Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-07-14
From The National Gazette.

respecting 'HC utItHCb OI Inc
Bank Of the United States The cutlery
which has been raised on this subject, is pre-
posterous in the highest degree, and argues
reckless contempt for the intellect Of the
country. We cannot but smile at the COM
plants and exaggerations which we see in
several of The Administration papers, with
regard to the number of Supplements 10 this
Gazette, which have been issued with mat
ter justificatory Of the Bank. Editors grave
ly assure their reader that the whole Union
has been flooded with them. The Concord
IN. Ii Patriot presumes that the number of
copies amounts to one or taoo hundred thousand,
and that the cost of them vii, form a large
item in the list Of contingent expenses OF The
Bank; and the Washington Globe contains
an article from which we extract this para.
graph:
"0ur last northern mail came literally load
ed with Supplements to the National Gazette,
containing the arguments Of hirchng ,ori-
ters in favor of the re charter of the Bank
This Supplement-, as it is called, is paper
fully the size of the Democrat, and the Bank
is the subject Of its song" At the Post OF
fee at this place, were deposited zen packa-
ges. containing ten papers each POSTAGE
in almost every nook and corner of this re-
public; consequently, very great number
must have been printed. Suppose that only
half million was struck off, which is, in all
probability, much smaller number than
was actually printed-then the cost of print
ing and postage will be, at the lo,geSt calcuta-
ton, about TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND Dol
LARS. The fact is quite sufficient to convince
any man of common understanding that TIE
editor Of the National Gazette was full paid
by the Bank, for the mechanical circulation
of what had been concocted by subsidised
brain"
Half milIion' Twenty five thousand dol
larsl The "foul fend" prompts the Globe
most mischierously. The editor of the Ma
tional Gazette has no share in the mechanical
circulation of the Gazette or its supplements,
and ha does not believe that any one has
been subsidized TO write for the Bank With
respect TO the number and cost of the SUP
plements in question, we have lust made en-
quiry OF the Publisher, who has informed us
that the whole number fails short of forty
for which his whole charge is less
than one thousand doiifYs This charge in
cludes the lahour, trouble and expense in the
case, and forms. we presume. but a bare
compensation. Here is the eRtire amount Of
the bribery and corruption.
For our parts, we shall promote, as much
as we can, the diffusion Of facts and argI-
ments, temporarily and fairly urged, in de-
fence OF an institution which we regard a.
indispensable for the national veal. The Bank
is not merely entitled, but under positive OBJ.
legation TO the stockholders and the country,
10 ra,oI rag,.ta ~
prove false allegations. The newspaper re-
yllers have carried absurdty to the height Of
arraigning the Bank for multiplying and cir
culating copies OF Mr.. Galatians admirable
dissertation on the Currency Whether this
be the fact or not, we know that the work is
distinguished by the soundest principles AMI
the most useful information, combined and
dgested in the ahlest manner, and that It
has been pronounced by some OF the first
political economists of Europe, to be altoge-
Their the best treatise extant on the subject.
1t contains nothing offensive TO any taste or
Judgment, or TO any party; but much that
every citizen, every theoretical or practical
man, should be glad to learn and possess
How ridiculous, then, to complain that pro
duction Of the kind is circulated among the
people that the Bank uses such weapon!
The benefit is largely shared by the Public,
and whatever may accrue fIom it TO the in
is manitestly lawful and honorable
Even IN the Albany Argus, we have read
the intimation that Mr.. Gallatin was employ
ed by the Bank TO write the dissertation for
the American Quarterly Review. We sup
posed that a veteran republican," ike MIR.
Gallatin, who had served his country in the
hiphest Dosts with so rnnch zeal and falent
would escape all derogatory charges or hints;
that he at least would be spared even by the
boldest prejudice and malevolence. We
kno,c that the task was first suggested by the
editor Of the American Quarterly Review:
without concert with any one, he first appli-
ed 10 Mr.. Gallatin, and induced him TO I'M
dertske subject which the editor deemed
OPportune and important. 1t is his duty and
practice to select subjects for the Review,
and csnsIgn them TO the ablest hands. The
other article respecting the Bank, with which
the Review was enriched, was obtained In
the same manner, in the regular and usual
exercise of the editorial functions. The Bank
employed no one TO write for the Review; no
one has received from the Bank any remu-
neratlon for so doing; Mr., Gallatin refused
even the compensation which the publishers
allow per page 10 the literary contributors;
he has accepted nothing from any quarter;
his labors have proved wholly gratuitous in
the pecunary sense. Instead of being sub
Ject to suspicion and iDuendo, he should be
thanked and honored universally. for the dis
lnterestedness of his severe toll and the va
lue OF hls excelient performance His object
was the improvement Of good opportunity