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V Monday Morning, April 2.
pf Our remarks in reply to the People's Press
f snd ilAadiresnondent are crowded out to day, and S
fnav probably continue to be excluded until after
■he adjournment of the Convention. h
I Merchants Convention will meet
\This Day, at 12 o’clock in the Presbyterian (
IChurch. r
At half past 10 o’clock, the annual commence
[ menl of the Medical College will be held also in
f (he Presbyterian Church, as will be seen by re>
Ifercnce to the advertisement in morning’s (
{paper. v
£ In our Saturday’s paper, in giving a list of r
candidates lor members ot Council, we
telated that the election was to take place f
this day. In this we were in error; we should *
■ have said the second Monday, which is this
day week.
It will ho seen by ttae letters of our correspond i
j dent at Washington that ti c sub-Treasury bill
i has finally passed the Senate, and has bean laid i
the table in the House of Representatives.
Its fate is believed to he scaled.
The Delegates to ibe Merchant's ( Convention
from Charleston were sent up on the Carolina Rail
Road on Saturday, in a Car provided expressly for
that purpose, free of charge. This is ns jt
should be, and shows a proper und highly com
mendable spirit on tbo purl of tho oilicors ol the
company.
It would seem that niter six ineffectual at
tempts to obtain it commander for the Ex
ploring Squadron, the seventh has at length
proved successful. Lieutenant Wilkes has
been selected to command it, and lias accept
ed the appointment.
Death of Cov. Miller.—Hon. S, D.
Mi ler, formerly of South Csrolina, says the
Columbia T rncs of Friday last,died on the Bth
i'ist.,£j in Raymond, Mississippi. Governor
Mdler presided over the destinies of South
Carolina during the memorable contest with
tho Federal Government and nobly and fear
-1 iss'y did lie discharge his duty.
At a public meeting of the citizens of the (own
of Hamburg, S. C. fur the purpose of appointing
delegates to represent the cotmr.ojoial ino. .£
that place in the Convention to be holden in
Augusta, on the first Monday in April, the fol
lowing gentlemen were appointed :
Maj- W. W. Starke, Edward Delius, Esqr.
Maj. Turner Goldsmith, Dr. B. Lo Roy Antony.
.1. W. Storks, Chairman,
At a public meeting of the citizens of Warren
ton, the following gentlemen were appointed
delegates to the Mercantile Convention in Au
gusta. on Monday next:
Dr. M. Andrews, Dr. W. P. Hutt,
W. B. Thompson, esq. Jeremiah Bull, esq.
Col. Wo. Jones.
Meeting in iidgcfieltl.
At a public meeting of the Citizens of Edge
field District, on Wednesday tho 28th inst, Col.
John Bausket was called lo the Chair, and Col
Moss appointed Secretary ; whereupon Whit
field Biooks, Esq., offered tho following preamble
and resolutions, whi-w —~ —mtmousTy adopted.
aue people of Edgefield District, having
witnessed with gratification, the patriotic efforts
which were made by the enlightened Convention
I of Merchants from the South and South West,
I held in the City of Augusta in October last, for
I tbo purpose of encouraging a direct trade with
I Europe; and participating largely in the general
K anxiety which now happily pervades lhe entire
I Southern community for the accomplishment of
I this great enterprise, are sensibly impressed with
E the obligation of performing their part in the
I laudable effort, now being made, of emancipating
K the South from its present state of dependence
■ upon the North, and from the degrading tribute
H which is annually exacted in consequence of this
■ dependence. Tlietetorej
■ Devolved, That under a due sense of this
■ I obligation,enforced by the m.,lives of patriotism
fe and interest, they will co-operate with their fet
al I° w citizens, by sending suitable Delegates lo
| represent them in the Convention which is to
■ be held in the City of Augusta on the first
■ Monday in April.
B Jlesolveil, That the following persons, viz :
■ Jacob B. Smith, Col M Watson, John C Allen
I Major John Middleten, Docl. M. Galplun, J, L.
■ Jeffries, George Parrot, Nathan 1. Grillin, F H
I Wardlaw, Thomas Smith, Edward Penn, James
■ Sheppard and W Branllv Bcenan, lie and arc
■ hereby appointed Delegates from tins District It:
■ the Convention ; and that it shall be tho duly
■ Vof the Chairman of this meeting lo notify them
I of their appointment.
■ Uesolverl, That the proceedings of this meeting
■ ho published in tho Augusta Chron. & Sentine
I JOHN BAUSKET[’, Ch'n.
■ William Moss, Scc’y.
I From the Savannah Georgian March 31.
I From Florida.
■ f From a psssengerin the sfeamerWm Gaston
V *apt King, arrived at this port from Garey’i
■ Ferry and S; Augustine, and from other sources
■ we learn tho following.
■ A letter from Tampa, dated March 24th, (las
|H ‘^ alu tday,) says—“ Between live and six hundrci
■ Indians and negroes are on their way from Turn
BH J>a to Fort Jupiter, under the escort of the Ten
B ncssee volunteers at d a portion of the 2d Kcgi
H tneni of Dragoons.”
■ is stated that Major Loomis of the Ist in
antry had captured two Indian women, wli
I Hr** 131 ® arn d f, nes had gone to the fSoulh, an
: .' ga,or to the West, and that they were bol
f I w d |n B lo surrender if they were invited.
On Saturday last, we are also informed, Capt.
Hewson, in command of two companies of dra
groous, arrived at Fort Mellon. Altout three
lays’ march from that fort he stales, that while
crossing a largo cypress swamp, he struck a trail
of Indians, pursued and overtook them. 1 hey
were in number from twenty to twenty-five.
Capt. H. lost four of his men in the attack, and
was wounded himself in the abdomen, but not
dangerously. He taokfour prisoners and killed,
as is supposed, several ot the Indians —the bal
ance escaped, ft is reported that Coacoocheo or
Wild Cat is one of the prisoners.
[from OUU COUUKSI’ONUEX .]
WASHINGTON, March 2(5.
Sub-Treasury Hill passed tlie Senate !
In the Senate, to day, during the morning
hour, Mr SOUTHARD presented a memorial
addressed to Congress and signed by the deputa
tion of the Cherokee Indians now in. Washing
ton, malting representations and complaints in
regard to their situation under the allcdged treaty, '
and praying Congress in some inode lo interfere
fur their relief.
Also, a memorial against the enforcement of
the treaty, Hiredly from the Cherokee nation,
with the signatures of 15,005 persons ot that
nation.
Mr. SOUTHARD moved that these moraoris
al# ho printed, and referred to the Committee on
Indian Affairs.
Mr. LUMPKIN said ho felt obliged lo express
his regret at the introduction of these papers, but,
ar they had been presented, he wished that they ,
might lake the best possible direction to prevent
the mischief with which lie believed they were
at this lime traughl, lo the Cherokee people, as
well as the stales where they reside.
Mr. L.■ would assign the reasons why he
thought these papers calculated to have a inoi.l
mischievous effect. In 1935 a treaty had been
negotiated in this place, by a delegation of the
Cherokee nation and the authorities of tins gov
ernment ; a treaty which was mors liberal to that
untoilunate people ity- ,-iny vutiich, st any lime,
had been made wit-i, e v £» horiginal tribes of the
country. Thai treaty underwent a thorough and
ample discussion, and —<-s ratified according to
the form of such t'-eaue^T*V,nd this was not all.
Largo appropriations, t uf „, r full discussions in
both Houses, had been made to carry that treaty
into effect. Mr. L. had made himself acquainted
with every transaction that had afterwards
occurred in regard to the execution of this treaty.
A part of the Cherokees, ItcadedTy their principal
Chief, John Ross, had opposed the treaty ; hut,
with all their opposition, the Commissioners
appointed to carry it out had found that nine
tenths of the people yielded lo the treaty, and
that a majority of the whole had already emi
grated to the tar West; and that those who hud
not gone were preparing to go, with the excep
tion of a very few. Among the number gone,
Mr. L. mentioned a brother of Mr. Russ, Mr.
Taylor, and others, who were deemed highly
respectable in the nation, from whom Mr. L. had
now a paper in his pnssesifun, addressed lo their
brethren in the must encouraging terms, to induce
them to comply with the treaty and follow them
to the West.
Uut Mr. Ross and his coadjutors, Mr. L. staled,
had been, tor the last two years, continually at
Washington, sometimes treating with the Exec
utive, and sometimes with Congress, and caus
ing doubt among the Cherokees in regard lo the
execution to the treaty. But for this course of
conduct, Mr. L. believed that nine-tenths of the
nation would have been now happily settled in
the western country. They were now waiting
for something from Mr. Ross, with the impres
sion that the treaty was about to be altered or
abrogated.
'On the &3d of May next the lime would expire
for them to remain in the country ; they would
, then have to leave it, and the citizens of Georgia
; hold grants authorising them at that time to take
i possession of the Indian territory, with a general
[ determination lo do so. When the time should
: come, the Cherokees would he presssed oil', per
haps not by the most discreet meahs, and blood
might be shed. Mr. 1., was anxious to prevent
mischief of this kind, and hoped, therefore, those
, memorials would not take the course which had
f been proposed.
i After some further discussion by Southard,
3 King, Grundy, and White, Mr. Ceax, of Ala
r moved to lay the whole subject on the table.—
j This motion was carried in the affirmative. Yeas
3 37, Nays 10.
a The Sub Treasury bill having been taken up,
and read a third lime, Mr. McKean said be
s thought it his duly, and he therefore renewed the
i i motion to postpone this bill to the first Monday
- I in December next, on which question he called
o for the yeas and nays, which wore ordered, and
o the motion was negatived as follows;
tt Yeas—Messrs. Bayard, Buchanan, Clay, ol
Ky. Clayton, Critlendi n, Davis, Grundy, Knight,
: McKean, Merrick, Presto. i, Prentiss, Hives, Rob
’’ bins, Haggles, Smith, of Ind. Southard, Spence,
■j Swift, Tallmndge, Tipton, Webster, While.—23
s Nays—Messrs. Allen, Benton, Brown, Cal
e houn, Clay, of Ala. Culhberl, Fulton, Hubbard,
0 King, Linn, Lumpkin, Lyon, Morris, Mouton,
„ Nicholas, Niles, Norvell, Pierce, Roane, Robin
son, Sevier, Smith, of Conn. Strange, Trotter,
g Walker, Wall, Williams, Wright, Young.—2o.
b1 The bill was then passed (the yeas and nays
having been ordered on the call ot Mr. Norvell,)
by the following vole :
Yeas—Messrs. Allen, Benton, Brown, Clay
n of Ala. Cuthbert, Fulton, Hubbard, King, Linn
’s Lumpkin, Lyon, Morris, Mouton, Niles, Norvcl
a, Pierce, Roame, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Ct,
Strange, Trotter, Walker, Wall, Williams
,j Wright, Young, 27.
iv Nays—Messrs Bayard, Buchanan, Calhour
a- Clay, of Ky„ Clayton, Crittenden, Davis, Grut
>'* dy, Knight, McKean, Merrick, Nicholas, Prcntis
n _ Preston, Rives, Robbins, Haggles, Smith, of In
l io Sou hard, .Spence, Swift, Tallmadge, Tiplo
1( j Webster, White, 25.
lit The Bill was then sent down to the oth
House for concurrence.
The miscellaneous pioceodmgs of the Jluuso
were without interest.
'The General Appropriation Dill was passed J
and sent to the Senate. ;
The Su'o Treasury Bill will belaid on the table
by the House to-morrow. Mr. Patton will make ’
the motion. Cambreling will then be obliged to
try his own measure. t
WASHINGTON, March 27th. i
Death of the Sub-Treasury Bill.
The House of Representatives true to '
the wishes, the feelings, the determinations
of the people have again laid low I lie hopes of 1
the Sub-Servatives; by nailing to the table— '
by sending to the tomb of the Capulets— 1
the “untried expedient."’ There let it lie and |
remain “untried.”
When this precious measure came up to
day, among the bills trmn the Senate, and put j
on its lir.'t and second reading, Mr. Cuiubrci 1
ling moved to refer it to llic Committee of '
Ways and Means. ,
Mr. PICKENS asked Mr. C‘ambre!ong, i
whether it was the intention to give prefer- 1
ence to this Senate bill over the measure of a
similar character which hud been reported by (
the Committee ot Ways and jl/eans to the i
House? He wished to know whether this <
emasculated thing, which though in the shape j
of a man, was destitute of all manliness, and
all the spirit of a man, —a eunuch in all its I
attributes, was to be preferred to the House
bill on the same subject.
Mr. CAM/iRELING said such was not
Ida intention. Hu believed that his colleagues 1
on the Committee as well as himself infinite, i
ly preferred their own bill; and ha 1 various 1
objections to the Senates’ measure.
Mr. SERGEANT, a member of the Com
mittee, said ho for one did not “ infinitely”
prefer the House Hill. Hu did not know which |
was worst"; That was llio amount ot his ojiin-*
ion about the matter. Tho machinery pi-«po--od
to be employed is the same in both b lls, only
by the one it was to be employed in keeping
Bank notes, and,by the other,in keeping gold
and silver when we can got any ?
Mr. PATTON then rose, and afior a few
remarks moved to lay the Bill on the table;
for the purpose of demonstrating to the coun
try that there was a decisive majority in
the House against this measure, or any other
of the kind.
A call of the House was then ordered; and
it being ascertained that there were 2UI num
bers present the question was taken on the
motion to lay the Sub-Treasury Bill on the
table, and carried in the affirmative Ayes 100
Nays 03, as follows ;
Yeas, Messrs. Adams, Alexander, 11. Allen,
T W A U-JJ, jj.j.llo,
Calhoun, Cahioori, Campbell, Carter, Cham
bers, Cheatham, Childs, Clark, Corwin Crans
ton, Crockett, Curtis, Cushing, Darlington, j
Deberry, Dennis, Dunn, Evans, Everett; I
Ewing, Fletcher. Fillmore, J. Giriand, R.
Garland. Goode, J. Graham, W. Graham,
Graves, Gray, Gronnoll, Hail, Halsled, Har
lan, Harper, Hawes, Henry, Herod, Hoffman,
Hopkins, H. Johnson. W. C. Johnson. Law
ler, Lincoln, Lyon, Mallory, Marvin, Mason,
Maury, May, Maxwell, McKcnnan, Menifee,
Mercer, Milligan, Mitchell, M. Morris, C.
i Morris, Naylor, Noyes, Ogle, Patton, Pock,
C Philips, Pope, Potts, Raridan, Randolph, Rend,
Russell, Sawyer, Sergeant, A. 11. Sheppard,
C. Shepard, Shields, S.blcy, Slade, Smith,
1 Southgate, Stanley, Stewart, Stone, Stratton,
’ Taliaferro, Thompson, Tilhnghaet, 'Poland,
Underwood, A. S. While, J - White, Whittle,
r sev, L, Williams, C- Williams, T. 11. Wil
liams, Wise, York,
Nays, Messrs. Anderson, Andrews, Athcr.
3 ton, Beatty, Beirne, IPcknoll B.rdsall, Boon,
* Urodhead, Bronson, Brnyn, Bynum, Cathbre*
» long, Campbell, Casey, Cleveland, Clooney,
8 Coles, Conner, Craig, Crury, Cush > an, Uaw
-1 son, De Graft", Dromgoole, Duncan, Elmore,
j Farrington, Fairfield-, Foster, Gallup, Glass
cock, Grantland, Grant, Haley, Hammond,
Hamer, Harrison, Hawkins, Haynes, Hulsey,
I Howard, Hunter, Ingham, J. Johnson, Jones,
I Legare, Leadbetter, Lewis, Logan, .1 M Ma
-3 son, Marlin, McKay, R McClellan, A Me*
I Clellan, McClure, Moore, Morgan, Morns,
Murray, Palmer, Parker, Paynter Pennybac
ker, Phplps, Plumer, Puller,’ Pratt, Prentiss,
, Rtielt, Richardson, Rives, Robertson, Sjiefier,
Sheplor, Taylor, Thomas, Titus. Tottccy,
Turner, Vail, Wagoner, Webster, Whittlesey,
J W Williams, Worthington, Yell.
5
.So the Bill was laid on the table?
Mr GRAY, of New York then lose, and said
. lie had voted in the affirmative, for the express
purpose of obtaining the privilege of moving to
reconsider the vote just taken. [A motion to
I reconsider cannot be entertained when made by
j member voting in the negative.] He now gave
notice that he would to morrow move to recon-
sidor to morrow.
This motion cannot prevail. The parly will
’ hive to make the light on Cambteling’s Hi lof a
similar character. But Ido not think (here is
’ the slightest prospect cither of getting up the
• Senate Bill from the table ; or of passing the
House Bill.
’ The miscellaneous proceedings to day were
’ unimportant.
The House went into Committee of the Whole
’ on the Army Appropriation Dill ; and after the
consideration of several amendments, adjourned
without coming to any decision.
ln the Senate, the Bill making appropriations
for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the
J, Government for the current year, was received
fc.im the House, and after being read a fir„t. and
,J second time, it was sent to the Committee of Fi
nance.
h, CLAY presented a paper of a singular
is, chi-racier —a “ shin plaster,” issued by a Govern
ment Contractor and Agent. The citizens of
Hampshire County, Va. some time ago had me.
in ’. morialized the Senate, remonstrating against the
m- cxac iion of specie by the Poet Office Department;
iss, and complaining that a counselor of that depart.
n d. ment bad been in the practice of issuing shin
J,,,’ plasters. Having heard that this complaint was
’ declared to be unfounded, the memorialists had
enclosed a specimen of these issues, and request
her ed him to present it to the Senate ng a vouchor ;
as evidence of their case.
Air GKFISUV called lor (he reading !
It was read ; the nolo turned out to be a cefti
ficcate for 2f) cents,gaud declared it Would bo re
ceived in pay meat ol magi fare, and redeemable
in bank paper.
Tnis slim plaster was then referred to the
Committee on Finance.
Tho Cunibeil'lnd Koad Dill was then taken
up ; and after a brief discussion was laid on tile
table for tliejprcsilnl.
The Senate tiuii went into Executive Session;
and soon afterwards adjourned.
[from the 1 . (,our. I'.w/iirer , of March 27.]
SOCl'ill A.UCIUCA.
Accounts fruti Buenos Ayres, to J in. ‘JO, 1
Imvu readied uaby the Brutus, (Japt. Adams.
On llio 27th Dp comber previous, Hie Legisla
ture ot lho pro puce commenced tneir session,
and received tie usual Annual Message from
tho President.; In regard to tlicir relations 1
with the U, hiatus, Ke says r
“The unexpected tlillicultiesof which the
govern meat ifilurintd you m the last message,
having been removed, it lias named a Munster
laxtraordlimry n, tho Cabinet ot VVashiiigfon,
who-will shortly proceed on his mission. Jt
sincerely domras good intelligence between
I hat Republic and the Coiilbdeiatioii. And
obliged in fulfil the sacred diry of onergotF '
cully remonstrating against (lie violent nnj
atrocious conduct oi dm captain of the sloop
of war Lexington, at the Falkland Island,:;
it hopes that the scandal of tins event w li be
completely redressed by the government ot' tt
nation is jealous ot its honor, as distinguished
by the justice and liberality of its principles.”
On me subject ol the Falkland Islands, he ,
fun Iter observe,-.:
“ Ti.e question with Great Britain respec
ting Iha unexpected occupation us the Falk
land Island.-, remains in the same stale as
was ainiouneed to you in the prec ediug ’year.
J'lie justice ct these claims of the Confede
ration imposes upon it Hie,strict duly not to
abandon them. Tho negotiation will conti
nue course opportunely, as tho government
happily lias u jt yet any reason to suspeclthnt
tfi she termination ■'( mis negotiatin'), power
willusttrp the rights winch the civilization of
the age assigns to justice.”
The Argentine Republic having made com
mon cause with Chib in tho war agonist Peru,
(lit) UCCOUIIIS WHICH had juat iiwunoo
Avres ot the conclusion of a treaty of peace
between General Santa Cruz, the Protector
of Peru,and the Chilian General Blanco, who
commanded the Cmiian army which invaded
Peru, bad given much dissatisfaction, although
by a decree which is published, it appears
that the President of Cli.li had refused to rati
fy it. In the mean lime it is staled that
amidst the serious difficulties by which the
Chilian government was surrounded, an oc
currence had taken place calculated still fur
ther to embarrass it-
Tho papers s’ulo that the British brig Packet,
bound lor Cubija, was refused clearance, on the
ground that her destination was an enemy’s
port; and that, notwithstanding she ncmally sail
ed under the protection of tlm commander of the
Briiish naval forces on the station. According
to privat loiters, the Chilian schooner of war
CuJuculo was sent in her pursuit, whereupon the
13,itinli (Juiio/ioilor also gm under weigh an 1 nei
ther of the vessels had yet ref timed. In the
mean lime, it is asserted thai iho focal authority
bad ordered tho consignee, a French merchant,
to leave the country in 2-1 bourn, but dial lie re
fusing to comply, had taken refuge in tho resi
sidenee of the French Consul, who declined gi
ving him up.
V/e also find that a Peruvian Squadron taking
advantage of the absence of the Chilean fleet
with Ibe expeditionary army bad sailed from
Callao and attacked the Island of loan Fernan
dez, wheio they destroyed every thing within
their reach and. sent oft flic Chilean Governor
and officers in tho American whale ship Wash
ii firm.
On the civil war raging In die Orentiul Sia’.o,
tho Montevideo jiiijiers to the 17lb January con
tain uulbiiig decisive. The Anarchists under
Frucluoso Divcra had up tu that lime succeeded
in evading a general action with iho troops sent
ihcia by the Government.
The French brig of war Alert, 23 guns, bad.
got on a reef shortly after leaving Montevideo
By the assistance of 11 JJ M. hrig Sparrowliawk,
she was brought into port, but being in a sinking
state, was run <>u shore In the mud.
MR. ChAV’S SPEECH
ON TIIK SUIS-TfIKASI ItV flll.l Continued
The proe'’ on this subject are brief; but
they ure clear, direct, and plenary. It is im
possible lor any unbiassed mmd to doubt for a
moment about thorn. You, sir, will be sur
prisod, when I shall array them before you,
i t their irres siihle force. The first that I
shall offer is an extract from Mr. Vim Union's
letter of acceptance of the nomination of the
/{.iltimoro convention, dated May Si !, 1885
In that letter he says;
‘■l content myself, on this occasion, with
saying'hat 1 consider tnysell, the honored
ins mu'" nl, selected by the friends of the pre
sent Administration in cttxvy out its principles
awl 'policy; and that, no well from inclination
as Ir.mi duty, I shall, if honored with the
choice of die American people, endeavor gen
erally in follow in the footsteps of President
Jackson, happy if 1 shall bo ablet 6 prefect
ike work winch he uis so gloriously begun.”
Mr. Van Huron announces Unit, he was the
honored ins rumotit selected by the friends
ot the present Administration, to carry out its
principles and policy. The honored instru
ment! Tint would, according to the most
app ove'i definition, mean tool . lie was,
then, the honored tool, to do what? to pro -
mote the honor, and idvance the welfare, of
the People of the Unted .Slates, and to add
to the glory of Ins connlry? No, no; Ins coun
try was not his thoughts. Parly, tilled the
place in Ins bosom w neb country should have
occupied. lie was lie honored tool to carry
out Uiu principlesnndpolicy of Gen. Jackson’s
Administration; and, if elected, he should, as
well from indutaiioi a;- from duly, endeavor,
generally, to tread in the footsteps of Gen.
Jackson—happy if I e should he able to per
fect ll.*; work which fie Ind so gloriously he
min, Duty to whom? to the country, to the
whole People of (lie United .States? No such
thmir; but duty to the friends of the then Ad
ministration; and that duty required him to
tread in the footsteps of his illustrious pre
decessor, and to prefect the work which ho
had begun! No v, the Senate will bear in
mind that the most distinguishing features of
Gen. Jackson’s Administration related to the
■ currenev; that be had denounced the banking
1 institutions of the country; that he had over
i | thrown tho Bank of th j United Slates; that
, j iu bad declared, when that opjecl was ac
-1 i complished, only one halt the work was com
• | plcted; that he then commenced war against
: i the State hanks, in order to finish the other
I half; that be constantly persevered in, and
never abandoned, Ins luvonie project of a
groat Government Treasury hank; and that
he rot tied from the office of Chief Mug atr.de,
pouring Qut, iu hia farewell address, anathe
mas against!paper money,corporations,and the
spirit of mo,';opoly. When all these things
are recollected, it. is impossible not to com
prehcncl clearly what Mr. Van Huron means,
hy carrying out the principles and policy of
tlie late .•Idiuiinalralion. No one can mistake
that those principles and that policy require
him to break do am the local inatitutiona o(
the States, and to discredit mid destroy the
paper medium wliieli they issue. No one.
can be at a loss to understand that, in follow
ing m the footsteps of President Jackson, and
in perfecting the work wliieli lie begun, MT.
Van Horen means to continue attacking, sys
tematically, the hanks of the States, and to
erect on their ruins that great Government
bank, begun by Ins predecessor, and wliieli
lie is ibe honored instrument selected to
comp eio. The next proof which I slial idler
is supplied by Mr. Van Huron's in lugural ad. ,
tiros.?, li-om which I request promlHsion of tiifj ,
Senate to raid the foil > vmi» extract; ,
“In receiving from the People the sacred trust ]
twice cun tided to my illustrious predecessor, and |
which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, j
1 know that I cannot expect to perform (lie ardu
ous task with equal ability and success. Dot,
united as I have limn in his counsels, a dally
witness of his exclusive and unsutpassed devo
tion to bis country’s welfare, Agreeing with him
in sentiments which his countrymen have warm
ly supported, mid permitted to partake largely of
his confidence, 1 may hope thin somewhat of the
same cheering approbation will be found to al
bum up.m my pa h.”
Hero we find Mr. Van Huron distinctly avow
ing, what the American People well knew before
that ho had united in the counsels of Gen. Jack
son ; that lie had agreed with hint io sen’.iimmls,
and th.if lie had par.alum largely of bis confi
dence. This intimacy and confidential inter
course could not have existed without the con
currence of Mr. Van Huron in alt those leading
and prominent measures of his friend which, rela
ted to the establishment of a Government bank,
the overthrow of the Hank of the United bitales,
the attack upon the tfmie instilulions, and die
denunciation of the paper currency, the npiiitof
monopoly, and corporations. Is it credible that
General Jackson should have aimed at the oc
eompli-ihoieut 111 ail tlloso ul.jccio, a,,,1 auit*)lam
ed all these so iliments, without Mr Van Huron’s
participation 1
1 proceed to another point of powerful evi
denuc, in the conduct of Mr Van Huron, in re
spect to tho famous Treasury order. The order
had been promulgated, originally, in defiance of
the wishes and will of the people, and had been
repealed by a bill, passed at the last ordinary
session of (.'imprest?, by, overwhelming majorities.
Tlie fate of that bill is well known. Instead of
being returned to the House in which il origina
ted, according to tlie requirement of the Gonad
lulion, it was sent to one of the pigeon holes of
the Departn; ml of State, to lie filed away with
an opinion of a convenient Attorney General,
always ready lo prepare one in support of exe
cutive encroachment. On die 5 1 it of March lasi
not a doubt was entertained, as fur ns my knowi
ledge or belief extends, that Mr Van Horen
would rescind tho obnoxious order. I appeal to
I lie Senator lioin Missouri, who sits near me,
(Mr l.inn,) lo the Senator from Mississippi, who
nits t.irlhost from me, (Mr. Walker,) lo the Se
nator from Alabama, (Mr King,/ and lo the
whole of tho Administration Senators, if sucli
was not the expectation of all of them. Was
there ever an occasion in which a new Adminis
tration had so fine an Opportunity to signalize
its commencement hy an act of grace and wis
dom, demanded hy the best interests and must
anxious wishes of Iho people'! Hut Mr Van
Huron did not think proper to embrace it. He
had shared 100 latgely in the confidence of bits
predecessor, agreed 100 fully with hi n in senti
ments, had been 100 much united with him in
his counsels, to rescind an order which cun si j u
led so essential a part of the system which had
been deliberately adopted to overthrow die Stale
Hanks.
Another ,course pursued hy the Administ'Htion,
after the cr.tastiupllo of tho suspension of specie
payments hy the hanks, demonstrates the hostile
purposes towards thorn of the present Adminis
tration. When a similar event had occurred
during the Administration of Mr Madison, did
ho discredit and discountenance the issues of the
hanks, hy refusing lo receive them in payment
of the public due-! Did the Slate Governments
upon tlie funner or die late oceanic it, refuse to
receive them in payment of tlie dues lo them,
respectively! And if irredeemable banknotes
are good enough for Stale Governments nod tlie
people, aro they not good enough for tho Federal
Government of tlie same people ! Hy exacting
specie, in all payments to tlie General Govern
ment, that Government presented i self in tlie
market as a powerful and formidable competitor
witli the banks, demanding specie at a moment
when tlie hanks were making unexampled,si nig
gles to strengthen themselves, and prepare (or
the resumption of specie payments. The extent
of tliis Government dent mil for specie docs not
admit of exact ascertainment; hut when we re
tied that die annual expenditures of die Govern
ment were, ai the rale, including Ihe Post Office
Department, of about llorly three millions of dol
lar--, arid that I- income, made hp either of taxes
or loans, must be an equal sum, muk'rig togeth
er a.i aggregate ol sixty millions, it will be seen
that the amount of specie required fur the use of
Government must be immensely large. It cannot
j lie precisely determined, but would not be less
I probably than fifteen or twenty millions of dollars
j per annum. JVow, ho vis it possible for tlie
banks, coming into the specie market in competi
tion with all tile vast power and influence of the |
Government, to provide themselves with specie
in u rosonahle time lo resumo specie payments*
That competition would have been avoided, if,
upon the stoppage of the banks, the notes of those
ol whose solidity there was no'doubt, had been
continued to lie received in payment of die public
dues, as was done in Mr Madison’s Admin stra
tum. And why, Mr President, should they nut
have been! Why should not rust this Govern
rnenl receive tlie same description of medium
which is found to answer all die purposes ol tlie
several .Slate Governments! Wiiy should they
have resorted to tile expedient of issuing an in
ferior papet medium, in the farm < f Treasury
notes, and refusing lo receive th* bailor notes of
safe and solid hank-! Do not misunderstand
me, Mr President. No man is more averse than
lam to a permanent inconvertible paper medium.
It would have been as a temporary measure only
that I should have thought it expedient to receive
die notes of good local banks. If, along with
drat measure, die Treasury order had been re
pealed, and oilier measures adopted to encourage
and coerce the resumption of specie pay ments,
we should have, been much Higher that desirable
event titan, I fear, wo now arc. Indeed, Ido
not sec when it is possible fur die hanks to re-!
sumo specie payments, as long as lire Govern
ment is in the field making war upon them, ami
in the market demanding specie.
Another conclusive evidence of the hostility to
the State banks, on die part of Mr. Van Huron,
I
in to l>o found in that ox Irani dinary recoin menda
tion of a bankrupt law contained labia Message
at the extra session. According to nil the princi
ples, of any bankrupt system wr£h which I am
acquainted, the banks, by the stoppage of specie
payment, had rendered themselves hablp tt> it*
operation. If thu recommended law had been
passed, cotpmissions of liankrnptcy could have
lieen Immediately sued out against .all the supppn
ded banks, their assets seized, and the gdminialra
-1,0,1 0, v them transferred from tfie scvnral corpora
lions id winch it is now intrusted, m commission
eis appointed hy the President himself. Thus,
by one blow, yvoubl the whole of the State banka
have bepn completely prostrated, and the way
clcar“d for the, introduction of the favorite Ttea
sury bunk; and is it not in the same spirit of un»
friendliness to those hanks, & with the sump view
of removing all obstacles to the eslabUshmwit of
a Government bank, that the hill was presented
to Iho Senate a few dayr ago hy the Senator from
Tennessee (Mr. Gno.vur) against the circulation
of the notes of the old Hank of the United States!
At a time when there is ,oo much pqynt ofeunfi
donee, and when every thing that can tic dope
oltuulJ It. -• an *l .•»rrt„ o *k«« ts.
are called upon to pass a law denouncing tbs
heaviest penalty and iguominuus punishment
against all who shall reissue the notes of ,tha old
Hank of the United Slates,of which we arc told
that about seven millions of dollars arc in circa
buioiM and they constitute the best‘portion of
the paper medium ol the country; the only por
tion o! it which has a credit everywhere, and
which serves the purpose of a general circulation;
tho only portion with which a man tan travel
horn one end of tho gontinent to tl(e other; and
I do not doubt that lire Senator who has fulmina
ted tl(ose severe palps and penalties against that
best part of our paper medium, provides himself
with a sufficient amount of it, whenever lie leaves
Nashville, to lake him to Washing'on. [Here
Mr, Giiuniiv rose, and remarked. No, sir; I al
ways travel on specie.] Ah! continued Mr.
Gl* v, my old friend is always specious. I am
quite sure that morn herd from a distance in the
interior generally find it indispensable to supply
themselves, on commencing their journey, with
an adequate amount <uf these identical notes to
defray Us expenses. AVby, sir, will any man in
his senses deny that these notes are far belter than
those which have been issued by that Govern*
meat banker, Mc,Lev[ Woodbury, aided though
belie by the chancellor of the exchequer, (1 beg
bis pardon, I moan the ox-chancellor.) the Sena
l»r from New York. fM.C. W111011x1) lam not
going to stop hero to inquire into the strict le
gality of the reissue pf these notes; thatquestiun,
together with the power of the Government to
puss the proposed hill, will ho taken up when it
is considered. Tam looking into the motive of
such a measure, Nobody doubts (Imperfect safe
ly of thq notes; no yne can believe that they
will mil he fairly rind fully paid. What, then,is
the design of the bill 1 It is to assail the only
sure general medium which the People possess.
It is because it may come in competition with
r Treasury notes or pther Government paper. Sir,
‘ if the bill had not been proposed by my old friend
1 from Tennessee, 1 would say its author better ds
’ served a penitentiary punishment thai). tbosa
J against whom it is directed, I remember to have
heard of an illustrious individual, navy tp rctirr*
( menl, having, on some occasion, burst qul into
the most patriotic, indignation, beoouscpf a wag
gish trick played off upon him, by purring • not#
1 of the lata liank of the United Slates into bis
silk purse .with, his go]d.
Unlit is unnecessary so dwell longer on the
innumerable proofs pf thg hostiliiy sgainsf the
Slate hanks, rind the deirhprato purpose of those
in power to overthrow them. r Wo hear and see
daily, throughout the country, among their per*
(isuns and presses, denunciations against hanks,
corporations, rag barons, the spirit of monopoly,
&c.; and the howl for gold, hard money, and the
constitutional currency; anil no one can listen try
the speeches of honorable members, friends of
the Administration, in this House,and the other,
without, byiqg impressed with a perfect con*i*'
lion that the destruction of the State banka is
meditated,
J have fulfilled my promise, Mr. President, to
sustain the lirst four propositions with which I
set, out. I now proceed to the fifth projrosition :
That the bill under consideration is intend
ed to execute Mr. Van Uuren’a pledge, lit com
plete and perfect the principles, plans, and policy,
ol the past Administration, hy establishing, upon
the mins ol the tale Unnk of lira United Ulalaa
ai d the Stale hanks, a Government bank, to In
managed and controlled hy lire Treasury Depart
ment, acting under the commands of (he Presi
dent ol the United flutes.
Tim lira impression made hy. the perusal of
the hill is tho prodigal and boundless discretion
which it grants In tho Secretary of the Treasury,
irrccuncilesble wiih the genius of our free institu
tions, and contrary to the former cautious practice
ol lire Government. As originally repotted, ho
was authorized hy the hill to allow any number
of clerks be thought psopar Ui.thc yariqiis receiv
ers general, and to fix their salaries. It will be
borne in mind that ibis is tire mere commence
incnlof a system; and it cannot be doubted that,
it put into operation, lire number of receivers
j gmc/al and,other depositories of the public "mon
ey would bp iridel!nitoty multiplied.. He is al
lowed to appoint ns many examiners of tho pub
lic money, and to fix ihqtr salaries, as he pleases;
he is allowed to erect at buildings
there is no estimate for any thing; and all who
are conversant with the operations of tho Exe
cutive branch of lt)e Government know the value
and importance of previous estimates. There is
no other che> k upon wasteful expenditure but
previous estimates; and that was a point always
particularly insisted upon by Mr. Jefferson. 'The
•Senate will recollect that, a few days age, when
the salary of the receiver general at New York
was fixed, the chairman of the Committee on
Finance rose in his place and stated that it was
suggested by lire Secretary of the Treasury that
it siiouid be placed at $3,000 ; and the blank was
accordingly so tilled. There wa* no statement
of the nature on extent of the duties to be p«r
forrned, ol lire lin.e (list he would be occupied, es
thq extent of his responsibility, or the expense
ol living at the several points .where they were
to be located; notbi.ng b .tthc suggestion of the
Secretary of the Treasury, and .that w»* deemed
all sufficient by a majority. There is no limit
upon lire appropriation wlrich is made to rfliy *"
into tiled tho hill, contrary to all former usage,
which invariably piesctibed a sum not to be tran
scended. u
Concluded on second page.
DIARItiED
On Thursday evening last, by the Re* Mr.
Ford, Mr J H Clank, to Miss Cxnoum E.,
daughter of Henry Mealing. Esq., all of this city
- - .-Mniniinn»———a—a.i
DIED j
In (his city on Tuesday last, ageij a[wu(. 23
months, Aerui.ruE, daughter of Mr. Augustin
Frederick.
On Tuesday the 371 h inst., at hit residence on
Spirit Creek, Captain A aro a Rhodks, in the32i4
year of his age.
At his residence in Richmond County, on .th« (
18th inst. Ur.wis in tho 46th year o.f
his ago, and formerly of Uurke County.