Newspaper Page Text
Miscellaneous. __ i
KN’OIiKKSw&TKAV IiOAT iItAVELUNCJ.!
BY PAUIOING.
Has it never befalien tlie gentle reader to
steep m a crowded hotel, in an apartment
shared by sevi ral others; or a stage travelling
ail night; or on board a steamboat ] It so
haye suffered From a nuisance, we
fear, beyond the reach oFsatire, viz:— snoring.
Whether it is an Americanism, like whittling
spitting, putting the feet on the mantle piece,
and wearing hats with a long nap, we do not
at tin time wish to discuss; nor whether it is
one of tliofc general evils incident to the uni
versal infirmities of human nature; but we do
say, that your regular snorer, is an enemy to
society, and ougiit either to cure his propen
sity, or turn hermit. Our object in writing
this is to solicit the attention of the learned
on a subject intimately connected with hu
man comfort, that some means may be adopt
ed either to have the class of stiorers kept
distinct from other people, in a different part
of the town, and compelled to travel in a line
of stages and steamboats constructed express
ly for them; or else to check the propensity
in early childhood, by a rigid course of edu
cation. Our youth are taught to dance, sing,
play the fiddle, sit straight, eat with their
fork, and be virtuous; but not a word about
snoring; not a hint of this faculty, growing
up in the secrecy of night, like a rank, luxu
riant weed, within their character, to break
the peace of innocent families, and ruin,
night after night, that precious balmy slum
ber w hich lies so “starkley in the traveller’s
bones.” Snorers! Why they are monsters.
We avoid them in our rural peregrinations,
and smile inwardly on finding their acquain
tance cultivated ,v unwary strangers, who
little think what a trap they are falling into.
We are one of that extensive class of human
creatures who enjoy a fair night’s rest. The
day emphatically belongs to earth. We yield
it without reluctance to care and labor. We
toil, we drudge, we pant, we play the hack
horse; we do thingssmilingly from which, in
secret, wc recoil; we pass by sweet spots and
rare faces, that our very heart yearns for, with
out betraying the effort it costs; and thus we
drag through the twelve long hours, disgust
ed almost, hut gladdened withal, that the
mask will have an end, and the tedious game
be over, and our visor and our weapons be
laid aside. But the night is tiie gift of heav
en. It firings freedom and repose; its influ
ence falls coolly and gratefully upon the
mind as well a3tlie body;and when we drop
the extinguisher upon the round untouched
pillow, we at the same tune, put out a world
of cares and perplexities. What then, must
be our disappointment to find ourselves full
length,side by side, with a professed, regu
lar-bred, full-blooded snorer, when the spell
of sleep is every few moments forming on us;
and then broken by the anomalous, incongru
ous, nasal vociferations, against which, at this
particular moment, we are endoavoriiig to
excite the indignation of the reader ?
It is one of the advantages of authorship,
however, that even evils, by yielding prolific
subjects for the pen, may be made a source
of amusement and profit Wc experienced
this the other night, when returning from a
day’s absence, the* traveller’s vicissitudes
sent us to sleep on board a steamboat, plying
between this citv and Albany. Fancy us,
good reader, you know, (or, for wc have been
band and glove with you for so long a time,
you ought to know,) cur sly penchant for
comfort—our harmless pieces of epicurean
ism on a small scale—our enjoyment of a
shady still corner—our horror of being push
ed and thrust about “any how.” We have
even, on occasions betrayed too many of our
secret tastes and antipathies, and have been
fated sometimes by anonymous correspond
ents, (those familiar, invisible gentry,) for
preferring a slant sunbeam through a heavy
curtain to one that comesin like other beams.
Imagine us, then in a “night boat” which
evfeo the captain confessed was “slow” the
wimiand tide against us, a hot night, numcr-
ous passengers, the engine heavy and work-]
ing laboriously, with a regular and heavy im
pulse, that jarred through the massive vessel
with j:ri;s and shocks like little earthquakes,
and the subtle languor of slumber stealing
through our limbs, and hanging on our eye
lids. A hundred or two travellers had alrea
dy “turned in,” and we were ushered below
into the cabin, and directed by a clerk to a
berth, where, our guide informed us, we were
to slap. To sleep! He looked at the fe
lon’s face. It was perfectly grave and res
pectful. A glance satisfied us he had inten
ded no insult. lie left us, and we paused to
look round. Ah! the cabin of a steamboat
is a melancholy tttfair to a sleepy gentleman,
about o’clock at night. ' A dim lamp
suspend J from the ceiling, shed a doleful
light upon the long low, narrow apartment.—
The curtains of the berths were mostly drawn
Divers ooots, which, when enlivened by their
respecti\e logs, had clambered mountains or
paced over fields, now lay in groups here and
there. Hats, valises, umbrellas, rested by
their owners, being probably the only vesti
ges of them we should ever encounter. One
tat gentle nan had just lifted his umvieldly
person into bed, and was tying a bandanna
handkerchief around his head, preparatory to
his launching off into glorious repose; while
a cross-looking lean person opposite, having
wound up bis watch and Rescued Ins feet from
his hoots, with a prodigious deal of straining
and ill humour; having with considerable dif
ficulty discovered where he was to dispose of
his cloak and other matters; bumpinghishcad!
moreover, wli.io getting into his couch, and
easing the pain with a smothered execration,'
at length also disposed ofhimself to his satis-
faction. We do not know of any thing which
when a min is really out of humor, exhausts
his philosophy more utterly than hitting his
head sharply against any hard object. My
lriend cursed the builder ol the steamboat, in
a half-smothered growl,and tuen all was quiet.
And now w e were floating off into a pleasant
sleep, when a low and gradually increasing
sound from the berth of the fat gentleman ar
fested our attention. He listened, all was
silent; and then again the same sound, mor
mth' ‘hit* find * asr <fc vblrwk U was at
a long breath, of the consistency ol a loun
whisper. We turned over, stiil it w.rn on.
We turned hack again, there it was yet. Wc
roae on our elbow in a passion, and poked our
head out between the red curtains. There
was the fat gentleman’s berth. Wc could
just detect glimpse of the bandanna hand
kerchief, by a feeble glare of the lamp. Our
sleepy eyes passed disconsolately over the
boots and valises. We laid down again, hut,
could not “with all the weary watching of our
care-tired thoughts,” win the coy dame sleep
to our bed. Wllat was to be done? Go up
and hit the fat gentleman a blow? impossi
ble. Complain to the captain? He would
laugh at us—Never was man so weighed
down, so oppressed with sleep, and never did
man so suffer from a snorer.—The fat gen
tleman, as if aware of our misery, and mock
ing at it, went on, like an orator getting warm
with the subject. He grew loud, vociferous,
outrageous. We laid and listened. He in
haled, he exhaled. Now the air rushed in
through his extended jaws, now it burst fortli
obstreperously through his sonorous nose.—
He took it in with the tone of an octave flute
he let it out.again with the profound depth of
a troaibone. lie breathed short, he breath
ed long; he gasped, whistled, groaned, gur
gled. He quickened the time; became rapid
agitated, and furious.
Hitherto he had snored with the sound of a
rusfiing, regular stream, hastening onward
* a deep channel —now it was the brawl,
h, dash, hurry, and discordant confusion
in same tide, hurled down a cataract of
broken rocks—at last lie gave an abrupt
snort, and ceased altogether. We were
i thanking heaven for this relief, when a tre
ble voice from the berth directly beneath, an
nounced new trouble. It was some one—
whom, we knew not, nor do vve ever eovet
his friendship, wiio belonged to a different
class of snorers. He made a regular, quick,
shark, hacking sound, like that of a man cut
king wood. Hack, hack, hack—wc heard it
at intervals all night. The lean gentleman,
in the opposite part of the room, now put in
his claim as a snorer. lie had four notes. It
was a tune. It could be written and played
any day. Wc laughed outright, and inward
ly resolved to find the fellow out, and see
what, he was like by day light. He played
on sometime, and then finished with a sud
den combination of sounds among the con
stituent parts of which we could plainly dis
tinguish a hiss and two sneezes. His exit
reminded us of those pyrotechnic creations
to be seen at Nihlo’s Castle garden, &c.
which whirl round and round, and then ex
plode with a phiz and a whiz, sure to be
bounteously applauded by the enlightened
audience. 'l'heie was something in this gen
tleman’s snoring which touched our feelings
A fine spirited fallow he was. we warrant.—
Full of life and animation, and not in-lined
to hide his light under a bushel. What be
came of him, however, after the explosion,
we cannot say. Ho left a dead silence, and
his evaporation we almost lamented. We
should like to know, however, whether any
law can be put in requisition against these
gentry, or why we have not the same right to
practise on the trombone, on hoard the steam
boat, that they possess of “piercing the
night’s dull ear,” by such pompous displays
of nasal ability ?
ISUSASKI
On the Political State of Agriculture.
BY JOHN TAYLOR.
The blessing of complete success in the
plan of expelling foreign manufactures, by
raising bounties upon agriculture, may be
exhibited by figures upon data, however
conjectural in amount, correct in principle.
Suppose agriculture annually to bring home
forty millions of dollars, she would be annu
ally robbed of ten millions, by a protecting!
duty of 25 per centum, for the benefit of
capitalists. Suppose her share of the taxes,
state and continental, to be 15 millions, and
that out of the remaining fifteen, she has
five millions to pay to bankers ; ten will re
main, leaving her an annual income per
poll,ol about $1,50 for building houses, pay
ing expenses, and improving lauds. But if
we take into the account, that foreign nations
neither would nor could pay our agricultur
ists with specie for their produce, that they
wou'd countervail upon this preposterous pro
ject, and that every countervailing act of
theirs, would operate upon our agricultural
products, even this $1,50 would become the
victim of retaliation, and leave the farmer as
fundless for purchasing manufactures, as for
improving his land.
This blessed scheme of shutting up its
markets, for the encouragement of agricul
ture, has been wonderfully overlooked as a
means for encouraging manufactures. In the
latter case, markets arc eagerly sought for,
and barter universally allowed. England takes
special care not to limit the sales of her man
ufactures directly or indirectly to returns in
specie, knowing that the attempt would des
troy them. iShe endows them with the home
monopoly, and freedom to make the best
bargains in all the foreign markets they can
get to. -Manufacturing is her staple; agri
culture is ours.
The United States hit exactly upon the
same mode for the encouragement of our ag
riculture after the revolution, that the English
did before it, for the purpose of pillaging it.
Every congress has adhered to their prede
cessors in the same policy. The agricultur
ists, to get rid of it, fought England, an*
having evinced their power to control a great
nation, are quietly submitting to tins spectre
of patriotism.
The Euglsh before the revolution, quartered
upon our agriculture, a necessity of buying its
manufactures at home, or within the empire,
whilst it enjoyed the eqiivah nts of being free
from their taxation, from paying any ot tiie
interest of their paper systems, from contri
butions for supporting their armies, navies,
bishops and pensioners, from the frauds of
their treasury system, and of sharing in the
enhanc id prices, produced by tram! which
lid not reach the provisions. The same sys
tem inflicted l>v congress, is .attended w ith I
■tone of tlies ; equivalents. Agriculture pays I
and must forever pay most of whatever is
ss&aosr &srawttwaß®.
collected by taxes, by cnarters, by protecting!
duties, by paper systems of every kind, for
armies, for navies, and though Lst, not the
least of its losses, of whatever the nation is
defrauded by a treasury system operating in
darkness, if the taxes arc directly laid on
property, agriculture pays nearly the whole
of them; if on consumptions, an unequal share,
because of the greater number of hands she
employs than any other business, and the
smaller profit derived from their labour.
Had our policy instead of assailing agricul
ture, with the English system of quartering
upon her a legion of legal separate interests
(to resist which she had spent lifer blood and
treasure in a long war with that nation) been
guided by these considerations, she whuld
not have been subjected to the very evils,
to avoid w hich, she had so recently and glo
riously persevered through that war.
The cSects of yoking agriculture to armies,
ua L\', paper frauds, and piotecting duty
frauds, since a revolution, which it laboured
for, like the ox who tills the crop to be eaten
by others, are visibly an increase of emigra
tion, a decrease in the feriiality of land, sales
of landed estates, n decay and impoverish
ment bolii in mind and fortune of the
landed gentry, and an exchange of that
honest, virtuous, patriotic and bold class of
men, for an order of stock-jobbers in loans,
banks, manufactories, rivers, roads, houses,
snips, lotteries, arid an infinite number of
inferior tricks to get money, calculated to
instil opposite principles.
All the varieties of this order receive boun
ties, and agriculture pays them. They gain
from six to twenty per centum profit on their
capitals; agriculture seldom or never gams
six, except in a few* southern instances. In
fact, it very rarely gains any thing, if an
income, derived from an impoverishment of
the land, ill deserves the name of profit.
The injustice of superadding upon agri
culture these unnecessary burdens to those
which are necessary, is illustrated by suppo
sing the duties upon foreign manufactures to
he only five per centum, and nearly or quite
all our duties are above the supposition.
To such duties are still to be added the
English and American merchants, through
whose hands the goods pass, and the freight.
These duties, profits and fieight, would alone
constitute an encouragement to home man
ufactures of at least twenty per centum; a
sum quite adequate to any encouragement
w hich honest policy would defend, or com
mon justice suffer. And as all the occasion
al calamities of commerce, are losses to agri
culture, and prizes t.n manufactures, her
fatuity in kneeling like the camel to receive
burdens, under the notion that she is re
ceiving bounties, can have no antithesis
more perfect, than the species of dexterity
which inflicts them, <u.
•intlrew Jackson.
HOMAGE TO TIIE “GREAT and GOOD.”
LonsvitiK, Oct. 2,1832.
Gen. Jackson reached Lexington on Satur
day evening last, on his return to Washing
ton. He was escorted into the city by about
a thousand citizens, among whom were Gov
ernors Breathitt, Adair and Desha. A cor
respondent who witnessed his reception by
the people, describes it as distinguished by
every demonstration of the most enthusiastic
attachment. The highway, along which he 1
passed, for miles was lined with multitudes,
all anxious and pressing forward to greet
their venerable and patriotic Chief Magis-j
tratc. When the General arrived at iiisj
lodgings, at Fostle thwaitV, the crowd assem
bled, it is estimated, could not have fallen !
short of four thousand persons.
The spectacle was most interesting. All i
was gladness, and gratitude aval exultation.
The patriotic “ fair” of the city, were seen
crowding the doors and windows and waiv
ing their white handkerchiefs in honor of the
Hero, who, when “Beauty” was the watch
word of a ruthless enemy, was willing to
“perish in the last ditch” in its defence.
Our correspondent remarks.
“If a stranger, unacquainted with the
state of party feeling here, had witnessed the
General’s reception, he would have supposed!
that there was not an indivduai in the citv or,
neighborhood opjmsed to him. The display
ol feeling in his favor was so overwhelming,
that not a word was heard but in his praise,
and scarce a countenance seen, that was not
lighted up with the gladness and spirit that
pervaded the multitude.”
These proud and brilliant tokens of confi
dence and unshrinking devotion to the Old
Ilero were given in the city of Mr. Clay’s
residence, and but seven days after the
convention of the Bank lawyers had adjourn
ed. Their “travails” have been “love’s la
bor lost. ’ ’l'lie louder these feecd gentle
men bellowed agarnst the President the bet
ter the people seem to like him.
Advertiser.
Extracts from the Argus.
On the way to the city, it was almost im
possible to keep back the crowd who press
ed up to the carriage window to take him
bv the hand. He believe that no occurence
pleased him more than the circumstance of
a large number ol little boys, who had ran*
ged themselves by the road side, just at tin
point where he arrived in sight of Lexington,
and having of their own accord, supplied
themselves with hickory boughs, they greeted
the President with the most animated shouts
and waving of the boughs.
We do not hesitate to assert, that the re
ception which he met with on this occasion
in Lexington, equalled that of La Fayette
in 1823. Mor# hearty and overflowing it
co dd not have been. The number of the
people who accompanied him, could not have
been less than from TWO to THREE
THOUSAND- A great many interesting!
incidents occurred after his arrival. The
numhet of persons who pressed forward for;
an iritrc * letion to him, of all ages and con-1
ditions, would have fatigued any other man J
than the President. Vet he was animated
‘•nd cheerful the whole time, as if he did net
feel it.
The next day which was the Sabbath, he
"pent in Lexington, and attended divine scr
vjee at the Rev. Mr. Hall’s Ist Presbyterian
Church. On Monday mottling at 9 ®clock,
he departed on his route, intending to spend
the night at Winchester. lit- was again
escorted by Captain Postlethwait’s Light In
fantry to the city limits where the President
alighted and took a personal leave of each
number on parade. A large concourse of cit
izens on horse back and in carriages, accom
panied him several miles out ofthe city, pre
ceded by the same Marshall and Committee
of arrangements.
Before he left town, he found leasure to
visit for a short time, several of his old friends,
where the ladies had opportunities of being
presented to him; and great numbers were
desirous to enjoy the pleasure of his com
pany.
On the morning of his departure, also, a
large number of hoys with hickory boughs,
preceded by music, marched past mm in
review, every one. of whom he took by the
hand. He rode on horseback in leaving the
city, and was again greeted by every mark
of applause, by great numbers who had col
lected to hid him farwell. Surely no man
ever did or could have received more fervent
exhibitions of attachment, than did this per
secuted and slandered patriot, even in the
“very halls of the Douglass.”
Surely no man, whose mind is not filled
with prejuduce and party rancour, couid
have looked on his venerable countenance,
and back on his past life, so full of disinter
ested services to his country, in her times
of danger and distress, without confessing
reverence and affection for him. His man
ners, too, were so kind, polished and agree
able; —*so different from tiie pictures which
have been drawn of him by coffin-handbill
Editors and partizae and m e ogues, that many,
very many of his political opponents, on that
occasion, laid down their hostility to him, and
will in future be his advocates and friends.
We say this with perfect confidence in the
trutn of tie assertion; and the result of the
November election in Fayette county will
prove that we are right. Kentucky is for
Jackson, Veto or no Veto !
Wc are gratified to say that the Marshalls
and Coinmjtce arranged matters so well, and
the people conducted themselves so orderly,
that not the slightest accident, disorder or
incident, occurred, ivhicb could give pain to
any person. It was an occasion, which like
the visit of Lafayette, will be long remem
bered by the inhabitants of Lexington and
Fayette county, with delight and admira
tion.
Untied Stales Hank.
From the Globe, of Oct. G.
BANK BRIBERY.
We hate received the following letter
from Pittsburg:
Pittsburg, Sept. 30. 1832.
“Dear Sir: Another‘fair business trans
action,’ to use the language of that poor crea
ture Webb, occurred on Friday last. Mr.
Wilson, a hatter in this city, went to the
Post Office and enquired if there were any
letters for him, one of the Clerks handed hiin
a letter addressed to ‘James Wilson,’ that be
ing the name of the applicant. On opening
the letter, Mr. W. found a draft drawn by
Nicholas Biddle, Esq. President of the Bank
ofthe U. S. for 6580 on the Branch in this
city. Mr. W. handed the letter back to the
Clerk, observing, ‘this letter is not for me;’
the Clerk then read it aloud, and said, no, it
is not for you, ‘it is for Mr. Jtunes Wilson,
the editor of the Pennsylvania Advocate.’—
The letter was (hen resealed and delivered to
tiie Bank Editor. The letter having been
read in the hearing of several individuals, we
can pin the matter upon the Coffin Handbill
Editor and his new master: he will not be
able to swear himself out of this scrape.
We will forward you, by next mail,the de
position of one of the persons who was pre
sent, heard the letter read, and saw the
drafts. lie is a respectable mechanic of this
city, and was, at that time, a member of their
own party.
“Very respectfully yours,
DAVID LYNCH,
13. J. ROBERTS.
“F. r. Blair, Esq.”
This Wilson, if we remember rightly, is
the in.ln who signalized hi in seif in Ohio re
cently by some profligate electioneering
falsehoods against Judge Irwin. We are not
positive tiiat this is the same man, but, how
ever that may be, he lias found means to re
commend himself to Mr. Biddle’s and the
Bank’s good graces, and has been set up as
the Bank advocate in Pittsburg, and receives
his supplies accordingly. This purchase of
Editors and Presses with the money of the
people, or the Government as a stock-holder,
is but carrying oat the principle avowed by
Mr. Walsh when he made his acknowledge
, inent that he received about SIOOO for pub
j lishing Extras to support the Bank against
j the President. If Mr. Biddle can buy with
| the public money, set apart as a contingent
fund in the Bank, “Extras and Pamphlets”
to put down the President, why may he not
j go to the bottom, and buy the mem and the
materials that make the Extras and
| Pamphlets? It is certainly upon this princi
ple, considering the corporation as identified
with himself, that Mr. Biddle has ventured
to use its money as his private funds, and to
purchase up the Courier axd Enquirer—
the Philadelphia Inquirer— to pension Walsh,
Gales—Green, and the rest with regular per
quisites. At this moment the Bank is throw
ing out from the Philadelphia press, a review
of the veto, written in all likelihood by Bid
dle himself. Wlml would the nation think
of it, if the President of the United States
were to apply the secret service money en
trusted to bis discretion to the publics ion
and distribution of Ins Veto Message ? Would
he not be justly execrated by "the whole
country—impeached, and hurled from office,
with the curses of every patriot upon his
head? There is no man who would not
mark the act as the most shameful robbery of
the Treasury. The case of Mr. Biddle is I
timch worse. The funds of the Bank arc not
confided to bis “ discretion ,” but he holds
them for the defined purposes of the charter.
Was the Bank chartered that its vast powers
and pecuniary resources should be brought to
bear upon the elections ? Was it chartered
to purchase ami circulate Extras and pamph-,
lets, to operate on the suffrages of the people?
Was it chartered to purchase Editors and j
presses—to seduce by bribery, the sentinels
of civil Liberty from their allegiance to the
people ? That to these vile and treasonable
uses the public money, entrusted to the cof
fers of the ißank, has been applied, there is
now not the slightest shadow of doubt. There
has been the most profligate application of
the nation's means, confided to the hands of
the conclave of Directors in Philadelphia, to
party purposes—to subvert the principles of
the Government itself. Hundreds of thou
sands have been poured into the pockets of
venal Editors and Lawyers, to prepare the
public iiiind fertile establishment 01 the pow
er of the Bank oligarchy in this country, and
with it the aristocratic domination, which
was vanquished in the struggle of ’9B and ’99.
The course which the Bank is now taking,
in scattering its treasures among partizans,
and applying them in every shape in which'
money can be brought to bear upon the elec
tions demands the greatest vigilance—the
noblest exertions of all the patriots who can
he animated with pride for the liberal insti
tutions of our country—with enthusiasm for
tlie rights of American citizens.
But while patriots in every part of the Un
ion will he roused to defend the principles of
freedom, there arc patriots entrusted with the
administration of public affairs, who will not
fail to call to account the Bank Managers
who have been guilty of such flagrant mal
versation in their public trust. And, in an
ticipation of the reckoning, we should not he
surprised to see the public deposites with
drawn from those, who, as they are evidently
committing spoliation on the Slock of tiie
Government in the Bank, for the worst pur
poses, must certainly render it an unsafe de
positary for the whole treasure of a people.
From the same paper, (Jet. 7.
BANK CORRUPTION.
In our last we disclosed the startling fact,
that a draft lor #SBO, from President Biddle
himself to James Wilson an editor lately
boughf up by the Bank, and removed from
Steubenvilie to Pittsburg, had .accidentally
been discovered in its transit. In the Cin
cinnati! Republican, of the 19th ult. we find
extracted ttoin the Steubenville Herald, some
of this Mr. W ilson's vnbougk ' opinions in re
lation to the Bank of the United States.—
Let the people examine them, and they will
duly appreciate the vaiuc of those venal ef
fusions which arc now elicited by Mr. Bid
dle’s draughts.
From the Western Herald of 30 th January, ISI9.
THE UNITED STATES BANK, dec.
Tnc report of the committee appointed to
examine into the affairs of the United States
Bank, having been at length received, we de
vote a considerable portion of this week’s pa
por to its publication. We regret q,ur tnaml
ity to publish it entire—the remainder, about
four or five columns, shall appear m our
next, v his report unlolds a scene of gam
bling a.id speculation—of downright un
blushing infamy, hocus pocusand imposture,
which should till tlie mind of every honest
American with shame and indignation— and
should cause our representatives to tear from
the statute bool, of the nation the license un
der which sucii infamy and fraud have been
engendered and practised. In other words,
the violated charter of that iniquitous insti
tution should at once he declared extinct,
and its corrupting influence destroyed. But
we invite the public to read the statements
tor themselves—and after they have read it,
let them console themselves if they can with
the reflection, that it has enabled the Presi
dent of th Bank to make his 53,009 and
certain directors and their friends to riot in
wealth, that they have been shaved and plun
dered, and ground down almost to Just and
ashes. People of the West— debtors to the
government —have we not repeatedly told
you that you were imposed upon—that you
were preyed upon by sharpers and specula
tors ? What say you now ?
From the Western Herald of the 13 th March . 1819.
We have this day to record the disagreea
ble and unwelcome news, that the existence
ol this bank is to lie prolonged for another
year. In the House of Representatives of
the United States, the resolution for the re
peal of its charter, has been negatived, aves
JO -nays lg.. I he* resolution for a scire
facias was also rejected, 110 to 39. The bill
regulating the manner of voting at elections
for directors, was ordered to a third reading.
Three of the members front this State, Mes
srs. Harrison, Herrick and Barber, voted
against the bank, the other three in its favor.
It is stated in Nile's Register, that about for
ty members are stockholders in said bank, all
of whom it is presumed, exerted themselves
with warmth and activity in its favor.
As we before observed, the people have no
other chance of shielding themselves from
oppression and the aristocratic tendency of
this vast paper machine, than through the
State Governments. If the Governtnf at of
the United States feel determined to foster
and protecta swarm of speculators, brokers
and Swindlers, let the State Governments
throw their shield over the farmers, the man
ufacturers, and the mechanics—if an insti
tution, w,deli has disgraced itself, and dc
graced the American name, is to receive the
protection of the nation; let the States wash
their hands of the indignity, by sending the
mother of iniquity and her shameless brood,
to thc“ ten miles square” in which tlicv were
conceived and brought into life and being.
!Ur. Wilson is now zealously employed in
attempting to perpetuate this “downright un
blushing infamy, hocus pocus and imposture”
this “license under which such infamy and
fraud have been engendered and pracitisml”
this “swarm of speculators, brokers, and
swindlers”—this “moth r of iniquity arid her
shameless brood”—not “lor another ve-tr”
only, but FOREVER!
I lie ns'; which Mr. Wilson is now ma
eng of Mr. Biddh’s kind remittances, may
!>o perceived bv ttie following extract fro' j
die Cincinnati Republican. Nobodv need
ask lurlhcf, “who nays’’/
JAMES WlusoyP^
Who has not heard of James Wt
.tor ol the Stem,, uvill 0 Herald
moment, one of the most ileterm ’
thoiougli going Clay and Bank ~ J
or pereaps in the United States? ,
a levy weeks since, he coalmenced 5
itcution of a paper in Pittsburg J"
by what name, for the ostensible 1
supporting the Bank, and preventing
election oi General Jackson. Thi
we have learned, has been peddled
•'date ot Ohio, like the Gazette e\‘ri°!
the bushel! Every town and niS
lias been deluged with them. Jt|
nised the oi.l ladies of the counlj!
wrappers lor their garden seeds, forfiZ
to come. v
The Bank is an excellent pavmasb
buys up editors, and then prints and cirv
their papers. 3lr. Wilson is one
purchased -rticles—though it i, nnt
Iff., he c ° st fifty-two tl^
douars, the amount given for Webb.
tiie bank In thejfield
[Extract to the editor, of the Alban,
gus, dated New-York,Oct. 4.1 '
Mr. Biddle,the Philadelphia broker is
iou know he is a relative of President !
A speculation was entered into on Tin
to raise the mice ol U. 8. Bank stock ti
purpose of political effect. Yest f )■
continued, and a further advance of a
cent was realized by our brokers. 7,
: speculation continues, at a further advai
1 per cent—which makes the quota;;
that stock 121 . This is all very good,
brokers are making money, and Waii
people are well content. ' If the fi 3r
sacrifice thousands and tons of thousai
the hope of politiclal effect, it is no afi
theirs—the President and Directors
account, one day or other, to the stockh;
for squandering so much money 111 su<
unhallowed crusade. The nrokerwhois
aging this speculation—this“fairbui
transaction”—who is not a betting nan
now offering to bet thousands that" Rt
vaniu will give her vote against General
son. i iiis is part of the same game,
thcr speculations in stock, norolferiol
will affect the minds of the honest demc;
yeomanry of Pennsylvania. 1 assert
deutly, that they will give their vet,
Jackson—and a few vvi-cks will prove
The London Times (the first of the
al or Whig papers) makes the folUivi
marks on our Presdetit’s Veto Mesangi
“ 'Phe concerns of the Bank of the i
States have hitherto been weii manai.*n
prosperity is admitted, and the benefits
it has conferred on the Union, by
uniformity and stability to its cumin
moneyed transactions, are not dispute
notes in circulation do not exceed itsc
and it affords more accommodation to y
commerce, tlian the Bank ofEnglam
its more extensive circulation and as g
means.”
“ It must seem difficult, therefore,
so is unacquainted with the electioneer l
jectsof the President, or with theptcul
sition of American parties, to conside
the extraordinary step of a veto should
sorted to against the continued existe
this establishment. Nor will they b
factory informed by the Message to the i
in which the President states his rea
disagreeing with tiie two Houses. 7k
sons arc much more numerous than c
In the first place, the President thin!
renewal of the charter premature, while
and a half years of its term are still!
To tiiis objection, it is well answeredl
of the Senators, that his Excellency
agamst all renewals, the time made r
fsrence. Besides, as he expects to be
ed President lor the next four year
Charter would expire before ns policy
be considered by another Chief Magi
The President subsequently speaks a
it as a monopoly, and what is c'jnous,
as a reason for rejecting the jene
its Charter, that the foreign possevou
stock might use their pow'er, in
war, against the interest of the Union
need scarcely say that such an objr.v
chimerical and absurd. The foreign!
would in case of war have their fundsini
can stock, would be rather more likely
at the mercy of them than have Amerii
theirs. Their stock would, in fad,
kind of hostage in the enemy, and
moans of influencing that enemy.”
“The real fact probably is, that Pr<
Jackson has been opposed by the dii
ol the Bank in his administration; t
dreaded their influence on his ensuinj
tion ; that lie wished to gain the supp
the local banker, who are hostile to the
ral establishment: and that he iberclori
his veto as one of the ways and niea
occupying for auother term of four
the elective sovereignly of a great cm
The Times commits one mistake
viz: the supposition that the Presidci
been opposed in his administration b
Directors of the Bank. lie has always
aided by them in the proper department
of the Treasury. They never tool
against him, in their quality of direc
in connexion with the affairs of theß
He has been actuated by inveterate prej
and deluded, moreover, by the scheu
Treasury, hank or machine, which he'
move at will— Nat. Gaz.
A YOUNG MAN
Vl/YIO can give satisfactory reference t
* who may enquire, of his morals, a
conduct, wishes to obtain a school of da ®
scholars ; whom ho will instruct in t | IP J 1
language, Penmanship, and Arithmetic
phyand the Art of drawing Maps. It r(
he will (each the rudiments of the Latin w
and several branches of the Mathem^ 1 *
would prefer a school in one of the neiffp
Cfiiiuiies. Any letter addressed to'*-
Macon will he attended to.
October 23, 1832. _ J
s T BA! LEV.
auGJ. A 1
MACON. GEO.
¥¥!*■* office i j the one lately < err; j"
5 n sr- Tracy & Butler, on Third -S
October 23. !