Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-09-27


We give place in our columns to day, to
the Manifesto Of the President against the
Bank of the United States, upon which we
commented in our last. We put it on rec
ord as thing to be remembered-a document
which will be more justly appreciated i'll at
ter times than it will now: for after what we
have seen, we have no hope, that those who
have blindly followed General Jackson in all
his former excuses, will turn aside from his
support on this renewed proof of his con-
tempt for the laws of his country, the faith of
contracts, and the principles ofcommon hon
esty and justice. We give it to our readers
in the full confidence, that no man who ex-
amincs it can discover any, the slightest,
cause for the measure which it is intended to
Justify. 1t does not show that the public
moneys are unsafe in the Bank-and without
ample proof to that effect, the administra-
ton had no right to deprive the Bank OF a
privilege which it has never forfeited, and
for which it has aid to the government the
ample consideration of one million five hun
dred thousand dollars. The manner OF this
transactions in entire keeping with the char
| actor of General Jackson. 1t is the act OF
Dictator-a plain usurpaton of power which
the President had no more right to exercise
than a private citizen. The Bank charter
declares, that the depostes shall be made in
the Bank, unless the Secretary ofthe Treas
ury shall at any time otherwise order and dl-
rect; in which case the Secretary Of the
Treasury shall Immediately lay before Con-
press" the reasons, The Secretary OF the
Treasury had the exclusive control OF this
matter; and in reference to t,as we'll as to the
general financial concerns of the nation, is
made directly and exclusively responsible to
! Congress-, 1t was intended to separate the
sword from the purse, to keep the Executive
and the Treasury Frances distinct, and witt
this view Congress. when 1t created 'hs
Treasury Department, expressly directed
that the Secretary should make his annua
+ report to them, and not to the President, a:
the other heads of departments do. 1t i
plain then, as we'll from the spirit of our in
= situations as from the letter OF the law, tina
the President had no shadow of right to IN
! terfere in this matter. Yet he does interfere
r and obviously, as will be seen, assumes tn
: whole charge and control of the measure
n 1t is true, he makes a show of Difference t
: the power of the Secretary, and in one piac
fully admits it by declaring that-"lhe pow
e er of the Secretary of the Treasury over tn
= depostes is unqualified" But the Who'll
I shirt and context of the document show hi
n 70 he the real actor-and in the cencludin
! pararraph, ends all doubt by declaring tina
!, the measure is s'his own" and that he h;
G assumed the responsibility on mature del
e iteration. Still further to make the act "h
owp.n he removes the officer who alone hs
II a right TO perform it. because he zoould NJ
: comply with his mandate, and supplies h
} place by one of more plant materials. III
cant b, which he justifes this open usurp
D ton. ssas necessary to preserve the morals
N the people, the freedom of the press and Il
!. purity of elections"-is too gross to decor
OF anv but the most ignorant or unthnkins
re mankind. Cesar shed tears when he pass
o. the Rubicon for the amiable purpose OF dc
tn t,ov,up the freedom of Rome;-Cromwt
apn;hiiated the British Parliament and ma
himself Dictator, in the name OF the Lor
tie and in our own times, Napoleon, at the he
ed Of an armed force, drove the Legislative a