Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-12-13
Saturday Ercs.5sss,, Eecc. ne.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.


What has become of the distribution Of the Sur
plus Revenue? OF tho project of Government
Bank, to supcrsede the Bank of the u. States?
These enquiries current in political circles.
The recent Message makes mention of either.
Both either abandoned, or laid aside for a more
propitious season.
Strong as Gen. Jackson is, man has ever been
so completely driven from his ground by the Pub
lie Press. On several subjects of interest, it has
achieved complete conquest over His incnatons,
though possessed of the supreme power, and back
ed by an army of sycophants, and high degree of
popular nfatuation. In the article Of ''proscrp
tion," and we may add, the two schemes alluded
to above, he has relinquisEed bis ground and his
inclinations, to the remonstrances and dsnuncia-
tions of the Public Press hostile to him, vet also
sustained in these particulars by the enlightened
and dsintercstcd portion of public opinion favora-
BILE to his Prescription has almost entirely
ceased, or if stray and then occurs, the
victim is an original Jackson man. sacrificed to the
new born zeal of the eleventh hour gentry. In
vain the Interested demand new victims. and new
vacancies; witness the ruthless correspondent who
lately figured in the Enquirer-the Hero has either
become convinced that the principle Anti Re
publican and detcstablc he has resolved to joo.
pard his popularity farther TO crafty few
greedy Office Hunters
1t is quite as obvious what the considerations
are which have cooled his ardor for the Van Buren,
Dantlirgs-a Government Bank, and the distri5u-
ton of the Surplus RGvonue, Executive influence
failed to make n favorable inlprcssion-ort of the
immediate vicinity where they originated, they
have been received with general and clamorous
abhorrcncc. The Hero is not the man TO discon-
meet his interests and the popular wish. lie has
marked and obcyed the signs Of the times.
On tho subject of the U. Statos Bank, relaxation
of hostile zeal is also manifest No now argument
is adduced against the renewal ofthc Charter, and
Congress is referred for the reasons Of his opposi
ton to CORNER Messages Unabatcd hostility
would not have been satisfied with this reference,
but would have renewed the DID, and foznd new ar
gurnontg, 10 crafty its dislike. Will the President
sign a law re-chartcring tho Bank7 That will de.
pond upon the time, whom such law is presented
TO him, and the majority which passes it. If such
a law pass at this session Of Congress, and by a
decided majority. tho President will put his consci-
entous rcrupcs in his pocket If the present
session is suffered 10 eapse-if in tho meantime,
tho Presidential election occurs, and Gen. Jackson
is reelected, those scrurlcs, no longer influenced
by clcctoncerinC views, and in unison with his
personal prcjudicce, will triumph. Lot the friends
of tho Bank therefore, lose time, but bring him
to the mark, before the election Of 1892 renders
him independent lshould he he ro-choscn) oF pub
lie opinion-partcularIy the public opinion of New
FORK and Pennsylvania.
Wo are no friends Of the Ban', Of the u. States
upou principle. But the inGnity Of State Banks
has made it necessary evil. The argument in il,