,
hurling at her all sorts of missiles, sucli as sticks
and stones, and literally mangled her body to pie
ces, and she was dead before she reached the spot
appointed for her execution. The brutes, even
after tliis, fired twice at her body, and then lashed
it to the tail of ahorse, and dragged it until it was
dashed into atoms. Such are the creatures that
form part of the Queen’s subjects.
You may have observed ere this, in some of the
English Journals you receive, an account of a
most mysterious murder which recently took place
on the Waterloo road Like the Helen Jewett
murder in your sister city of New York, it has
created much talk and a good deal of speculation.
I am told tlvnt the murdered girl was very hand
some—a very accomplished and fascinating cour
tesan; —one who set up for a genteel lady of Lon
don, which character she well sustained, it would
appear, by the number and character ofherac
quaintances, many of them standing high even in
the line of descent from blood royal. She was a
sort of Millwood in the power she exercised over
those she drew around her, She was of late, I
am told, known to be the mistress of au individual,
well known in high circles (whose name l forbear
to mention, out of shame’s sake.) The belief is,
(and that belief is not badly sustained by facts) that
other*;’, high m public consideration, h;id received
favor in the eyes of the Syren of Waterloo-road,
which caused jealousy in the mind of tho original
favorite', and stunt: w ith jealousy and revenge, he
murdered the faithless one. Her body was found
upon the'Waterloo road, stabbed in a most horri
ble manner. Who was the murderer, and what
was his motive, is not positively known. An indi
vidual was arrested, but no positive evidence ap
pearing against him, he has been discharged, and
the whole matter remains veiled in mystery, as was
the mysterious murder of Helen Jewett in your
neighboring city of New York.
Since 1 have been in Loudon, I have seen the
youthful Queen several.times. The day preced
ing the Coronation, she stole, unattended, into
Westminster Abbey, to witness the preparations
that were m iking for the coining event. I was in
the midst of a dense crowd—hundreds of thou
sands of persons of every kind and tongue, had,
like me, poured forth to witness' the preparations.
Aery was raised—“ The Queen —The Queen”—
when all ru'she l to a single point, where a carriage
stopped in front of Westminster Abbey. It prov
ed to be the “observed of all observers,” who had
come out in a private way, attended only by two
ladies. She was plainly dressed, and smiled with
much graperpf recognition to the plaudits of the
surrounding, multitude. She is not what you
would call handsome; but her personal appear
ance is rather fascinating. Her smile is not forc
ed or condescending; but playing upon lips appar
ently set in motion by warm and honest feeling.
It is of the.winning kind, well calculated to make
her popular. Iler nose is slightly acqualine,
while her mouth is slightly opeti, exhibiting most
of her upper teeth, presenting more the appear
ance of a being about to discourse with those about
her, than that of any other. Her face is rather
round, but her forehead is not what would be
phrenologically called “elevated,” though it is re
spectable and in keeping with the general contour
of her foce. But, as you have doubtless seen
much of her personal: appearance on the day of
the Coronation, I. will say no more about the
“Yoilthfuf Queen" for the present. .
- n - ’ lam Truly yours, ~ T.
Resp eel for Women. —Lee, the individual sen
tenced at New Gfleans to two years imprisonment
for brutal" conduct towards his wife, wason landing
with his escort at. Batou'Rouge, subjected by the
the mob which overpowered the guard, to the op
eration of the Lynch taw.
VT REQUEST.
From the Georgia Journal.
Mr. Editor —A writer over tho signature of
“Lowndes” has thought proper to notice the few
remarks Turnbull submitted some weeks since, re
lative to a National Bank, and seems no little so
licitous to convince the public of the incorrect
ness of the assertion, “of opposition to any Na
tional Bank being one of the cardinal doctrines of
the State Rights party.” It was deemed so in
coutestibly true, that no recitation of facts or ar
guments was needed, to bring it home to the re
collection and conviction of all. The instances
adduced by Lowndes, are singularly unfortunate
for him, in’ proving the reverse of the proposition.
They unfortunately prove too much. It is true,
Mr Craw ford was at one time a Bank man, so w as
Mr Forsyth, Wilde and Cutlibert, but they have
all doubtless signally atoned for that abberratiou
from correct principles. Mr. Crawford a few
months before his death,deeply regretted liiscourse
on that subject, and with his accustomed hones
ty and inflexible integrity, acknowledged his er
ror, A’ avowed that his opinion had undergone a
thorough change, from a persual of the secret de
bates of the Convention, that framed the Consti
tution ; which debates had been hermetically seal
ed from the statesmen of 181 G. That Mr. For
syth has changed his views, and also Mr. Wilde,
is sufficiently apparent, from their voting against
the recharter of the last Bank; and although Mr.
Forsyth and Mr. Cuthhert are not considered
State Rights men in the sense used by Turnbull:
yet it is sufficiently obvious to all, that their course
now is the very antipodes of a National Bank.
“Lowndes” can find Mr. Crawford’s letter to
Dennis L - Ryan, Esq. published iti the South
ern Recorder and Georgia Journal a few months
prior to his decease. “Lowndes” says that the
State Rights party refused to instruct their rep
resentatives iu 1831, when they were in a majority.
Is it possible. Lowndes can be so ignorant of the
fact, that in 1831, the State Rights party was in
a woful minority, instead of majority, as he asserts.
By reference to the journals, lie will perceive,
that the reverse is true. The State Rights party
true to their principles, proposed resolutions to
the effect, that the Bank of the U. States, was not
only unconstitutional out wholly [inexpedient. 11l
1830, similar resolutions were introduced by Dr.
Henry Branham, in which he was sustained by
the State Rights party ? And it is a source of
pride, to know, that so talented a statesman
remains firm and consistent. But the action of
the party did not cease, at that era. Lowndes is
referred to the journals of the Legislature of 1834,
when (admirabile dictu ) both parties introdu
ced resolutions, declaratory of the unconstitution
ality of that measure, nnd gave it as their opinion
“that a Bank ought not to chartered on any
terms,” and declared it as “inconsistent with our
liberties.” So much for the action of the Geor
gia Legislature. That “Turnbull” may not be
thought by Lowndes, to be too sectional and lo
cal, i will present a succinct view of the State
Rights party, in other States and in Congress.
Witness the resolutions in the Virginia Legisla
ture, declaring “that while they disapproved of the
removal of tho Deposites, they regarded the U. S.
Bank ns they had frequently declared, it, as wholly
unconstitutional; and in this, she was sustained
by every distinguished State Rights man in tint
State—Tazewell, Leigh, Tyler, Randolph, Floyd,
Ac. Ac. The same may be said of every South
ern State. Lowndes is especially referred to the
different reports of committiees in the late Con
vention of South Carolina and particularly to that
of the committee of 21. If he will examine the de
bates and records of Congress, there also he will
see waged, an interminable warfare against its cor
rupting influences —See the practical and lumin
ous speech of his Excellency Governor Gilmer
where he declares; “the Bank would necessarily
hare the power of render "ng die Government in some
degree subsidiary to it in time of war, and chang
ing at its will, the price of all property, by its com
mand of the currency, and of speculating through
its directors, upon all the staple products of the conn*
try, by enlarging and curtailing its discounts,
Was each citizen, says he, instead of knowing
that he was master of liis own money and prop
erty. to be made to feel, that its value depended
upon the will and promises of a Bank ; was the
independence, the spirit, and power of the people
to defend tlieir rights from violation to he broken
down by the constant sense of dependontc opuo
the Bank ; itself the creature and agent of the gov
ernment !!! After urging with fervid eloquence,
the friends of the Rights of the State, to resist all
usurped power ; he offers a series of resolutions,
one of which, I extract for the accommodation of
Lowndes.
“ Resolved, That the creation of a National
Bank, or the rechartering of the present Bank of
the United States, is not only an exercise of pow
er not authorised by the Constitution ; but dan
gerous to the individual independence ofthe peq
ple ; to the power of the States, to resist usur
pations of their rights and to the continuance of
our present free institutions.”
Such was the language of that consistant states
man, and such men ns he, and Gov. Troup, are
too firm rooted in their love ofliberty, and the rights
ofthe States ever to waver or change. Such was
the feeling and sentiment of all the State Rights
men then in Congress.
As somewhat indicative of public sentiment,
Lowndes is reminded, that there never has been
an Editor of the State Rights parly in Georgia,
favorable to a National Bank until now, audit is be
lieved there is now but one. So mnch for the
history of the past on this momentous subject,
It the imposing array of influential names of the
distinguished individuals of Georgia could effect
any thing, Turnbull could enumerate nearly all
the flower and talent, of the party, who have ever
been and still are opposed to any Natioual Bank,
and if the party has at any time supported for
office any one entertaining a favorable opinion, it
was in no instance recognising the correctness or
justness of their views ; ( but from motives and cau
ses totally separate and distinct. Turnbull is no
proscriber ; he has endeavored to convince Bank
men of the utter folly and inconsistency of their
proscription ; men who hut yesterday believed as
Turnbull does, that no Bank can be made consti
tutional, are now the first to vote against those
who, shoulder to shoulder, were a month past, con
tending. together against all doubtful or usurped
power. It has ever been the wise and prudent
maxim of the State Rights party, ” Quern dubitas
non facias.” In no event to vote for any measure
not clearly coustitutioual.
Before entering upon other topics alluded to,
Lowndes is referred to the opinion of Mr. Cheves
on this point, one of the Presidents of the late Bank,
and confessedly one of Che best. “I ara of opin
ion, says he that a National Bank, will not aid but
embarrass the restoration of ihe currency of the
eoautry, and that afterwards it would be anii n :
fution infinitely dangerous under many tirci Jtr '
stances and many view s, I admit that under
wise and circumspect management, it might be
useful, but U is as certain as any thing dep enc .
iug on human actiou or human will, that it Wl |j
not be so managed. “Besides, I have” says 1„.
“no doubt, Congress has no constitutional p oyit ' r
to establish such institution, and this I think h as
been the clearly expressed judgement of that
school of public men who claim Mr. Jetfer-*onns
their head; who have administered the government
for almost forty years. The institution of the | ale
Bank, was a departure from the principles of th u ;
school, badly justified; or rather lamely excuse!
at the time, since generally regretted by them, and
finally h>i thevrsrlves atoned for, in the best man
nt rin their power, by putting it down.
In the first short essay on this subject the qne,.
tion was asked Shall it be required to show
the alarming danger of such an institution, asso
ciated politically with the government ? Turn
bull certainly could not he understood to affirm
that the Bank party would seek directly by lecis
lative enactments, to cot»n'*c? like unto Siam se
Twins, that party with their great central nation
al government as they would have it; but that
there could not in the nature of tilings exist any
institution, whose influence and control would not
exert a baneful influence, practically; not only
against, but in favor as it mny suit their interest,
the heads, but every branch of the government
corrupting by its money, and awing by its power,
the virtuous and iudependant action of the rep,
resentatives of the people ; in prostituting to its
base, and sinister purposes—States too are liable.
Since Lowndes thinks “money is the predomin
ant characteristic of the age, to be (qierated upon
A made to surrender their principles by the tempt
ntions held out by loan, whenever their charter is
sought to be renewed.' Reasoning from the past,
who can tell what dire inllnetico uiav not be exer
ted by some ambitious man through its influence,
making it subservient to his views, against the will
of the people, by corrupting all the sources of the
elective franchises, by subsiding the press of the
country; in establishing branches in diftbrent
places, to promote his political views and the in
terest of the Bauk. Whether such a state of cor
ruption will exist, may or may not be so, in these
times of speculation and money making; when
men bend the crooked hinges of the knee ; where
theft may follow fawning; there is nothing too
wicked or selfish to be provided against, inonstrum
horrendem ingens. Ambition avarice and power,
these may bo its tutelar gods, so fatal to liberty in
every age.
That the practical operations ofa National Rank
located in New York or Philadelphia, will have
an injurious effect upon the interest of the South,
is sufficiently attested by experience, and statisti
cal facts. By an attentive enquiry into the causes
that have mainly prevented the South from ex
porting and importing, it will he found, that noth
ing has had so great an efl'ect as the control which
the U. S. Bank has had over the commerce and
exchange of the country, and the additional fart
will be ascertained, that the importations of
Charleston aud Savannah, were nearly triple as
much before, as since the charter of that institu
tion, and that the fluctuation r, f ivorable or adverse,
arose mainly from its operations. It has not only
controlled the commerce, but the exchanges of the
country,wiiich is equally to the injury of the.§outh.
I will illustrate this with a familiar instance. A
Northern merchant w ishitig to purchase any quan
tity ot''baits of cotton, gets liis notes discounted at
New York, Philadelphia, or Boston conies to Au
gusta, Macon or Savannah, checks on the mother
Bank or the Branches af a handsome premium,
and by the turn his notes fall duo, lie is at those
places, ready to sell his checksor bill of exchange,
at a good premium on England. Thus probably
iu every hundred thousand purchased, he »ii|
make twenty or thirty, simply bv exchanges, and
all this comes out of the south. These are facts,
known to all practical and intelligent merchants,
and are irrefutable.
What would be the result if the converse of
this state of things should exist. What if suchan
institution was placed at Savannah or Charleston,
My life upon it. the whole North would be against
it. Then why these unequal blessings and pecu
liar privileges. Should ever disaster of any kind
Come upon the country, the Bank would take
great care of that section, of the country* and throw
the distress on others, not resting on her support.
Such would be th* inevitable stale of things, Sir.
they are totally inconsistent with tho spirit ami
genius of our government; they are affiliated to
the Tariff and all other sectional measures repug
nant to the constitution pf the country. The
limits of this essay, will not permit a lenghty dis
cussion of the point of its unconstitutionality. A
brief summary must suffice. Mr. Jefferson, and
w ith him all the republican party have ever con
tended “for specific 'grants of power,” and a
limited constitution,” and that too was another ot
“the cardinal doctrines of the party ; hear him on
this point- “It is known, that the very power now
proposed as a means, was rejected as an end by
the convention, which formed the constitution.
A proposition was made to them, to authorise
Congress to open Canals, and an amendatory one,
to empower them to incorporate. But the whole
was rejected, and one of the reasons urged in de
bate was, that they then would have power to cre
ate a Bank, wiiich would render the great cities
where there were prejudices, and jealousies on
that subject, adverse to the receptions of the con
stitutions—Jefferson’s works vol 4. p 528.
It was repeatedly, and in different modes in the
Convention sought to !oe given. Robert Morris
proposed to give Congress the power to establish
a National Bank. It was not ouly strenuously op
posed, but voted down in every aspect in which it
was presented to the Convention. But says,
Lowndes, “we may search in vain” for specific
grants of power for some of the most salutary la* s
passed by Congress.’ A frank admission trulyi
that esteems the constitution ofhis country no bar
rier—when the law-making powyx may fancy some
thing salutary to the country? .Some proclam
ation and Force Bill to tame and yoke to obedi
ence, the audacious States ? The doctrine ®*
Lowndes if recognised, would be subversive of a d
constitutions. Sir, the unconstitutionality of er*
ery measure,
' ■ “alone should live
Within the book and volume of their bram t
Unmixed with baser matter.*’
This hasty sketch of the constitutional srgu
ment, cannot be better concluded, than by giving
a brief summary of Mr; Madison’s views on th at
subject. He says, that it was “ condemned by tn®
silence of the constitution— •condemned by the rm®
of interpretation arising out of tlje constitution—
condemned by its tendeppy to destroy the main char
acteristic of the constitution— condemned by
expositions of the friends of the constitution, who*
depending before the public— condemned by tW