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Dear Sir: I I>■ < v<: 1 1;11! C.: 1 1■ iri■. f "■ I ■' '’
v ill ' your letter of tin; ICm . i oh. in ■i' < ■ ii, n
Chairman id :i to ini:l 1 >■ ■ol an.o :uoni ,
yon inform inn tbat ‘‘Up: II ‘jiuM 1 01 1 I'l*ll’l
- glit citizens ol Kioliluml il 111:1, .11 1 1 v I. r <• I
tin- separation ■ 1 vcr 111 ii l nt Iron. oink.', up.
llj,- oatnblihlimenl ol' :m In i'', '’odei.l I
ry, nml opposed <0 llic < -1 iblmlnu'-nt ol aNu.
I tonal , and the mlvn in' incut 'I ihu
Fodetal parly lo power -being ..iij*,i.uh lo
furtlicr enlightened l»y a <ll. <:ul. »u 01 those
I>r111 ■ 11»I«• -, propose o ving a barbecue darner
.it tins place, on the Hill <>t next umitl.lt, in
honor ol our two Senator-- nml immediate C• ■ 1 »-■
rcsonlaltvo ’ll ( 'ongri's., when wo inny J1 nvo
the hum lit ol'licanii:; tin 10 011 those inijiurluiil
and agitating subjects.
Tim r mnmllei’, l.'ierelore, on hull ill "I 'ln'
Republican .Stale Rights citizens of Urn d;s
irn i, 1 <(meLfu'ly imi'e yeur aUnidunee on
that day.”
1 lieg you, sir, lo believe, llml I ■ 111 very
sensible of iho honor in which 1 am 'h" mu
led wall my unlit n.'Ui' in tln? .Somite a1 ■ l,llr
unnicdialo Representative; mid I app.'ccii* *’
the moil' highly thpi honorable P tnnninai.
in < munch .m 1 1 ■■ apparent Iroi 11 tin; definition
which you give "I (dm (iri 111; ijl l * ol what you
designate a ihu Republican and W a'p I’.'ghls
pally, that there is .1 pohlicnl ddl’mipuje on
a.not! nnporl ant j o ills hut w> on 1111: nml 1 Im.-e
whom you reprt . mil, an I know I huro in he.
tween nm and tlio.aj with wlnmi you have
done me the honor to associate me. Tho e
who oil’ 1 the lerUinomu , and thou ■ to whom
il inoll'ercd- except myself —are of till’ .•nine
party. That lam lima remembered nml limn
associated h a source ol’lliu highest gnil die
lion to me, fur I regard It as another signal
proof from my lellow ciliz 11. ol Richland
district, of the personal kindmvH I have a 1
nays received at their hand. and ol their
generous dispo; limn, noUvilh. landii'g a (lilfer
once of political opinion, lo hear this puhl c
testimony lo the purity of my motives —and
thereby to rebuke ihu (also and malignant as
persions of those who do not know me as wi ll
as my neighbours, and are not capable ol the
samejnsl and candid judgment.
I repeat il,str, that I receive with pr.de and
pleasure, I hi’ proof of kindness implied m yunr
thus associating mo with those to whom your
political sympii’lne.i and approhatmn aru giv
en—and in joining with yon and them in a
common festival, I should n juice in an occa
hiiiii of showing ihu 1 , like iliose yon rojiro.sunl,
I am iiu'ii{mlj|u ol making political diliurcnces
cause of persona' nlionalion, or that I could
for a moment consider my principles compro**
mised, hy accepting your civility. In decli
ning, therefore, lo allend your IJarhecue, I
am inlhicnced hy very different coM.sideial.uiiß.
I have already boon present, at tin ha meet
ing, very iminoronsly iiltunded hy gentlemen
ufall parties in ibis district, when I had the
honor of submitting my views with perfect un
reserve; and now understanding that our mi
mediate Hepresentulive is iho nnly member
of Congress likely lo he present, I am incli
ned lo allow him iho siunc unchecked rmin
muirealion with Ins constituents; and I may '
he permitted In say that I aeipiieseu in this
course the inoro n ailil’’in order that Inny
nol SOCHI to he diaw'i illlo « canvas’ iff ton*
district, wlm;h would hr meoiis stent with my
1 I,|, i aim anil 10 an exeitemem which 1
would much rather allay.
As, however, yon have iiilimali'd ilia', my
fellow citizens dc’siio lo have my vi ws, 1
will briefly sol down such as are suggested I v
the opinions which yuu attribute* to iho “Rw
puhlicait Winie Rights citizens” whom you
represent.
With many of thorn 1 am happy lossy I
coincide, and will, before I conclude, point
nut th s coincidence, hut I take mini first Iho
loss pleasing (aJi .of minting (ho points on 1
which wo dili'er. ;
In iho first place, thou you say that, “iho '
Republican Wiuie Rights party“ ,s in favor ol
■an ludopundcnl Treasury; in this il is utterly 1
out of my power lo concur with them. —1 am 1
opposed to an Independent ami in favor of a 1
Dependent I’.t astiry; dependent lor its organi
y.iiion and control upon the law of the land;
dependent lor Us conduct and administration
upon agents an much removed as possible from
executive control; dependent upon all the c'r
cumstancos upon wliieh the general prosperity
cf the country depends—dependent for its
health anil vigor upon tho health and vigor of I
the community—operated upon, inllueneed
nnd controlled hy all the great oaua.-s which !
nlfeet tho acouniulainm and disi.rihirnni of
public Wealth—dependent upon Iho ; into o!
the country, ami indicating its condition with
■as delicate 11 sensitiveness as 1 1 1 • Therm.mie
ter docs the stale of tliu atmosphere; depend- 1
eni-upon all the gn at interests of tkmiineree '
and Agriculture: in a word, 1 would have iho |
Federal Treasury identical with at.d ahsolult ly
dependent upon iho common destiny - solemn
ly behoving that lo put U on a distinct mot mg,
would loud more lo cuusolida'o the general
iiovarnmont and seduce it into de.-p.iiin,
than any measure that has evci boon prop
The “.Republican W- ~te R ghls party” is a . >
in Itvvor ol a separalion ol government fiom
banks. Il by tins it is 111 ant that the Kx’cu
live ol llio Umled W'a'i’s should be deprived
of all inllueiice nr-control over tlkse ms'iiu
tions, which nngbl be abused for political and
party purposes, I hilly concur in snob an opin
ion; fora sad expenencu lias admonished Ihr
country llml tho parly in power at all events
is not lobe trusted with the uso ol such inllu
cnees; nor would I bo unwilling to see the
money of the government kept, apart Irom
tho business id the Ranks in such away ns
not to bo used tor 11, inking purposes. If we
could promise ourselves that the expenditure
of the government, and with it the revenue,
could be reduced to an i-i'oiioinieal scale, no
great injury could r. , nit from either ot there
source-; lor the few m limns es government
money on band at one 1 line, Wen id not ho rul'd.
cicnl to confer much executive pairoiame; uov
would it d.slurb to any p; eat extent the in.llia
ry banking operations. As, however. 1 ean
pruliration of thirty true millions of foil ,',
at the last session id t o; 1 *re >, not wit h I a tid
ing the creation ot a mi! 1, mil deal tor I i.e nnr
• of raising i
Jong as our present roii . ... ein power, nnv
• reduction of expondi; ~;’o 1., nae
would he desiiab 111 t • air , ~ ~1 t j. ,
treasury to .pm d a t nst 1:0 m. us;; o 1.
public binds .will iliu m of the bank -, in I<: ev
aulhcriz ng I!. mi ,t In -n, sn- .m min’ii dan;,
capi’al. I’h ■ first o ,I,\ .: the p; w..
Ol Kxocutivc paTeim ’■■, ml■ ho e■! J1 v .
law deliniiig wlut b . ~ ; lis; ,j ~ ' ~r
by express di tigea’,.l:l, rb , ~m> m > .If; . r .p.
ttoii; as lor examp,e, , , : ,k, . ate it-, d
l)y the Stales inllieir o, a 1 , , ~0
guarantied by the pled »o of State t , ; :lt ,
the second Ji ;n t, \ > : ;.a,„-, ,1 e: ;..!l
lilndo o! the li.iverulllenl, may be obtained hv
I vpiv.-r. stij ! •., the* fuitliiul jioMon. a’U'
ot which buy be sc. .. Iby a requisition o!
■ 11,1 d —of l!.e COMU.t en
*
, ...I 11..- - ■■■!• ‘ ' '» K l! " :
mutli <■■!’ pioper imimlli*-- - - ti > 111
| , i l.y nnivor 'il '-On ' in molhe '
, ( ~,f ati*l um» cm h»r
I i.li,*( ii-i'iilv noil iraiitfor nl til'! pnbl.c 1
; j-; v . rj iimn who has <i< .'il nti ,
uliy , slabl hln u this, liy hm own cumh.'.t ‘
ri'irunl to In- own ollii'M. 'I "/ «' f, ' n) ;
>s OIK* 111 tin: p'• rji■ ■ 1 "1 l | '' :lrcr '
1 ’i,,, ; 1 tl.fv ii rp, therefore. ori' i iiizo'l to B'-oom
! I,!;-:, | li'i'Di liy tin! moht 'IU ill’ll I Ii'lnp!!il' , »«» O'
Lu i< r urc « ,! ; 1
lex i iiili-d credit than in jrooorul belongs > r |’
1 <I.V .Ini;-;, and at one: na thorn morn
cic.t agenla in ll.c traiis oi. "
mid more regions 1)le lor the fulfilment ht their
mi „■ Thai ilia ihoinmcra.y mu' :•
<• f >ll - 11 r:’.:'l out of them. •"» * “*
... H'C.III-I l,icm,ll" I the breaking of "ion
. m against Ih" nseof Wol>d a "'“ ron ' ’
HI, Millie I should adopt, 111 a imiUi-r o <-*•
in diciicy mid convenience, the use ol haul,
ny iiry, n-hict' don ■ mie ft' nerftl principle*,
SO as m exclude Kxerntivi: j>>l roiiaoc, m pro
lereiicn to Unit of nlViocra holding iheir 'mice
:l i, it,,; President's will, arid (us our own daily
I'XjicMi ii' " shows ns) down to avid oh- I'";' 1
.1. voting themselves to electioneering
for llie dispenser of their hreml, 1 do nut. re
tard )he (inesiion mto what sort of agency
si.nil be lin' dlolu ep and Pansier ihn pnhlic
1 ( oid of Hidlkieiil mu niiludn to produce any
V(JI ■ 'iiloiine interest,"or at all eornpnraldo in
J 'Cicm e; lo the propo.ulion that the
■ | shall exact in all Hu dues, gold
•«*«-
soeeio iiayie'C I ti ,| ‘.' , ‘ , .
I ,0u.1.0l emcene of •'nyll.nig iieire so
leroils m.d revolting. I i.an 1 ‘ ‘’
iji'iii bln ii il l.uvtj on" ( UirL,;i‘/ Uh
pie another. Unlil ihe present p- * l i>.o■ 11
I repid speeiilal mil,B.iel. a notion lum n 1 |
mowed, iinicli less I.ceil aeled upon,. ■ 1 ‘
whole les'ory of the world. No Govern.’ ll '-'.' >
harb irouß or eiv.lized, has ever pretended
, ops rule its currency from that of ns citizens
or subjects. Sin,h a project would have hceu
eoiiniiieioil • <pially prepostoioiii; and danger
oii ■, c*, lai in tliOHi: times when (.evermie *l l l was
regarded i.h souiul.hing self-existent,. indepon*
dent of ihe l*eo|i o, belonging lo a superior and
j ll-1 v leged race, mid having rghls and niter
c | ; In opjinsilion to those ol iho eoiriiniiney
al large. Whit', then, should he thought ul
it when Government .s understood to bo hut
an emanation (ruin the 1 ’copte, and the govern*
ors hut l!i ir servants '■
|i is ad iii it led mi all hands, that there can
not ho in this CMiintry an exclusive specie cir
culation. I'll pur credit is our currency and
Hu destruction is not the avowed purpose of
oven the most infuriated partisans ol the new
them ion of finance. Their declared object is
to leave al I lie vast moneyed transactions ol |
society to fie conducted by paper, while the
Fodeoil government is to protect itself by the
n.,e nt a peculiar medium, m which the eili
zens do not participate, lines the govern
ment withdraw itself from the currency ol the
country because it is not good enough lor it I
Is the Government bettor than the People?—
Are its interest and success more to he con
sulted 11 ei n l heirs I Is the Government to have
one mtero land the People anutlior! shown
by the lust forty years’ experience ol Hie Guv
eminent, during which time banks, in soino
form or oilier, have been its fiscal agents, Air.
Wool Ibury that the treasury 1
u " 1 • i i-v tiro 111 in 11 1 ih longrii;rifS ul tran.s
actions, than hy the dehiitalioTi ei one single I
individual, ni.d now that, the banks have re- |
sinned specie payments, and have thus arlenced |
the unmeaning clanues of political partisans, 1
if is ascertained that the Government has lost
very little hy its connexion with those institu
tions. The temporary suspension of specie
payments having ceased, and the fortunate do,
tent of the •‘lndependent Treasury” having
restored credit, and renewed the general pros
perity, the.- u i nst. I tut tons arc again performing
their regular functions, mid proving, hy a more
early and decisive recovery than Iho most sail
giiiiie had calculated on, how worthy they arc
of public confidence.
It is said that the plan of using Stale banks
as the agents of Government lias failed and
that it is madness lo try it. again. It this he
true lo the utmost, extent the Stale Hank Sys
tem has, in common with every thing else,
failed in the hands of the present Administra
tion. livery experiment, conducted by such
men, is dimmed to inevitable failure. If the i
use of the State banks turned out lo ho injuri
ous, xvliiit was the result ol the Sub-Treasury
system w hich succeeded it. I I‘lver increasing
1 embarrassments and difficulties, till (longress
deemed that it should not bo continued.
The hard money system was tried m regard
to the public lauds. Did it succeed '! \Vas
it .lupioved I lint how, ami to what extant,
has the use of Slate hanks tailed / lias the
Government or the People lust any thing
hy the suspension of specie payments I On
the contrary, that measure was wise and . ,tl
] ill ory , demanded by public opinion ut the time
j and vindicated by the result.—Any failure
I that lias taken place, has been the ellect intli
-1 er ul in il-adiniiiisttalam, than of i he nature ut
the instruments used. In rase ol il.suslor, it
is natural enough for the engineer to attribute
j the explosion to the detects id Iho machine,
rat her than lo in - want of skill. There was
I uiKjuealiunally, howi . erg great error in the
j pel bank system, which ought to be ultogcth
|er reformed)! That the utlliirs of the Govern
j men). canbo\is w ell conducted as the ultairs
of Ihe People, hy a j id,emus arrangement ul
the State banks, Ido nut ul all doubt. Shall
| tbu Government prosper while the People
isuflct! These uro questions which might lo
|he answered. In my opinion, the Govern
ment and the People should be beiu.d up in
the sumo destiny, tor good or for cv il; or, it wo
must discriminate, save the country, and let
' I lie Government perish. Pur my own part,
il can perceive of iiutiiing in lbs niUiuo ol
things, or in our Gonalilulion, which demands
|or authorizes tins separation of the Govern
-1 meiit (join the governed; but mi the contrary,
■ tin: whole spin: of our in; timtioi.s is hostile to
j such a policy. I i.q leslun.ably the fiscal nr
j : ue- mcu’.s ul ti.e t loneral Government
I should lie lease to weik as a ) orlion of the
j fin ncml machinery m the country. It is but
a (.ut ol it, utul should always be preserved
~ in harmonious e i-i peration. Instead ol ll.a - .
. iit is proposed il should roiolv 1 upon an axis
; 1 of its own,' striking occasionally, and at. cer
• | ia;:i points, upon the great cu i.pa x machine
-1 j ry v. h.cli is e-.. dueling nil our iiiia rs, in suck
-■ away ujlojir and dscumposc it. The re
sult would ue eternal disturbance and eonfu
>• ! ■ ."0, momisl. tetil wall the well heitig cl the
, j country, ft m very obvious teat, the cl an
i ncls ot circula 1 on bong tilled with lank b.ils
i anaw ; ■ all ihn purpoac 9of t omety, cx topi
r ( li." s ugh one ul paying Guveriuin ii' dues
. j I r wlncli alone : p-eie is competent, lies ur
.1 j lid--! will bo used exclusively for that purpose
e I'- will cease to tie money, ami become a ton;,
fopiodityin winch Go\ eminent >• x s areoxtic
Pried. Its i rU-e, I:, i .me, wd; Il n-tnato uc--
v eord.ng to ti w d-'.inunl. 1 leave laip.irlatuui.-
v. .1 lutik',! it <!, ar; with light unpor a'l uis n
d v ‘ ■ I bocuiue cheap; and this operation, it li-..-
'. j i ecii .-.a;d g the aivocates o' Hi? ex ’ u men;
; / |,.r 4 ll,.! U,d . :n r<- : ,f * ;1
Itr.m ri vi.-tmi lion:i!.!y it 1 o
placing ilictii in Mpp 1 > mii to coilifr ** •
r larw<!cninmercu will (*; .xliicf! a -tin upnn In '*!
, |nr'i|>i i:k: to piiy tho «i *iic-b, anil limn n
opposition In cniiiim.ri;o id
i nnlmw coulipcrci; In; considered i.• v,!,
In cramp iml er ppm d be a wise (KilicV, •*»•=»
; rr lilt 1- In bn dopiCM lllUli. 1 Ulll !•<*/»! e t.ul
- many who rnntiil lilt! I-I - «u*baims-.
I inn MJriult of ovPrtiinl.nl/, iiru not unwinim/
■ Unit n f y-ilem id finance f!■ oI! be nloulinl Unit
will curb il.-i excc-sM o. I litinlt, r > 11 1 ut w»;
, have nii 11 nnlcil inn (olio ft. ran in.ii-llcr.nlcoin
, i.-n iTC, In join now in it reslrodivu system;
r | anil it 100 lii rge u revenue result I mill our pros
, per.l y. Ini iw not destroy the prospertU, but
. ; rctluce i hu revenue.
Another obvious co'un'iUcncc wliicu will
, rcnult from the fluctuations ot lliu value ol
. ; --pocio wlmii it in tnii'ln a tax paying cointno
; j diiy, will bn the disturbing influence ll *c
) value ol the paper circulation: lor, although
’ epneie tlonn not tutor inlo I lie circiilut ion with
■ paper, yet it in llio s'nnilnrd ot its value, and
. the changes in the standard vary lb® r. laliun be
tween it and paper, anil thus alfect the currency
, with unceasing inulaiion i.
These checks and dillieiillir- in llio way ol
comriiercii will, of course, injure tin- win do com*
1 mindly, and will bear wilh a more dcletccious en
ergy on llio comumrcc ot the agricultural Hiatus.
With us, it i.i comparatively feeble; we have just
1 ! now Ink' ii il in hand lu secure lo our.-fives a just
| participation in this important branch ol national
! ' indu liy; and I lit; spirit In umloilaku il, and the
i tin ms In accompli -h it, have Itulii re.-adn-d tioio
llic removal of llio commercial cinharra.-stnonls
by the reducdull ol llio Tardl. J lie einburra s
- ; mcuts arc oppressive in | rupurtiini to llio weak
- j ni-.s 111 the coiniiierec on which lln-y operate. J he
- j lived capital, die e.-Uahtlshcd habitudes, liio
n existing instilntiona of New York, can survive a
i- j shock or sustain an oppression which would ruin
i f j Norfolk or Cliarioslen.
( j II has been objected that under the constitution
Ihe government has not the power to receive Dunk
! J. j n imymcnt ol ils duos, or any thing but gold
1 ' ll l .'v'rir. This notion lias not gained much
| ln "if those who suggest, il, at ibo same
i t.roui" , i. (he government has not only
lime contend . , . , i,
, I the right to rosei> 11 P»l«" »»on.-y, hut t c ... -«-
' | Mr. Mi JJuffie, in Ins Vl ''y l ‘ m P ha | c p l ' ~
, , ~ , <r Ik that llio government
Ibis novel hypothesis. as, . alH l surely it
n*'liht receive its dues in bn. > fCCei vinif
would hr dillicult lo conceive U. ‘ .
of this article would confer upon k ' lO
of money—and ijiuo furta endow ibo sT"' 1 ”!
with the power ol regulating (lie value of h, - ’
To hcliovc in such a linaneial iransubslanliu l0!l
would ii-ipiiie a more devoted laidi than has ovt.
yet been exuded by any political papacy in ibis
country.
It the policy of evading specie lie just, or any
of llio arguments used lo maintain il he true, in
j regard to the general government, they are equal
ly applicable lo llio Stale governments, and the
experiment can he most safely tried upon them.
Let the divorce, then, of Dank and Stale, begin in
the States, whore the success and phenomena of
the experiment upon the wealth and properly of
the country, can be minutely watched.
I will not trouble you, sir, with any observations
on a proposition to create federal government pa
per, us a permanent medium for llio government
jor the people. Such a project will baldly gain
favor as long as the continental paper is remem
bered ; and having been tried by every modern
government, in every variety of form, with always
the same result of a most mischievous depreeia-
I linn, we must I e totally regardless of llio lessons
jof exii rience, if we adopt it. There is no excep
j lion in the history of a thousand attempts lo make
I gov eminent paper a circulating medium, to its
I total and ruinous failure. The reason is obvious ;
I men will not lake in exchange for their property,
j any tiring but property, or what represents it.—
Government paper is neither the one irnr the oth
er; it represents the will of ilia Legislature, and
nothing mure. It has not what is essential to
currency—convertibility. Hence ils destiny lias
been uniform.
II is a characteristic, and to my mind a fearful
circumstance attending the new financial meas
ure, and the arguments brought to sustain them,
that they avowedly sot all experience at defiance.
1 Tlicy scorn induction—reject facts—and, abstract
ing us entirely from our concrete existence, pro
poso to remodel soei-j'y by the deductions of an
abstruse logic, and In subject the real affairs ol life
lo tlie doubtful decision of polemical thesis. It is,
1 think, a safer, though a less brilliant course, to
adhere to.oxpcrieiice, and to take it for granted in
politics, as wo do in nature, I hat what has hap.
! polled always, will happen again,
j L gives me pleasure, Sir, lo turn from topics
] on which I apprehend there is a consiiloiahic'dif-
I lon-nee of opinion between us, to others, on
1 which, il we do not fully concur, d;eru is at ieasi
less discrepancy.
You say dial the gentlemen whom you repre
; sent arc opposed lo the establishment ot a Nation
; j id Lank. 1 concur with them, Sir, 1 believe
such an institution, under present circumstances,
1 inexpedient and impracticable: nor do 1 believe
. its establishment will ever be otherwise, unless
i ; tiro destructive principles of the ruling par y cun
j tirrue so to hnrrasa the country that il will lie driv
• on lo escape from anarchy at the risk of despo
.- dam. In 1811,, inexorable necessity forced tire
. Government upon the exorcise ol this very doubt-
I Ini power—a necessity superinduced by the events
L of the war, No such necos-ily can again lie
, cicall'd but by the lolly or wickedness oi a blind,
infuriated party, which, for tho sins of tiro coun
try, at present controls ils policy. There is not
, one ol the gentlemen whom you represent, -Sir,
who will do or suffer more to arrest this liisas
i turns career, and avert the necessity which may
, drive the country upon a National Lank, than i.
I j a fid I declare, w ith perfect confidence, that if ibo
I , Administration will pan.-., in its mad career of
, violence and nltiaisin—or if, what is more pro.
; bailie, n be beaten down by the sober intelligence
1 ■ of the country —there will be rto National Lank
j established. It, on the c nlrary, they continue
1 lo insist upon their exaggerated theories, and are
: not u-buked by the in,-delation and practical good
' sense el the people, a National Lank will he the
, inevitable consequence. Towards this institution
I | the public mind is obviously impelled, by ihe ef
s 1-Us ~f those who would persuade us dial Ihe
- | destiny ot this groat people and of their lieu in
. sliluiioiis is reduced to the al creative of a Na
> | linnal Lank or an exclusive exaction of gold and
■ | silver. Ly lids mode ot staling tho argument,
t jad middle ground is excluded. They piesenl
e cvvlia on the one hand and ChaNbdis . n the
it | other, and denying any passage between them,
j have ns which of the two to choose. It is a coin
• mo., enough occurrence in healed disputations,
s , lot dexterous ilulocntiam to drive each other upon
! extreme ground, and lo close tire controversy fry
Motiving lo each other the selection of a grea.er or
; loss evil. I bus one party propo-es to Lighten ns
1 into a luiiil money exaction tv the terrors of a
Lank, and the other lo , ocice us into a Lank, by
I the horrors of a specie exaction. I’er lire last ten
1 y« ars il has been the Mule trick of tiro Adminis
it anon to attain each succe-sive step in its ciimax
ol tody and wickedness, by presenting th.- ever
’’ n-ady aliintalivc of a National Lank It has
' been the scourge wilh which public opinion has
i, n --J "ii Ifom one disastrous measure lo
aunt:,, r, and now again il is wielded lo drive us
- "1° 'ln- -uli treasury. 1d . not in the slightest
: iv.-donbl if this alternative is persisted in and
- blivet up 'it the country, it wifi p K .|,. r a
■■■ ■ Hank, by an immense i, ; jurily, Li Unto, Sir.
it uch an alternative is td'ogedu-i imnginurv. Does
„s liny one Iwlieve that a Lank can be established
t, vmma the present adn inislra n, mile..- ifie ea
| I..limn .»( the . ..unify i-i'xun; Iwo thlrds el Cun- ,
i l;.r \' Dm* any «’» iC that Iwo
I ilunl ill Congo. • •••ill he obtained in favour of
■,i li.i- j um; i-i which the j ro,t nl extended ami
pro-pe tons banking HJiiem is opposed!
The present Congress has tiy ft Jrtost decided
vote rejected bo'h branches of this illusory aber
n , i» e . It ha* expressed ils disapprobation of a
National Bank, and has most i mphabcaily reject
ed lhe specie exacting Mub Treasury. Imbed,
j ibis la-1 measure has received its doom in the most
decided way—il was rejected in the Senate by a
majority of nine, and in the House by a majority
ot fourteen. In Congress, letwecn the extra
and regular session, il lost in tiro Senate from a
’ ni j niiy in iulavor to a majority of nine against
il; ar.d in tlie House, from a majority of seven in
favor of a postponement, to a majority of fourteen
for tola! rejection. J'be fate of tire Suit treasury
1 without the specie exaction, was very different
it passed the Senate, anil failed in tlie House by u
majority oi but tour, 'I bus it is apparent llial a
: Sub Tieasury with the receipt of the bills of spe
i eie paying banks, is a more favored measure than
i cither ot those vvliielr liavu been so ostentatiously
1 insisted upon as our only alternatives. It is a
• known fact that the bard money clause and its
advocates destroyed tlie Independent Tieasury,
which, but for that feature and its tiicnds, Would
I ' have been tlie law of tiro land; so that they arc
responsible for the failure of a Mub Treasury sys
. Icm.
. Whether we consider the course of the specie
i exacting clause in Congress, or its reception by
l the | copie of tlie United Shales, as fur as they
1 have pu-sed judgment, it is dead. Os the Mouth
■ orn States, Maryland, V irginia, North Carolina,
i Mississippi and Louisiana, have hold elections
since it was proposed, and at which it was the
principal question. They have pronounced
• against it. It has destroyed the Administration
• in several -Stales, and weakened it in all, except,
I fear, in our own.
i Hut U * the conviction upon the public mind
i that this measure was entire ly out oi the ques
tion, the Hanks would not have renewed sj ceie
i payments, nor would our country have been bles
sed with those omens of reviving prosperity
1 which cheer ns on every side. These are the first
fruits of the triumph of the people over the Ad
i ministration, ahd although the present arrange
ment of the Treasury is not such as any one fully
approves, y et, defective as il is, a great majority of
I' tlie people of the United Stales prefer at, very
properly, to this hard money Sub Treasury.
J beg leave to assure you, sir, and tlie gentle
men whom you represent, of the perfect coinci
dence of our opinions in opposition to the Fed
eral parly. For tire sincerity of this avowal,
my friends and neighbors will give me implicit
credit, when they remember that I first carno in
to llisir service a Stale Fights politician, of the
& ‘ r aighlost sect ot the school of the Jefferson and
Mar, on °* (l * Oio Win. H. Crawford of
181 G, pf 'ho John Taylor and Judge Smith
school, of iV; -’J > a| td dial following out the prin
ciples of these ~ ■' 4n -, 1 was aNullifierof 1833,
without having oug>-*’ 10 target, deny or explain,
in my past history, iv.'v career has been humble
hut il lias been uniform, L ‘ b bas 1101 been sig
nalized by distinguished abilitj; has not im
posed upon rue tho painful task oi vindicating a
doubtful consistency. W hen, ftom b l ‘ e honora
ble service of this district, tho kindness °f
Miate placed mo in a more extended sphere, if
was, unquestionably, that 1 .should act there upon
the principles which had gained favour fur me
hero. My cour.-o required no deliberation to
determine upon it. I found the General Govern
ment administered upon principles from which
even Hamilton or Pickering would have revolted,
and in possession of a parly audaciously avowing
doctrines so anli-Republiean as to procure tor
them the designation of ‘'the Royalist parly.” i
I found that party avowing and acting upon
liie principles of the Proclamation against Mouth
Carolina, and of the Force HiII.
They had passed the 'Parilf of 18-8, and had
opposed tlie Compromise of 1833.
They had seized upon the deposiles in the U.
Stales Hunk, and held the public money agai.'tst
latv.
They claimed for the President all executive
power, without reference to the Constitution. I
They avowed the principles that the spoils of
government belonged to the victors in a parly
struggle, iiriil boldly used ollico and oliico holders
to perpetuate their power.
Tb.eir President openly employed ail the povv
or of the Government to appoint his successor;
and they expunged tho Constitution to perform j
an act of sycophancy to him ; tlie most guilty j
and ignominious act that has sullied our history.
Such were the principles and practices of tho j
party in power—not only characterized by every j
quality which could define Federalism, hut going
beyond all that tlie wildest enthusiast for a con
solidated government had ever imagined—and
these enormities wore perpetrated in the name of
Republicanism and Democracy I —which names
they have recently again desecrated in a hollow
and hypociitical address to the United Mtates,
full of those professions which they have made 1
and violated every year for the lust ten. The
old federal parly was honest, though mistaken—
' the now party have acted upon, while they de
nounced their principle?, and used them to gratify
’ tlie lust of money and office.
I went into Congress in opposition to this
parly. I stand in opposition to it yet. I stand
in the same tanks—shoulder to shoulder with
' tlie same men now as in 1831—and driving the
storm of opposition against the same profligate
’ patty. 1 trust and hope, sir, the Republican
Stale Rights party does not dilfor in any wise
> | from the Stale Rights Whig parly, in stern, Un
' j compromising hostility to the present adminis
i trillion ; and, if so, I for one, pledge myself to he
. ; toady for an equal opposition to any set of men
; who come in imitating their practices or sharing
: their principles.
■ I In conclusion, sir, I offer you this toast:
■ I Tlie Van Huron Party: Let ns never forget
tlie words ot Mr. Tazewell. “ They have de
■ i eoived us once, that was their fault—if they dc
' | ceive us again, it will bo ours.”
‘ | With many thanks, sir, to those whom you
' ; represent, for the honor done me, and with tlie
' highest personal regard to you,
1 am, dear sir, your obedient servant,
WM. 0. PRESTON.
1
t 1 l u - ‘ urry C omb is the name of a paper just
L : established at Illinois.
, ■ British Quern. —Letters from England
-■'iiito that this splendid vessel was expected in
• j London, from Scotland, in October, mid that she
1 i would certainly leave for New Vork in November.
0 ,
Conic Home.
1 b one borne, come home, the verdant vine
J | Is wreathed above our door;
I’he clustering rose you taught to twine,
j - Mhadows our windows o’er.
s Uurnc home—the fruit in our garden bowers
a I Hangs ripened to golden hue ;
V J b'T had not doll'd their snowy flowers
;i | When you hade mu a fond adieu.
Como home, come home, the long grass springs
' In the paths where we used to stray,
J. yt’ung birds mount on their new fledg'd wings
I Hut yet, thou art away.
'' Como home—there's a tone of thrilling joy
A rapture you yet must learn;
". Jbe dsping longue of our infant b>y
W ill welcome thy glad return.
. Come homo, come home, thou an long away ;
Gb ! why from thy loved ones roam !
1 May, hew shall 1 chide thy long delay 1
-1 H >'•' welcome die wanderer home ?
m m mmmm■ tcmmimig*** SsSsHS * L -" , * rJU
j CHRONIC LIS AND SKNTI \ r KL.
AtItrUSTA.
Tlinrucliiy Morning* SeptoßWi’ ®7*
STATE BiGiITS ticket
rou cosoiitss.
WM. C. DAWSON,
R. W. HABERSHAM,
J. (;. ALFORD,
W. T. COLQUITT,
E. A. NISBET,
MARK A. COOI’ER,
THOMAS BUTLER KING,
EDWARD J. BLACK,
LOTT WARREN.
FOR SEX ATE,
ANDREW .1. MILLER,
1 ! Kill nEI'HB»KNTATIVES,
I i GEORGE W. CRAWFORD,
I CHARLES J. JENKINS,
WILLIAM J. RHODES.
! if)' Wo again solicit our friends in the differ"
cut counties In send us liy Idler the iclurns of the
r i .
election, bv the first mail.
> | Wc have iccoivcil from the upper and Soulli
| j Western sections of the stale, encouraging infor
! I million in relation to the approaching election.
. Oar opponents have utterly failed in their wily
| attempts to crealo divisions in our ranks. Our
1 friends are united and linn, and confident of entire
success. Such a ticket as our adversaries lunc
put up would he a dead load to any parly —it is
heavier weight than over Schley was last year.
Wc say to our friends once more go ahead, I!io
victory is ours if wc will it.
Illinois.
The official relurns as the recent election in
this stale have hocn canvassed and the result is
as follows:
i hornas Carlin (V. B.) is elected Governor
by DOG majority.
Anderson (V. V.) Lieut.Gov.—lsoo maj.
In the third District which has been disputed
, about so much in the papers nn Loth sides that it
has obtained the title of the “Doubtful District,”
Stuart, the whig candidate is elected by 77 rna
jority.—The representation from that slate will
therefore he—
John Reynolds, (V. B.)
John T. Stuart, (Whig 1 .)
Zadock Casey, (Conservative,)
W. Casey voted against the Suit Treasury bill
in all its shapes.
The Fever.
The Charleston Courier of yesterday says;—
“The report of the Board of Health, published
this morning, shows that we were happily correct
ittour remark, made last week, that a decrease
would ho observed in the next Bill of Mortality,
j Thirty eight deaths, by Strangers’ Fever, arc re.
ported by the Board, being thirty less than occur,
red in the last; but wc are constrained to say that
this reduction has arisen solely from the scarcity
of subjects. Several physicians, with whom we
conversed a day nr two since, expressed the deci
ded opinion that the disease had not abated, but,
it any thing, had assumed a more violent charac.
j ler than during the preceding week.
J The last two days have been quite cool forlhc
season, rendering thick clothing necessary for
comfort, and wc have reason to hope that this may
check the lever—indeed wo feel gratified to ex.
j press the belief that our afiliolions are approach
-1 itig a termination, and that there is, at present, a
j prospect of an early frost, which alone can be
j looked to as the certain assurance of our being
j relieved from the dreadful malady that has made
! such havoc among our transient population.
The following letter from an intelligent gentle:
] man in Kentucky to a gentleman in this State
J connected with the Georgia Rail Road, will he
| road with interest by those who feel an anxiety
in relation lo the success of the works of into
provement now in progress in Georgia, for the
purpose of connecting the Western country vvidi
the markets of the South. In order to become
an importing people to any considerable extent
in Georgia, it is ol the highest importance that wo
should first provide a market for the goods impor
t6d, and the means of transporting them lo that
market. Until the completion of the Western
and Atlantic Rail Road and its junction with the
Georgia Rail Road, thereby opening an inlet for
the productions of the West to find their way to
I our markets it will bo folly to talk about import
; ing to any thing like the extent of the value of
j our cotton crop. We shall recur to this subject
j again when We have, more time.
Hendeusox, Ky„ Aug. 33, 1833.
j Stu—With the view that you may form with
j the least possible trouble, a more correct estimate
.of the extent of country in the North-west,
| which would ho commanded by a continuation
of tho Atlantic and Western Rail Road from its
j present terminus on the Tennessee river, I lake
the liberty of enclosing lo you a small map, on
' | which I have laid down, in blue lines, tho Ohio
and Indiana Uanals, and in red lines, the Illinois
1 I and Indiana Rail Roads, together with ours, and
, the proposed Charleston and Cincinnati Rail
Roads. They arc, of course, not laid down on
the map with precise correctness, but they are
sufficiently accurate to answer the purpose for
which I send tho map.
1 beg leave also, to suggest to you that the dis
tance from Evansville lo Louisville, (the nearest
terminus of the Charleston and Cincinnati Road)
is about 220 miles by water; and to Cincinnati,
about 370 miles ; and that the distance lo the
mouth of tho Tennessee from Evansville, by
water, is about 150 miles. 1 will also state, that
between Cincinnati and the mouth of the Ten
nessee, the navigation of the Ohio is greatly ob
structed by bars; and that between Evansville
and Henderson, there is never less than about 8
to 10 feet of water in the Ohio.
That the trade of the country in the North,
west, whose Kail Loads and Canals terminate at
Evansville, will never be commanded to any res
portable extent, by either the Tennessee river or
Charleston and Cincinnati Rai! Road, iseviJi.nl
i lo any n.un uLo has any practical acquaintance
witli l!ic laws of Western commerce. That the
construction of the road from Henderson hy
Nashville, will resto.c to Savannah and Charles,
ton the commercial superiority which they pos
sessed before the Revolution, there can he no
donhl. It is also clear, that fixing the terminus
of the Atlantic and Western road at Henderson
is the best possible policy fur all the section of
country interested in tbe work, because tlie route
will be not only more direct, but its terminus on
i Ihe .Ohio will ho at the nearest practicable point
I lo Evansville, which, a glance at the map, will
show to be the .Ohio terminus of u larger amount
of improved means of travel or transportation
than any other point on the Ohio river. The
North-western and Southeastern systems of
Internal Improvement are now located, and cam
not bo changed without groat loss : each section
has a deep interest in opening an easy intercourse
with the other. Let them connect by the Hon,
derson Rail lb-ad, Evansville afid Rossville, lh e
nearest andm-j.it important termini of the two
systems. Fortunately, the country between
them, is probably the most favorable that could
have been selected kr Ibc construction of a road
horn the Ohio to the Atlantic.
Hy entering immediately and energetically
upon the work, and pressing h forwtfrd, it nmy
bo cbmple'cd almost as soon as the great South,
ern and Western systems, which it will unite
am! thereby greatly facilitate the efforts of Sa
vannah, Augusta and Charleston, to command
tho Western trade or commerce. Tor the com
pletion of tho Western improvements, must ( 0
some extent, unsettle the course of out t* m .
rnercc, by inducing the formation of now busi.
ness connexions; and while we arc in that con*
dilion, is the most favorable time for the cituj
in the South-east to compete for it.
Do you approve the suggestions made in my
former letter, of a Convention, to meet at Nash
villo, for the purpose of devising and arranging
a plan of (uturo operations, in relation to ih e
road I—Concert in the efforts of the various soc
lions of country, interested in its construction,
is indispensable lo success in the undertaking,
and I know of no hotter method of producing n
than such a convention.
You will please accept my thanks for the ver
valuablo information which you have donr-o
the honor to transmit, find if you desire to ole.
lain any further information, in relation to tho
Western improvements, I will with plea?tfr»
transmit it.
Very respectfully,
\our obedient servant,
-1
; “>
From the North,
A3l) FITKIIAYS LATKRFtfO.It Kl/IlOfß.
By the arrival at this port last evening, sap)
the Charleston Courier of yesterday, of the almin
packet Soulh-Carolina, Captain Coffey, from Nor- I
folk, whence she left On Sunday morning last I
we have received from our attentive coirespond.’ I
puts, tiles of Norfolk papers of Friday, with a I
slip from the Herald office of Sunday morning I
Huliimore and Philadelphia papers of Saturday' I
and New-York dales ol Friday morning last. ’ B
Five shares United States Bank Stock sold at I
New- York on the 21st inst. at I
By official documents, published in tho Balli-1
more papers, it appears that a portion of the troops I
recently returned from Florida, have been order-1
ed back to their arduous service immediately sol
as to join the army in the South by the 10ll’ii-i|
October, I
Jjcitcr li’om England,
Tho packet ship Garrick has arrived atNcit-I
York, from Liverpool, whence she sailed on tfacl
Kilh August, We copy from the several pancnl
beloro us the annexed snmmary of news ; MN
A correspondence had taken place between Mrß
O’Connell and .Mr. Stevenson in reference tom-H
tain offensive expressions touching the slave hoH
ding relations of tho American minister, nlli-ge-lB
to have been made by the former in a late speech®
JMr. t) Connell denies having used tiro
attributed 10 him. g
Ihe English Government had procured InmH
that of France a relaxation of tho Mexican fat* 1
:ulc, so iar as lo permit the export of specie
Mexico in foreign vessels, whether
or vessels of war. , l.|
Advices Irom Bayonne of die 9th, stale lliilßi
Con. Esparlero coiilinned to concentrate a
rnidable force near Logrono, and the roml-i-BI
Castile wore covered with convoys of every
cription. A letter from Onalc, of the Olh, inctßl
tions that Maroli had transferred his head qor-Hj!
lors to Valla-Mayor, a league in advance
L .slolla,
J bo Liverpool Colton market remains
material change. Money continues a linn
and for Commercial purposes could be ol)Ui«B*
at from 3 \ per cent. 'Flic
favorable weather, and the more promising
p ’ds of the harvest, bad materially
Ibc appearance of the funds, and produced®'
better feeling in die market. [
J ho Canada indemnity bill was read a
time in tho House of Lords on the i;!lh;a®
was ordered to a third reading on the 11th,
the House of Commons. fit
[Communicated] »' a
Mr. Aiiita ir am S, Lamar, was on -SuiiJißf"
23d inst., thrown from a horse, in Hamburg,
C., and died in a few hours, from the
his wounds. Mr. L. had just learned fromiHrC
returns of election made, I bat be had been
i imously elected Major. Being good
I a fault, ho was ptevailed ii[inn by several ' r aK
j chievous persons, to mount a young and
horse, which became unmanageable, and
01, at the top of his speed—ho ran for sum-'
siderahle distance, when Mr. L. was tbro«*Bfr
the ground, the horse falling on him.
taken iiji sensclcs, and never spoke slier
acci i occurred, nolwithslanding he
r!ii |! 'c most skillful physicians our
'lord, with him until bodied. Mr.
(1., lest son of Mack and Rebecca Lanu'Bß
Edgefield ilislrict, and about 20 years old
fcctly harmless and inoffensive, dutiful
dientto his parents, kind and affeclionalo
brothers and sisters, and generally
. where known—ho has left mime ous
mourn bis untimely death.
A mandate from tbe realms above,
Called llice to worlds of peace and love; - y
Whilst thy body, must be resolved again,
1 o tho same frail dust from whence it ctiim’
■ Then must it rest, ’till the trump of
sound, I
To wake the sleepers ’nealh I lie ground: I
Then, forth springing fiom tho bed of
Thy swelling lungs inhaling breath R »
From Him, who erst imparted life; R.. ;
Thy throbbing hoar I, with transport lift- KC
Shall hail ihy friends, and those that
here, Mr
No more to part, no mure lo sigh adieu- H|