Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-09-02

hands will ensure him better reception from their
countrylnen, and that the knowledge they will
have acquired here, will be the means of intro
duciug amongst them some of the advantages o!
civilization.
From Stephen Simpsons eighth letter we ex-
tract the following account of another interview
which he had with the President. Our readers
will recollcct the former account.
The second interview with the president was
in the morning Mr.. Barry was present--G0v,
Branch-Genera Call, of Florida, and that eter-
nal proser of senseless adulation, Judge Anderson
one of the comptrollers of the treasury, and the
bane to all wholesome thoughts in the chief ma
gistrate--a systematic toad-eater, tawner, and
flatterer! The conversation was varied. The III
dams and the Georgia Question engrossed atten-
ton, and excited the-General to great vehemence
and warmth against Pennsyl vania, and particular
~ the Quakers, OF whom he related some anec-
dotes--chargin ing them, IN this state, with having
reduced the Indians to state of slavery, aud, in
some cases, of having sold them His gestures
and language OIL this point were violent. The con-
troversy between Mr.. BerIien and MIR. Ingersoll
was discoursed OF by the president, to the severe
uetriment of the latter. The slightest difference
Of opinion exctes the most vindfctise feelings in
Gen. JacksOn-not to adopt all his whims, is TO
incur his hatred--of which full harvest. for that
reason, had fallen to the share Of this writer. In
the course of this conversation, MIR. Philips in.
quired, if he had seen certain newspaper on that
subject, to which he responded laughing, .we
never find time to read newspapers, Mr.. Phil
lips;" in few minutes after, however, he refer
red to several public journals in terms Of vindIc
tive condemnation for their caumnies and abuse,
evidently showing that he is very industrious Oh
that point. The Bank of the United States was
next introduced, and the approbatory resolutions
of the legislature Of Pennsylvania, which he as
cribed to the bribery of the members, and the re-
vense of Mr. G.. J. IngersolI for the loss of bis
office of district attorney. He inveighed, with
peculiar acerbiy. against the bank, as the great
est tyrant that had ever oppressed any country
dwelling, with severe emphasis, upon the pecu-
liar hardship Of government, not being able to
make free use of their own money as thew pleas
ed, because controlled by this 6. bank" His no
tons on this question were too vague and unde-
fined to be distinctly conceived:--it was mani
fest that he possessed no scientific knowledge on
the subject, and that whatever judgement he might
have formed on the utility or cOnstitutionality Of
the institution, was rather the result of blind po
litical bigotry. and the implicit adoption Of the
opinions of others, than of any investigation into
the nature of currency, political economy, bank
ing. or the true bearing and import of the consii
tuition, its powers, its restrictions, its genius.
To those acquainted with the polished intellect
of the erudite Madison, his great faculty of ana
Iyss and liberal views of organic law-the con-
trast presented by the naked and uncultivated
mind of General Jackson was painfully humiliat-
ing, and well calculated to cause powerful re-
vuIsion of sentiment against him. He announc-
ed his determination to put the bank down with
great vehemence, solemniy attesiDg his sincerity.
If it was the last act of his life. 1.-The people,"
he added, "were now acquainted with his OPT.
Mons upon that subject-the issue was made up
If he was reelected, ii would show that the
people were against the bank. and sustained him
on that point. as well as on his ''veto upon the
bills for Internal Improvement. and his opposition
to the thigh tariff" lie desired to place his re-
election on the ground of opposition TO the bank,
in order to test the queston;-and the vote of The
legislature of Pennsylvania furnished him add
tional reasons to oppose it. as demonstrated the
extensive mischief and powerful influence of that
institution even over the independence and integ
rity of the states. In these narrow and bigOted
views he was fully echoed by Major Bar
ry-who implicitly responds to all things that flow
from the lips Of tie "gI eatest and the best'
am thus particular on this subject, that the ques
ton of the renewal Of the bank charter may be
fairly understood by the public, In Its connection
with the approaching presidential election-that
the issue is made up between Andrew Jackson
and the bank of the United States-that the sup
porters of the former are necessarily the enemies
of the latter-and that no enlightened or rational
friend of the latter can sustain the.former. He
INDUCED in strong invectives against MIR. McDuf-
fie for his Bank Report, lmputng it all to the po-
iitical rivalry of Mr.. acknowledging that, bu:
for that interest, his substitute ola Treasury Bank