Litchfield enquirer., 1830-05-20
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RPDgrt 0n the B0l1E eI We OWtseS AysuesEsess sl Ii ;s with no small qualification that we per reive in this statcsmanlIke paper. an evidence -. aFr MsDufIie, the ChaiFman ofth Com N..s.. gan sometimes relieve himself from .Ls sIsrlIes of party; and that when satisti- s.s " .hat when the interests of the Country ...,,,II = ha seriously injured by cOmpliance ,.;,h inc will of the Execusive, he can exert. V, 'o,,nosifion to it, the powers Of Ssnlind g,.v;eh was certainly not intended to be the :.s.s,,,,ant ufl any faction. This indepen- asrca n. on inc part of Mir. M'Duftie, is espe- .;.llv laudahle, when we consider that t .',,.t have heen exerted at some sacrifice of n.s n.:a",. = well as political, feeling for at Es .,,;s .srv lime the chosen Organ" of the s.r,.Is nan to whom he is understood to he s,,ost warmly attached, is vehen1ently assail- | ;,s inc Rank of the United States, however decsrent may be the language held by Mr. T,alhonn elsewhere. concerning that lnstltu- t;on---the boasted child of his labors. a
 The Reports in the Senate and House of Representatives on the part of General Jack cons message relating to the Bank of the U nited States, present a spectacle never before axl,ibifed in this couhtry-that of formal and solemn exposure by Congressional Com mittees of gross ignorance or deliberate mis- renseufations on the part of the President of tha United States. Both those reports too anin1adyert, in language not tol'e msunder- stood, on the gigantic engine ol corFupl:on which he desires to substitute ioF the exls'ins Ds.L The Committee in the Senate, whose ..,,s,rt ;s understood to have been prepared nv Gen. $. Smith, partizan of Gen. Jack .sr say If this project, that :. the inevitable sconseoSence would be, the creation of a mon ;sd ensine of direct dependence on the off ssrs of Government, at variance with the ,yho,e scheme of our institutions" They ..ansider its financial inconsenencies to be c.r,o;dahle. and add, that Ion more enlarged considerations of political expediency. the e,b;ect;ons to it are, in the opinion of the Committee. iasuperdble and tatot."
 Mr. M'DUFFIE's report say
 .s Trhs mind almost iilstiDctiyely shfinks from the contemplation of aoidsa so omnous to the purity of the government and the lio- critics of the people.
 have any knowledge, except. perhaps, lh' desnotisn, of Russia, was ever invested wltf natronage at once SO prodigious in its intlu ence. 50 dangerous in its character. In th' most desperate financial extIemities, nO Oth er European government has ever venture' upon m experiment so perilous. 1.-the who'll .patronage uf the English monarchy wer concentrated in the hands of the AmerlcanEx \ secutise, it may he well doubted whether tn public liberty would be so much endangere' by 1t as 1t would by this vast pecnn'ary ma chine, which would place n the hands ea es
 ery administration fifty millions of d"ilar' as !. fund fOr rewarding political partizans.' unent bank to Involve the country m pHpt syste,n, is not, in the opinion of the commi ice. inc greatest objection to it. The power c<xcn had Lad ofn the irrisistible and corrupting influence whic it would exercise over the elections of tn country. constitutes an objection more impo sing than all others united. No matter b
 what means an administration might get int power. with such tremendous engine il their hands, it would he almost impossible [, displace them without some miraculous inter position Of Providence" aa q gF The following queries pr0pounded by MT .M'Duffie present 30 faithful and vivid a pic tura of the party with which he has been act ing. that we sometimes suspect that he de signs to initiate the patriotic example of hi friend MT. Chiffon. Ky leaving 1t and tha tho queries are intended to prepare the publi mind for such. an event 1: sEss la$ <,
 Have not our political contests too ire qucntly degenerated into a selfish scrambl, fnr the offices of the country 1? Are there no those who sincerely and honestly believe tha these offices are legitimate objects of politica warfare, and the Fightfnl reward of the victo. riOus party ? And disinterested and patriot ic as the great body of every political party is admitted to be, the fact is no less true than tis lamentabte. that the most devoted and active partizans arc very often mere soldiers 'of fortune, catch the political. signs. and en- list, at the eleventh hour, under the banners sof the party most likely 10 prove successful. Such being, more or less. the composition of alkpoliticai parties, what NV ould be the prob able use made pf fifty millions of bank pat sronage. by a political party which conscien- tlonsly held the doctrine that all the offices in the gift of the Executive should De divided among the partizans of successful political leader! Would not the same principle be even more applicable 10 bank loans? And would not the Treasury of the United States. under the sanctiis ing influence of party de- 1asipn and party infatuation. be literally plun- dereds hy mercenary retainers, bankrupts iu fortune. and adventurers in politics."
 ..5 VI K. WiiliGnsst0spm Gaz. .s.s,.st k ST. LOUIS, Mo. April I s.
 Western Enierprize.- expedition has been. for some time past, fitting out in this city, which furnishes very favorable ill,lstra.